Comments on: Take This Week’s Photoshop CS4 Users Tool Survey

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:58:09 +0000

I think it’s years of avoiding them like the plague; I have to retrain myself to use them.

By: alanvalek.com

alanvalek.com — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:57:32 +0000

The protect tones feature with dodge & burn is very nice—works much better than in CS3.

By: Jim Poor

Jim Poor — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:53:41 +0000

I use them every day, and I also wonder if the enhancements made carry over into things light the multiply and screen blending modes. I’ve noticed (it very well could be the placebo effect) that my custom Kill Highlights and Kill Shadows actions render even better results than they did in CS3.

As far as nondestructive use of the tools, just duplicate the layer before you use them.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:55:27 +0000

I played with the new versions of these tools and they are much better. However, I prefer to achieve these effects nondestructively with adjustment layers and masks.

By: Seim Effects

Seim Effects — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:34:07 +0000

I use them all the time. (wish you had a choice between daily and occasional) many of us don’t edit every day

Anyways I love B&D. I think it’s one of the most under appreciated tools in PS. I’ve recently been loving sponge too. Amazingly I never really played with it, but when I tried it I realized what I was missing.

As to the improvements in CS4. I know they’ve been updated, and their working great, but they don’t seem vastly different than in CS3 even with protect tones. I thought they worked well before.

On a side note I hate the post crop vignettes in LR2. Original vignette was nice and bold. Post crop tends to give a yucky faded look. OK I’m getting off topic… Gav