will the next photoshoppee actually be awesome?
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37611/140/
huge performance boost with gpu acceleration, rotatable canvas and the ability to paint on the surface of 3d models??
sounds pretty bad ass.
huge performance boost with gpu acceleration, rotatable canvas and the ability to paint on the surface of 3d models??
sounds pretty bad ass.
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A real suggestion would be the ability to work smoothly with pencil radius of 1000 px, instant load, and stability. Perfomance, perfomance and perfomance, that's all what we need. 64 bits could sound cool but that does not mean perfomance as we all know.
The 3d features cs3 have are useless at all, and the "intelligent layers", something a few ppl use. It would be great to paint on 3d models (subdiv models too).
CS3 is awful/slow and my airbrush doesn't work properly.
Oh yes? And how would you propose someone programs an application to open a 200mb, 100 layer 2048x2048 PSD document instantly? Do you have some amazing code lying around somewhere?
Data has to be read, you know...
As for stability, since CS2 was released I've used it pretty much every day for some fairly stressful/large documents, and I've only ever had about 3 crashes in the same number of years. In the world of software applications, Photoshop is actually pretty damn high on the list for good stability.
I know a lot of digital artists who have NEVER had Photoshop crash on them. Ever.
still on 7 at work, 5.5 at home. adobe, please go f*ck off and ruin something else, will you?
In cs2 when I open 200mb files they come up close to instantly but I'm also running a quad core with 4gb of ram on vista 64bit.
Thanks for the post Arsh.
5.5 for illustration is like a charm, and PS7 is for me the best for all grounds of usage. Japanese illustrators and almost all the great illustrators i know work with ps5.5, they don't need more for their needs.
All programs have bugs, and stability issues, photoshop is a program with too many patches in all its versions. I'm good with it, but not as much like to be happy at all. To work with images of 20000px and see that you can't handle smoothly the same with a newer version of the program, is something awful. And more if you work with a Dual Xeon dual core of 3ghz and you don't get the expected for a version of a program. A new computer for each version? no thanks. Don't know if ppl have readed adobe's blog, but they talk about 32GB of ram for a test run... like all ppl could have that ¬¬
We can live without some features, but not without perfomance. Modo 302 brings a huge drop down of perfomance as example, and due that, i'm using 301 version. What are tiny features? imho nothing. As tools, you can adapt yourself and you won't need anymore to be happy. 2 useless features that forces you to buy new hardware? no thanks hehehe
look this, (only 500k polygons):
With PS this is worse, and if you run with 3 years old machines, this is something very noticeable.
An example of improvement, Zbrush 3. Better than 2 in a 1700mhz with quadro fx 700 (agp 4x).
Must resist urge to download mystery software.
yes we mac users get enough fictional software already, thanks.
to be brutally honest; not a single illustrator Japanese or otherwise, I know, uses photoshop for anything other than image manipulation. Everyone uses illustrator cs3.
theres a lot of wind in this thread for software that even the creators deny exist.
oh wow heh, that's....superb
actually ive seen a beta of the new photoshop in a torrent site.
Here's hoping CS4 actually innovates on the series rather than douses it in a new coat of paint.
http://cybernetnews.com/2008/03/04/adobe-photoshop-cs4-stonehenge/
edit: from the comments there:
"Complete report:
So I got up the guts to download the CS4 floating around the network. The un-packing process was more than typical CS versions, but no biggie. With my antivirus progs on full blast, I scanned and re-scanned everything before opening the un-packed folders. So far so good, no viri or troj.
It has the typical Adobe Install .exe and the usual data folders for the install. Clicking on the Installer brings up what looks just like the CS3 installer, including a “CS3″ text logo but with CS4 in the title bar. Strike one..?
A couple typical questions later, it installs and thats it for that. I went to the install folder and found the Photoshop.exe file and began investigating the properties. I dropped it into my .exe Resource Tuner and PE Explorer. Both report that it is, in fact, signed by Adobe and is, in fact version 11.00. The date of the signature is November 2007, which sounds about right for when the rumors of CS4 got loud.
Opening the application brings up the alpha/beta picture, this one is a very cartoon-ish looking picture of Stonehenge. I selected to “Try for 30 days” during the initial screen. Loading time is extremely fast compared to CS2. My CS3 loads in 7-8 seconds, and this alpha/beta of CS4 loads in 4-5 seconds. Nice!!! The rest of it seems to be relatively unchanged.
One quickly noticeable difference is the “Layer Mask Density” slider bar. It only lights up when you have a layer mask selected, of course. It works alot like the opacity and fill, but I couldn’t make total sense of it.
I went through everything else, and so far couldn’t find any other new features. It does look better though. More of the bars/buttons/windows have rounded and beveled edges, making them nicer on the eyes.
Also, it seems faster in everything it does. Perhaps this is some of the better Vista coordination we heard about (I’m on Vista). This is definitely an alpha/beta though. One more thing I found was, during the window for Enter Serial or Try-for-30-days, there are the usual links at the bottom. One for “About Adobe Photoshop CS4″ and the license agreement link. Of course I just had to click the About CS4, and doing so took me to a “Welcome to the 30-day trial of CS2.” Weird huh..
So I’m still excited about CS4, but this alpha/beta is far from finished. It feels just like CS3 with a tune-up. I wouldn’t bother finding and downloading this version. I’m going to delete it after a few screenshots and stick to my CS3 until the real-deal finished product comes out.
-Jonathan
"
Probably about 70-80% of the people responding are doing this...
QFT I dunno how i got by without being able to select multiple layers.
And, to chime in on another mop post, i'm one of thoe guys who's never had PS crash since the CS suite came about. The worst I've got is issues with the cintiq drivers that required a restart to resolve...but hardly a crash.
(if anyone knows a trick about that.. sweet)
or here
http://www.worqx.com/color/images/shade-tint-wheel.jpg
keep that open.
I'm excited if it really boosts performance when working with large files. Working on 2x 2048's with tons of layers really gets chuggy. Saving quick tgas becomes a 3-5 second ordeal at times. However, you can't get too excited when they just say they're working on some 8mp image @ 442 dpi. What matters is what is contained in the psd, not the core dimensions of the image. I've recently started using smart groups a bit more as well, and if the performance is also boosted while using those in addition to multiple laters... awesome.
importing 3d models isn't impressive either, its in CS3. Making the feature not completely worthless... that'd be impressive
@ pea: omg... if there was a mask density slider, id be in love.
Lets just hope they fix the #@#$@% issue with focus on multiple documents, that has seriously bitten me in the ass multiple times. Makes me want to shoot a panda.
//edit: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/05/oct_1.html the plot thickens
yeah this is just horseshit. Bit me last night. I am going to hunt for an autosave plugin tonight.
Like previously said a color wheel and even a place to mix our colors like in Corel Painter.
Upgrade Away, I say! but throw in a color wheel or I will never upgrade from CS2.
A colour wheel in PS would be nice... I find HSB sliders are the fastest for me at the moment anyway.
Also if you ever get issues finding saturated light tones for skies and such - open up the color picker, switch to Lab mode all the way up to white and shift from there. It gives great sky colors.
And yeah a painter triangle picker would be a great complimentary tool to the current picker.
Color blend can be a nice gimmick ... but I don't know if Adobe even consider color blending/wet pigments any time in the future?
you guys are still talking about it like it's real.
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