Photoshop CS4 if you hate it these might help.
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Hi, so I have recently been upgraded to cs4 at work and I am totally hating it, I thought cs3 was bad but cs4's bad performance and new interface are just frustrating. Please note we're using cs4 not extension 2 so maybe extension 2 fixes some of the issues? Any ways I thought I would share some tips/work arounds if you don't like cs4 and wish you could go back in time to cs2.
1. cs4 now wants to use tabs for everything, I used to be able to drag images on to photoshop and have them open as a floating window, now they open as a tab super annoying. I've find you can turn off tabs in the preferences but images still open in a tab if you drag a image onto photoshop. The work around for this is to drag the image onto photoshop and drop it onto the layers pallette, the image will then open in a floating window like normal.
2. When I zoom in 300% or higher and try to pan around the image by holding space + lmb and scrolling the mouse around I get unusable performance, photoshop has to redraw the screen while panning it is so painful. The work around for this is to go into preferences under performance and turn on use open gl, then expand all the settings for open gl and turn all of those off? Looks like they fucked something up when they integrated gl support I'm sure this is video card specific but I have a quadro work station card and I am experiencing the problem. You need to close cs4 and reopen before the performance issue is fixed when panning zoomed in.
3. Adjustment layers pallette. I absolutely hate this thing, I used to be able to add an adjustment layer double click tweak it's properties hit enter or esc if I did not want to keep the settings I just changed. Now I double click the pallette and this lame pallette appears blocking half my screen and never goes away until I manually close it and the esc key no longer works for closing it. The best work around for this thing it to break it off into it's own seperate floating pallette and collapse it to an icon and store it on the left side of the screen, at least that way it auto hides when I'm done tweaking settings and I can still see history and layers while it is visible.
Hope these work arounds help someone took me a while to figure it out.
1. cs4 now wants to use tabs for everything, I used to be able to drag images on to photoshop and have them open as a floating window, now they open as a tab super annoying. I've find you can turn off tabs in the preferences but images still open in a tab if you drag a image onto photoshop. The work around for this is to drag the image onto photoshop and drop it onto the layers pallette, the image will then open in a floating window like normal.
2. When I zoom in 300% or higher and try to pan around the image by holding space + lmb and scrolling the mouse around I get unusable performance, photoshop has to redraw the screen while panning it is so painful. The work around for this is to go into preferences under performance and turn on use open gl, then expand all the settings for open gl and turn all of those off? Looks like they fucked something up when they integrated gl support I'm sure this is video card specific but I have a quadro work station card and I am experiencing the problem. You need to close cs4 and reopen before the performance issue is fixed when panning zoomed in.
3. Adjustment layers pallette. I absolutely hate this thing, I used to be able to add an adjustment layer double click tweak it's properties hit enter or esc if I did not want to keep the settings I just changed. Now I double click the pallette and this lame pallette appears blocking half my screen and never goes away until I manually close it and the esc key no longer works for closing it. The best work around for this thing it to break it off into it's own seperate floating pallette and collapse it to an icon and store it on the left side of the screen, at least that way it auto hides when I'm done tweaking settings and I can still see history and layers while it is visible.
Hope these work arounds help someone took me a while to figure it out.
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We tried CS4 at work the other day and pretty much everybody I heard feedback from disliked it. What annoys me the most is that all these performance issues, lags, flickering aso sound very minor on paper, making CS4 'good enough' for non daily users hence making it look like it is worth the upgrade (CS4 being forced in by Adobe for new licenses anyways).
I hate how the fullscreen modes toggle is now slower than ever. One can see little parts of the interface appear one after the other instead of a snappy swap. It was getting slower in CS3, now it's much much worse... Little things, but annoying at the end of the day.
Does the extension pack 2 fix the 6D pen issue? First thing I noticed in CS4 was the twist not being taken into account.
Doesn't that mean if you save the PSD, they will lose the nested layer sets information when they open it again in CS2 or whatever? Breaking someone's layer setup, isn't that a bit inconsiderate?
Unless it actually does preserve that information somehow even if you save in an older version?
Also.. personally I find the new UI a lot better
Draggable brush resize = Oh yes! I used to use the zoom buttons on my tablet but finally I can actually have a zoom on the tablet.
When opening tabs aside from each other it eats a hell lot more the ram
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http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb404439 and in general I think they fucked up the performance mainly resulting from the new GUI
yeah i think so, too. i shall slap them more often from now on if they try that stunt again, promise. that'll teach 'em. beware of latest-version-pussies.