Photoshop CS6 (beta out)
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http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs6/
I'm definitely going to be trying this beta. Biggest thing for me, is Adobe Raw 7.0, some of the other new features are sexy as well.
Quite like Adobe's new move of having beta's for it's apps.
I'm definitely going to be trying this beta. Biggest thing for me, is Adobe Raw 7.0, some of the other new features are sexy as well.
Quite like Adobe's new move of having beta's for it's apps.
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if this is real... (and not just marketing)... hmm. yeah, i'll try it.
Seems like Adobe is going the Autodesk way, interface wise. I don't think it was nessecary, but the new interface looks nice.
General Feature Overview
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Maybe not the best out there, but certainly a nice overview. ^^
I personally don't like how much he emphasizes the 'new' perspective cropping tool, since it's a feature that we've got since atleast CS4.
I dunno, i'd say they're bringing Photoshop, and most likely the rest of their apps in line with After Effects and Lightroom 4 in terms of interface, specially the colouring.
I really like it, sexy.
load time is ~1/10th, liquify is wtf amazing at high resolutions... and generally feels more responsive overall.
running the 64bit version btw. also, this is just my first impression.
My system specs..
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
AMD Phenom II x4 965 @ 3.42ghz
16 gig ram
120 gig OCZ SSD
EVGA GTX 570
Cintiq 21UX
also will be testing on my cintiq so I'll note if I see any issues with anything....
So they improved Liquify!?
Adobe! What the hell man, you're supposed to make your software worse, not improve it!
also, most of brushes max diameter is 5000 px right now
superfast response on mac os and 8 gigs of ram
amazing update
Is there any 3d in this beta?
been hoping since release that they would make 3d usable?
( customisable viewport navigation so I could actually move without program dyslexia frustration )
less artifacts? better opengl performance?
Otherwise, the other features look nice.
I just wish they would rebuild photoshop and make the whole program non-linear.
( I would glady use a non-linear compositing application that had nice brushes and selection tools that could equal photoshop. Othewise photoshops linear history is like an anchor that keeps it from really shining. ( my performance is fine on my machine... I find Photoshop a joy on a machine with lots of threads and memory )
my aging eyes say AMEN!
Ahhh speedy large brush sizes?!
Amen!
does the acceleration take advantage of multiple gpu's? ( geForce )
Is this polycount or what, why isn't this thread filled with people saying "Photopshop 6.0 was the best, i still use it!"
Glad some of the new features are in extended cause I wont use them.
Agreed, but although 3d is still in extended only...
Supposedly 3d has been completely revamped!
Really excited to see if it is usable.
Wish there was an extended version of the beta.
My download keeps failing! Arghhh! this is frustrating...
Can anyone confirm whether or not this beta is an extended version?
photoshop 7 was the best and I do still use it on my shonky old tablet.
cs5 has been good to me - ps been improving steadily since the abortion that was cs1 and this looks like more of the same.
http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs6#
being able to visually code a shader-like algorithm and feed it a texture and get a texture set (spec, diffuse and normal) out is pretty useful.
I don't think the feature is ready for primetime though, is laggy at higher resolutions, and doesn't have a good method for outputting the texture (basically you have to make the document 3x the size of the texture you want, make the tiling layer, then save as something and then crop the middle out).
looked deeper into the fine print:
Looks like there is camera navigation attempt at improvement...
No hands on so I still have my fingers crossed
Lynda.com has a whole series of beta 6 videos...
FREE! :poly124:
http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Photoshop-CS6-Beta-Preview/97406-2.html
27 videos of new features ( only 3 covering 3d )
I'm definitely curious to try it out but it all sounds too good to be true
That's really nice of them.
Also, bloody hell this is fast! I never used 6.0 or 7.0, so I don't know what the 'mystical' best is, but this is so far better then CS5 so far.
3d manipulation is way better, painting was still really slow though, and this was on a 1k viewport document painting on a model w/ a 2k texture
Also found a pretty nifty tool - Perspective cropping, don't remember it being in CS5, but i never looked much under the crop tool.
It's been there since cs3 as far as I know. But yeah, it's a handy tool to have.
I don't know about CS3 but in CS4 you actually have the perspectice option in the cropping tool build in. It's just that it isn't a tool by itself, but rather a small extra option of the cropping tool.
That's what confuses me so much, the feature isn't realy new, but anyone is screaming how cool it is now. :poly142:
Usually it's the other way around ( = photoshop 7 is more responsive than cs3-cs5 largely because of clunky UI. maya and painter are also similar in that regards, newer interfaces are nifty, but noticeably less responsive.)
do we know how well the painting toolset these days copes with 16bpp images?
Overall the performance is improved from CS5, everything just seems a lot smoother and with less delay. The dark interface is fantastic, since I don't work in fullscreen mode often.
I remember that dualbrushing/paper texture were making brushes crawl in prev. versions, need to check that out in cs6.
I also haven't figured out what exactly brush projection does, and seems like their web-support lacks cs6 articles, am I right?
Projection brushes render any brushes in 3D, like the 3D brushes that were in CS5, so that you can have angular distortions that make the brushes feel just a bit more natural. iirc painter already has this.
cs6 is still all around hugely optimized though.
yeah, but for me, projection brushes have some really weird angles, as opposed to cs5 bristles or cs6 pencil types of brushes - those are very straightforward; projected brushes just feel off, and I can't really control the brush angle (but it gets some variety indeed).
Argh, so much awesome! Seems like Adobe is on their A-Game!
Snarky Remark: Pixo, give is a proper AT-Save already!
This computer isn't bad either. 4 gb ram,dual-core, whatever. Windows 7.
Any ideas why this would happen?
EDIT: Actually, it isn't just the "Searching for Plug-ins" part. It pretty much freezes randomly within the start-up screen, and never recovers.