ya!! I'm excited about the color picker! If they're opening it up in a floating panel, i wonder if that means they're also making it accessible for scripting, and not being slow and buggy (current alternative color pickers). Building a fast, and intuitive brush-centric color picker would rule - similar to that (gigantic) new eyedroper gui, but not mouse-tracking (color wheel around mouse w/ centric value/sat changes)
I got past her eating lunch while giving that demo, but after the last guy's (who i think they're related) video, she is very welcome:
cool features, but what up with the hella lag?? you would think people demoing this shit would have super computers, everything looks really slowwwwwww.
- set memory to 88 or 92%
- change scratch disc to my SSD drive, and other harddrive (NOT STARTUP DISC)
- turn off that openGL garbage
- turn off flick pan
- turn off animated zoom
You lose rotation of the canvas, and fancy bells & whistles of your photoshop document actually appearing to zoom in, instead of just f'ing zooming in, but you get a shitload more speed.
I only have problems now after i open very large .psb files (6+ gigs) and close them. I have to restart photoshop.
[offtopic]
That said... i hope all of this new brush magic, color picker awesomeness, and other features aren't tied to openGL... that stuff causes so much pain in CS4.
ok I downloaded it and gave it a try. First impressions arent amazing.
I was really looking forward to the new brush engine but it seems its in 2 parts. 1 is brushes 2 is wet brushes this doesnt sound bad until you realise that the brushes apply the paint and the wet brushes do not apply any paint they are simply a fancy smudge tool am I right?
EDIT! Hold on Im wrong on that one! you can change the setting titled mix at the top to about 20% and the load up a bit and then the wet brushes do add colour it was just very very subtle on the defaults! still doesnt do what I want though as you have to draw over the same section many many times before the full colour is present and when you turn wetness down it doesnt seem to work, wetness 0 is just a normal dry brush so thats not too useful.
puppet warp works well with the content aware fill eg you select a leg duplicate it to a new layer then go to the original layer and remove the leg with content aware fill and off you go puppeteering
i couldnt get the brush hardness thing working in that video, holding alt while resizing the brush only changes the brush size for me no matter the direction. also couldnt figure out how to make the colour picker appear on top. phooey.
Replies
'with a little time and finesse... ART!'
I got past her eating lunch while giving that demo, but after the last guy's (who i think they're related) video, she is very welcome:
WARNING: Remove all sharp objects, acids, and rope like objects from around your computer, because you may be tempted to use them on yourself.
[ame]
Did you try cranking up the memory usage and turning off opengl drawing?
I set mine to use 70& of my available ram and lowered history states to 10, cache 4.
Got some speed after tweaking the settings.
my checklist for setting up CS4:
- set memory to 88 or 92%
- change scratch disc to my SSD drive, and other harddrive (NOT STARTUP DISC)
- turn off that openGL garbage
- turn off flick pan
- turn off animated zoom
You lose rotation of the canvas, and fancy bells & whistles of your photoshop document actually appearing to zoom in, instead of just f'ing zooming in, but you get a shitload more speed.
I only have problems now after i open very large .psb files (6+ gigs) and close them. I have to restart photoshop.
[offtopic]
That said... i hope all of this new brush magic, color picker awesomeness, and other features aren't tied to openGL... that stuff causes so much pain in CS4.
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=62582
M
G
...
[ame="
I cant believe how cheap it is to upgrade from cs2. Looks like I'll be upgrading this time around. Its just too enticing.
Email adobe saying your having problems with the content aware and attach that picture please.
12 April were the presentation and i wasn't very excited. I don't expect much from adobe, i'm sure i will be stucked with cs3 for a long time.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop
The new brushes look interesting plus theres better 3d stuff apparently, heres a good review
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/04/photoshop-cs5-extended---the-ars-technica-review.ars/5
I was really looking forward to the new brush engine but it seems its in 2 parts. 1 is brushes 2 is wet brushes this doesnt sound bad until you realise that the brushes apply the paint and the wet brushes do not apply any paint they are simply a fancy smudge tool
EDIT! Hold on Im wrong on that one! you can change the setting titled mix at the top to about 20% and the load up a bit and then the wet brushes do add colour it was just very very subtle on the defaults! still doesnt do what I want though as you have to draw over the same section many many times before the full colour is present and when you turn wetness down it doesnt seem to work, wetness 0 is just a normal dry brush so thats not too useful.
puppet warp works well with the content aware fill eg you select a leg duplicate it to a new layer then go to the original layer and remove the leg with content aware fill and off you go puppeteering