Google just punched me in the face a bunch. I am a hobbyist that uses modo and zbrush. I've been using free 2d graphic applications, but I'm looking into getting photoshop. The plan is to use PS for generating support images for modeling, concept artwork, and some presentation stuff. The extended version seems to have nice…
does the regular version of photoshop in cs3 and cs 4 have these problems? It might be that the extended editions are too bloated now that it does 3d, yeah right, and all video editing stuff.
The 3D stuff in CS4 Extended isn't really there yet, interface and performance wise. Also you might want to consider getting an older version as CS4 is generally quite slow to work with (and had issues with Nv dual view last time I checked).