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I recently downloaded CS4 - and glad I didn't waste even a cent doing so.
The interface has received a welcoming change, making it look much more modern. It's introduced tabbing for multiple pictures which works really well. The interface seem to direct the eyes towards the painting or picture you're doing, a subtle effect that eases long term editing.
However, it ends there. One of the big features Photoshop CS4 adds is model painting support - however I'm not sure why they did this. Texturing using photoshop is a small minority, and many programs do this better than photoshop. Mudbox for example, does a surpurb (if buggy) job at this.
Next, we have performance. Now I have a pretty good computer - quad core 2.3, 8600GT graphics, 6gigs of ram on vista64bit. I understand photoshop is a bit bloated - however needing 5 SECONDS every time I want to select something is way too much.
Yes, you heard me. When you go down to drag and select, it takes 5 seconds before you make the selection box. Same with moving an object, or rotating, or using clone tool.
If you don't disable OPENGL, the same effect will go onto drawing. Freshly installed, CS4's drawing would happen at about 1 frame per second. Yes, it would update every second.
Like I said before, disabling opengl would revert the speed back to normal.
Not only that, but it's crashed twice on me while saving.
Googling my problems showed a good majority of the community also feels this way.
Seriously adobe, WTF? /rant
The interface has received a welcoming change, making it look much more modern. It's introduced tabbing for multiple pictures which works really well. The interface seem to direct the eyes towards the painting or picture you're doing, a subtle effect that eases long term editing.
However, it ends there. One of the big features Photoshop CS4 adds is model painting support - however I'm not sure why they did this. Texturing using photoshop is a small minority, and many programs do this better than photoshop. Mudbox for example, does a surpurb (if buggy) job at this.
Next, we have performance. Now I have a pretty good computer - quad core 2.3, 8600GT graphics, 6gigs of ram on vista64bit. I understand photoshop is a bit bloated - however needing 5 SECONDS every time I want to select something is way too much.
Yes, you heard me. When you go down to drag and select, it takes 5 seconds before you make the selection box. Same with moving an object, or rotating, or using clone tool.
If you don't disable OPENGL, the same effect will go onto drawing. Freshly installed, CS4's drawing would happen at about 1 frame per second. Yes, it would update every second.
Like I said before, disabling opengl would revert the speed back to normal.
Not only that, but it's crashed twice on me while saving.
Googling my problems showed a good majority of the community also feels this way.
Seriously adobe, WTF? /rant