We didn’t get a chance to beta test Photoshop CS4 here at Go Media, but it looks like a worthy upgrade. Here’s a collection of previews & feature lists of the latest & greatest Adobe Photoshop.
If you’re in a rush here is the meat of what I gathered from picking through these previews:
Photoshop CS4 will..
- use the graphics card more aggressively, allowing for smooth zooming, canvas rotation, and other cool 3D effects with good performance
- have the same UI enhancements as the rest of the creative suit: tabs, frames, etc.
- include intelligent scaling, like the kind we’ve ooo’d and ahhh’d about for the past year
- be more flexible because of non-destructive editing via new adjustment options
- may possibly have multi-touch support
- have better masking.
Previews & Feature Lists
Camera Town Preview
This is one of the best previews I could find. Really comprehensive, but long. Looks to be straight from the horse’s mouth.
Pop Photo Hands On
A nice down-to-earth look at some helpful features.
Macworld previews the content-aware scaling
Macworld talks about how cool this feature is. Does anybody remember that this technology was developed a year or more ago, and bought by Adobe?
MacNN Multi Touch
MacNN lets us know that Photosohp will support multi-touch with certain hardware. Cool. Useable?
ZDNet Photoshp CS4 First Look
The ZDNet flavor of Photosohp CS4 preview. Nice, but could use some screenshots.
Videos
Sneak preview from Photoshop World Orlando
New 3D Effects
Content Aware Scaling (yawn)
Smooth zooming & rotating
23/08/2006 at 11:20 pm Permalink
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24/08/2006 at 4:42 am Permalink
wow.really love the 3d effect:)
24/08/2006 at 11:08 am Permalink
Nice post
Regards
24/08/2006 at 7:33 pm Permalink
I’ve been using the beta on my Mac. :]
24/08/2006 at 7:54 pm Permalink
I’ve been using Photoshop CS4 beta for a while now, and it’s awesome! Ton’s of 3D tools. Very easy to use.
25/08/2006 at 4:11 am Permalink
The best part of CS4 is that it is going 64 bit for Windows only. The increase speed from what I read is 8-12%. This is worth the upgrade.
25/08/2006 at 1:42 pm Permalink
The only real thing that’s good about CS4 is that they are making a 64 bit version. I believe it’s about a 11percent speed increase. Not much, but it’s better than nothing.
25/08/2006 at 4:31 pm Permalink
can’t wait til the suite comes out
25/08/2006 at 6:02 pm Permalink
@alanvalek:
You’re right, I haven’t used it. I admit that the video previews look(ed) really really cool. But that was quite awhile ago. I even think third party plug-ins brought this capability to Photoshop last year. It seems like it’s being sold as the newest and coolest.
25/08/2006 at 7:53 pm Permalink
Content aware scaling (yawn)…? I don’t know if I agree with that one. Wait until you use it for the first time and then see.