Photoshop CS4

Martin_Doudoroff · #1 09-12-2008, 02:07 PM

If Photoshop is important to you and you haven't seen the video footage from the keynote from Photoshop World, I recommend taking a look. The first part of the video is focused on the consumer end of Adobe's software, but they begin demonstrating a bunch of CS4 stuff at 12:00 (twelve minutes into the video).

To follow up, John Nack has posted an important caveat to what you see in this video, which might lead on to think that CS4's 3D features are a tangent.

More will be presented on 9/23. If you wanna be a real fanboy, you can even sign up to watch a live webcast on the 23rd.

Noel_Carboni · #2 09-13-2008, 02:30 PM

Thanks for the info, Martin. 182 MB MP4 file... No problem now, but a few years ago... :O

I signed up a long time ago.

Looks like some nice new stuff in CS4. I like that they have been optimizing, and the post-CS4 tidbits at the very end look pretty nice! Processing big images should be better...

Interesting that the 400+ megapixel image they demo'd was on a Mac - which is not going to be running 64 bit code.

-Noel

Martin_Doudoroff · #3 09-13-2008, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Noel_Carboni

Looks like some nice new stuff in CS4. I like that they have been optimizing, and the post-CS4 tidbits at the very end look pretty nice! Processing big images should be better...

It's certainly a pretty clear look at the direction Adobe is taking image processing plugins, and it makes complete sense to me as a developer. Frankly, I'm a little surprised it isn't going to be the only way to create image processing plugins for the 64-bit editions, but they implied what they were showing was not for CS4 at all.

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Originally Posted by Noel_Carboni

Interesting that the 400+ megapixel image they demo'd was on a Mac - which is not going to be running 64 bit code.

What they're doing is using a clever data management strategy in conjunction with the 3D features of the display card to do all that zooming and twiddling. It should deliver a great user experience, but it's mainly an illusion: it isn't as if you'll be painting and zooming (or rotating) at the same time.

Noel_Carboni · #4 09-13-2008, 07:34 PM

Guess I'm going to have to buy a better graphics card.

The good news is that cards better than the one that cost more than $1,000 I passed over a few years ago are now practically free.

-Noel

Martin_Doudoroff · #5 09-13-2008, 11:23 PM

My expectation would be that the video card hardware requirements will be more about contemporariness (API support/version) than processing muscle. I will be surprised if Photoshop CS4 leans heavily on any of the memory and 3D throughput architectural features that differentiate 3D cards, so entry-level 3D cards will probably work as well as the rarified ones, provided they're relatively recent.

Martin_Doudoroff · #6 09-23-2008, 11:33 AM

Photoshop CS4 and the other CS4 apps have now been officially announced. In classic Adobe style, the official web site is so pathetic that it makes the upgrade sound near fraudulent.

These two John Nack posts and their attendant hyperlinks are far more informative and useful, at least as far as Photoshop goes.

post 1

post 2

Even still, I'm not sure how quickly I'll rush to give Adobe another $500 to upgrade my CS3.

Jerry Skrocki · #7 09-23-2008, 01:22 PM

This clip pretty much sums up the Photoshop CS4 changes:

Photoshop CS4, Buy or Die | dekeOnline

Video Card requirements:
1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0.

CS4 also introduces native 16bit print output for Mac OSX