I'm in CS4, and I'm painting white on a black layer mask, and I'm getting fifteen second delay between my brushstoke and it taking effect? What going on???
CS4 is advertised as being much faster than CS3. I went back to CS3 and the speed is fine/normal in CS3. In CS3 and all previous editions, the brush strokes work in real time. I'm in tears here.
Also bizarre is the brushstokes in CS4 look like this:
In CS3 and previous editions they look like this
Mac/ 10.4.12
G5 dual 1.8
__________________ MAC 10.4.12
CS4
Mac G5/ dual 1.8
CANON 5D
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Generally speaking I find CS4 very sluggish at certain things, as compared to its predecessors, which I fire up from time to time to test software. I would probably feel it was unacceptably slow if I hadn't upgraded my workstation at the same time as getting it.
Also, and probably more closely related to your problem, I've seen it get into modes where the queue of events gets messed up and painting or making multiple point selections or WHATEVER requires multiple mouse operations can be very, very, very sluggish. The solution seems to be to be patient, then save your work, close Photoshop and reopen it.
CS4 is BY FAR the buggiest release Adobe has yet made of Photoshop. That said, it actually is still useful.
Regarding your brush strokes, you have somehow selected to paint with a texture. Perhaps this is related to the sluggishness you're seeing. Choose Window - Brushes to see the Brushes palette and determine what options you have selected.
It is possible to paint smoothly with CS4 - I painted the following with CS4:
Noel, just discovered that for CS4 to work properly one would need to upgrade to a new state of the art Intel Mac Pro or windows equivilant, so it's outrageous as far as I'm concerned that Adobe does not broadcast this. I'm going back to CS3 for now
__________________ MAC 10.4.12
CS4
Mac G5/ dual 1.8
CANON 5D
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Not sure I agree with that judgment, though I stand behind my statement that Photoshop CS4 is indeed a bit more sluggish than its predecessors.
When I said I upgraded my workstation, what I mainly did is upgrade my video card - my (PC) workstation is over 3 years old. I have dual Xeon 3.6 GHz processors, which pre-date the change to Centrino technology that halved the clock speed. What year was your machine made? Are your processors Power PC or Pentium?
What kind of video interface do you have in your computer? You can get a screaming meany of a video card nowadays, which helps speed everything up. Probably a good idea no matter what version of Photoshop you'll be using.
I agree with Noel in that the brush lag is probably due to Photoshop CS4's implementation of Open GL. You may just need to upgrade your video card or video card driver.
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Mac OS PPC Photoshop supports OpenGL features, including Smooth Display at All Zoom Levels, Birdseye view, Rotate Canvas, Draw Brush Tip Editing Feedback via GPU, and Hand Toss Image, on PowerPCs when the computer uses a supported display card, and Enable OpenGL Drawing is available and selected in Photoshop > Preferences > Performance (Mac OS) or Edit > Preferences > Performance (Windows).
Advanced Drawing functions are not supported on PowerPCs, even with a supported display card. When the Advanced Drawing option in Advanced Settings is unavailable, Photoshop turns off Move Color Matching to the GPU, 3D GPU features, and uniform size checkerboard compositing.
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