CS4 -> CS5 - Worth it?
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The best changes in Photoshop really are the new bristle brushes (which essentially you can use to almost mimic Corel Painter's features) and also the different UI boxes are now all the same width so everything's less fiddly. The content-aware fill is very impressive but doesn't always work how you want.
After Effects and Premier pro are now native 64bit so you can take advantage of over 4gb RAM (which I will definitely be doing once I can afford said amount of ram). There are also general performance improvements, but I don't use the programs enough to notice.
Overall I don't think it's all worth the money; I'd wait for the next one. It's just that I have no patience
After Effects and Premier pro are now native 64bit so you can take advantage of over 4gb RAM (which I will definitely be doing once I can afford said amount of ram). There are also general performance improvements, but I don't use the programs enough to notice.
Overall I don't think it's all worth the money; I'd wait for the next one. It's just that I have no patience
The on canvas mixer feature sounds absoloutly fantastic for speed painting, considering my prefered physical medium is Oil paints.
Any-one knows how well it runs on ATI 5 series cards, or will I have to bring back my 8800GTX from retirement for this one?
Any-one knows how well it runs on ATI 5 series cards, or will I have to bring back my 8800GTX from retirement for this one?
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More importantly do you think it'd be worth me upgrading from Photoshop 5.5 which I have at work....
Still trying to convince the powers that be that it would be hugely helpful for me!!!
Still trying to convince the powers that be that it would be hugely helpful for me!!!holy hellMore importantly do you think it'd be worth me upgrading from Photoshop 5.5 which I have at work....
do you work in a professional design capacity, if so thats criminal!
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its good in the sense that its 64bit now, i like it , it has a few tweaks here and there that seem like worthy additions to my workings.
all depends on how much your using it and for what.
all depends on how much your using it and for what.
I really like cs5, some of the new stuff the've put in is pretty nice!
The active content fill is brilliant! you dont want something spoiling your picture? its gone, an no need to use the clone stamp, just select what you dont want, shift and f5, and its gone!
The only problem i get is, it says it supports .3ds files, but everytime i go to use it, it keeps giving me an error about not being able to open the file.
but yea, ild go for cs5 over 4 anyday! even the indesign has a few tweeks that i wonder how i got on without them!
The active content fill is brilliant! you dont want something spoiling your picture? its gone, an no need to use the clone stamp, just select what you dont want, shift and f5, and its gone!
The only problem i get is, it says it supports .3ds files, but everytime i go to use it, it keeps giving me an error about not being able to open the file.
but yea, ild go for cs5 over 4 anyday! even the indesign has a few tweeks that i wonder how i got on without them!
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More importantly do you think it'd be worth me upgrading from Photoshop 5.5 which I have at work....
To be honest anything post CS2 is worth it than still using 5.5!
I haven't studied CS5 that much but I've seen a video of the Content-Aware Fill/Clone/Spot Heal and it's very impressive.
To tell you the truth the first time I watched it I thought it was a prank/spoof vid.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI
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Runs perfectly with my 4890.
Photoshop uses OpenGL for hardware accelleration, which both ATi and nVidia fully support.
It doesn't use CUDA or any other proprietary nVidia thing (like Premiere Pro).
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holy hell
do you work in a professional design capacity, if so thats criminal!
Kind of, I design all the publications for a private school and in doing so I have to use Photoshop a lot! I'm so used to 5.5 that I can do pretty much everything I want with it and definitely feel it's great even now for beginners as it's the last version really where all they gave you was tools rather than quick fixes for things, so you had to learn how every tool works and then work out for yourself how you can utilise them for whatever task is at hand, which I think gives you a much better base to work from with Photoshop. However I've got my skills base and there are definitely times when I'd like some of the labour saving tools!!! lol
If you two could please speak to my boss I'd be grateful...lol