Photoshop CS4 and Dreamweaver CS4 - Wow

[intellix]

Hey guys, has anyone else tried these two 'new' versions of Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Had a crack at them today and firstly im blown away by how much better Photoshop is with the integrated 3d abilities. Before when it came to making graphics I would never have attempted to learn 3d modeling and integrating them into Photoshop for graphic design but with CS4 I think all my images are going to have some sort of 3d element.

Dreamweaver seems to be able to render CSS code now. From first learning CSS a year or so ago it was quite annoying to find that Dreamweaver rendered pages with it so bad :S

Any comments? The whole interface is so much better now as well.

 

[intellix]

One of the features I was pretty excited about with Dreamweaver was the Live View, which apparently should let you see how the website would render... It does an ok job but it doesnt really reflect what you'd see in any browser as it wasnt the same as what was displayed in either IE7 or FF, so whats the point in that?

I'm not quite sure of the reason it was implemented the way it was but surely shouldnt there be a liveview for different browsing engines such as IE7, FF and Safari? would be nice!

Made some fantastic logos in Photoshop... I just wish that the pen tool in Illustrator was the same as it is in Photoshop Which pen tool do you guys prefer? to me... the pen tool in photoshop lets you precisely pen where you want to whereas the one in illustrator seems to be based more on a guess of where you want lines to appear, any thoughts?

 

[intellix]

Does anyone using CS4 know if embedding Flash within Dreamweaver is now done differently compared to previous incarnations of CS?.

They were apparently going to move over to using Swfobject as the new standardised way to embed Flash instead of the rather messy and ineffective way DW does it at the moment.

Wondering if they have changed the way DW does this or if they have simply said "Yeah - swfobject is what we recommend to use".

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="605" height="280" id="FlashID" title="test">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="banner.swf" width="605" height="280">
</object>
<script type="text/javascript">

Part of the code, if that is what you were wondering... from CS4 dreamweaver