so... who's gonna be upgrading to CS4?

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just out of curiosity?

i'd hate to think any of my software is out of date so it's likely that i will be upgrading to CS4 Design Premium, who else will be doing the same?

I gotta say i'm always overwhelmed with the amount of people that actually use this stuff, every man and their dog seem to have at least a copy of photoshop but even that is a few hundred quid - and a fair percentage don't even know how to use it :confused: (I suppose there is an obvious answer to that but that can't be discussed here right?)

anyway so yeah, who's making the move? I'm a day-to-day user of photoshop, illustrator and indesign and am pretty excited about how they're gonna improve these already outstanding programs :)
 
I'll try and blag the boss into paying for it (I'm a web-dev, note: not designer) so if he coughs up for it, I will. I've not even tried looking for new features etc. Will there be much?
 
I'm taking the plunge as I'm still on MX and PS7 at home, studio is on 3.3 :¬$ £2300 + a new laptop... Ouch, but it has been a good year and speculation for acumulation and I do such a varied degree of work I'm gonna go for the master collection so I have decent crossover in all the programs for a change.

It's weird because although I use Dreamweaver, I hand code so it is perhaps the least useful package to me...

Will plugins for After Effects 5.5 still work under After Effects CS4?

I'm gonna have to relearn how to code in Flash aren't I... :(
 
We've only just got PS CS3 at work after finally upgrading PS7!

I'd love to have the new version at home but I think I'll stick with what I've got :)
 
Does anyone else think they have been rather quiet with the launch of CS4?.

Aside from the odd email here and there from Adobe's subscription list, I've had scant info as to what's new and very little info on the part of Adobe as to "why" I should purchase it from them and upgrade my current CS3.

I would have thought they would have been actively targetting current customers to attempt to persuade them to upgrade, as well as looking to get new customers onboard.

But, I've not seen much going about on the whole deal. :confused:

Not fussed, I'll stick with CS3 for now till I see what CS4 has to offer, over and above the functionality I already have now. :cool:
 
It seems the only real difference is a tabbed and uniform UI, instead of multiple windows.

All applications in Creative Suite 4 now feature the same user interface. Adobe has introduced a new tabbed interface for working with concurrently running programs - multiple applications can be opened inside multiple tabs contained in a single window. nVidia CUDA technology is now supported to allow for the accelerated encoding of video.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Creative_Suite_4
 
CS4?? Bejeesus my boss only just shelled out for CS3! And even then he only got a windows license so the web devs have CS3 and the designers are still on CS2 for the Mac.
 
Draeger said:
Does anyone else think they have been rather quiet with the launch of CS4?.

Aside from the odd email here and there from Adobe's subscription list, I've had scant info as to what's new and very little info on the part of Adobe as to "why" I should purchase it from them and upgrade my current CS3.

I would have thought they would have been actively targetting current customers to attempt to persuade them to upgrade, as well as looking to get new customers onboard.

But, I've not seen much going about on the whole deal. :confused:

Not fussed, I'll stick with CS3 for now till I see what CS4 has to offer, over and above the functionality I already have now. :cool:
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Yeah there's a few new layout features for aligning stuff which I quite like the look of http://tv.adobe.com , but not a massive leap forward from what I've seen so far. I guess it depends how far back you're jumping from!

I'm going to a local screening of some Adobe presentations in November as I'm particularly interested on where they're going with mobile development.
 
Mmmmmm.....think I'll be getting it. I really hope they've implemented gradients on strokes in Illustrator.
 
Was shown Dreamweaver CS4 yesterday - the guy showing me was fuming because they removed some of the most basic day-to-day elements in CS4 - among other things for example - you cannot set font size in html properties of the text you are working on, the option is just not there any more, like the tag never existed. You have to do it by hand in code window or do CSS for every little ebay listing page you might be doing...
 
v0n said:
Was shown Dreamweaver CS4 yesterday - the guy showing me was fuming because they removed some of the most basic day-to-day elements in CS4 - among other things for example - you cannot set font size in html properties of the text you are working on, the option is just not there any more, like the tag never existed. You have to do it by hand in code window or do CSS for every little ebay listing page you might be doing...
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Is that not because CSS is increasingly being used to style fonts rather than html?
 
Robbie G said:
Is that not because CSS is increasingly being used to style fonts rather than html?
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Well - the point is - it's not for Adobe to decide - CS3 could do both. CS4 can only do CSS, because someone at Adobe decided font size=1 was sooo passe.
 
Apparently what has happened with Dreamweaver is that Adobe found out that the majority of users are using it to hand code so they've put some work into it.

I've actually switched from using Notepad2 to Dreamweaver (I wouldn't even have bothered trying it if work hadn't paid for the suite). When doing a template, I need only open the index file and it's put into a tab. Then, everything called into the page (CSS and JS) are opened in subtabs automatically. It's very convenient and I find it much faster than alt tabbing between 3 or 4 notepad windows.

For Photoshop, the tabs are nice as is the refreshed zoom. It's nice and smooth now and when you use the shortcuts, every jump up or down is antialiased instead of every second jump with previous versions. I haven't really taken advantage of anything else.


v0n said:
Well - the point is - it's not for Adobe to decide - CS3 could do both. CS4 can only do CSS, because someone at Adobe decided font size=1 was sooo passe.
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Actually, I would assume it's probably because 90-95% of their legit customer base are proper web designers/developers who care about standards.
 
Tripnologist said:
Actually, I would assume it's probably because 90-95% of their legit customer base are proper web designers/developers who care about standards.
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Admittedly, I'm not web designer and for those few web pages a year, linux' vi was always more than sufficient. But I always presumed html font size was one of the most basic standards? No?

In similar fashion, because I don't have to use it as an everyday tool, it makes no difference to me, but is going from this to control basic html text layout:
cs3.jpg

to this:
cs4.jpg

what we call progress now?
 
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