CS4 - opinions / impressions
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- airey
alrighty, thought we could kick off some impressions / opinions to help guide anyone who's considering the jump.
personally (on a macpro dual 2.66, 10.5.5):
Dreamweaver - same but quite different. pretty excited by the new features. seems faster at some stuff and slower at others. could be me though. finding that i'm getting frustrated but i know that's just the relearning process.
photoshop - faster. nice interface. looking forward to getting into it.
flash - seems slower at some stuff. then again so am i. good interface layout.
adobe media encoder (previously Flash Media Encoder): good. looks great (as opposed to the OS7 looking bastard it was). no idea about speed or codec usage - no depth to my shallowness obviously.
haven't used anything else yet. making the move slowly.
overall. happy for the money spent. still angry that they screwed me on the preorder discount but it aint the fist time i've been fucked over nor the last. you know the score, take the fisting and carry on. it is an improvement that you'll notice.
- airey0
also, bridge - excellent. bigger, better, faster. all that shite. good interface additions.
- mistermik0
if you would like to send me the software - I can offer my opinion as well.
- sure, just emailed 5GB. let me know if it doesn't get there.airey
- me too, would love to be on the board ; )seven8nine10
- modern0
I was pretty disappointed how clunky some of the interfaces feel... flash in particular (some better design choices but the same old shitty macromedia style coding).
Photoshop was quite a nice, 3D stuff is a total waste of time in my opinion, just feels like they were trying to keep the team busy. Is there a way to turn that FUCKING MASSIVE COMPASS off when you rotate the canvas?
Also I noticed one weird thing, when my canvas was at 100% a 1 pixel line was blurry... it should have been crisp and was when I zoomed in.After Effects is a nice update, the interface has had a ton of polish graphically, looks fucking great and well made. The AE teams attention to detail is streets ahead from the rest of Adobe. Not many new features but probably my fave update.
Fireworks didn't work when I tested it "Fatal subsystem failure, restart your computer", if you ask me Fireworks shouldn't be doing anything that requires me to restart my computer, makes me worried adobe are fucking around with my OS. I've never been a fan of programs that stick their roots too deep in the OS ever since MSN Messenger wrecked my whole windows install when I installed an update because it molests far too much of the OS for an IM program.
- fireworks shouldn't be doing anything... like hmm saving your files?sherm
- Peter0
From what I can see from the screenshots, the interface takes on the pc-greyish window background.
Why! BUT WHY!
How can I enjoy a tiny, resized video of clevage while simoultaniously working in photoshop now. HOW DAMMET!
- You can work with a CS3 interface if you want to...ItalianStallion
- Window > Arange > Float All in Windows... does it work?ItalianStallion
- modern0
I hate that grey application background crap, I'm constantly grabbing colours and dragging between projects and talking to other people on the project in the background, this is tedious as hell to do on a pc.
Luckily you can turn the application frame crap off
- cosmicEntity0
Just downloading a bit torrent now so will let you know
- itstimefortea0
are the trials just available in the US? can't seem to download one from adobe...
- They are not available anywhere yet as far as I can tell.designbot
- mimeartist_com0
there are a few bugs in the interface for flash where if you drag the whole app... windows within it get offset... and also when you're trying to get a colour from the palette to use in another program, or pick off an image etc. you have an issue where there is a shadow from either the palette or something else that prevents you from getting the correct colour... and instead get a 'grey' version of it... annoying!
- roundabout0
I have only just installed CS3, so at the moment I think Adobe are taken the pissing with CS4, I might wait for CS5. DAM! I live on the edge.
- never thought I live on the edge - but I guess I dojayoh
- mistermik0
i'll think i'll wait.
- pylon0
DW's new features are good. It's still slow and it still drops sites from the sites' panel/list if you've got a lot (say a dozen or more) for no good reason.
Photoshop does feel faster.
Haven't opened Flash.
Haven't opened Illustrator or InDesign either.
- designbot0
What is the deal with the trial downloads? It's like an infinite loop, you can't actually download anything even though Adobe claims the trials are available:
- itstimefortea0
they finally sorted out illustrator masks though which is good
- seven8nine100
Pylon, do you need help opening the remaining packages??
- Just one box. But if you bring coffee w/ you we'll talk.pylon
- eheh deal ; )seven8nine10
- sherm0
if it ain't broke don't fix it.
- omgitsacamera0
am i missing out?
- knars0
I am down.
I think it's a good upgrade from a user stand point but as far as print goes, I think it may be a hard sell to become standard.
I must say, I uninstalled CS3.
We'll see how that goes.
- Llyod0
I bragged in some other thread that I know a guy at Adobe who's hooking me up with CS4 Web for $150 (I'm giving him another 150 to be nice). so suck on it
- maybe you're the one sucking on it to get the deal?flashbender
- you've been zinged!Daithi