CS vs CS 2
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- kingcatcole
I kind of need to do a report on the benefits of CS 2 over CS for work, they are thinking of getting it if it's worth it. Can I get some opinions from you guys.
The only info I can find is pretty much whats on their site, as far as the tech stuff.
Thanks.
- Boz0
Honestly, I don't see that much benefit at all, yeah cool stuff like vanishing point and a few other cool things, but they made it so heavy that it runs below fast on my dual Xeons 3.6Ghz with 4Gb of ram. That's a disgrace. I mean CS is pretty heavy too, but now it's even worse. Also, if you install CS2 there's no way to do that registry change and show PSD thumbnails in Windows Explorer which is A HUGE thing for me. I mean I JUST DON'T WANT TO USE their freakin' Bridge application, it's slow, it's unfriendly UI is just too slow when I need to find PSDs I need for a project. And who needs to buy Stock photos through? I certainly don't. If we lived without it and bought directly through web sites, this is not really revolutionary.
Another thing that pisses me off are SMART layers. I mean the idea is in place, but check this out, if you have older files that have certain layers linked, PREPARE yourself for a lot of FRUSTRATION because that quick layer select thing with CTRL+click doesn't work good anymore and you have to manually unlink layers. Pretty frustrating to say at least.
Also, what do we need ImageReady for anymore anyways. I mean turn on animation panel in Photoshop and it's the same crap. I don't get it. Pretty much, a few improvements that are cool, but none significant enough to justify an upgrade, especially with Smart layers thing.
Oh and btw, they still haven't fixed the 2Gb memory cap thing which is in my opinion UNACCEPTABLE. With 64bit systems already at large, 2Gb cap on the application workspace is stupid. You can't use 4Gb of ram for it, what bullshit.
Well, that's pretty much my opinion, I guess some people will disagree.
- Bahiatronic0
You still have thumbnail image from PSD. but you have to change to Thumbnail mode instead of List or tile if you are using windows. not sure Mac though!! Yeah!! It's use extremely hard on RAM and it slows your pc easily... The best version of Photoshop is 7 i reckon... (if you don't want those weird other which you will never use plugins or effects stuff)