Gizmodo: photoshop cs 4

20 Years of Photoshop's Interface Evolution Doesn't Show Much Evolution

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:29:28 EST

Once upon a time there was a program called Photoshop, created by the Knoll Brothers. Twenty years and eleven versions later, it basically remains unchanged. Except for the damn bloody tabs.

It's not only the tool palette. It's the entire user interface, which has remain basically the same since the 90s, after its creation in 1988. But then again, why fix what is not broken? Maybe someone can come up with a better interface metaphor for manipulating images. Some people say that the Photoshop interface and workflow works because people are used to it. Maybe they are right and someone needs to break the mold, but everyone who has tried has failed miserably so far. And two decades is enough to come up with a worthy competitor—and please, don't even mention Gimp.

Check our Photoshop CS4 review here. [Woohome]

Which Is Worse: Microsoft Office 2007's Ribbon or Adobe CS4's Tabs?

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:20:00 EST

Which do you hate most, the dumbstastic Adobe Creative Suite 4 tabbed interface or the flabbymoronic Microsoft Office 2007's ribbon? Ready. Set. Fight!

Adobe Added Multitouch to Creative Suite 4, Didn't Tell Anyone

John Herrman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:45:00 EDT

Content producers of pretty much any ilk were excited to get news of the highly refined, newly hardware-accelerated CS4 product line, but probably missed this key feature buried deep in the release notes: multitouch trackpad support.

MacBook Air and late model MacBook Pro users can now pinch, spread, and twist in Photoshop just like they already can in iPhoto. Even better, all users can take advantage of a new "throw" feature, which lets you choose to toss objects across the screen. Could this be timed to correspond with multitouch trackpad capability in the next generation of MacBooks? Sorry, let me rephrase that: this better be timed to correspond with multitouch trackpads in new MacBooks, or else. [MacRumors via Wired]

Amazon Tells All About Adobe InDesign CS4 By Accident

Elaine Chow — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:16:29 EDT

Looks like somebody over at Amazon made a big oopsies and accidentally put up details of Adobe InDesign CS4 on its website long enough for Apple Insider to get a bunch of screenshots. Features for the software, which is due for a public unveiling on Tuesday, include Live Preflight, conditional text, SWF file export and other additional enhancements. InDesign CS4 will be shipped in November and should cost you a heaping $699 for the Design Premium pack upgrade from CS3 (the $198 you see here is apparently an individual InDesign upgrade package specifically for Pagemaker). [Apple Insider]

Photoshop CS4 Dropping On Sept. 23?

Elaine Chow — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:45:21 EDT

Is Photoshop CS4 coming earlier than predicted? A screengrab of NAPP Newswire shows that something is about to hit on Sept. 23... and that it's something to do with Adobe's Creative Suite 4. How disappointing would it be if whatever it is that's supposed to be “brilliant” turned out to be like... an ad? [-Thanks mrquintano2u!]

Photoshop CS 4 Might Hit in October With GPU Acceleration After All

matt buchanan — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:41:03 EDT

Over the holiday weekend (yep, I was slaving over a keyboard, not a grill, just for you) it came out via TGDaily that the next version of Photoshop would rock general-purpose GPU acceleration for serious performance gains and come out in October. Adobe's John Nack said it was hooey. TGDaily responds today that during the tech demo, "Nack was running an alpha version of Stonehenge, which is, according to Nack, the code-name of the next-generation Photoshop." The natural assumption is the features will stick around in the final version.

While Nack also disputed the CS4 moniker, he has in fact previously referred to Photoshop CS4 in the press. On the October date, while TGDaily has nothing hard to back them up (they're asking for a video of the demo to be released) they say they've got October written in their notes not once, but twice. We're going to give TGDaily the benefit of the doubt here, and think that Adobe just spilled a little bit more out than they intended to. [TGDaily]

Photoshop CS 4 Will Use Your Graphics Card to Run at Light Speed, Do Fancy 3D Tricks

matt buchanan — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:30:00 EDT

The next version of Photoshop (CS 4) will be juicing up performance by taking advantage of hardware it hasn't tapped before: graphics cards and physics processors. How much faster is the new 64-bit, GPU-injected Photoshop? At a demo at Nvidia's HQ, TG Daily watched "the presenter playing with a 2 GB, 442 megapixel image like it was a 5 megapixel image on an 8-core Skulltrail system. Changes made through image zoom and through a new rotate canvas tool were applied almost instantly." Update: John Nack from Adobe is calling bogus on some of TGDaily's info, namely the Oct. release date and says the demoed tech is not "promised to go into any particular version of Photoshop." So take it for what you will.

3D effects are spiffier too, with direct 3D model manipulation and rendering, as well as a snappier 3D accelerated panorama. Overall, it sounds like it could be the most important Photoshop update in years when it drops in October. [TGDaily]