Sounds great but I can’t see my self justifying the price tag for those new features, I’ll stick with CS3 for now.

Photoshop is sooo expensive.

I’m honestly the most excited about the 3D elements. For designing in my college classes as well as work it will add a whole new depth to my work. I love how PS CS3 already can import 3D objects, but a huge limitation is that you can only edit textures attached, and not add your own. Looks like CS4 will break that and allow you to polypaint, which is going to be awesome.

Yes, it’s pricey. Way too expensive for dabblers. I’ll be in college still so I’ll get the student discount – huzzah! But still way expensive.

I like how Adobe makes it out that they made the “Content-Aware Scaling”, it was invented by a group of people here is the link to it: http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/Image_Resizing/ they have a very early post on digg but I cannot locate it..

Adobe is either out of their mind on the pricing from CS3 suites.. CS3 was a broken product and to charge that much for it is absurd.

Wow, I can’t wat for this one. Looks fantastic!

I’m really looking forward to Content-Aware Scaling. I just hope that I’m going to be able to afford this right after CS3.

A lot of really sweet features in the new PS !!!

looks awesome…..

who cares about the price it’ll be available as warez anyway and i know for a fact that most of you posting on here get it via that way so why moan?

pz.
(:

On the way to the store

Content-aware scalling is available in Photoshop’s standard version http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/compare/

im still on cs. the only good news i care about from this is cs2 price will come down even more

Agreed about the 3D – quite amazing stuff!

I am so impatient to have it.

Awesome I love the integration of the 3D……Way to go Adobe. But, can ya drop the price =)

You think the changes are worth the update cost (from CS3 to CS4)?

It doesn’t seem that much different for image editing.

I’m not sure if we’ll upgrade – upgrading the whole office is expensive! But these features are definitely cool.

If you want to see content aware resizing now then you can either check out the GIMP plugin here – http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:start

or you can go to http://rsizr.com and try it out online for free!!

All pretty clever stuff really but as said here before Adobe did NOT invent this technology.

Best wishes,

Mark

Can’t wait!!!!!!
- Greg

So, does anyone know if GPU usage made the cut? There was some talk of it but I haven’t heard it mentioned anywhere since the big announcement…

I was like:

cool

cool

cool

kuler huh…. YES!!!!

So far most pumped about rotating the canvas. its about freaking time. there’s no reason they left it out at least back to cs2. makes no sense.

i really want/need to know if i can build in 3d though. can i build 3d type effects etc in PS now? thats all the 3d i do, it would be great if PS did that now instead of just editing premade stuff.

I am very exciting to see new Photoshop CS4! Actually there are no many new features to give a reson to really buy new photoshop.

I was expecting a bit more in this version. I was really wondering what cool new icons they would come up with for my dock but they stuck with the same CS3 boxes. I’ll probably stick with CS3 for a bit.

Everyone here must not be in the profession if you’re only reason for not upgrading is a steep price. Drop the dough, put it in your expense column, pay less taxes and move on with life! And if you’re a student, the price is quite reasonable. And if you’re neither, start a business or go to school!

I love the move to panels for such common tasks like adjustments and masking. They’ve done a good job of reacting to how people actually use the interface. Wonderful. Can’t wait.

I will immediately be purchasing this and making unicorns.

I like the new ‘Smoother Panning and Zooming’ its going to make editing those minute details a whole lot easier =D

CS4 seems to have leaped ahead, I saw the presentation at adobe.com. I can’t wait!

i love the evanto series of tutorials, but its going to be a while before i can afford cs4 stuff, their future tuts wont mean as much if they start emphasizing cs4.

I love the non-obtrusive editing windows. Everything is integrated into the side panels, that is really cool, especially the adjustments…that will make life so much easier, especially because at my job I have dual monitors and half the time I load up an adjustments panel is loads up on the monitor I don’t want it on…it’s frustrating

and the 3d tools should be interesting to mess with. I have some buddies that make some amazing 3d work, might have to borrow their stuff to test it out.

I’ve been stuck with v1 since it came out. I was close to getting v3.3 in the amazon sale last week. So glad I didn’t now, as v1 owners can upgrade to v4 for the same price as from v3-4. Come to daddy. It will feel like Christmas has come early for this geek.

I cant freaken wait having more control over my masking is amazing and will help me out so much also the new tone adjustments is awesome! The easier it will be to texture a 3d model the better thank you adobe my credit card is waiting for you.

Oh I like the Fluid Canvas control. That’ll make package layout a bit easier.
I wish they would have done the same thing they did with the Live Gradient
Tool in CS4 Illustrator. Overall the entire suite has some nice upgrades.
but as always the cash issue makes it hard to jump

I can appreciate the new features (especially the smooth zooming, canvas rotation and tabs), but CS3 was released less than two years ago. This update is too soon and doesn’t include enough new features.

I guess I fit into that irritated group.

wow!!!nice features.i cant wait to have it

all i can say id wow!. but it cost a thousand of dollars.

Too bad content-aware scaling will only be included in the Extended version. I wish there was just one Photoshop version.

sound cool. i will try it so…

I’m still stuck wid Photoshop cs for financial reasons. I only wish I can somehow buy this one
and its too bad dat all those sooper nice features come only with the extended version.

nice features there, but a way too expensive

Looks great, I upgraded to CS3 about 3 months back. One thinks he should have waited a bit longer! I posted a link on the community feed for the Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Masters Addition where you could check out every application. Did everyone take a look?

So not worth the upgrade.

I personally think that CS4 has features will allow some to justify the upgrade (including the £900 price-tag if you upgrade to Master Collection, which includes Photoshop CS4 Extended, and one of everything else while they’re at it. Or a £200 price-tag if just upgrading the single app.)

Personally, I just began using Photoshop in general (CS3 Extended) a few months ago. So its more likely than not that my dock will show the Blue and White logo (CS3), Rather than making the switch to the Blue and Black Logo (CS4) for a while longer. I could possibly see upgrading Illustrator to CS4 for features like multiple work boards but I highly doubt that I’ll be upgrading my entire suite (Design Premium) for a while.

CS3 Eats too much o memory. I just hope this is not the same with CS4

Amazing stuff .. but ooooohh the price tag. It going to take me a while o lay my hands on this one but wait, is it even necessary?

I love Adobe Photoshop and the Fourth version of the Creative Suite is SUPERLATIVE!

Now we are waiting for your tuts on the CS4

Thanks guys!

I love some of the changes, but my purchase of the CS3 suite only a year ago makes it tough to justify the expenditure… even if I could expense it.

Tabbed documents!! It’s about time!

Another important feature is the use of Open GL to perform the faster pan and zoom funtions. This means that the software will be using the graphic cards to process the images, instead of the CPU which will result in much smoother effect without slowing down the machines. I think this is probably the most important overall advancement in PS4.

I love my PSCS3 eheheheheh

and i dont plain to buy a new one

Absoluety amazing…can’t wait!

Adobe never said they “invented” the content-aware scaling technology….I read somewhere that they hired the inventor (or one of them) for this project. And for those complaining about the price…this is top of the line software here! This is not Corel Draw or some crappy paint program….if you want the best you gotta be willing to fork over a little cash.

Sounds Great as usual. I have to wait a few days to get it.

guys, why are you complaining about the price tag?
its the same price as CS3 was. and we all know that photoshop is the best imaging software; thats what you havr to pay for quality

Broken Product? CS3 Was perfect! I bought it day one and have used it ever since flawlessly it never crashed once for me! In fact, on the same system that I previously had CS2 on, CS3 ran faster and there was no hardware upgrade between the 2 installations. Adobe’s products are expensive because they are good. A lot of work goes into these products, and they are made for professionals.

If you are a student in school, take advantage of the student pricing! God knows I did, and they even extended the licences so that the educational version can be used for commercial work after graduation!

Lets face it one freelance project and your CS4 is paid for!

Some of these features sound cool but I’m still not convinced it’s going to be worth the price.

http://onwired.com/blog/adobe-cs4-broadcast-review/

I’d be curious to see a poll on here of how many people are going to A) upgrade now B) upgrade in a year C) upgrade when it’s pirated or D) Hang with CS3 until further notice. I made a post about the new CS4 suite on my own blog, MakeDesign, Not War, but I’d be curious to see what the PSDTuts community has to say.

i cracked the PS, i dont buy soft, never, ANARCHY

I for one am extremely excited for all of the new CS4 products. I spent most of my afternoon yesterday reading and watching the mini videos on them. Really excited for Illustrator and Dreamweaver though!!

I’ll buy it
Awesome article

I am excited for CS4, because it is only 18 months till CS5. I only upgrade every other release. Come on Feb. 2010.

They always make the new features sound fabulous, but there’s nothing here that makes for a compelling reason to upgrade.

I own CS3, but looks like I’ll hold out for CS5. I can live with what I got for the next 18 months, which is when they’ll put out a new version.

CS4 Master Collection order is in… looking forward to it!

For those baulking at the price tag, there are ways to get a CS package quite affordably. I purchased CS2 Premium when it was superseded by CS3, for only A$280 on eBay (and then did the licence change to my name), then down the track bought the CS3 Design Premium upgrade for A$780 (see http://www.staticice.com.au). So for A$1060 I got Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro etc. Not bad!

Now, for A$1800 I am double-upgrading (CS2 & CS3) to Master Collection via the Adobe Store which will effectively give me the whole Adobe Creative Suite for $170 more than what it would cost to roll up to Adobe today and buy CS4 (or CS3) Design Premium outright.

No matter what the price, I guess, some people will still baulk… but I bet they still like to get PAID when they do work for clients with the ‘tools’ provided, and probably have a whinge or three if things don’t work like they expect.

why get this one when photoshop 6 is coming out soon?

This is kool, I think I will get it as soon a possible….and what photoshop 6? is that old already?

can wait

Hey,

Im doing an apprenticeship as a graphic designer in cologne, germany (you get paid by the company for going to college what is the bomb) however I wouldnt be able to afford the creative Suit CS4. Now since I have my stipendium in Design and I actually earn alot i will buy it. The features are fucking nice.

cheers

bruno

no wonder it’s supposed to run on a 4 gb ram…i’ll stick to cs3 for now

woooooow I can’t wait for this one.

Some nice new features But why on earth do they feel the need to incorporate more 3D stuff?
PS is an 2D image processor and there are far greater prg’s suited for 3D work. A well, I guess they know best…

gimme gimme gimme!

Can’t wait to test out these new features!

One has to realize where Photoshop came from. It was a program that was predominantly used by graphic houses. The explosion of digital photography has resulted in more users wanting this product.

I can’t recall the number of man years that was put into CS4 but it was amazing. Programming doesn’t come cheap so if all you naysayers think that they should give it away for next to nothing, you are dreaming. I have the pleasure of being in the beta program and I can tell you this thing is amazing. The upgrades are not going to have something for everyone. If all you do is adjust your pictures then Elements will probably suit you just fine.

There are allot of changes under the hood that are not exactly evident to all right away. For those of us that use this product in our business the upgrade price is a small price to pay for the additional functionality and time saving efforts that Adobe has put in it. If a hobbyist can afford this product good for them but I doubt that this is where Adobe has targeted their efforts. There is always the basic Photoshop product for them.

The 3D acceleration is by far the best improvement to CS4. I was in the pre-release program, and it made a huge difference in performance. Just make sure you have a compatible graphics card.

The new workflow changes (adjustment panel, etc.) take a little getting used to, but speed up image processing once you get the hang of it.

I’ll definitely be upgrading.

Yeah, a lot of nice features, but that “just do it button” is still missing .

But honestly, “1700 person years of development time”, they could’ve done way better (did they count in the handyman’s work as well?!). The UI changes should’ve been there in CS3. They are diversifying too much, too many tweaks and to few improvements.

WHEN WILL THEY LET ME BROWSE BRUSHES?!?!?!??!
WHEN WILL THEY LET ME LOAD MANY BRUSHES AT ONCE!!!!!
I WANT A FONT BROWSER

a large font browser like their the photobridge for fonts and brushes!!

I like the new features but come on!
the basic small features are what needs to be fixed!

I quite like a lot of the new CS4 features, but seriously, adobe jacked up the price on the educational bundles as well. It’s up by 200 from CS3 which really sucks.

I am pretty sure the Content Aware Scaling will be in the basic version as well.

Feature list for basic:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/features/?view=topnew

Well, interesting. Are they adding any features that aren’t currently available with other free programs?

Nothing really…. new. Disappointing.

Great article!

The new features are cool BUT I don’t think they are worth upgrading (as a webdesigner). When I compare Photoshop CS3 and the “new” features of CS4, the only cool thing is the customizable floating windows which can be created with the upcoming AIR-application “Configurator”. The mask window is also nice indeed but that’s it.

What’s the use of rotating the canvas? The adjustment-panels seem to speed up my workflow only about a second (one more click). Content-Aware Scaling — for some people it’s nice but in general, I don’t need it when designing websites. GPU/64bit-powered filters? I don’t use that much filters when creating shapes/layouts. The 3D-options are quite nice but the 3D-features of CS3 should also do it.
The upgrade fee is quite to high I think. What’s the fresh “brilliant” thing of CS4? With CS3, Adobe has created something MORE brilliant I think.

fingers crossed I win the Lottery ^.^

my pc is struggling to run cs2 never mind 3 or 4

Naaaaaa…I’ll wait for CS5…or CS6… they might come out just a couple of months apart anyway (CS3 was launched April 07 if I remember, not far ago… Adobe just want to cash in designers enthusiasm)

I think this is great. But, the 3D features? I’ll stick with my 3D application like Maya and Cinema 4D where I can make my own 3d models and texture them instead of downloading them. I don’t understand the fuzz about 3D features in photoshop. But I use PS for all texturing and export it back to 3D app.

The other features are cool though. It might be worth upgrading.

I hate the pixel grid. How can I shut it off?

I’ve played around with PCS4 and, in terms of what I would use it to do, I don’t see a significant difference from the earlier versions.

It can now do 3D work, which I wouldn’t use it for beacuse, clearly, it’s been optimised for the 2D environment. So it would never give you the ease and flexibility of Maya, 3DS Max, etc. If you want to do 3D work, do it in a dedicated 3D environment and just render the result to an image file (2D) which you then edit using Photoshop.

It seems as if photoshop has been pretty good for some time and Adobe’s failing about now, just trying to pack in features that don’t really belong there but that get the consumers excited and allows it to bundle in with the latest CS upgrade number.

I would much rather have the emphasis on the 2D side, with an aspiration to making it as easy to use as an artist with a (real world) sheet of paper and a (real world) stick of charcoal.

The rotate feature is important in this regard, and is, as you say, long overdue.

Check out out 2-D environments, like the painter effects in Corel Painter Essentials. Photoshop’s art history brush doesn’t come close.

The Content-Aware Scaling is quite new; I haven’t seen that elsewhere, and depending on how good a job it does, would save me a lot of cloning time.

So what I’m saying in my long-winded way is that there’s plenty to grow into in a 2-D environment without unnecessarily trying to grow 3D too.

Does CS4 work normally with 1GB of RAM ? I’m still in doubt whether to upgrade CS3 to CS4 or not.

thanks