Photoshop Graces Mac OS X

cpk0 writes "Well, we finally have Photoshop on Mac OS X. Now that must have been one heck of a year over at Adobe, cause this piece of software is pretty elegent. Even on my iMac 600 it's pretty swift and smooth. There's no official Adobe press release yet, but there's a VersionTracker page for it, and that makes it official enough for me."

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Elements

[TwitchCHNO]

Here's linkage for those w/ out $500+ to spend on image editing software.

Adobe CEO on PDF, Mac OS X, 'Premiere Elements,' more

Yeah I know gimp is free, blah blah OSS or die, blah blah.

Seriously folks I like Photoshop, & Elements is functional enough for my needs (No pre-press support) - definaltey worth the $100 (IMHO)

I've been using it for a while.

[EnVisiCrypt]

I've been using a, erm, beta copy for a while, and it's been excellent. I've been waiting for the official version to come out so I could ante up my $45,000,000 dollars. Seriously though, it seems rock solid, and the feature set has grown, albeit modestly.

I particularly like the "healing" tool. It works much better than the cludgy old cloning tool, as the healing tool takes shadows, tone and the whole 9 into consideration when cloning bits. It's quite a tool, and my favorite addition since the magnetic lasso.

Did I mention it's stable? I hated (HATED!) running ps6 in classic mode on OS X. Now, I really don't have any OS 9 apps left now that PS7 has left the gate.

In my opinion, if you own a previous version the low upgrade cost is well worth it at $149. If you don't, pay the $609 and get on the train. Or better yet, get the web collection and get Livemotion, Illustrator and Photoshop for $999.

Re:other unix like systems

[sckevyn]

It would be really nice if people would learn, that most of the OS X commerical apps, DO NOT TOUCH the bsd layer, nor require it to work.

Photoshop for OS X, is Photoshop written for the OS X gui, namely Cocoa. It is not a 'bsd app'.

As far as OS X being a BSD based system, perhaps you should go read a little bit more before you claim it's BSD based. It isn't. The kernel is mach, with Cocoa, Carbon and BSD running on top of it as a seperate layer.

If OS X were BSD based, you wouldn't be able to unselect the BSD enviroment during the install =)

kevyn

Re:Finally...

[Surlyboi]

Spring loaded folders open up when you drag a file
over them and then close behind you when you drag
that file into a sub-folder. No unnecessary windows
left open in your wake, less desktop clutter.

Neat little feature. It was introduced in 9 and
hasn't yet made its debut in X. Sure you could just
as easily use the column view and bypass the need
for them entirely, but I'm old and set in my ways...