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New Photoshop Details Leaked
Odie writes "Oops. Looks like Adobe accidentally let slip the details of the next Photoshop version due on Friday. According to BetaNews, the next version, dubbed Photoshop CS2, is supposed to add several new features such as Image Warp and Vanishing Point, as well as changing around the file browser to allow users access to royalty-free images from five providers for use in their work.
The new version is due in May according to the press release which BetaNews saw."
Oops. Looks like Adobe accidentally let slip the details of the next PhotoShop version due on Friday. According to BetaNews, the next version, dubbed PhotoShop CS2,
Let me be the first to correct the editor and say it's Photoshop, not PhotoShop.
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the announcement is this friday, not the actual new version of photoshop. that is due in may.
Here is the original press link as linked by one of the comments on the article's page.
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am i the only one who's excited about finally (after how many versions of the premier general purpose graphics program) getting a WYSIWYG font selector?
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
Usually the better deal is to upgrade the whole suite at once. The retail version of all the products together is $1,000, but you can get the upgrade for $550. That's a hell of a bargain for three world-class apps. (Acrobat is fine too, I suppose, but it's hardly in the same class.)
If you call up SGI and ask to buy a copy of IRIX, I think it costs about $200, if I remember right.
If you call up Discreet and ask to buy a copy of Inferno, it'll cost you $650,000.
It is entirely appropriate for the application to cost more than the OS. The application does more.
For at least the last two version, yes. The new version is supposed to add support for more complicated high-fidelity color file formats, like the new standard OpenEXR format.
Try v7. IME, it's maybe even faster than 5 even.
Like the others, I'd suggest picasa. You're going to have a hard time getting any program to bypas the printer's option screen. Most programs are just going to send data to the printer's API, then the driver handles it from there. Other than that, Picasa does a great job organizing, and a pretty good job with the rest of the stuff. I know it will do straignten, crop, redey, contrast, colorlevels... I think it may do noise as well.
And don't forget, the prices is great. I think the MSRP is $0, but if you go to picasa.com I think you can get it for less.
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That's an amazingly biased summary.
Point the first: Skylarov wrote the code on behalf of his employer. Any legal liabilities should have been theirs, not his.
Point the second: Skylarov lived and worked in Russia, a place where American law doesn't apply.
Point the third: Skylarov was arrested under the DMCA, which is a bad, nasty, pointless, stupid law which effectively overthrows the balance of rights that has always existed between publishers and their customers, replacing it with a simple maxim: Publishers can limit the use of their works in whatever ways technology will allow. Further, because of the anti-circumvention portions (which make basic security research illegal) they don't even have to be terribly clever about it. DMCA kills fair use, time shifting, format shifting, etc., unless the publishers deem it in their interests to allow it. Finally, the DMCA allows publishers to protect their works in such ways as will allow them to retain complete control over their works even after the work should have reached the public domain (not that anything new will ever enter the public domain in this country).
Bad laws shouldn't exist. People shouldn't be prosecuted under bad laws. Case closed.
Point the fourth: One of your assertions is flat out wrong. After a meeting with the EFF, Adobe dropped its support for the prosecution of Dmitri Skylarov [press release]. They're still pursuing the case against Elcomsoft.
Don't care about the Skylarov case? Fine. Don't care to boycott Adobe? No problem. But don't come in here and try to misrepresent the case to a group of people who were watching when it happened.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
No, I upgraded to 7 for that specific reason. It loads about 20x as fast as 6.0 did (i'm serious, its really that much faster).
Definitely, absolutely, upgrade to 7.
Go to your Acrobat\Reader folder and take everything from the "plug_ins" folder and move it into "Optional" except the following: Search.api, Search5.api, IA32.api, EWH32.api, EScript.api. Printing and search will still work, and it will load 75% faster. This is on Reader 6.0
Some of the RAW features are pretty compelling. For instance the ability to more easily batch process RAW files without the main executable being loaded can be pretty useful. And the ability to crop and strighten an image before you even do the raw processing is really nice since it lets you keep the RAW file around as the canonical imagine instead of a TIFF file with rotation and cropping applied.
For anyone not using RAW images though I would have to say the changes sound more marginal.
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Now this is real cool stuff. And they don't make it a secret. Just download a recent CVS snapshot and give it a try.
Not only is it getting bloated, Illustrator 10 has gotten rather unstable as well. With the earlier versions, it didn't crash for anything. But running 10.0.3, I've lost tons of work to it crashing out.
And, the worst error of all, one of the crashes can't be worked around by saving often. If Illustrator 10.0.3 is saving to a disk that doesn't have sufficient space for what it's saving (when not at home, I'm writing to a network mount with rather limited storage) Illustrator doesn't just fail, it writes as much as it can, then stops, completely corrupting the file, and they it crashes out completely, disallowing you from saving it anywhere else. It's getting really irritating to be in a situation where every time I save a file I need to do it to a zip disk or a CD.
CS is way underrated. It didn't do a lot in the superficial, "Gee, neat new feature/tool/filter" sense or UI reorganizations. However, the under-the-hood improvements make it worth the price of admission. Others have pointed to superior RAW handling, 16 bit goodness. Pixel aspect ratios are also nice to be able to control, finally -- allows you to dodge some of the weird hacks you have to do if you're delivering content to certain Nokia phones.
And finally -- scripting. Holy crap, this is so worth every penny of the *full* list price. If you haven't used it, it beats the living shit out of Actions/Droplets. External js/vb/apple scripts that can basically drive any aspect of Photoshop so you can get nice variable effects based on image properties without needing to babysit.
You might want to look at QFX. It's at version 8, but it's actually been around far longer than Photoshop. I first used it as a DOS program on AT&T Targa and Vista cards. Back then it was a collection of independent program to manipulate 32-bit files. I was compositing 2k images using this program back in the 80s for output to 35mm film using DOS batch files. Anyway, it's written by a small company and technical support is excellent. It costs less than photoshop, there is a free version to check out it's interface, it combines powerful vector and raster tools into one program (my main peeve about Photoshop - which will remain until Adobe integrates Illustrator into Photoshop), it's been multi-threaded since Windows version 1. For your specific problem, I could do that on a Targa board with the original version of QFX. I could get the alpha channel from any image or sequence and use that in any compositing operation.
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Eh? QT, GTK and the others listed are literally different GUI frameworks. Win32, MFC and WinForms are all Win32. Avalon is new for Longhorn (and now for Windows XP it seems) but it's still in beta (read: it's irrelevant).
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