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- blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39You don't have to live that near to place them a call...
- myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34Wahhh Wahhh I bought my MacBook Pro 6 months ago and Apple released a newer better one! How dare they! They should know better than to release newer products!
- eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28When you apply a filter (for example, a gaussian blur) to a layer in current versions of photoshop, the original information on that layer is destroyed. Dynamic or non-destructive filters retain the original information, and let you go back to the layer later on and adjust or remove the filter without undoing everything you've done since it was added. It may not seem like a huge deal, but if you work extensively with raster (pixel-based) images this is a frigging lifesaver. I wonder whether their implementation will allow you to apply filters to vector layers? What if you can apply a non-destructive gaussian blur to a vector mask? Man this is kind of exciting for me in a really nerdy way.
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -4/+32Buy Vista, pirate Photoshop.
or
Buy Photoshop, pirate Vista.
or
Pirate both. ARR!!! - Malovech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28I've heard that phones only work if you live in the same area. Is this factual?
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Of course I'm using it commercially - what a stupid question - as if anyone would buy PS if it wasn't being used commercially...
As for the features, I think it's safe to say they've probably just been working their asses off getting the universal binary working for mac users. I'd be very surprised if there were new features..
but still.. *shakes fist*
edit: omg dynamic filters >. - eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19CS3 is going to be so nice. I have been waiting for dynamic filters for three years.
- DIGGerPhelpsND, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Wow, look at the progression of the blog entry title.
First: "Adobe (going to) release Photoshop CS3 beta today"
Then: "Adobe (should) release Photoshop CS3 beta today"
Now: "Adobe (may not) release Photoshop CS3 beta today"
Oh well, it should be coming soon anyway. - daedal, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Dang. I just can't afford to upgrade to CS3 right now. I'm still saving up for Windows Vista..
- dyvbond, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13any guesses on when the torrent will be up? =P
- wolver1ne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Adobe ditched the news post... guess we will have to wait a little bit longer.
- roostersheep, on 01/16/2009, -4/+17What are dynamic filters?
- maczag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I was on adobe.com 1 minute ago and the post was here. They deleted the news post.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs3/ - DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Think adjustment layers for filters.
- Koyder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9If Acrobat 8 is any indication, then Adobe is the new Microsoft. Here's what I had to go through to download Adobe Reader 8 on my Mac:
1. Choose between a PowerPC and an Intel version of Adobe Reader on Adobe's website (apparently Adobe hasn't heard of Universal Binaries; I wonder if they're also going to release separate versions of CS3 for PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs)
2. Download an installer of a download manager
3. Install the download manager
4. In the aforesaid download manager, download an installer of Adobe Reader
5. Install Adobe Reader
6. Manually remove the download manager from my Utilities folder
Welcome to the Adobe experience. Honestly, for a company whose so many clients are Mac users, they really should learn to think different.
Now, back to using Preview for viewing PDFs. - dig412, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9This is probably resulting from the Macromedia merger, Fireworks has had dynamic filters for ages.
- OAKsider, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Before the official launch. Or was that rhetorical ...
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16Dammit! I just bought CS2 6 months ago. They'd better not have any new features *shakes fist*
- ozid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Why don't you Mac guys switch to Windows!! C'mon you can be really creative over here, too!
Sorry, I just wanted to know what it feels like. - ramcosca, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yo-hoho-hoho, a pirate's life for me... ;)
- Gordin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7How is this blogspam?
- jdwest, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yep. The process of updating/patching Adobe products over the last couple of years is becoming progressively worse/more confusing, esp. the average user, IMO.
I think it's the wildly inconsistent methods of patching across its suite of apps under the CS umbrella: one calls for manual install (plug-in updates), another is a separate manual downloadable executable, another is Adobe updater (that has to be updated before updates can get installed).
Patching CS2 Acrobat in a lab absolutely sucks: entering admin password 5 times. WTF?
For a "suite" of products, there is seemingly little cohesion or consistency for updating. - Exile5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5One could argue that some news get release -early- by pure accidental cause; the fact that it showed up means that the public release date is close by! I would say anywhere between later in the day (today) and next two weeks. One could also assume that members of NAPP (google it!) will have their hands in it first!
- judgeFire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@carlnewton re: "What are dynamic filters?"
Filters independent of the image data, so you tweak settings non-destructively, as you can with colors using 'adjustment layers'.
This is nothing new as such, Live Picture had this in 1995 or so and if you have a Mac, just play with 'Core Image Funhouse' found in the free developer tools. But it's new to Photoshop. - ramcosca, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It's been answered already. Read the posts.
- jayswain, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10And I've been waiting for a universal binary for 3 months!
I heart my new MBP... - eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11I would walk over but it's cold.
- badtz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm wondering how fast the UB version will be. This and Office are the two big ones for the Mac platform.
- MrAdventure, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Being a MB Pro owner, I held off on getting CS2, but caved and bought PS Elements 4. Gawd, it's slow (and yes I maxed out the memory), and I can't see how anyone with an Intel Mac could put up with it's performance for very long. It almost makes me want to go back to my PC.
I hope it's coming soon. - etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5There are quite a few new features, that I'm aware of... mostly the live filters. The interface has been redesigned though - to be more responsive. I think it's going to be one of the biggest changes in PS since the 5-6 jump.
http://www.jasonpaterson.com/article/adobe-photoshop-cs3-details-leaked/ - zodieman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I can't wait until they release CS3. My Mac sales are going to increase substantially. ;)
A LOT of our graphic design customers have been holding off new Mac purchases because of Adobe's lag. I certainly understand the reason for the lag (move to Xcode, incorporate Macromedia technology, add the new features, test, test, test etc...). If Acrobat 8 is any indication we're going to see some incredible ***** from them real soon... - indiehead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i would kill for non-destructive filters
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For about 10 years I've been hoping they would update Photoshop to not load all of the plugins at launch. Several associates that use it have agreed that it's a waste of time and memory. Half the time when we open it we only use 2 or 3 filters (most often Sharpen & Gaussian blur). Why load all this stuff you aren't going to use?
- judgeFire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@eplawless re: "What if you can apply a non-destructive gaussian blur to a vector mask?"
And could you then control the blur gradient with a Curves adjustement layer, like you would do with bitmap layer mask? Hmm, mindboggling indeed. - tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@eplawless - Dude, you really flavin'd your glavin on that post. What the hell do you think this is, slashdot? It was my understanding that I was never supposed to actually learn anything from the digg comments. Damn you!
- blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"f you have a Mac, just play with 'Core Image Funhouse' found in the free developer tools. But it's new to Photoshop."
Since the dev tools are in a 900 mb package... I would suggest you try ChocoFlop or LiveQuartz (available on versiontracker or alike) - mistafreeze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I have a windows lic and a mac lic
normally i upgrade every other generation, but this time i will upgrade my mac lic due to it being a universal binary.
cs2 is nice on a macpro filled with ram, It usually crashes about once a day for me, and I work on huge panoramas, lots of raw work, and paint textures. The main thing I do not like about cs2 on an Intel mac is it is Rosetta, is that it is hard to run this and Maya (both being run in Rosetta) as any other Rosetta app I have running goes pretty slow with these 2 up, and one will usually crash.
(a quick work around if you have the correct lic is to run parallels and use photoshop as it is pretty fast). With the new coherence mode it isn't as big of a problem, if cs2 on the mac starts throwing a fit, i boot up into my boot camp install and run cs (while still inside OS x) although not as fast as a boot into your boot camp install it is good enough.
As far as should anyone upgrade, it depends on what you do, cs1 to cs2 added a lot of nice features, but most people can live without them if your just editing a photo here and their, or painting every once in a while (I still use painter 8 for painting), the main reason I keep upgrading is because of the camera raw plug-in, and all the new features they offer.
I cant wait for an universal bridge, and camera raw, bridge still takes a good amount of time when it has to process a 8-10GB folder of images that are shot during a day. (course if your using the DNG format it helps as it doesn't need to generate all those side cart files)
and I know, you could just run it in windows if you have the lic, but windows doesn't support over 2GB of ram less you have the 64bit lic.
I hope cs3 continues the correct price for upgrades, as for 150 I will prob buy both a new win and mac lic if I enjoy the new features, and dynamic filters will make it hard to go back to anything previous to cs3, same as how PS7 made it hard to go to cs6 on down. - longzheng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Adobe never said they'd release a PUBLIC beta. Today, they leaked some info hinting at a public beta starting today, but it has been pulled.
- chrisxkelley, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Yeah, I've been waiting since march.... For photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, and flash in universal binary. It kinda blows. Although recently apple released an update that made rosetta go a lot faster, so it's not that bad now... either way... i want fast!
@marksy
check out tables for spreadsheets:
http://www.x-tables.eu/ - eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9I live right near the Adobe building. When they open in an hour or two I'll give them a call and see if I can't find anything out.
- polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It would be nice to get some native video support. Live tracing 10 frames at a time is time consuming.
- wwater, on 10/12/2007, -4/+53 months? I've been waiting near 12 months, but I knew I had to when I bought my intel mac.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8Screw Vista. Keep your old copy of XP. Buy a Mac and dual boot.
Don't buy anything from Adobe until the whole CS3 Suite is complete.
Then just upgrade to the suite once its Mac Intel ready. - god4twenty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ok, I'm a little confused. I am part of the Adobe pre-release testing program and the confusing thing is that I have access to Adobe Fireworks 9, but no PS. Is Adobe seriously going to continue separate development of these two products? Why not merge any needed Fireworks features into PS?
- InternetUser, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4blimey, i'm still on PS7. is it worth the upgrade? dynamic filters sound pretty sweet.
- sheepster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1you guys, i'm totally stoked. this just made my day.
i went to do some research and all the articles that came up through google are from august of last year...am i missing something? - marksy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3i think there will be a huge mac-intel boom once CS3 intel is released, and when MS get around to squeezing Office UB out.
IMHO, i prefer Apple's iWork suite over MS Office - just waiting for the iSheets/iSpreadsheets/iExcel!
... stupid "i" naming... - PRocker267, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2i still use 7 as well, i tried CS2 but it was no diffrent all (from what i could tell) and it was slower.
- polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Chris, I don't know why you're getting dugg down because they are kind of like Max's modifiers in that they are non-destructive and you can go back to your original state.
- awkaplan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0bull poopie, eplawless, it's a sunny day here... get walking!
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