hedsteve

yeah CS looks nice but I think I'm gonna upgrade my workstation before I upgrade to cs... unless I can work a deal on that too...

alot of the new features seem geared more toward cutting down time but upgrading my system can do that too...

retired_paddza

Bubble - You can't really do that with Photoshop since it's not a vector program per se. Illustrator has been able to do that for several versions though (look at my avatar )

Chester

photoshop cs is another commercial release...
they throw in a few things that should have been in earlier releases and everybody is happy again except me of course

the only good thing about this release is the realtime preview of the patch tool but still no 48 bit colors, filters make over or improved path tools yes they dont want to comepte with illustrator same story over and over

Bacardi

Bubble,

If you're on pc and you want a real solution for that and much more, why not consider Xara X? Takes as good as no resources, is very fast and extremely handy. And what's more: at $149 (exl vat for EU) it's even cheaper than this upgrade. I use it, Mark uses it Gare uses it, and...the demo is available at www.xara.com

Really: I can recommend this little gem!

What it can do with transparancy...you won't believe your eyes!
Lots of tuts available, and it comes with an extra CD with tut movies etc etc...
Unfortunately, no mac version will be available. :{

http://www.xara.com/gallery/showimag...image=vkkovsky to give you an idea of what *one* can do with it...

Bubble

Eric, thankyou very much for that info, I will definately check Xara out. :} Actually, I saw you guys talking about it once before and it had been playing on my mind, but now i will definately take a look at it. And I am PC at the moment, (and always have been ), but had been thinking of making the traitorous move toward mac ;\ [size=9px]Thinking long and hard....[/size]

Bacardi

There is no treason in that as mac is far from an ennemy. It's not more different to PC than an Oxford English speaking person is from a Texan. (remember that song on tomAto, potAto,...?

Just one small note: driving a Mercedes does not make one a better driver! You cannot do anything on either system that could not be done on the other quite as well. No one can ever see on a finished product (except for gamma perhaps on monitor images) whether something is done on Mac or PC. It's a question of pure personal preference and "being used to". Both Mac and PC have now very good an reliable computers, and both have short-sighted users that see themselves as being "folks on the hill" because they happen to have a box with some electronics in it that permits them to create images on a screen. Poor sods if their self-esteem must come from such a basic banality!

retired_paddza

This is a good point that I think a lot of people miss. Just because you have the best of the best, does not make you a better designer. In fact, some of the best designers on these forums are using antiquated machines. I am, for one, but then, I'm not that great

Some things are easier or cheaper on certain platforms, but it doesn't mean you can't do them on the other.

Exactly. This, I think, is the largest problem and the reason that platform wars (mac vs. pc... ford vs. chevy... diet vs. regular) go on for so long. People have invested too much of themselves into their hardware.