Cloak amp; Dagger

Hello,

I have taken notice of the new Photoshop CS, and I was wanting to know if anyone noticed any missing tools or features.

I hate it when any software program is redesign and they decide to leave out a very powerful and sophisticated tool or feature, or simply make it less powerful and less sophisticated. [upset]

I have Photoshop 7 and I wanted to make sure that everything I have in Photoshop 7 will remain there and not be removed or downgraded. :B

Thanks,
Cloak & Dagger 8[

Welles

Hi C&D,

I don't ever remember Photoshop actually dropping tools although sometimes changes in the evolution has made it seem so superficially. For example GIF89.a was a standard which people thought was dropped in PS6 but was actually still available (although the Save For Web dialog did a better job IMO). In PS 7 early on people were suggesting that many brush options were lost when in fact the new brush dialog was incredibly enhanced, once you learned how to use it.

Now I'm not a beta tester or reviewer, so I don't have experience with the new version but it is something I'll buy as soon as it is available. The new features which sound significant to me are type on a path, the Color Replacement Brush, two new image interpolation options for increasing and decreasing image size (which Chris Cox of Adobe says are much better than just the old bicubic), some new filters and the Filter Gallery for previewing the cumulative effects of multiple filters, custom keyboard shortcuts, Shadow/Highlight Adjustment, improved file browser (to which I'm addicted), and a biggie...Photoshop CS also allows 16-bit editing (all core Photoshop features are now available to 16-bit images including layers, filters, painting, text and shapes); match colors across layers and images; view histograms anytime; create lens blur effects; photomerge for automatic panoramas; and more. Well there's more but that's plenty to get my upgrade $s.

Here's a good PDF by Martin Evening describing the new features...

http://www.imagingrevue.com/open/What_is_new_in_CS.pdf

PS I've read about a dozen in depth reviews of PS CS and no one has mentioned missing tools. The biggest issue is if you wish to buy into the Creative Suite or upgrade individually. I won't get into that issue here but note that I'll upgrade individually as I already own all my Adobe software and the CS upgrade path is somewhat limiting.

nitrobutler

With all the images of it I've seen, the "palette well" seems to be missing.

Welles

I've not looked at screen shots for the Palette Well but the Adobe PDF preview says:

"Palette Well
?Arrange your desktop to suit the way you work with the easy-to-access Palette Well."

http://www.adobe.com/products/photos...p_overview.pdf

nitrobutler

Welles: I couldn't agree with you more! I'm chopping at the bit to get my grubby hands on PhotoShop Cs(8). :B
I'm glad they left the palette well or improved it 'cause, I use plenty tools and wouldn't have the screen space for my documents with all of them open at once [doh]
If you want an interactivate peek check out
www.photoshopuser.com

Cloak amp; Dagger

Welles,

What do you mean the CS upgrade is somewhat limiting? [shocked] I need to know what that means. That will be the final deciding factor in my decision.

Otherwise, everything else that has been said sounds really great. [excited]

Welles

C&D,

It isn't an issue with the software but with the marketing. If you upgrade to the CS Suite of applications you are required to upgrade the whole suite as a unit in the future. If you upgrade just stand alone applications you can pick and choose what individual applications you wish to upgrade. The difference seems to be that if you just currently own Photoshop but wish to upgrade to the Standard Suite (for print specifically, the Premium Suite is geared more for web and multimedia), you get InDesign and Illustrator, plus the Photoshop upgrade for a very favorable price in addition to a small application called Version Cue which helps with integrated file management and workflow (as best as I can figure it out...the real info is nebulous so far). However if you go that route you have to upgrade as a suite in the future, plus if you already own previous versions of the applications in the Creative Suite, the upgrade price is slightly more than the sum of the individual upgrade prices.

I hope this makes some sense. My own decision is to upgrade them individually as this seems to yield a bit more freedom to choose whether you need a particular upgrade or not. If you go with the suite and would only really want one application's upgrade you are still stuck with the whole upgrade package. It seems like marketing to me.

Most people who I've met seldom mention the vastly improved support for 16 bit color. That is for me and probably most professionals THE reason to upgrade.

Here are some more Photoshop CS examples and screen shots;

http://www.photoshopuser.com/pscs/pb-features.html


And btw, Imageready can now export to Flash; might be interesting for some of us.

huma

Why? What's so fantastic about 16 bit color compared to what's being put out now by great digital artists, such as Mark or Wendy? or the other members here?

Cloak amp; Dagger

Welles,

Oh, I see what you mean now. Well I will be upgrading Photoshop individually, due to the fact that, that is all I can afford and judging by what you have explained to me that works out in my favor.

I like my freedom also. 8}

Anyway, I want to thank everyone who has participated in this topic. The help that was offered here has allowed me to come to a conclusion whether or not to upgrade to Photoshop CS. 3[

Yes, I will be upgrading. [righton]