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    http://www.adobe.com/products/creati...?promoid=DNOWM

    doesn't look like any new advances worth singing about, I think I'll probably skip this one. It sounds like mostly UI improvements across the board... at least I haven't seen anything ground breaking in the new features listings.

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    Default Re: Adobe releases Creative Suite 4

    I love those updates - half a dozen "New" features based solely around one of their products and changes to Help and Bridge. "Enhancements" to the rest and a jiggled UI so you can spend a couple of weeks finding your favourite tools. Hardly worth the hundreds to upgrade let alone the +$1000 for a new suite.

    I really wish Adobe and A'Desk would try a new marketing model. It consistently dumbfounds me how some of the biggest software developers can produce fiddly little "developments" at a snail's pace, all with flamboyant packaging and pricing to match and dare to call it "new", while there are groups like the Blender Foundation and GIMP who offer apps with regular 6-monthly meaningful developments for free. Just have a look at the features for Blender - http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/features/ Lets hope GIMP goes 32-bit soon or Cinepaint (original dev by ILM) goes back into full dev.

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    I don't know, just about everything that they added to InDesign sounds awesome... maybe not specifically 3D related but if you've ever felt like killing yourself two slides into a PowerPoint presentation the InDesign to Flash connection (with transitions and animation) sounds positively exhilarating. Multiple artboards in Illustrator sounds pretty sweet too.

    Photoshop is kind of a yawner. I had heard that it was going to be 64bit but I don't see anything about it in the info. 16bit printing sounds interesting but I'm not sure that 8bit doesn't still represent a larger color gamut than most printers (even the ones with orange and green).

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    The GPU acceleration in Photoshop has potential. I'll need to get a look at the 3D features before deciding whether they're useful. Also, if you do web, the integration of all the apps is supposed to be a lot better, and if you do photography, the Lightroom integration sounds good. I'm also pretty happy about the Indesign and Illustrator improvements. Probably not a huge upgrade for everybody though.

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    Default Re: Adobe releases Creative Suite 4

    One thing that I'd like to see is when you use the Clone tool.
    You get crosshairs when you SELECT the source, but no crosshairs when you go to apply that, there are no crosshairs.

    I'm always needing to apply specific FROM to a specific location TO. (if that makes sense)
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    Default Re: Adobe releases Creative Suite 4

    Quote Originally Posted by SandmanNinja View Post
    One thing that I'd like to see is when you use the Clone tool.
    You get crosshairs when you SELECT the source, but no crosshairs when you go to apply that, there are no crosshairs.

    I'm always needing to apply specific FROM to a specific location TO. (if that makes sense)
    Jump into your settings, and tick the "show actual brush" option I think it is... itll show the size/shape of the clone brush.

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    Default Re: Adobe releases Creative Suite 4

    I thank you whole-heartedly.

    I also shifted the swap file to my big D: Drive while I was in there.

    Thanks heaps!
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    Quote Originally Posted by SandmanNinja View Post
    I thank you whole-heartedly.

    I also shifted the swap file to my big D: Drive while I was in there.

    Thanks heaps!
    Good idea No wuckers.

    Sometimes worth allocating more memory too.

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    Default Re: Adobe releases Creative Suite 4

    going by subject of this thread, and reading the following comments, the thread starter is totally on the ball. i think ill keep my IOU's and stay with cs3, just like im staying with maya 2008 and autocad arch 2008 for the same reasons...
    there are no stupid questions,
    only stupid people...

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    Default Re: Adobe releases Creative Suite 4

    Some of the “new features” should be included as an update in prior versions of the CS package or even single software. The most annoying part is in video editing were all the others (Apple, Pinnacle, Avid, Corel, etc.) offered support for AVCHD, P2 and other type of files and even export to DVD (transfer from Premiere to Encore) with no necessary intermediate rendering a long time ago. Now it is offered in CS4 with Dynamic Workflow.
    The true flagship remains Photoshop but the competitors are very close.
    The rest of the products especially those inherited from Macromedia have very small leaps from one version to another.
    Another example is the developing of the Adobe Director 11 (not included in CS package) which didn`t offered the much expected advanced features promised for multimedia and real time 3D (offline and online).
    But we already know… these are the politics of the Adobe giant.
    From my point of view it should be called CS1.4 and not a genuine 4.

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