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Following is a list of glitches, and oversights that I have noticed in CS4. Let me say first of all that I have a completely ‘clean’ system, all maintenance has been run and I have 50% drive space free – although at the moment I do not have an external scratch disk. RAM has been tested also. I have 7 gigs running 4×2.66ghz. None of these problems are particularly frequent and as a result its possible to ‘get away’ with them.
Glitches/oversights
Selection glitches – sometimes when making diagonal selections or turning a path into a selection the selection is wrong – divided into Square blocks. Here is a visual sample
Choosing Select All and then trying to modify a selection, for example "contract" is no longer possible. Items are grayed out in the select menu. This was noticed by someone else in another thread, but it bears repeating.
In free transform its sometimes no longer possible to move the centre point. This problem seems to happen on larger res files, when there is a lot of RAM used?
In addition there is a small graphics glitch with Free Transform, the center point icon now displays with two edges of a box, on high res files.
Path points now display badly with a missing section, making them appear triangular on large files using Open GL – this makes them less clear.
The cursor/tool alignment problem, which has been, mentioned in many threads – requires pressing of the F key to ‘reset’ the screen view. I’m not so sure this is a ‘get a better graphics card’ issue because I’ve seen it with too many different, and decent cards.
Photoshop is crashing sometimes when the layer styles dialog box comes up, this usually happens when another click to close the dialog is made too rapidly. This is quite a serious crash, taking a long time for the system to resolve itself before relaunch.
The new Masks Panel is not included in Keyboard Shortcuts yet – although I realise better shortcuts already exist for adding or subtracting masks from selections, (shift command and alt in layers panel) this is not consistent with the rest of the app, and people might want to define their own shortcuts.
Photoshop cs4 crashing on saving on very large files maybe related to the next problem, because the symptom is the same
Some very scratch intensive operations cause CS4 to ‘jam’. This only happens when you switch to another application or use the hard drive for other activities.
Panels can sometimes take a long time to "wake up" – before their contents appear. This is frustrating because all previous versions of photoshop have not had this problem.
I’ve also noticed that Configurator panels with Actions included can occasionally after a pause, crash the app
Glitches/oversights
Selection glitches – sometimes when making diagonal selections or turning a path into a selection the selection is wrong – divided into Square blocks. Here is a visual sample
Choosing Select All and then trying to modify a selection, for example "contract" is no longer possible. Items are grayed out in the select menu. This was noticed by someone else in another thread, but it bears repeating.
In free transform its sometimes no longer possible to move the centre point. This problem seems to happen on larger res files, when there is a lot of RAM used?
In addition there is a small graphics glitch with Free Transform, the center point icon now displays with two edges of a box, on high res files.
Path points now display badly with a missing section, making them appear triangular on large files using Open GL – this makes them less clear.
The cursor/tool alignment problem, which has been, mentioned in many threads – requires pressing of the F key to ‘reset’ the screen view. I’m not so sure this is a ‘get a better graphics card’ issue because I’ve seen it with too many different, and decent cards.
Photoshop is crashing sometimes when the layer styles dialog box comes up, this usually happens when another click to close the dialog is made too rapidly. This is quite a serious crash, taking a long time for the system to resolve itself before relaunch.
The new Masks Panel is not included in Keyboard Shortcuts yet – although I realise better shortcuts already exist for adding or subtracting masks from selections, (shift command and alt in layers panel) this is not consistent with the rest of the app, and people might want to define their own shortcuts.
Photoshop cs4 crashing on saving on very large files maybe related to the next problem, because the symptom is the same
Some very scratch intensive operations cause CS4 to ‘jam’. This only happens when you switch to another application or use the hard drive for other activities.
Panels can sometimes take a long time to "wake up" – before their contents appear. This is frustrating because all previous versions of photoshop have not had this problem.
I’ve also noticed that Configurator panels with Actions included can occasionally after a pause, crash the app
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