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My Opinions:
I admit I am a die hard Photoshop fan. I used the competition and still I come back to Photoshop. PS7 was good – CS1 is a little bit better.
But- regrettably – we must keep in mind Adobe is a for-profit company. They depend on the "I need the latest and the greatest" mentality to keep the funds flowing. If you have stock in Adobe, sell it. CS2 doesn’t sound like it’s worth $600 nor even $150. If someone advised Adobe on what to put in 9, Adobe should try to get their money back.
It sounds like they will be pushing a minor upgrade (some would call it a ‘fix’) as a ‘new version’. From what I read about the new features, they just don’t cut it – not when there are so many opportunities for real upgrade features.
If Adobe wants to improve their product, they need to work on the interface and the education/learning curve. They also need to take a more careful look at what third party add-ons people are getting.
For example, if you are familiar with Silverfast, including so much of what it has would seriously enhance PS. And Photomatrix functions a far cry better than shadows/highlights. Even Paint Shop Pro has some features which work easier and smoother than PS’s versions – such as Pinch/Punch. For a $600 product, Adobe should be embarrassed about its ‘Filters’ offerings…
And what about larger files – a byproduct of today’s hot issues (megapixels, hundred-gig hd’s, panoramics, bit-depth, etc)? RAISE THAT SCRATCH DISK SIZE LIMIT !!!
I could go on and on .. but you get the idea.
One final point. Today’s consumers are much more keenly aware of the marginal utility of upgrades – much more so than they were five or ten years ago when great new features real were great. It would be nice if the vendors would not lose sight of that.
Jan
I admit I am a die hard Photoshop fan. I used the competition and still I come back to Photoshop. PS7 was good – CS1 is a little bit better.
But- regrettably – we must keep in mind Adobe is a for-profit company. They depend on the "I need the latest and the greatest" mentality to keep the funds flowing. If you have stock in Adobe, sell it. CS2 doesn’t sound like it’s worth $600 nor even $150. If someone advised Adobe on what to put in 9, Adobe should try to get their money back.
It sounds like they will be pushing a minor upgrade (some would call it a ‘fix’) as a ‘new version’. From what I read about the new features, they just don’t cut it – not when there are so many opportunities for real upgrade features.
If Adobe wants to improve their product, they need to work on the interface and the education/learning curve. They also need to take a more careful look at what third party add-ons people are getting.
For example, if you are familiar with Silverfast, including so much of what it has would seriously enhance PS. And Photomatrix functions a far cry better than shadows/highlights. Even Paint Shop Pro has some features which work easier and smoother than PS’s versions – such as Pinch/Punch. For a $600 product, Adobe should be embarrassed about its ‘Filters’ offerings…
And what about larger files – a byproduct of today’s hot issues (megapixels, hundred-gig hd’s, panoramics, bit-depth, etc)? RAISE THAT SCRATCH DISK SIZE LIMIT !!!
I could go on and on .. but you get the idea.
One final point. Today’s consumers are much more keenly aware of the marginal utility of upgrades – much more so than they were five or ten years ago when great new features real were great. It would be nice if the vendors would not lose sight of that.
Jan
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