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My 2 day take on CS4 from my amateur but obsessed POV:
Adobe should be congratulated on tapping the GPU for some image processing tasks. This is a notable achievement for a widely distributed shrink-wrapped program.
However use of the GPU is very limited and multi-threading CPU tasks remains a universal programming challenge. Adobe’s programmers are not alone wrestling with these issues on both Windows and Mac platforms and with differences in the Nvidia and ATI driver models.
The interface changes may end up being more efficient but initially require relearning. Improvements in tools like dodge/burn looks impressive in the demos. But since those tools were so limited in previous editions many people will have to develop a different workflow if they are going to use rather than avoid them.
I remain baffled as to why the raw converter remains separate from the desktop. You can’t do anything with the image in the converter except save it in the same file format unless you open the image on the desktop anyway. And if you use the adjustment brush and forget you used it, then when you reopen the image in the converter there is not a clear reminder, like an adustment layer in a psd file, that you used the adjustment brush unless you go back to using that tool and see the pin there. So yes you can reverse later what you did with the adjustment brush but only if you remember that you used the adjustment brush on that image.
Adobe should be congratulated on tapping the GPU for some image processing tasks. This is a notable achievement for a widely distributed shrink-wrapped program.
However use of the GPU is very limited and multi-threading CPU tasks remains a universal programming challenge. Adobe’s programmers are not alone wrestling with these issues on both Windows and Mac platforms and with differences in the Nvidia and ATI driver models.
The interface changes may end up being more efficient but initially require relearning. Improvements in tools like dodge/burn looks impressive in the demos. But since those tools were so limited in previous editions many people will have to develop a different workflow if they are going to use rather than avoid them.
I remain baffled as to why the raw converter remains separate from the desktop. You can’t do anything with the image in the converter except save it in the same file format unless you open the image on the desktop anyway. And if you use the adjustment brush and forget you used it, then when you reopen the image in the converter there is not a clear reminder, like an adustment layer in a psd file, that you used the adjustment brush unless you go back to using that tool and see the pin there. So yes you can reverse later what you did with the adjustment brush but only if you remember that you used the adjustment brush on that image.
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