Adobe CS5 Launch Event

[Firehorse]

Just got an email from adobe about the cs5 launch event, can't wait to get a copy of photoshop cs5 with that new autofill feature!

[Recursion]

Oh yes, yet more Adobe bloat added to the mix of what was once a great graphics and design suite.

[Stephen!]

It probably won't be released until later this year. This launch thing is probably just a "first look" kinda thing.

[xxMATTGxx]

Just got an email from adobe about the cs5 launch event, can't wait to get a copy of photoshop cs5 with that new autofill feature!


Oh yes, yet more Adobe bloat added to the mix of what was once a great graphics and design suite.

The autofill feature does look quite impressive from the video. If it does that in the actual program then fantastic. Photoshop is still good Tom. ;)

[Markeh]

if it's any good I might buy... err, obtain it.

[AgnesIO]

if it's any good I might buy... err, obtain it.

Come off it. You are a student - so you will be able to get it dirt cheap. Don't be silly.

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Was literally just about to make thread on this haha.

Might get it when released

[Colin-Roberts]

i havent bothered updating since cs2 except for premiere. cs5 will not be happening for me tho, it only supports 64 ..

[Johno]

Content-Aware Fill? It's this feature that is so impressive, but it has been around in the free editor GIMP for a while.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/photoshop-cs5s-showpiece-is-plugin-gimp.html
http://www.scriptol.com/design/gimp/removing-objects.php

[xxMATTGxx]

Content-Aware Fill? It's this feature that is so impressive, but it has been around in the free editor GIMP for a while.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/photoshop-cs5s-showpiece-is-plugin-gimp.html
http://www.scriptol.com/design/gimp/removing-objects.php

But I rather use Photoshop over GIMP any day? :P

[Adamm]

But I rather use Photoshop over GIMP any day? :P
Proving you are a sucker for brand names.

[xxMATTGxx]

Proving you are a sucker for brand names.

If I was a sucker for brand names, I would own tons of Apple products. Which you would find I don't own a single one. (All of my tech gadgets are normal brand names and nothing special one bit.) Plus you don't even know the reasons why I would use Photoshop over GIMP. Nothing to do with the bloody brand at all, it's do with the "software".

[Agnostic Bear]

Proving you are a sucker for brand names.

Photoshop is good software. GIMP, like most FOSS software is useless junk that linux users go crazy over.

[MrPinkPanther]

Gotta agree with Tom here. The once great suites of Flash, Photoshop and the like have now become a bloated mess. Sure they have some nice new features but does that warrant the excessive loading times and the slow nature of the applications? No.

[Firehorse]

Gotta agree with Tom here. The once great suites of Flash, Photoshop and the like have now become a bloated mess. Sure they have some nice new features but does that warrant the excessive loading times and the slow nature of the applications? No.

cs4 loads quick enough for me

[Recursion]

Dunno how you manage to get it load quickly, Photoshop CS4 takes nearly a minute on my machine ;l

[AgnesIO]

Just tried on my machine and it took 10 seconds.

[xxMATTGxx]

Dunno how you manage to get it load quickly, Photoshop CS4 takes nearly a minute on my machine ;l

I just timed it and mine opens in 8 seconds.

[Luke]

I'm gonna join in :D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsTwiptX14w

4 seconds (:

[Kieran]

You must have a pretty pathetic computer for it to take 1minute! Mine takes about eight seconds to load and thats when I'm doing a lot of other things. Photoshop is a great product.

[Stephen!]

2 Seconds here

[Adamm]

I bet you all bought your versions as well.

Hip o crit.

I know Stephen doesn't go on about illegal sharing, it's t'others.

[AgnesIO]

I bet you all bought your versions as well.

Hip o crit.

I know Stephen doesn't go on about illegal sharing, it's t'others.

I did. As student it is cheap.

[Luke]

I didn't buy mine, but my photoshop is from the school (i didn't steal it either) so in a sense, it is sort of legal (:

[Adamm]

It's really not.

I'm not getting all goody two shoes, I just hate it when people are hypocrites.

[AgnesIO]

It's really not.

I'm not getting all goody two shoes, I just hate it when people are hypocrites.

If you are talking about my comment for 'its really not' - then yes compared to the normal price it is very very cheap.

[Adamm]

It's still £150 that most kids don't have to spend on a product that isn't essential to their learning and will most probably hardly ever use.

I find it hard to believe.

[xxMATTGxx]

It's still £150 that most kids don't have to spend on a product that isn't essential to their learning and will most probably hardly ever use.

I find it hard to believe.

If someone wants to buy it then they will. No matter what the price tag is.

[Luke]

People have different uses for software than others, therefore some people need it more, other's don't need it at all

[AgnesIO]

It's still £150 that most kids don't have to spend on a product that isn't essential to their learning and will most probably hardly ever use.

I find it hard to believe.

Most kids - exactly. Most 'kids' don't have any income either though. Well apart from their paper rounds - so obviously it's a lot to 'most' kids.

[Firehorse]

Most kids - exactly. Most 'kids' don't have any income either though. Well apart from their paper rounds - so obviously it's a lot to 'most' kids.

exactly, even on full EMA that would be 5 weeks worth which is a lot.

[MrPinkPanther]

I agree that its a lot to most "kids" but not all. I mean Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 bundles are £150 and people afford those so why not a professional piece of software?

[Markeh]

I can't afford £150. I'm hardly a kid either. And I can never find a site in which I can use my school e-mail.

Anyway, just to join the loading time party here. 15 seconds, but this IS on a laptop, and in my defence, I had tweetdeck, msn, chrome, and spotify open.

[Firehorse]

I agree that its a lot to most "kids" but not all. I mean Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 bundles are £150 and people afford those so why not a professional piece of software?

often its a whole family which buys those and at times such as christmas. I would never buy something like that just for myself, I also hate paying anything more than £25 for games no matter how new or good they are.

[Recursion]

You must have a pretty pathetic computer for it to take 1minute! Mine takes about eight seconds to load and thats when I'm doing a lot of other things. Photoshop is a great product.

Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz
4GB 800MHz RAM
8800GT
7200RPM drives
Windows 7 x64

Better than MattGarner's, no reason why it should take so long to load.

[xxMATTGxx]

Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz
4GB 800MHz RAM
8800GT
7200RPM drives
Windows 7 x64

Better than MattGarner's, no reason why it should take so long to load.

Then why does it? :P

[Firehorse]

Then why does it? :P

cos he either doesn't maintain it propperly, its full of junk programs slowing it down or he's exaggerating by a long way.

[Recursion]

cos he either doesn't maintain it propperly, its full of junk programs slowing it down or he's exaggerating by a long way.

and the Adobe suite is the only thing that loads slowly... Not exaggerating (may not be 1 minute, but it's easily over 20 - 30 secs)... also "junk programs" being installed (not running) will only slow down hard drive seek times, which is not an issue when it's all defragged in some way.

[Markeh]

Well, Recursion. Lets say it takes 45 seconds to load on your quite decent spec PC.

My fairly rubbish laptop (AMD Athlon X2 QL-65, 2.1Ghz, ATI Mobility 4530, 3Gb DDR2 800 RAM, 5400rpm HDD, Windows 7 32-bit) loads it in........
(I retimed)

13.7 seconds (Anyone disputing that, just say and I'll post screenies (did it on my non-multitasking-capable iPod Touch 2G)

You are quite right, yours SHOULD load quicker than mine AND Matt's. We are forgetting here that there are literally dozens of factors that can contribute to this, such as processes running in the background, programs open at the time of the test, in the case of laptops, what power setting they're on (that time goes down to about 30 seconds when I'm on HPs recommended power plan. this was done on High Performance when plugged in). It all depends. Matt could have had no other programs open, you could have quite easily had stuff like phone syncing software, TweetDeck, Chrome, MSN and other programs open.

[Luke]

and, have you got plugins Tom? They usually slow down loading (:

[Recursion]

Funny thing is, CS3 never did it.

I have a few brushes installed?

[Markeh]

how many do you class as "a few"?

I've got about 5 packs of brushes and 2 of patterns.

[peteyt]

I think it sounds pretty good. As someone who owns my own site, the BrowserLab sounds like an amazing feature - allowing you from one PC to see what your site would look like on multiple browsers on multiple operating systems, even putting the two on top of each other to notice any subtle differences. However I wonder if it will allow different browser versions. Internet Explorer 6 is still widely used if I am correct and somethings don't display correctly on it that work in future versions.

Being slow isn't too much of a problem. As I'm doing a TV & Film Production Degree, I use Avid Media Composser, and it can take a bit to load sometimes. The quicker the better yeah, but sometimes you need patience.

[GommeInc]

Apparently the GIMP re-synthesizer is alot better than the Photoshop version. The Photoshop version leaves obvious marks. But that could be GIMP users manipulating examples :P