Adobe explains Photoshop CS4
September 23, 2008 at 07:54:54 AM, by Travis Simon
The sucessor to Creative Suite 3 from Adobe begins with Photoshop, and it's looking to actually be worth the upgrade
Adobe is taking their products seriously. Not saying they didn't in the past, but this time they are targeting a much more stringent effort on efficieny and use of "user hardware". The big announcement states that the new Photoshop CS4 utilizes the GPU of the users computer.
"It's not lost on us that when you look at the rate of GPU power advancement, there's an enormous wealth of cycles we can take advantage of now," John Nack, principal product manager for Adobe Photoshop said. "The rate of price drop and performance gain has been off the charts...Typically, when folks were building a big Photoshop rig...we never had to really concern ourselves with things like which video driver they were using. We had a very light integration. Anything was fine, Now that we're doing actual processing on the GPU, we have to be a good deal more stringent."
The upgrade price for Photoshop is $199 for the Photoshop CS4 and $349 for CS4 Extended; prices for the new versions are $699 and $999. The Extended version adds a variety of special-purpose abilities for dealing with scientific applications, dealing with medical imagery, and creating 3D subject matter. The company also offers its consumer-level Photoshop Elements for about $100 and its online Photoshop Express for free.
Photoshop CS4 will offer other vast improvments such as true 64-bit compatability, Flash SWF implementation and a much more robust "quick filter" application. Expect the full release to hit the shelves sometime next month.
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