Photoshop CS

[HellboyOne]

Anyone upgrade yet? Any thoughts??

R.

[The Dark Hero]

A friend has it, apparently it eats resources like...some....big resource eating.....thing...

On a pc that is, its a lot more taxing on your computer than PS7

[davejohnsonart]

I'm trying it out.
It seems to be more of a resource hog for me (OSX) but not impossible to work in.
I haven't tried any of its new features yet.

[Vinny K. Krotchy]

I've been using it since its debut here at work... pretty smooth so far. Yes it's a hog, but everything's a hog at work... stupid work...

[HellboyOne]

So what's so new that they couldn't just name it PS8?

R.

[trigger25]

That whole CS thing is just a brand re-postioning thing -- like when Windows switched from win3.11 to win95. They are really trying to sell the whole integrated graphics suite concept.

I've used the new Photoshop at work and it seems pretty smooth. As stated earlier, it is a bit of a resource hog, but it seems a lot of the newer OS X apps are leaning this way. I really haven't messed around with the new features that much yet, so as far as I can tell there isn't a huge pressing need to upgrade (but that may change as I get further into the program).

On a side note, Illustrator CS has some cool new features (especially the new 3d tools), so if you are looking at getting the whole Creative Suite, it may be worth it.

T.

[MartinRedmond]

I thought CS was a trend like Flash MX.

[borism]

i have been using photoshop cs and illustrator cs since they came out, and i haven't experienced any problems. Photoshop CS has a new Filter Gallery, Flexible type, a Histogram palette, the new Match Color command, Shadow/Highlight correction, Layer Comps(Create design variations for clients more efficiently by saving different combinations of layers within the same file as Layer Comps), and some more stuff. And illustrator has some new things for sure but illustrator cs was the first illustrator i got so i can't compare it to the previous one.

[Peter Doherty]

I've had a go with both---for my purposes, colouring/lettering comic book pages, I didn't find much in either that would help me do my job any faster.
But having said that I like the photoshop panorama making facility and the colour replacement I could see being very useful. The 3D stuff in Illustrator is a nice addition, although it does seem to eat up resources as noted ----and I'm on a G5 too with 2 GB of memory plugged in!

---Peter

[el Dopa]

The CS suite is designed to dovetail into a management app called "Version Cue". It's designed for big organizations with multiple designers/artists working on the same project. It manages source files and graphics, so that everybody can remain in sync.

I don't know any more about version than that, since i'm the only graphics user at work. THere's no one to be in sync with.

Other than that, all the CS products are designed to work closer together than ever, which is the trend they've been following since Adobe bought Pagemaker from Aldus.

But PSCS is a solid upgrade. It rearranges the interface slightly to reduce the awkwardness that resulted from 7's "great leap forward" That's the biggest change. It's not as much a leap from 7 to CS as it was from 6 to 7. I just wish they had implemented the pallet management features they included in inDesign CS. At last, I can see my working file again! But only in InDesign. Still palletes everywhere in PS and IL.

[davejohnsonart]

I tried it out and stopped using it about a week ago.
It's a little slower than I am willing to put up with right now. The funny thing is that this version of Photoshop is written entirely for OSX, as opposed to the "cross-programming" code used for version 7.0 so it works in OSX and OS9. You'd think the "leaner" programming would be more efficient.

[Thorzdad]

PshopCS is a good upgrade. Resource hog, yes ( do a marquee select and listen to your G5 fans roar to life) IllustratorCS, on the other hand, is questionable.

For one thing, Adobe has implemented a new text engine in IllCS that is not backward-compatable with previous versions. You can export art back to earlier versions but, if there is any un-outlined text in the file, when you open the file in an earlier version of Illustrator, the text has been converted to point text ( like when you open a PDF in Illustrator...the text is no longer a solid block. It's been broken-up into individual lines and characters. )

And it is, of course, a resource hog. But not as bad as Pshop.

[hondo]

I tried it on a friends PC and I didn't like it... But then again... I didn't like PhotoShop 7 ether. It feels like I'm fighting the program to get the brush I want. I like my PhotoShop 6 and I'm sticking with it.

[metalusion]

cs does a neat painter trick.
when you hit the "f" key the screen cycles through the grey, black backgrounds. when in grey mode, you can hold the space bar down and move the image wherever you like on the screen no matter what magnification you're at. makes using a tablet more comfortable. painter always had that but it's new to photoshop. filters are a pita in cs , completely chugs the system, but i never reallly use filters so no biggie for me.

[Orchard]

From all versions I like to use the 4th one.