Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I'm interested in learning about your expereince with Photoshop CC 2014 run under windows 7 or 8.
I'd love to know if anyone has any personal experience or knows of a colleague or source where opinions are shared about any possible advantages or difficulties running Photoshop CC 2014 on a PC. I'm considering a new computer and am aghast at the commoditization of the Mac, where there's now little to no room for added cards or drives, putting everything that was inside on the outside. it's a brilliant move - they get to ship a compact product at 20% of weight and volume and so dramatically increase further their margins of profit!
The PC is still an open system and so I now wonder about Photoshop running under windows!
Asher
(Incidentally, then, the question of 8 BIT versus 10 BIT workflow comes up! Theoretically, 10 bit calibrated workflow is now possible for users of Photoshop CC 2014 and monitors now like the Eizo Color Edge series have color look up, LUT, tables in 14 BIT. this means that the color calibration or profiling of a monitor can be extraordinarily accurate and billions and not just millions of colors are possible. The human eye can appreciate a far wider gamut than even Adobe RGB and that adds an especially generous set of saturated greens and yellows beyond the Adobe 1988 boundaries. An increasing number of these can be also printed in the latest pigment ink printers from Epson, HP, Canon and others. So the benefits may not be merely theoretical.
10 BIT color is not just a simple switch over from 8 BIT. In fact much of 8 BIT that we are happy with is actually 6 BIT and the last 2 BITS are dithered. Still, I must emphasize that modern true 8 BIT color should be recognized as a superbly capable standard for a professional workflow and 10 BIT color is really for the brave of heart, the enthusiast or the obsessional photographer wanting the Nirvana of color possibilities. I do not know whether or not my eyes would recognize the improvements brought by 10 BIT color, but in any case, I work with a Mac system. Apple hardware can support 10 BIT color but not the software, as yet. In a windows 7 or 8 system, however, a scant few programs, Photoshop, for one, can handle 10 BIT color well, with the caveat that some filters are in 8 BIT only. This can cause unresolved color conflicts. Despite, this some folk have switched to a 10 BIT workflow.)
10 BIT color is not just a simple switch over from 8 BIT. In fact much of 8 BIT that we are happy with is actually 6 BIT and the last 2 BITS are dithered. Still, I must emphasize that modern true 8 BIT color should be recognized as a superbly capable standard for a professional workflow and 10 BIT color is really for the brave of heart, the enthusiast or the obsessional photographer wanting the Nirvana of color possibilities. I do not know whether or not my eyes would recognize the improvements brought by 10 BIT color, but in any case, I work with a Mac system. Apple hardware can support 10 BIT color but not the software, as yet. In a windows 7 or 8 system, however, a scant few programs, Photoshop, for one, can handle 10 BIT color well, with the caveat that some filters are in 8 BIT only. This can cause unresolved color conflicts. Despite, this some folk have switched to a 10 BIT workflow.)
I'd love to know if anyone has any personal experience or knows of a colleague or source where opinions are shared about any possible advantages or difficulties running Photoshop CC 2014 on a PC. I'm considering a new computer and am aghast at the commoditization of the Mac, where there's now little to no room for added cards or drives, putting everything that was inside on the outside. it's a brilliant move - they get to ship a compact product at 20% of weight and volume and so dramatically increase further their margins of profit!
The PC is still an open system and so I now wonder about Photoshop running under windows!
Asher