Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Adobe will announce its new CS4 suite from San Francisco Sept 23rd in a Web Broadcast. So sign up for it on the Adobe site! To me the magnificent highlights are:
PS CS4: A few amazing features:
DNG Color Editor:Allows one to have presets for conversion to match particular color looks, (the art director, for example, likes the color look from the Phase One or Leaf display as opposed to what they are seeing on the Eizo screen). If that's what they want, the DNG can, it is claimed, manage just that! Sure!
3D: Ability to go from your side by side pictures and stitching to a 3D model that you can repair or paint and all the changes end back on the component images, if you wish!
Speed: Massive multiGB images supported with ability to instantly select and zoom in anywhere! Also, at long last, making full use of 64 bit architecture as well as of today's advanced Graphics cards. The latter is decades overdue! Aperture, from its inception, depends on the Graphic Card for a lot of crunching. Adobe calls their technology the "Pixel Bender"! With filters, the effects are lightening fast. Massive images can be rotated and twirled as if 100 KB!
The removing (or building more of) "what's-in-between" technology. Last year we heard of an Israeli company with a technology which allows designers to simply shrink a field of cows or people and the objects remain unchanged by the grass in between which is seamlessly removed. Not enough sky? just shift down thew horizon, the new sky will be generated!
Photoshopexpress.com and photoshop ExpressThis is the nose of the camel in the tent! For mass consumption, Adobe Photoshop Express is free with 5GB of storage space.
Download P.E. to your cell phone. Take a picture, press save and forget about it. Now anywhere in the world, with a computer, get on the web, access your free Adobe Photoshop access account and all you images are there. You can use the Lightroom-like interface to make B&W version, get rid of imperfections, red eye etc and if you wish put a smile on granny with a neat distortion too. Pay for the "Plus" account to get 20GB. With each level of account, one gets new templates, hints, and tutorials all free.
The idea is to get the system working with the mass dumbed-down market and then expect that all advanced Creative Suite functionality will be web-based with more advanced templates and extra services. There will also be a "Configerater" Program released shortly after CS4 to allow us to customize which of the over 850 commands PS has to be used in a particular setting. Good for team work with less experienced users, for teachers and seminars.
So this is the start of Web-based control and no doubt, web-based licensing as a way to bi-pass all the pirated copies. I'd imagine by CS5, we could need a web subscription to keep using our own software!
Anyway, we'd better get used to this, as this is the way of the future. Look at http://salesforce.com and realize that this is used for massive corporations and it's just web-based. Advantages? You buy just the seats you need and the software is always up to date!
Asher
Download the "Adobe Photoshop World Keynote '08 - Vegas" video from the Adobe website, here
PS CS4: A few amazing features:
DNG Color Editor:Allows one to have presets for conversion to match particular color looks, (the art director, for example, likes the color look from the Phase One or Leaf display as opposed to what they are seeing on the Eizo screen). If that's what they want, the DNG can, it is claimed, manage just that! Sure!
3D: Ability to go from your side by side pictures and stitching to a 3D model that you can repair or paint and all the changes end back on the component images, if you wish!
Speed: Massive multiGB images supported with ability to instantly select and zoom in anywhere! Also, at long last, making full use of 64 bit architecture as well as of today's advanced Graphics cards. The latter is decades overdue! Aperture, from its inception, depends on the Graphic Card for a lot of crunching. Adobe calls their technology the "Pixel Bender"! With filters, the effects are lightening fast. Massive images can be rotated and twirled as if 100 KB!
The removing (or building more of) "what's-in-between" technology. Last year we heard of an Israeli company with a technology which allows designers to simply shrink a field of cows or people and the objects remain unchanged by the grass in between which is seamlessly removed. Not enough sky? just shift down thew horizon, the new sky will be generated!
Photoshopexpress.com and photoshop ExpressThis is the nose of the camel in the tent! For mass consumption, Adobe Photoshop Express is free with 5GB of storage space.
Download P.E. to your cell phone. Take a picture, press save and forget about it. Now anywhere in the world, with a computer, get on the web, access your free Adobe Photoshop access account and all you images are there. You can use the Lightroom-like interface to make B&W version, get rid of imperfections, red eye etc and if you wish put a smile on granny with a neat distortion too. Pay for the "Plus" account to get 20GB. With each level of account, one gets new templates, hints, and tutorials all free.
The idea is to get the system working with the mass dumbed-down market and then expect that all advanced Creative Suite functionality will be web-based with more advanced templates and extra services. There will also be a "Configerater" Program released shortly after CS4 to allow us to customize which of the over 850 commands PS has to be used in a particular setting. Good for team work with less experienced users, for teachers and seminars.
So this is the start of Web-based control and no doubt, web-based licensing as a way to bi-pass all the pirated copies. I'd imagine by CS5, we could need a web subscription to keep using our own software!
Anyway, we'd better get used to this, as this is the way of the future. Look at http://salesforce.com and realize that this is used for massive corporations and it's just web-based. Advantages? You buy just the seats you need and the software is always up to date!
Asher
Download the "Adobe Photoshop World Keynote '08 - Vegas" video from the Adobe website, here