*creams pants*

 

The new features make me horny as a school girl.

 

 

 

For real though, anyone use it?

 

The new nondestructive rotate is awesome, one of my favorite features. Also the ease of access to the adjustments tab.

 

Speaking of tabs... the new tabbed thing they having going when you have multiple docs open is VERY nice.

 

 

 

CS3 is still a part of my workflow, but only because it has plugins that are compatible with CS4 yet.

In all honesty I was disappointed with CS4. The tabs are kind of neat (although I wasn't used to them) but I really dislike the adjustments window. It just seems bulky sitting right there. I'll be sticking with CS3 for sure. (CS4 seemed to run odd on my machine as well for some reason).

I've had it shut down on me for no reason a couple times, but other than that its prime.

 

I like the adjustments tab. As a photographer i just click, apply the adjustment and mess with the mask if need be.

 

 

 

You can customize your windows you know ;)

 

 

 

I like how CS4 renders the image in high quality/sharp at any zoom %

 

unlike in CS3 and under you got jaggies at certain zoom %'s that didn't correspond with the aspect ratio of the image.

I guess I just like the older way of Only having the window for a certain adjustment at once. Like create a new curves layer and then I have that to mess around with. It's probably more of just getting used to it more than anything. I know I can move it around, but yeah.

 

 

 

 

 

But it felt just kind of "sticky" to me. Like the curves wasn't as responsive. I'm not sure if it was just something that was screwed up, but it was real annoying to do anything.

I tried it at a friends house, and I was dissapointed. Waste of money imo, £800 for CS3 with a few things added.

I'm just about to buy it.

 

 

 

I heard that its twice as fast but cs3 was always quite fast on my laptop.

I've just been using cs4 illustrator, and nothing notable has changed for me.

I'm just about to buy it.

 

 

 

I heard that its twice as fast but cs3 was always quite fast on my laptop.

 

If you have more than 4 or so GB of RAM, and buy the 64 bit version (Assuming you're on 64 bit Windows) It should run a lot, lot faster.

 

 

 

Personally there's nothing to warrant me upgrading. My upgrade will still be valid when CS5 comes out (You could upgrade to CS3 from like PS 7) so I think I'll wait. If I want to paint on 3D models I'll use blender.