Reviews: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Upgrade

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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Adobe
EAN: 0883919159164
Edition: Upgrade
Format: DVD-ROM
Item Dimensions: 300
Label: Adobe
Manufacturer: Adobe
Model: 65014838
MPN: 65014838
Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Publisher: Adobe
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Studio: Adobe

Features:

• Adobe Photoshop CS4 software offers improved access to its unrivaled power with the new more intuitive Adjustments and Masks panels, which put image-editing tools at your fingertips
• Accelerated graphics handling delivers incredibly smooth painting, panning, zooming, and canvas rotation
• More powerful compositing, enhanced color correction, and many more improvements help you work more efficiently than ever before
• Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors
• Bring your vision to life with industry-leading tools that let you enhance images and create composites that help meet your highest standards

Rating: - CS4 Update
This maybe a good product, but after 6 hours of trying I am unable to install. Adobe support tried, but the same error during install. How adobe can have such great products and have such horrible update s/w?

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Rating: - Excellent Software for Editing Fine Art Photos
This is my third version of Photoshop, and it continues to make my photos look better and better.

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Rating: - Adobe Photoshop CS4 Upgrade
Awsome upgrade. Some things take a little getting use to (long time user so moving some things were ackward at first), but change over was easy. Runs extremely well.

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Rating: - Photoshop CS4 from CS2
Excellent upgrade. I was surprised at the extent of the improvements. Raw file processing has been improved a lot. Definitely worth it.

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Rating: - Caution - Software still buggy
I took the suggetion of others and downloaded the trial version before purchasing and I'm glad I did. Installed on a 2.4 GHz dual processor Windows XP computer with 3+ GB of memory this CS4 is noticeably slower than CS3 during panning, zooming and other graphics functions. (probably need a graphics board upgrade, I guess, but you would think that the software would detect my configuration and at least not degrade things) And it appears to be buggy, with several cliches including not always updating the icons in the layers pallet and not always updating the photo after making modifications. Also, for some reason, the wheel on my mouse no longer makes the photo zoom in and out as it does on earlier versions of Photoshop - and it's a microsoft mouse - never had problems before. Of course it may be user error and I suppose I ought to be thankful that the software installed without problems. Perhaps when I get more used to some of the differences I'll be happier and actually purchase the upgrade but I think that Adobe needs to patch this product first.

If you really need some of the functions of this upgrade, such as RAW for a newly introduced camera, then I can see trying to use this product, bugs and all. But if you are just planning to upgrade for upgrade sake I would recommend waiting until more users indicate that this program is ready for prime time. I know that's what I'll do.

Update: Under CS4 preferences I found a place where I can select using the scroll wheel to zoom so that problem is fixed. But the issues about updating the photos and layer icons still exist even after I made sure that I am not using any GPUs (Graphics processing units) so any issues regarding hardware and drivers should not be present. Too bad since the Adobe site does show some interesting improvements in CS4 over CS3. Hope they release their revision soon. Meanwhile I'll continue with CS3.

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