CS5 is shipping

[MarkBarbieri]

I'm downloading my copy right now. It's roughly 11 gig of downloads (don't try it on dial-up), so it'll be a while before I have it all. It doesn't include Lightroom 3. For whatever reason, Adobe doesn't sell that as part of their "Creative Suite". It does include Flash, so Apple users might want to pass on it.

 

[Gdad]

I downloaded the free 30 day trial for now. The main thing I am considering upgrading for was the HDR- but I have to admit the 'content aware' deleting thingy is pretty sweet.

Here is my first HDR try-

 

[Code]

Wish LR3 would have shipped at the same time, now I can't load RAWs from LR into PS directly because they don't have the same version of Camera Raw.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Wish LR3 would have shipped at the same time, now I can't load RAWs from LR into PS directly because they don't have the same version of Camera Raw.

It's not a problem. Just download the LR 2.7 update. It has Camera RAW 5.7. I've gone from LR 2.7 to PS CS5 several times this morning.

 

[bostran1]

It does include Flash, so Apple users might want to pass on it.

Flash runs on a Mac. I guess you're referring to iPhones or iPads though. In reading through the media coverage of the great debate about the future of Flash I read somewhere that the split of those using Adobe's Creative Suite is 50-50 between Macs and PCs.

As a Mac user myself, I think CS5 is an incredible upgrade and worth the money. I am certain both PC and Mac users will love it.

 

[JoeDif]

Can the license key only be used on one computer? If I get it I'd like to put it on my desktop and the DW's laptop.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Flash runs on a Mac. I guess you're referring to iPhones or iPads though. In reading through the media coverage of the great debate about the future of Flash I read somewhere that the split of those using Adobe's Creative Suite is 50-50 between Macs and PCs.

As a Mac user myself, I think CS5 is an incredible upgrade and worth the money. I am certain both PC and Mac users will love it.

Yeah, I was taking a jab and Job's and his recent comments about why he won't allow his customers to load flash on their iPthings.

I'm surprised that the split is 50/50. It seems like every major tutorial/demo is run on a Mac.

Can the license key only be used on one computer? If I get it I'd like to put it on my desktop and the DW's laptop.

I believe that the license key covers two computers with the assumption that it will be your desktop and laptop.

Interestingly, our family's original license for the CS4 suite was an education license bought for my then second grader. This time I just ordered a regular upgrade license and it installed without complaint. I recall that in the past you couldn't upgrade an educational license. The educational and upgrade prices were the same this time, so it didn't really matter. My son is quite generous and lets me install one license on my computer.

 

[pr surfer]

I'm holding off to purchase CS5 until I'm in the states for a few days. The price of a license purchased locally is high enough that it's cheaper to fly and pick it up... and the bandwidth taken by downloading it is bad enough that I'll get my internet disconnected for 30 days.

I do have a question, how do the HDR results compare to Dynamic Photo/Photomatix?

 

[mrcricket]

I'm holding off to purchase CS5 until I'm in the states for a few days. The price of a license purchased locally is high enough that it's cheaper to fly and pick it up... and the bandwidth taken by downloading it is bad enough that I'll get my internet disconnected for 30 days.

I do have a question, how do the HDR results compare to Dynamic Photo/Photomatix?

From what I've seen CS5's HDR is a huge leap ahead of Photomatix. The edit brushes in HDR alone are worth the upgrade IMO. I can't wait to get it. I just have to convince my CFO that I need it to be more productive.

 

[Raindown]

Is there enough new features to update from CS4 extended?

 

[MarkBarbieri]

CS5 has:

1. Significantly better HDR.
2. Content aware fill - the ability to select stuff and have PS guess at what it would look like without the stuff you selected.
3. Lens correction
4. Mini-bridge inside PS
5. Better GPU acceleration
6. Faster
7. Better B&W conversions
8. Puppet warp - the ability to naturally reposition and bend things in your pictures
9. Improved camera RAW with much better noise reduction
10. Improved selection tools
11. Better "paint" effects

Is it worth the upgrade? That depends on how much you value the new features compared with how much you value the cash.

I just started using it this morning. The only new feature that I've tried is the content aware fill. It's OK so far. It hasn't done anything that I couldn't have done fairly easily with cloning, but it has made the process significantly quick. Overall, it seems perkier. It loads in about 2 seconds on my machine. It's entirely possible that most of my performance gains are because I haven't loaded as many plug-ins and junk on it yet.

I think the biggest CS5 improvements are in Premiere. They've introduced a radical new engine the uses your GPU (assuming that it is supported) for lots of calculations.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Oh, and there is now a 64 bit version for the Mac. I think that the prior version was only 32-bit on the Mac.

 

[bostran1]

Oh, and there is now a 64 bit version for the Mac. I think that the prior version was only 32-bit on the Mac.

You are 100% correct. This was a huge upgrade for Mac users in more ways than one. Its about time Adobe caught up to everyone else!