Adobe announces Creative Suite 5

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Will be interesting to see the changes.

Oh well I aquired Adobe Creative Suite CS4 Web premium recently and I'm quite happy with it but I always keep an eye for the new features of the new software.

Illustrator and Photoshop are still in my opinion the best illustration and bitmap/photo editors out there respectively even though I do have a lot of experience with CorelDraw in PC and is a program that I like a lot and it even has a few things that illustrator doesn't have and does a few things better than Illustrator but I still think that Illustrator is superior overall.

In respect to CS3 installation problems I remember trying Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop CS3 demos in Windows Vista on that same PC and I couldn't make them run at all. Now, CS4 runs fine in Vista but CS3 gave Adobe a lot of headaches and user support calls.

My guess is that Adobe is going to be much more careful with their software from now on with respect to that and that CS5 probably will have far less installation and compatibility problems than previous ones or at least I hope so for the sake and peace of mind of their users.

If you are interested in those video acceleration features of Premiere in the new CS5 be forewarned that those features in particular are compatible with only a limited selection of CUDA capable graphic cards and not with all CUDA graphic cards and in Mac the selection of compatible ones is even narrower so before you buy the software for that feature be sure that either your CUDA graphic card model is in the compatibility list or that you also have budget enough to get one that is compatible.

Some additional cards will be made compatible later on according to Adobe but this could take some time.

yeah i bought photoshop and dreamweaver

they got awesome new features

Looks like a good upgrade.

Just checked out the windows version.

And it a host of new features and a completely different interface compared to the CS3 version.

I've yet to see how the Mac version turns out to be.

But, Nice to see a 64-bit ready Adobe product to tap the power of Snow Leopard.

Regards,

Freaky Chokra

There's been a bit of a pattern with only the even-numbered CS releases holding out:

- going way back, original CS had issues and many people stuck with Photoshop 7

- CS2 was rock solid and I know a fair few folk still using it to this day

- CS3 was just a total mess, a real whore

- CS4's been like the Holy Virgin Mary in comparison

So I'm a bit cautious about CS5 now. 64-bit is cool though.

for mac you need to have 1.5.8 to run new adobe programs...

Thank you

The CS5 looks like the CS4 with similar changes

CS5 is fantastic. Love the new content aware functions.

I have allready checked it and it's really precious update. Thanks Adobe.

There's been a bit of a pattern with only the even-numbered CS releases holding out:

 

- going way back, original CS had issues and many people stuck with Photoshop 7

- CS2 was rock solid and I know a fair few folk still using it to this day

- CS3 was just a total mess, a real whore

- CS4's been like the Holy Virgin Mary in comparison

 

So I'm a bit cautious about CS5 now. 64-bit is cool though.

Hello everyone here, and those who've posted after The Master.

I'm not a graphics designer, but have to dabble in image editing from occasionally on personal images and similar such things.

Hence, with not much experience on the extensive features of Photoshop, I'm not commenting much on what's new.

Yet, I just experienced it's awesome 64-bit-ness of power. It launches much much faster!

And saving, exporting and conversion of multiple (batch jobs) is way pretty fast!

Well, that just saves my time; although I keep wondering is it my beefy Rig that's so Juicy or is it CS5?

Regards,

Freaky Chokra

So far I've tried Photoshop CS5. Unfortunately, Premiere and After Effects CS5 requires 64-bit OS T_T

w00t i cant wait to try cs5 on my hackintosh

I use photoshop cs5 in Windows...its very good!