Adobe Announces Vast Creative Suite 4
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended -- The king of the suite boosts performance by taking advantage of the fast processing capabilities of a computer's GPU (graphics processing unit). Photoshop hands off some of the processing task to the GPU when working on very large files, for example, or redrawing when invoking a new feature to rotate the canvas - helpful for designers and artists who use pressure-sensitive tablets. ...
Adobe Photoshop CS4 feature tour (video)
Macsimum News —
... Adobe has published a number of product feature tours that preview the new Creative Suite 4.0. Below is a video tour of Photoshop CS4 to help familiarize yourself with the product. ...
What's Growing Faster? Software Bloat or PC Capabilities?
louisgray.com —
... friend to just wait... as the next one would take more than a gigabyte of space. Sure enough, that's practically accepted, and now, it's not too uncommon to see downloads, and even software updates, that are in the hundreds of megabytes. But the issue is less about capacity and more about the perception of speed. Yes, my laptop can do more than its forefathers. It can do new things with the Web and with video that were never before possible. But booting Microsoft Office, Adobe PhotoShop, FireFox and other products still manages to slow down my ...



