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Adobe Photoshop CS4 – Beta Preview
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As well as major improvements to the main program, Photoshop’s integrated file browser has also seen a major overhaul. It is now much quicker to load, and also quicker to open photos into Photoshop.
It has new navigation controls, a complete file path in the document bar, direct camera import, and the ability to output web-ready galleries in a number of formats, including PDF, Flash and HTML, and a wide range of pre-set and customisable appearance and performance settings. You can even input your FTP settings so you can upload and update your web galleries directly from Bridge. There’s no doubt that Bridge was already a very useful program, but it has now become, in my opinion, by far the best image browsing program available.
I’ve already used Bridge to upload a web gallery to my own website, and I was so pleased with the result that I will certainly be using it from now on. If you’d like to see the gallery go to www.cliffsmith.co.uk, click on the “Friends” link, and then on “Aeon Festival 2008”. Creating and uploading the gallery took under 15 minutes.
Other Features
There are many other new and improved features which I will expand on when I review the full retail version of CS4 hopefully next month. These include improved Camera Raw, enhanced motion graphics including the ability to merge 3D and moving images, something called volume rendering that I’m going to have to find out more about, and even some improvements to the humble old printing options. There’s a lot to cover, so keep and eye out for my review, it’s going to be a big one.
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Luan Bach said on 30th September 2008
harvi said on 1st October 2008
well buy in the USA then. Untill people vote with their feet and wallets these criminal differences in prices will persist...."rip off britain" is alive and kicking
PK Son said on 2nd October 2008
Almost overwhelming! Looking forward to it!
Ronnie I said on 9th June 2009
Does CS4 accept Nikon D300 RAW Images. I was using CS2 in the past and with my Nikon D50 I could retrieve RAW images. But when I upgraded to the D300 CS2 would not retrieve RAW Fil... more
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Have you seen the pricing different between US and UK ? Adobe are usually the worse offender for the "Being UK" tax, but this really takes the biscuit.