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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Upgrade
List Price: $199.99
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| 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 |
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Customers Reviews
2009-09-28
Photoshop CS4 upgrade
Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for this type of product. It contains the most features and does more than any other product - that is why it is the software choice by professionals. For photo editing, their lighter version - Photoshop Elements is an excellent product and far less money and has a much easier learning curve. Also, Lightroom is becoming much more popular with professional photographers.
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2009-09-12
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Very nice. I upgraded from CS2 directly to CS4. Nice labor-saving new menus for the most often used editing functions. Loads fast too. I'm happy.
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2009-07-07
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Upgrade
It would have been nice if I could use it. i bought an earlier version of photoshop that ended up w/ an invalid serial #. I wasted my money.
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2009-06-27
CS4 - Nice but could be better
Photomerge is much improved with the addition of two more ways to merge your shots. The healing brush tools do some good work but are still rather quirky. Could use a reminder box when saving 16 bit jpg file that you need to change mode to 8 bit. Sometimes the adjustments will not work after using the layer adjustments - Adobe had to be re-booted to work properly. High price for update with not that much improvement. Still, a great program.
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2009-06-18
Worthwhile Upgrade
I am an amateur photographer who competes in competitions internationally. Years ago, I only used Photoshop to make small tweaks to my photos like shadows and highlights. However, these days, judges expect the photographs to be technically perfect. I have been using both Photoshop CS2 and Lightroom 1 for several years now to perform the manipulation. By using both Adobe applications, I had good success with the images, but still had difficulty in targeting specific areas of the photograph to make changes. I actually preferred to use Lightroom because there was a clear list of the changes that you had made so that you could change the saturation, for example if you didn't like the effect. In Photoshop CS2, if you closed the file, you lost all record of what adjustments you had made unless you wrote them down.
I upgraded to Photoshop CS4 four months ago and really regret that I didn't upgrade a long time ago. The jump from CS2 to CS4 is huge because you now have adjustment layers at your disposal. The adjustment layers combined with masks allow you to make changes to specific areas of your images and the adjustments are changeable. You can close and open the file and all of your adjustment layers are still there and editable. You also have access to smart filters which allow you to apply adjustments such as shadows and highlights that you can later go back and change if you like. The only downside is that when you save the layers in a TIFF or PSD file, the file size can become quite large (I have files with dozens of adjustment layers that are in excess of 1Gb in size).
The only downside to the upgrade is that it is a memory hog. Your combination of graphics card, disk space and RAM will affect the performance of the software. My graphics card was fast a few years ago, but not up to Photoshop CS4 standards. I have 2 Gb or RAM in my laptop and so I am heavily dependant on scratch disk space. I attach a 250 Gb external drive to my computer and tell Photoshop to use it as scratch space. By doing so, I can avoid problems like the lag that others have written about. There may be other fixes as well, but this is what works for me.
Photoshop is the industry standard and the upgrade or new version is not inexpensive. However, in my opinion the layers and the ability to edit them in CS4 were definitely worth the cost of upgrading if you are using Photoshop CS2 or lower. I certainly recommend the upgrade. I also recommend the training offered by Lynda.com, or the Lynda DVD's (Photoshop CS4 for Photographers is one of the titles) to learn about the new features of Photoshop and how to use them. Great training for the beginner or the more advanced user.
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Product Details
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Adobe
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EAN: 0883919159164
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Release Date: 2008-10-27
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