OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20552/A_Look_at_Adobe_Photoshop_Premiere_After_Effects_CS4 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:58:19 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Eugenia reads comic books... http://www.osnews.com/thread?337727 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337727 ... and digs the Avengers. Nice rendition of The Vision there, Eugenia! ;) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DeadFishMan) Comments premiere workflow http://www.osnews.com/thread?337736 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337736 Bad thing is that Premiere completely revamps editing process. Now we have some kind of Avid track patching (targeting), but without the Avid elegance. I guess the whole point of this was to lessen the need of mousing around, but with Adobe implementation, the result is the exact opposite. Anyone here have the same opinion? Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stooovie) Comments Comment by FunkyELF http://www.osnews.com/thread?337742 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337742
Regardless, I was able to use Illustrator and trace this sketch of mine, and then colorize it with Photoshop


Why would you take something that is vectorized and then rasterize it only to add color? Can't illustrator do color? I am unfamiliar with photoshop and even more so with illustrator (GIMP and Inkscape for me). I know Inkscape can color that stuff in...and then its still vectorized. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments RE: Comment by FunkyELF http://www.osnews.com/thread?337762 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337762
Why would you take something that is vectorized and then rasterize it only to add color? Can't illustrator do color? I am unfamiliar with photoshop and even more so with illustrator (GIMP and Inkscape for me). I know Inkscape can color that stuff in...and then its still vectorized.


I haven't used any versions of Illustrator newer than 10, but colouring was always pretty finicky in it (E.g., the "Gradient Mesh" tool).

And newer versions of Photoshop can work with vector objects, so the image may not have needed to be rasterized at all. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (StephenBeDoper) Comments Out of curiosity... http://www.osnews.com/thread?337763 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337763 For the CS4 suite what was the disk space consumption...the reason why I ask is I am running out of my space on some of my partitions and so I was wondering what stuff to move around. Thanks in advance! Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (suryad) Comments RE: Out of curiosity... http://www.osnews.com/thread?337764 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337764 Several gibabytes, about 5-6 I think. You can customize what you want installed though. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments RE[2]: Comment by FunkyELF http://www.osnews.com/thread?337765 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337765 Exactly. Photoshop can open .ai vector files. And as you said, coloring on AI is funky, unpredictable somehow. Photoshop offers a more familiar ground. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments RE[2]: Comment by FunkyELF http://www.osnews.com/thread?337770 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337770
And newer versions of Photoshop can work with vector objects, so the image may not have needed to be rasterized at all.

I've personally wondered why they still keep Illustrator around. Why not just add the illustrator tools to photoshop? I don't know any artist who works purely in illustrator, every single one of them starts in illustrator and finish their drawing in photoshop, because illustrator lacks certain features or those features are too much of a pain to use. So why not just get rid of illustrator. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dagw) Comments RE[3]: Comment by FunkyELF http://www.osnews.com/thread?337778 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337778
Why not just add the illustrator tools to photoshop?


why only sell 1 tool if you can sell 2? Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smashIt) Comments Broken Installer http://www.osnews.com/thread?337792 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337792 Adobe forgot to test the installer on 64bit systems (aka Vista).

The installer dies once it tries to install Photoshop (64bit). Keeps locking up, forcing a reboot. Adobe pulls the usual stunts (uhh, I dunno).

So ... this product CS4, is probably good on 32bit system, but right now, 64bit systems are out in the cold. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Shannara) Comments RE: Broken Installer http://www.osnews.com/thread?337793 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337793 I installed the DVDs on a Vista 64bit system, so I have first hand experience. It worked just fine, out of the box. However, I did hear something about a broken installer, and there's a fix for it. I suggest you look for it. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments RE[2]: Broken Installer http://www.osnews.com/thread?337803 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337803 Its weird that my adobe support rep doesnt know anything about the installer problem, and never heard of the patch.

The support forums and ticket histories doesnt mention a thing ..

Where did you find this fix? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Shannara) Comments RE[3]: Broken Installer http://www.osnews.com/thread?337804 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337804 I didn't find a fix, I just think I heard of something like it. As I said, my installation worked perfectly. Maybe there's something wrong with your installation of Vista64, or your PC's hardware. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments RE[3]: Comment by FunkyELF http://www.osnews.com/thread?337892 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337892
I've personally wondered why they still keep Illustrator around. Why not just add the illustrator tools to photoshop? I don't know any artist who works purely in illustrator, every single one of them starts in illustrator and finish their drawing in photoshop, because illustrator lacks certain features or those features are too much of a pain to use. So why not just get rid of illustrator.


I think Adobe has been moving in that direction for the last few years, with improvements to Photoshop's vector tools. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (StephenBeDoper) Comments