Adobe CS5 launch

[Fox5]

I didn't know you could add that into GIMP. Pretty neat how you can get it now, for free!

http://www.blender3darchitect.com/2010/03/free-photoshop-cs5-content-aware-fill-with-the-gimp/

I am honestly baffled at the video card requirements still. There aren't even any mobile offerings certified. There's quite a few people who use laptops for editing, don't ask why they do...

Sucks to own a mobile quadro, but I don't think there's any gt200 derived mobile chips, or very few. I think GT200 supports a newer CUDA version than G80, so that along with a 1GB mandated frame buffer could be the reason.

I don't see why though. All this CUDA/OpenCL/DirectCompute stuff is going to die out if they start arbitrarily limiting it to only certain cards/vendors. IMO, everything from G80 onwards should be supported in any mainstream GPU accelerated app. Oh, and preferably opencl should be used, though that only gives some of the radeon 4xxx series support, and I think only the 5800 cards are reasonably fast at it.

 

[Modelworks]

How does Photoshop CS5 respond to quad-core processors? I've been getting a lot more photo work and have considered ditching my E8500 for a quad core if it's worth it with CS5.

Much better. One of the biggest changes with CS5 suite overall is the total rewrite for 64 bit support. It now uses hardware much better than before.

 

[Matilda]

Oh you should see the content-aware features coming out in CS5. They are incredible:

http://cs5.org/?p=624

Yeah the content-aware feature is pretty great. I actually do some work with Adobe and wanted to pass along another video which outlines some more new time-saving features added to the CS5 Suite.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs5-design-premium-feature-tour/whats-new-in-cs5-design-premium/

 

[IamDavid]

Anything new in DW worth looking at? Not sure how they could improve on it but I might have to take a look...

 

[Thor86]

Looks like I'll have to upgrade the wife's 8800 Ultra with my GTX285. 😉

 

[scott916]

Downloading the Master Collection trial now. I'm so stoked!