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Started by Craig Ruaux, Dec 14 2006 07:34 PM

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#1 Craig Ruaux

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Posted 14 December 2006 - 07:34 PM

Adobe has announced a public beta program for CS3.

You need a valid CS2 licence number to activate it, so CS users (like myself) are SOL.

A preliminary look at CS3 is posted on ArsTechnica.

The download (and a big one at that :D ) is available from

http://labs.adobe.co...s/photoshopcs3/





(it's universal binary for mac users, and apparently qualifies as tehnewhotnesss11!! :P )

Edited by Craig Ruaux, 15 December 2006 - 10:36 AM.

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Posted 14 December 2006 - 08:52 PM

So what you're really saying is that you are using an unlicenced copy of CS2? :P

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Posted 14 December 2006 - 09:10 PM

I'll give it a go on my lowly 1.4Ghz G4.

Gee, do ya think Apple might of pushed them to get something universal out that supports the new macs? Might possibly be affecting sales??

I'll report back in a couple of days.

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Posted 14 December 2006 - 10:30 PM

So what you're really saying is that you are using an unlicenced copy of CS2? :P


No. What he said was that he is a CS user, not CS2 and therefore, does not have a valid CS2 license.
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 10:37 PM

This is great news indeed, now I can think about getting one of those new Macbook Pros. But I've been using the trial version of Aperture and it has impressed me a lot so far.

Kory: Drew was just messing with Craig... :P

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Posted 15 December 2006 - 01:39 AM

This is great news indeed, now I can think about getting one of those new Macbook Pros. But I've been using the trial version of Aperture and it has impressed me a lot so far.

Kory: Drew was just messing with Craig... :P


Just been playing with it. Not that much new stuff for us PPC users.... :D But is there ever?

Smart filters are cool but thats about it.

Edited by saeedrashid, 15 December 2006 - 01:41 AM.

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Posted 15 December 2006 - 07:49 AM

So what you're really saying is that you are using an unlicenced copy of CS2? :P



I never really saw a compelling need for CS2. I don't tend to do much with PS other than spotting and contrast/curves adjustments, which I now do with Aperture. So I decided to sit out an ugrade cycle.
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Posted 15 December 2006 - 02:11 PM

I downloaded CS3 today, but the program will not install.
I get the following message:
Installation cannot continue until the following applications are closed:
TWAINBridge

I cannot find any such application to close. Anyone have any ideas?
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Posted 15 December 2006 - 05:16 PM

Do you have a scanner attached to the computer?

If so, unplug it or turn it off; TWAINBridge is a system level process for interacting with scanners.

If this does not help, open Activity Monitor (Applications>Utilities>Activity Monitor), make sure the pop-up menu indicates All Processes, find the twainbridge process and quit it. If you do this you'll probably need to restart before a scanner will work again.

This should work.
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Posted 15 December 2006 - 08:40 PM

Good job Craig; I thought it had something to do with a scanner -but my scanner was not connected. Then I realized my 3-in-1 printer was. Thanks.
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Posted 15 December 2006 - 08:55 PM

CRAP. I'm on a slowish connection here in Tokyo and had 500MB+ downloaded (for the Mac) when Firefox 2 crashed. ARGH...
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Posted 16 December 2006 - 06:06 AM

I've played with it a little bit; for someone who is hardly a sophisticated photoshop user, it seems about the same except for a neater interface.
Anyone have any suggestions for processor intensive procedures I should try to compare CS2 and CS3?
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Posted 16 December 2006 - 06:27 AM

Okay, I've played with some filters now. Seems to be about twice as fast as CS2 on the Intel Mac.

I've played with it a little bit; for someone who is hardly a sophisticated photoshop user, it seems about the same except for a neater interface.
Anyone have any suggestions for processor intensive procedures I should try to compare CS2 and CS3?


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Posted 16 December 2006 - 09:14 AM

Definitely faster on my Macbook Pro. They've also integrated some of the controls from Lightroom into Camera Raw. Also Bridge is vastly improved.
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Posted 16 December 2006 - 11:03 AM

Also Bridge is vastly improved.


Yes but who really uses Bridge? I never liked it...
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 12:56 AM

Some benchmark test have been posted here

http://www.barefeats.com/quad16.html
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 05:51 AM

i like Bridge...

Unfortunately someone told me it is something like 640mb download...

that would take 6 days...


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Posted 19 December 2006 - 07:19 AM

i like Bridge...


What do you mainly use it for?
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 08:14 AM

All I can say is WOW!
Since Bridge came out, I was disappointed at how slow, sluggish and useless it felt, Bridge 2 seems to be a VAST improvement in managing images.

If you happen to be a NAPP member, there are some very nice video tutorials explaining some of the new features of Bridge and Photoshop.
If you aren't a NAPP member, their homepage still links to nice explinations of the new features, etc.

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Posted 19 December 2006 - 10:47 PM

What do you mainly use it for?


Hi saeedrashid,

I use Bridge for sorting through my pics and launching into the RAW editor and maybe finally taking the image into photoshop to finish it off / sharpen etc.

I also batch process from bridge, adding exif data and renaming files from the _DSC000521 to something slightly more meaningful.

Having said that my whole workflow is not exactly ideal, so, as I believe that you are far better than me ( some of the tutorials that you have written are impressive ), I for one would appreciate any suggestions you have re workflow.

What do you do when returning from a trip with say 1000 pics stored on a HDD in different directories each dir starting with the same filename ( say _DSC0001.nef ! ).


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