Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

Hugh,

That's the point. The code is not the same, but the name is: Stonehenge. It was Stonehenge from the beginning, and it will remain Stonehenge through the last build that's generated for CS4.

If you want to differentiate different builds, you have to specify the version number. Just saying Stonehenge means diddly squat. All versions of CS4 are Stonehenge.

Well, code names do become public in many instances. Intel's code names for cpus and mobos are bandied about in the press, even as we are, as employees or contractors, prohibited from using them in public. Yes, the build number is key in any case. Even there, you have to understand the build sequencing numbering

It would make for some colorful combinations.

Stonehenge is the codename for Photoshop builds, generally not released to the hoi polloi. It is obvious that Adobe is releasing patched versions of the program to selected users who are having problems with the GPU-enabled features as a means of testing the fixes. The build number is the key. OK?

Happy Christmas to all users and programmers.

Ramon,

I am sorry, but I do not understand your post.

The distribution gold code and the binary made available several weeks ago are not identical. I personally do not know the differences. It may compiler / linker options or changes in the code base. Without input from Adobe, it would take a hex editor to tell.

H

What is all this nonsense about Stonehenge some forty posts back?

Anybody running any version of CS4 is running Stonehenge. Stonehenge was and is the code name for Photoshop 11, a.k.a. CS4. All versions, from alpha to beta to GM are Stonehenge.

If you don't believe it, look at the alternative CS4 Splash Screen. In Windows, use either Alt or Ctrl (can't remember which; it's the Option key on a Mac) as you select About Photoshop

Landed here by mistake, but Merry Christmas to all .

But can Zbrush do image editing and processing better than Photoshop?

I hope this update improves brush stroke responsiveness a lot. compared to other pen input based applications such as Zbrush, or Alias Sketchbook... CS4's brush performance is just poor. Zbrush's brush strokes on a blank canvas... doesnt lag at all. You can sit there doing an endless circle as fast as your arm will move... and no lag.

Zbrush's default canvas compared to photoshop, is doing so much more. Its rendering your brush stroke in 3D, in realtime off the cpu and its still ridiculously faster.

Oh, I have issues and so do some others. Just living with them until something or another fixes the issues.

Jan, I couldn't agree with you more. We are told to update our video drivers by the Adobe engineers. We do that, and CS4 still doesn't work. The vid card manufacturers don't care!

IMO, CS4 is way too dependent on video cards and drivers. To get the stuff I upgraded for, I had to spend more money and it still doesn't work right.

Yes, there are several people here who are having no problems, and I wish them well, but Adobe has dragged their dick in the dirt on this one.

I want my money back, but I'm beyond the 30-day limit.

Installation problems here too. I upgraded from CS3 to CS4 and it installed with the entire top menu bar invisable (Desktop screen showing through in that space) and the entire top row of menus and commands non-functional. Adobe support said I needed an updated graphics board driver, so I got the latest one and installed it, reinstalled CS4 -- same problem. Adobe support also said that if the most current driver didn't solve the problem I would need a new graphics card, what I have isn't sufficient to run the program. I'm out several hundred dollars on the CS4 upgrade and on the full version of Lightroom2 that I had also planned on adding to my system. I can't afford to lay out more money to replace my graphics board and possibly set off a chain reaction of other hardware changes. CS4 has been uninstalled and lives in the filing cabinet, along with Lightroom2 and other assorted discarded software. Adobe support won't even answer the e-mail to re-open my support case. I wish Adobe had been a little more upfront about CS4 being so hungry for GPU and graphics RAM. Like so many of you, I have work to do, so CS3 is back on the system; solid, functional and reliable .... sure could have found some good uses for the wasted money though.

Jan D Curtis