Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

I had to try it and merged 3 files together with no issues.

I just did a 'Photomerge' with 7 14Mb files without a problem.

If you are interested in panoramic or HDR images, CS4 IS proving to be worthless for many.

I will not repeat my post here, but searching the forum for "photomerge" or "panoramic" will show several people running XP/XPP/Vista having problems -

- problems as in CS4 simply will NOT successfully merge files that CS3 has no problems with; even when using the 'manually align' tool copied over from CS3.

When done processing the images, CS4 either fails to save the resulting merged image, locks the app, or crashes the OS.

For this I paid $1000 !?!

Gene,
Strange: My PS CS4 runs better with the Vista theme on. Glad turning it off helped you though.

Dave,
Thanks for the uninstall info.

My CS3 reverted to some default settings, like the cropping mask set back to 75% and other indications that indeed, CS4 did appropriate certain CS3 settings, and set them to default.

Could it be that simple?

I took Matt's advice "Turning the theme in Vista from Windows Vista to Windows basic" and it helped a lot.

Thanks Matt

just reporting that UNinstalling the cs4 trial (near time out) went smoothly and cs3 seems to be functioning properly with no ill effects. that's a good thing.

> Turning the theme in Vista from Windows Vista to Windows basic completely wakes up CS4. Everything is fast.

Turning off 'bells and whistles' is always a good idea if you want a PC to perform to its full potential. FWIW I've got Vista 64 looking and behaving pretty well the same as XP. I even downloaded a pack of XP icons to replace the Vista ones. Vista performs VERY well (and very stable) once you get rid of the needless fluff.

Turning the theme in Vista from Windows Vista to Windows basic completely wakes up CS4. Everything is fast.

Liquify works well (fast as it should) even the whole CS4 lags! Try it!