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Old favorites such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects are all part of the suite along with roughly a dozen other products. Native 64-bit support in the last three should make file processing significantly faster. New features in the flagship Photoshop include Truer Edge, which brings better edge detecting technology, and Content-Aware Fill, an impressive tool that lets you remove unwanted objects from pictures and generates remarkably accurate background fills -- you can see a video demo of the feature in action here.
Another new feature called Packager for iPhone would have allowed Flash developers to write programs in ActionSript 3 (the language behind Flash) and then cross-compile them into either a Flash app or a standalone iPhone app. Unfortunately for Adobe, Apple banned the use of such compilers in the latest iPhone OS 4.0 licensing agreement.
Detailed descriptions and information on the improvements to each component is available on Adobe's site. As usual, new versions of Adobe's products won't come in cheap. The full Master Collection will set you back as much as $2,599, while the Creative Suite 5 Production Premium kit will start at $1,699. There are also cheaper upgrade options, packages containing a different set of applications, and each app can be purchased standalone.
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Adobe products are overpriced and bloated.
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Ahh! Miss Macromedia. Tell me adobe, any reason why our apps are so fat?? Adobe Reader is +100MB while Foxit, same beautiful thing, only a few megs. Is the CS5 going to be a few gigs with 2 and 1/2 hours of installation per program? Please do us favour, slim yourself a little bit.
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That Content Aware video was absolutely Amazing. I can't help but think what images are going to be created by people when they get ahold of this software.
Not to mention i also think a high end computer would be needed for it, as watching the video im going to take a wild guess and say that the feature is probably going to be processor heavy.
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Armanian said:
That Content Aware video was absolutely Amazing. I can't help but think what images are going to be created by people when they get ahold of this software.
Not to mention i also think a high end computer would be needed for it, as watching the video im going to take a wild guess and say that the feature is probably going to be processor heavy.
I am sure it is very processor intensive, but looks ridiculously powerful. I have avoided purchasing photoshop as i can do almost everything i need in gimp. However if that tool works even half as well as advertised it has the potential to save me hundreds if not thousands of hours!!!
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Bummer that CS5 looks like it will have much better GPU acceleration support for Nvidia then for ATI
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Resynthesizer plugin for Gimp does Content Aware Fill for many years and come with customized options so you can control what it does in depth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2gonFtc1yc
Now you can avoid purchasing Photoshop once again =)
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