Woo woo, Photoshop CS4 is now available for anyone that pre-ordered the download Swweeeeet!!


***EDIT*** I'll be sure to post a review of photoshop and bridge tomorrow after giving it a good work out

Off to download now - I just woke up to the download in my box. So glad I ordered via pre-order.

I didn't do the pre-order and still got to order. (which I am so glad because I totally ment to pre-order). The bad thing is though that I used up my bandwith so I can't finish downloading it until 2am. And you better believe I will set the alarm clock and be up to click the resume download button.

I just hope I am not disappointed, from watching the videos and the talk about this I am gonna love it. Fingers crossed that I don't post tomorrow how slow and sucky it is on my machine.

Ok just on initial impression, Bridge CS4 kicks ass!!!

More details!!

Ok my mini review on Bridge, I'm going to also post a full review on our blog hopefully later today, but most likely tomorrow.

So this is the new bridge interface


It has much more of a lightroom feel, but still functions like bridge, for us that like bridge more then lightroom thats a great thing. Building previews is INCREDIBLY fast. You can also scroll around images while the computer is building previews, unlike CS3 it doesn't hang the preview building, which is very much a great thing. Launching the application is also much much faster. There is actually an option now to have bridge launch in the back ground when you login, that way when you do open bridge its instant on. Even with this option turned off bridge launches in literally less then two seconds.

RAW editing - Now here is where the awesome stuff is. You can actually dodge and burn right in the RAW dialog as well as other effects without even touching photoshop. This is HUGE for RAW processing, being able to actually do all of that while color adjusting, saves a pile of time. I've also found that the RAW processing is much nicer then it was in CS3 when it comes to white balance, and adjustments. Another cool add-on is sorting options. If you're like me occasionally you rip through all the images from your wedding and quickly edit a couple for a blog post, and you forget to star those images making it very hard to find them later, now you can sort by "custom settings" or files you have modified, this I like

More on Photoshop in a bit

+1111
soooo tempted to get it NOW!

I reverted from CS3 back to CS2 because of the dreaded color shift on Canon RAW images on my 5D. The Bridge plugin for CS3 did a worse color shift than CS2, rendering the colors from my 5D RAW images all wonky. It was driving me bonkers. CS2 was better, so I reverted back to CS2.
I'm thinking maybe I can shoot JPG and use bridge in CS4 to work on WB and exposure with the jpg colors that CANON puts out, instead of relying on Adobe to read/render Canon's RAW images with their "best guess" Sofaboy told me that Adobe released an upgrade that improved the color issues, but maybe that was just for LR, I can't remember.

Waiting for preview building is also somewhat annoying.

Anyway, the "content aware scaling/resizing" looked REALLY cool!!!!
worth the $$?????

Looks good! I definitely have found myself culling my images after a big shoot using Bridge first, as everything loads faster and I don't have to "import" like in Lightroom... Once I've gotten rid of all the bad shots, then I import the rest into Lightroom to edit.

Totally!!!

The scaling is pretty darn cool. Here is a quick example (please note I've done no processing on these photos)

Non Scaled - Resized to 600px wide



Scaled down about 25% - Resized to 600px wide

that's pretty neato!!!

Wow, that scaling is awesome! Thanks for taking the time to post it for us!