Posted by Paul DeCesare on April 20, 2012 at 6:32 PM
And sooner than we thought! It's set for this coming Monday, April 23rd. For those of you who, like me, are obsessed with being an early adopter, you can watch the launch via webinar through this link.
It was interesting for ASdobe to release a beta version of Photoshop CS6, something they hadn't done with PS in about 7 years, and it really did get the buzz going. Over 500,000 people downloaded it, which is more than I would have guessed!
Anyway, the offer is still going for CS3 & CS4 owners: if you buy CS5 now at the Adobe Store, you get CS6 for free. Essentially they ARE giving the three-version upgrade one last time but that time is limited, I think the offer ends May 7th.
Available as a preorder, Shipped/downloaded available around May 7. Upgrade from CS3, CS4 good through Dec 2012.
Posted by Paul DeCesare on April 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Awesome. The demo I'm watching in this launch webinar is pretty amzing, the Mercury Playback Engine that has been part of Premiere for the last three years has now been incorporsted in all the digital imaging apps. Paul Trani took a 300mb image in Photoshop CS6 and used a huge brush and smudged and swirled large parts of the image which would normally take several seconds to process before the effect actually stuck, and it was doing it in real time. Editing time should severely cut down with performance like that.
There's a nice review of CS6 at pcmag.com that also has screen shots. This new version looks very nice, indeed; especially from a performance standpoint. I would imagine that this new version on a 64 bit box with an SSD would really cook!
I'll probably wait for a while before I upgrade from CS5. I like to wait for bugs to get ironed out before I upgrade.
--P
Posted by David Bostedo on April 23, 2012 at 2:36 PM
Editing time should severely cut down with performance like that.
Of course, the question remains open as to how much of that is CS6, and how much of it is the machine he was running on and the particular way it was tuned. I've dealt with lots of vendors and lots of software demos, and in general I never trust the speed or smoothness of the demo, and instead focus on capability.
Posted by Paul DeCesare on April 23, 2012 at 6:33 PM
You're absolutely right. They probably had a Cray XK6 under the floor, running his instance of Photoshop, lol!
I admit, I have a pretty decent desktop rig at home, so if I jump for joy about CS6 performance, that may not be a fair assessment. I'll try it on the PC I built for myself here at my job (couldn't use their cheesy corporate Dells any longer, drove me batty), and see how it fares. I do use my second PS install here being I sold my laptop for an iSomething. Work PC is pretty standard, at least, the lowest I would go for any system in 2012: i5 CPU, 16GB ram, WD Black drive, GTX 460, running Win7 64 bit (obviously with that amount of ram). If CS6 all runs smoothly on that rig which you can build for under $800, then Adobe did get it right. It's not going to run well on some HP thing with a Pentium 4 purchased at Costco in 2004, lol!
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5 repliesIt was interesting for ASdobe to release a beta version of Photoshop CS6, something they hadn't done with PS in about 7 years, and it really did get the buzz going. Over 500,000 people downloaded it, which is more than I would have guessed!
Anyway, the offer is still going for CS3 & CS4 owners: if you buy CS5 now at the Adobe Store, you get CS6 for free. Essentially they ARE giving the three-version upgrade one last time but that time is limited, I think the offer ends May 7th.
I'll probably wait for a while before I upgrade from CS5. I like to wait for bugs to get ironed out before I upgrade.
--P
Of course, the question remains open as to how much of that is CS6, and how much of it is the machine he was running on and the particular way it was tuned. I've dealt with lots of vendors and lots of software demos, and in general I never trust the speed or smoothness of the demo, and instead focus on capability.
I admit, I have a pretty decent desktop rig at home, so if I jump for joy about CS6 performance, that may not be a fair assessment. I'll try it on the PC I built for myself here at my job (couldn't use their cheesy corporate Dells any longer, drove me batty), and see how it fares. I do use my second PS install here being I sold my laptop for an iSomething. Work PC is pretty standard, at least, the lowest I would go for any system in 2012: i5 CPU, 16GB ram, WD Black drive, GTX 460, running Win7 64 bit (obviously with that amount of ram). If CS6 all runs smoothly on that rig which you can build for under $800, then Adobe did get it right. It's not going to run well on some HP thing with a Pentium 4 purchased at Costco in 2004, lol!