[Macworld]

Post your comments for First Look: Photoshop CS6 Beta is dark, swift, and content aware here

[ozgq]

I think Photoshop is getting quite a bit wide in scope.

[jamesfritz]

If you are interested in learning more about the new features, you can watch Deke McClelland demo all of them for free at lynda.com (you don't need to be a member)
http://www.lynda.com...ew/97406-2.html

Personally, I love the fact that character and paragraph styles are finally in Photoshop. This will make designing the look of websites much easier!

[983]

No Lion Full Screen?
No Versions / Resume / Autosave ?

[mauimac]

I like what I see at first glance. There are some very significant and seemingly useful enhancements. I look forward to trying the Beta.

[jldinsdale]

983, on 21 March 2012 - 10:42 PM, said:

No Lion Full Screen?
No Versions / Resume / Autosave ?

Second paragraph:

"...The highest profile of these include Background Save and Auto Recovery..."

It might help to read the article before commenting on it.

[whitedog]

983, on 21 March 2012 - 10:42 PM, said:

No Lion Full Screen?
No Versions / Resume / Autosave ?

Did you read the article? Do you use Photoshop? In the second paragraph it mentions Background Save and Auto Recovery features, which are clearly more appropriate to Photoshop than the Versions, Resume and Autosave in OS X 10.7. Photoshop users are already accustomed to managing versions themselves and would be poorly served by an automated feature. And Photoshop has had a variety of full screen modes to choose from for years now, including Window>Tile, which is equivalent to OS X's full screen mode.

Indeed, I was concerned that Adobe might feel the need to implement Lion's Autosave and Versions features, which would be, in my opinion, entirely wrong for the complex save and versioning schemes in Photoshop. I'm glad to see they came up with their own mechanisms which suit their applications. Auto Recovery is long overdue and may be one of the best new features of the program as Photoshop still has a tendency to crash unexpectedly. By itself that may be worth the cost of the upgrade.

[spinoza2]

Before installing, you should be aware that this version of Photoshop takes a whopping 2.5GB of your hard drive, so SSD users should be sure they want to commit to this. For the life of me I don't know why a photo editing software needs two and a half gigs (when you consider that Pixelmator takes a fraction of this). I suspect that full CS6 will take some 10GB to install!

Also, as with other of their ''installs, Adobe bizarrely requires you to quit a shell root process, so you have to go into the Activity Monitor and force quit it.

[Jacques42]

"The dark, Aperture-like theme looks attractive, but as with all light type on a dark background, menu items can be difficult to read."

Um, this looks nothing like Aperture. It looks like Lightroom. The uniform darkness of it, without tonal differences to visually organize the workspace, along with the hard-to-read type, makes it confusing as hell. I've hated this new look since I first set eyes on Lightroom. By comparison, Aperture is a paragon of comprehensibility.

[KevinMiller]

983, on 21 March 2012 - 10:42 PM, said:

No Lion Full Screen?
No Versions / Resume / Autosave ?

It looks like they've made up their own autosave, continuing a long tradition of intruding into UI decisions that should be the job of the OS. Photoshop's had its own full-screen mode for awhile, and I'd be completely unsurprised (but still annoyed) if they kept it as-is rather than adopting Lion full-screen mode.

[rlkets130]

As someone who has been using the Rhino 5 mac beta, I can say that its probably a good thing they didnt use Versions and went with their own Autosave. It can be a hassle with these kind of documents.

[Inkling]

My image needs are modest. Photoshop CS3 does everything I need and then some. I'm far more interested in what InDesign CS6 is going to do. Digital publishing is where the major changes are taking place. I desperately need something that lets me format once and publish to paper, Kindles, Nooks and iPads with minimum tweaking. CS5.5 was a big step in the right direction, but far more needs to be done.

Ten cheers and a twenty-one gun salute to Adobe for NOT building Apple's horrid 'for-idiots-only' implementation of Versions, Resume and Autosave into Photoshop and hopefully the other apps in the CS6 suite. Those are features that need to be specifically designed for the workflow of a particular app--precisely what Adobe is doing. Apple's extraordinarily stupid scheme only makes sense for line-after-line computer programmers. For anyone else, it's clumsy, time-waisting, and worse than useless.

[MackyMoto]

Ugh! Another user interface change. :-( Photoshop has been around for 22 years and Adobe still hasn't figured out an optimum user interface? Why does Adobe feel it needs to move the UI closer to Lightroom, when the majority of users also use InDesign and Illustrator? Wouldn't it make sense to keep the UI of PS, ID, and IL similar? Adobe thought so years ago when they changed the UI of those three to be more similar.

These UI changes are tiresome and hurt productivity. What if ever few years you sat down in your car and found all the knobs, button, switches, and pedals had be moved around?

My experience with Adobe making UI changes is that it always occurs when they don't really have any major functional improvements to announce. And of course Adobe needs a reason for people to upgrade so they can continue to generate revenue.

[rubyTea]

spinoza2, on 22 March 2012 - 03:35 AM, said:

Before installing, you should be aware that this version of Photoshop takes a whopping 2.5GB of your hard drive, so SSD users should be sure they want to commit to this. For the life of me I don't know why a photo editing software needs two and a half gigs (when you consider that Pixelmator takes a fraction of this). I suspect that full CS6 will take some 10GB to install!

Also, as with other of their ''installs, Adobe bizarrely requires you to quit a shell root process, so you have to go into the Activity Monitor and force quit it.

Remember LivePicture ? System 8 - One did all the work on a proxy - every change became a layer and noted the changes on a flat file. When one finished, LivePicture would render the image (48 bit depth too) to any size needed. It had a history and took very little memory - always regretted that they didn't keep up with Photoshop...or why Photoshop didn't go that route. At that time most freezes were due to Photoshop's number 3ees complexity - I kinda like what I read above..

This post has been edited by rubyTea: 22 March 2012 - 08:00 AM