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Sneak Peek: Upcoming Photoshop performance gains (with video)

Monday, February 6, 2012 · 11:32 am · 19 Comments

Terry White’s Tech Blog covers the technology, gadgets, events and cool toys that have affected him.

White also gives recommendations on the products that he’s actually used.

Today, White posted a video that offers a sneak peek of the next version of Photoshop’s performance gains.

Here it is, along with an earlier sneak peek, focusing on Camera Raw processing:

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]

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19 Comments

progressiveagentprovocateur

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 11:40 am · Reply

Terry White is also a PAID Adobe Evangelist. Seems a nice enough guy, but he is far from impartial.

This is Adobe we are talking about that charges Mac users $400 for the privilege of creating PDFs via their product, despite PDF being built into Mac OS X.
Ballmer's left nut

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 11:50 am · Reply

More crap from the bloat farm.
- Chas
  
  Monday, February 6, 2012 - 12:00 pm · Reply
  
  Shouldn’t that be, more bloat from the crap farm?
  
  =:~)
  - N8nNC
    
    Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 1:28 am · Reply
    
    More same from the same farm.
Jo

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 11:53 am · Reply

Isn’t it too late?
See Us Sicks

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 11:59 am · Reply

Adobe is offloading processing from the CPU to the GPU on the graphics card. ISTR Steve Jobs talking about this approach a couple years ago – he was talking about using the GPU to extend Moore’s law, which reaching the end of it’s applicability.
Tflint

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 12:50 pm · Reply

Is this the version you have to rent for $50 a month?
MEES

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 1:38 pm · Reply

Yep, this is the Adobe that now wants you to subscribe for their services instead of buying them.

Same Adobe that charges you a lot of money for these small, incremental changes to their software.

I’m still hoping that other editing programs grow up and take on Adobe. Adobe so called hard work seems to be going into making life difficult for us and making more money for them.
omalansky

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 1:59 pm · Reply

The problem is that, no matter how much their customers complain, Adobe can get away with robbing them blind because Photoshop is still the only real game in town for working professionals. If Apple alienates FCP pros, they can switch to Avid, but serious Photoshop users have nowhere else to go. It’s really curious that no one has ever come up with a worthy contender for the title “Photoshop killer”. And please don’t say “Pixelmator”.
- Jay
  
  Monday, February 6, 2012 - 2:53 pm · Reply
  
  Take a look at Pixelmator. It is pretty damn good. http://www.pixelmator.com/
  - Simon
    
    Monday, February 6, 2012 - 3:25 pm · Reply
    
    Pixelmator is fine but it’s an insult to the inner workings of PS CS5.
Jay

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 2:51 pm · Reply

We have to see on CS 6 on performance because currently it BLOWS donkey when you are working with large files. It gets worse when you are working on a network fast RAID system where others need to share these files or projects. Adobe has this LAME ASS saving procedure. If saving, it will FIRST delete the file and then save another copy. WTF??? The file sever doesn’t get it because that isn’t how you save FILES. The file server looks at this and says wait a second you are deleting the file you are trying to save. Server boots it off. File GONE!!! Adobe not only deleted the original FILE, but the save got booted. That is CRAP development. Oh another thing, CS 5.5 can only handle up to 6 CORES, NOT 8, and most definitely not 12. If you have more than 6 CORES, performance goes down further.

Also Adobe doesn’t target the OS it sells too. It commoditizes the development to fit both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. So it doesn’t take advantage of the true underpinnings of OS X or even Windows for that matter. They charge a high premium for their stuff but sell you garage.

Pixelmator can basically do everything Photoshop can do. It is more direct and there isn’t other options to do the same thing, but it does do them. iDraw is a good illustrator replacement, and iStudio good enough replacement for InDesign. PDFPen Pro replaces Acrobat Pro.

There are alternatives. You can spend under $200 and get the great alternatives and that actually run better or you can stick with the old outdated, expensive brand name that doesn’t work as well.
- Derek Currie
  
  Monday, February 6, 2012 - 10:50 pm · Reply
  
  Lazy Lazy Lazy!
  Adobe continues in self-destruct mode.
PR

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 3:33 pm · Reply

@omalansky…that’s true…it’s the only tool that functions the way it does at a professional level. BUT…others are gaining on it rather rapidly and growing market share.

The real rub will come when they choose to stop supporting older versions. By then Apple, or another vendor will have expanded Aperture or another tool to handle most if not all of what Adobe wants you to pay for in perpetuity.
- omalansky
  
  Monday, February 6, 2012 - 4:15 pm · Reply
  
  Aperture is a very nice program, but it will never be a replacement for Photoshop, which can do much, much more than photo processing. If anyone could come up with a bonafide Photoshop killer, it would be Apple, but I doubt that they have any serious interest in going down this road.
Ricky

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 4:10 pm · Reply

Is it coincidence or by design that the back ground saving was only happening during the PS 5 demo and had finished when PS 6 was being demoed. Seems to me like a bit of misdirection.
Harry

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 7:01 pm · Reply

Those who dis Photoshop are most likely those who do not use it. PS is essential, and possibly the best app ever written.
- Derek Currie
  
  Monday, February 6, 2012 - 11:00 pm · Reply
  
  PS is essential
  
  … Which explains why Adobe act like lazy monopolists regarding the program. Adobe’s public whining about having to switch to Cocoa development last year, 10 years after Jobs told them to get with it, was deafening. That’s not the Adobe spirit I once knew. Where are you John Knoll?
  
  …and possibly the best app ever written.
  
  Photoshop certainly USED TO BE! But Adobe has fallen into the pit of Marketing-As-Management whereby coding innovation is punished as ‘unnecessary change’, a brilliant way to ruin your company and stagnate your products. This again happens to be characteristic of a monopolist’s bad attitude.
  
  Adobe: A big PITA of the computer community.
omalansky

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 8:38 pm · Reply

I’ve been using Photoshop since version 1. I wouldn’t call it the best app ever written (for one thing, the user interface is terrible), but I certainly agree that it is essential and (for now, at least) irreplaceable. Those who advocate replacing Photoshop with Pixelmator have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.