LEONO  SUPPORT ALERT: Error "Licensing for this product has stopped working" when you launch Acrobat 9 or Adobe Creative Suite 4 products.

Nice one Adobe... This costs us one productive day again!

So wait a little when you update adobe CS4 automatically. It corrupts the whole install of CS4 ending up reinstalling or fixing things manually.  
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DIMBEKO  Too expensive, too unreliable... Is Adobe 'microsofting' again? First - kill competitors, than kill customers with ridiculous prices, buggish software and terrible support. I will spend my money somewhere else this time.  
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ANGINA MöRKEL  Hi exphotoshop

But they HAVE reorganized the old scrap lastly!!??

After nearly 20 years.

That should have been done many years ago, of course,

but now, after many updates (money, money, money ;-)

they finally did it.

So you don't have to wait for the integrated pizza-topping designer in Photoshop 14 ;-)

As always and in every version, the new Photoshop CS4 seems to be a hugh step forwards, although the redesign took them far to long, there are some usefull enhancements now.

So lets buy a new Mac for it as usual and let the Apple & Adobe twins get what they like most of you. They deserve it ;-)

Buy a new Mac for a new Adobe and a new Adobe for a new Mac (OS), the twins have tricked you this way for so long now, why should you stop it? ;-) Just take it sportly, ping-pong is a nice game.

As everybody knows, your work can't be done with 2 or 3 years old computers or apps, thats impossible, your work stinks then, no one will pay you anymore and consequently you will die of hunger and frustration. And that wouldn't be fine, but hey, gladly there are Adobe and Apple to save your life every day. ;-)

I think as long as people are willing to pay a lot of money for the minor enhancements, apps will never be "finished", 20 years old or not.

And actual America really needs your money, the american politicans have ordered their citizens to pay 700 billion dollars to a now bankrupt bank industrie that nearly ruined their whole country, the representatives want to assure this way that the vermins can continue with their benedictional business as usual. And both Adobe and Apple pay high taxes as everyone knows, so help please America and buy CS4 ;-)

Need more reasons to buy CS 4?

Just ask ;-)

And thanks for the Nikon Capture NX tip, I will have an eye on it.

Sorry for my bad english, I work in the bank business.  
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EXPHOTOSHOP  -

Alltogether now, a one-two-three-four:

money money money - for adobe

must be funny - in a dumbhead world

tralla la la lallala la...

Stop it Adobe, bugfix CS 2 and CS 3 first.

Many of your customers (customers = the people were your money comes from)

have paid a lot of money for working app-collections twice, for CS 2 and later CS 3,

both siutes are still very buggy, so bugfix them - ultimately - don't you feel any shame

for your buggy products, BigBoss of Adobe?

You've never tried to work with InDesign CS3 on a Mac with OS 10.5, right?

All your work with Bugrobat is done by your secretary, right?

And NO, I don't want to get new versions by filesharing, I pay for apps that I have in daily use, BUT fix the bugs, I've paid for a working CS 3 suite!

You have my money! You like it?

Well, then take out the bugs.

Think of: my money - your pocket, and consider the future of this relationship.

Got it?

My tip for Photoshoppers:

I suggest everyone who wants to do image-optimizing with effectively professionell tools, to take a deeper look into Nikon Capture NX2, - you get far better and really high professionell tools, far better results, far better organized workflows... FOR 200 DOLLARS.

In Nikon Capture NX2 there is not the endless series of opening and closing different dialog windows just for the one tasks of color editing, or editing cuves/ greybalance, all needed tools just open organized in one palette.

So you don't have to open one dialog, then close it to open the next, then, if needed, go back to the first dialog again, and so one. That is interface design of 1990. The Adobe style in 2008...

And now, that's how it looks like in Nikon Capture NX2:

all your tools are by the hand, not the antique style of functions scattered in "open & must be closed before continue" one-task-windows, no menues longer than the way from here to rome. ("Oh, look, how many single entries this menu has, this must be a very professionell app". - Well Adobe, then sell to the many stupid graphic designers, - to your convenience they never die off.)

In Nikon Capture NX2 at first try out the many possible ways for your color correction tasks, this app is full of professionell tools - and if you've ever used these tools, the former grandmaster Photoshop immediatly appears like Playmobil...

Nikon Capture NX2 looks ugly in its version 2.0, but use it for a few hours and you understand what I'm talking about here.

(Yes, you have to spent some hours, it is designed in a different way, not following adobes old logic that you know well after many years.)

My REVIEW is:

A suite of apps for thousands of dollars, with many many bugs that never get fixed by a irresponsible developer, can't get more than 2 stars!

I've tried out Photoshop CS 4 beta yesterday, nothing usefull in there for me, I think I will wait for the pizza-topping designer in CS 14.

Or better for an well thought out workflow-orientated interface redesign, as suggested here, in Photoshop version 25 maybe.

Meanwhile squeeze the last drop out of this 2D-image-editing app with costly but mostly useless updates, I don't care ...and don't pay anymore.

Continue to withhold the few improvements that are possible in an 2D Image app after nearly 20 years of generell deployment in that market, withhold to feed your update circle, - continue with minor improvements for always the next absolutely groundbreaking version - big marketing and big update prices, but I don't care anymore.

Best would be: you give Photoshop back to the Knoll brothers, they were ingenious, something you can't replace by a marketing-machine.

By the way, regarding the Photoshop CS 4 new features: have you heard about the brand-brand-brandnew app Bodypaint 3D somewhere? Yes? Well, then, - what about an MP3-Editor in Photoshop CS 14, worth maybe another 400 dollar upgrade?

Fix the bugs in CS 3 first, I will never buy CS 4 (as a payed bugfix for CS 3, or CS 5 later for CS 4 bugfixes, and so on) until Adobe fixes them.

And give Photoshop the long-needed interface UPDATE.

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WHITEROCK  Wow! Another annual tax. Just a mere $2600. (If you're not upgrading.) They never fixed the obvious bugs in CS2 but moved on to CS3. And now CS4. They don't give updates on CS2, so work around the bugs and save an enormous amount of money. They have an opinion of themselves even more inflated than the price.  
(Version 4)

PHOTEK  no 64bit version for Mac, but InDesign CS4 can back save to version 3....

I think I will be recommending to all the design studios I work with to hold on a year and a half for CS5. :)  
(Version 4)

LUNCHBOXXPIPER  Slow normally, but useful......lets just say I am glad the student price for me was 190$ not the normal price.  
(Version 2.0)

BOBSTER  I've heard quite a few nasty things about CS2 being bloatware, so I'm staying with CS until I see a reason to switch.  
(Version 2.0)

PETER IN JAPAN  I want to warn you about GoLive -- it is the most frustrating, least reliable, most crash-prone app I have used since switching to OS X. GoLive CS2 crashes regularly for me several times a day, and has even managed to crash WHILE SAVING A VERY IMPORTANT FILE, which wiped out an entire day's work for me, causing me to redo it all. Bottom line, Adobe does not deserve your money for this application, which they clearly dislike within the company (when you make a bug report, it's interesting to note that it's called GoLive, not Adobe GoLive). Sadly, the only thing to do is go to Dreamweaver...but that's not an option for me since its interface is not something I'm willing to use.

My distaste for Adobe is so great because of their crap with CS2 -- from the activation problems to not recognizing an upgrade of Photoshop (stand alone) when coming from the full suite set -- that I would willingly jump ship to just about any other product -- but opps! There are almost no other products anymore, since no company can stand against Photoshop, Illustrator, and so on (not even Macromedia). Bottom line, the actions of Adobe with CS2 (principally GoLive, since I rely on it so much) have robbed me of much of the joy that is my right as a Mac user.   
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ANONYMOUS  One point of criticism on "Bridge"... please bring back the "auto resolve" function to rename files when moving them around. I have so many images named 01.jpg for example, and having to rename every file before moving is tedious work, even using Batch Rename.  
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