playing with the upgrade
Oct. 19th, 2008 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashCS4 tryout.
Illustrator:
Aggh, how do I get it out of this stupid Windowsy one giant grey window? I fucking hate when programs try to do that. I can multitask. And why does it want to put every goddamn new document in a tab? Tabs work in web browsers but they suck in other tools.
Why were all the sample files made with no color profiling? Way to set a good example, Adobe.
Also, this is running really slow on my machine.
New tools: Oh, joy, now we have Flash's shitty paintbrush to go with Flash's shitty eraser. Huzzah!
All the docs seem to be viewed with the web browser. Which is a definite improvement from the horrible 'help viewer' apps Adobe kept trying to write. But on the other hand half of it lives out on the web which is going to be reeeeeally helpful when you've got the net turned off to eliminate distractions, or when it's down!
What the fuck is going on with resizing document windows? It seems to do it entirely itself instead of using a normal system window - which then results in it drawing the window widgets off the bottom of my screen when I let go, because I'm just getting a preview rectangle of the document area instead of the whole window. GOOD JOB GUYS, IT'S ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA TO ROLL YOUR OWN FUNCTIONALITY FOR CORE OS-PROVIDED FEATURES.
Also, still slow. I'm getting shitty, shitty response just scrawling with the pencil tool with music playing in the background.
Going down the new/improved features... Okay, having the transform handles based on a clipping mask rather than all the paths in it is nice. These little 'hyperlinks' in the appearance palette, however, are weird. Yay, now we have to maintain TWO copies of every control. I don't see this presenting any problems for the future, not at all.
Transparency in gradients, finally. The new control is really badly laid out in the gradient panel. I'm not sure about the new gradient handle tool; I can see it being useful but I also feel like it's In The Way when trying to edit one. The apple key seems to hide it but...
I'm still getting crappy response on the pencil tool. All jiggly and badly-smoothed. Ultimately this is going to be unusable no matter what; performance on my G4 is crap.
When I do have to switch to CS4 due to hardware upgrade, I'm going to reeeally detest the way the Pathfinder palette has swapped the meaning of holding 'alt' when pressing a button. I like it when the paths I'm doing boolean ops to remain editable, but I guess everyone else wants to bake it permanently by default. Feh. I can't find a prefs switch for this, either.
Aha, but there is an 'open documents in tabs' box to uncheck. Yay.
Okay, yeah, I'm sticking with AICS2. Yes, 2. G4 performance has just been abysmal ever since the version with a 'Doesn't Crash On Intel Machines!' bullet point on the box. There's no "must have" features here and a bunch of little curses for me. And drawing response as erratically ugly as Flash.
Other CS4 apps? Whatever. I don't really use Photoshop for more than a scanner driver anyway. It still insists on installing Bridge along with the suite, which I've never had a desire for - does anyone actually use that?
*uninstall all*
Illustrator:
Aggh, how do I get it out of this stupid Windowsy one giant grey window? I fucking hate when programs try to do that. I can multitask. And why does it want to put every goddamn new document in a tab? Tabs work in web browsers but they suck in other tools.
Why were all the sample files made with no color profiling? Way to set a good example, Adobe.
Also, this is running really slow on my machine.
New tools: Oh, joy, now we have Flash's shitty paintbrush to go with Flash's shitty eraser. Huzzah!
All the docs seem to be viewed with the web browser. Which is a definite improvement from the horrible 'help viewer' apps Adobe kept trying to write. But on the other hand half of it lives out on the web which is going to be reeeeeally helpful when you've got the net turned off to eliminate distractions, or when it's down!
What the fuck is going on with resizing document windows? It seems to do it entirely itself instead of using a normal system window - which then results in it drawing the window widgets off the bottom of my screen when I let go, because I'm just getting a preview rectangle of the document area instead of the whole window. GOOD JOB GUYS, IT'S ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA TO ROLL YOUR OWN FUNCTIONALITY FOR CORE OS-PROVIDED FEATURES.
Also, still slow. I'm getting shitty, shitty response just scrawling with the pencil tool with music playing in the background.
Going down the new/improved features... Okay, having the transform handles based on a clipping mask rather than all the paths in it is nice. These little 'hyperlinks' in the appearance palette, however, are weird. Yay, now we have to maintain TWO copies of every control. I don't see this presenting any problems for the future, not at all.
Transparency in gradients, finally. The new control is really badly laid out in the gradient panel. I'm not sure about the new gradient handle tool; I can see it being useful but I also feel like it's In The Way when trying to edit one. The apple key seems to hide it but...
I'm still getting crappy response on the pencil tool. All jiggly and badly-smoothed. Ultimately this is going to be unusable no matter what; performance on my G4 is crap.
When I do have to switch to CS4 due to hardware upgrade, I'm going to reeeally detest the way the Pathfinder palette has swapped the meaning of holding 'alt' when pressing a button. I like it when the paths I'm doing boolean ops to remain editable, but I guess everyone else wants to bake it permanently by default. Feh. I can't find a prefs switch for this, either.
Aha, but there is an 'open documents in tabs' box to uncheck. Yay.
Okay, yeah, I'm sticking with AICS2. Yes, 2. G4 performance has just been abysmal ever since the version with a 'Doesn't Crash On Intel Machines!' bullet point on the box. There's no "must have" features here and a bunch of little curses for me. And drawing response as erratically ugly as Flash.
Other CS4 apps? Whatever. I don't really use Photoshop for more than a scanner driver anyway. It still insists on installing Bridge along with the suite, which I've never had a desire for - does anyone actually use that?
*uninstall all*
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Date: 2008-10-20 01:31 pm (UTC)'Lots of files' for me is the 80 or so AI files I generated over the course of a year's work on the Tarot deck.
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Date: 2008-10-20 03:27 pm (UTC)A typical 1-hour shoot for us generates 2-300 shots, a wedding can be up to 3000. So, yes, Bridge becomes essential. :(
CS4 has some great features -- but not enough to make it worth the price.