Just did this last week. Yes new stuff and many of the tools familiar to CS3 are moved as they encourage new techniques. I have spend hours on Lynda.com learning. You will also have to update your font manager as well but that is required if you go to SL.
Photoshop is very slick but some of the keyboard commands are remapped so unlearn then relearn. Overall so far it is working nice. I loaded it on the same machine as CS3 and so far they both coexist nicely, if needed to use CS3 to get something to work. I have not (knock on wood).
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Yes you need to save down - not sure if CS4 is needed. I have read you need CS4 as well to be able to again save down to get a CS3 file. PM me an I will send you a file to try.
I have found it to be slower but I am still at 10.5.8 and only 3GB on iMac. Yesterday I installed a scratch drive and plan to get to 4GB (max). I have a Aluminum iMac.
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I find CS5 to run a lot quicker then CS4, its been a while since I used CS3 so cant compare. Generally pleased with the update, I like the content aware in Photoshop, its good for certain things, but obviously not a magical cure to get rid of anything and everything, that takes some skill still.
I find it all loads faster, and just runs very well. I am running in 10.6.4.
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I find CS5 to run a lot quicker then CS4, its been a while since I used CS3 so cant compare. Generally pleased with the update, I like the content aware in Photoshop, its good for certain things, but obviously not a magical cure to get rid of anything and everything, that takes some skill still.
I find it all loads faster, and just runs very well. I am running in 10.6.4.
Great thanks. I know what you mean, I was so excited to use the healing brush when it came out but ended going back to the clone tool as it achieved better results.
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I upgraded to CS5 and love the several new features in InDesign. And last night, I used content aware scale to convert a horizontal photo into a vertical photo for a client and it took me about 3 mins to do it! Saved me over an hour in retouching and cloning.
Worth the upgrade from CS3.
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Thanks, I think the InDesign upgrades look most interesting of all, creating presentations and exporting to swf, brilliant. No more PowerPoint, but will swf run on an iPad yet???
Perspective in Illustrator looks useful too, especially being in packaging design.
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Generally clients have not complained at all.....to get full advantage tho Snow Leopard and more ram help as it's finally getting optimized to take advantage. Like Adobe is quick of the mark eh.
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I've noticed an issue with Photoshop CS5 grinding to halt or crashing when I'm working vigorously with the brush tool, such as painting with various opacity settings or sketching. Might just be my install however.
The pupet warp and content aware features are nice, and Photoshop CS5 also gives more pressure sensitivity options such as controlling brush size and brush opacity with pen pressure. (not sure if CS4 had these options buried somewhere, but in CS5 two toggles have been added to the tool bar)
Compression issues with Premier CS4 seem to have been fixed with CS5 as well.
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