Adobe Photoshop CS4 Expert Reviews

The highly versatile photo-editing workhorse for pros gets a workflow overhaul.

Streamlined interface for smoother workflow, New Adjustments and Masking panels work intuitively with Layers panel, A handful of incremental advances with drawing, zooming, and display

Resource hog, Complex online help site, 64-bit Windows not fully implemented (due to third-party lag) and no 64-bit Mac version

Altering your view while you work is smoother thanks to CS4's support of OpenGL. Zooming is continuous, simply by clicking and holding the zoom tool over your picture. Moving about the image, at even highly magnified levels, involves a single ...

All of the changes in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Extended CS4 add up to a friendlier, more accessible interface. The changes may take some getting used to, but in the end, you'll come to appreciate the more streamlined and uncluttered experience.

Streamlined, less-cluttered interface ; Masks and Adjustments panels make the tools easy to find ; Kuler integration helps you choose color schemes ; OpenGL enabled features improve user experience ; selective editing in Camera Raw

Missing Extract Filter, Contact Sheets, Picture Package, and PDF Presentations

There's no shortage of new features either. Photoshop CS4 takes advantage of OpenGL—a hardware and software engine for drawing graphics faster and more efficiently—to render some very slick and useful screen effects like Rotate View, pixel tossing ...

Some improvements and additions will make you smile; others will make your jaw drop in awe.

Note that Extract, Picture Package etc plugins are available on the Content CD included with the CS4 installation under Goodies..

Photoshop CS4 is the 11th version of Adobe's venerable and industry-standard imaging application. It's hard to imagine that Adobe can continue to make large changes to Photoshop. It seems that just about everything but the kitchen sink is already in ...

The tent pole of Adobe's massive Creative Suite 4 is Photoshop, the legendary image-editing application known for its power and scope. Adobe could probably get away with resting on the heaps of laurels the app has earned over the years, but as ...

Image navigation has new modern feel. 64-bit support on Vista. Strong interface improvements. Amazing content-aware scaling, depth-of-focus tools. Many other enhancements.

No 64-bit Mac version.

Photoshop CS4 is the best version yet of Adobe's venerated image editor. OpenGL support gives the program a new, modern feel that's long overdue. In addition to an excellent mix of interface enhancements and innovative improvements, you'll find one or ...

Adobe's Photoshop is the market-leading professional-level image editor for the Macintosh and Windows. The original Mac versions were the first to bring affordable image editing down to the personal computer level in the late 1980s. Since then, ...

The eleventh versions of the program, Photoshop CS4 (Best Current Price: £424) and Photoshop CS4 Extended (Best Current Price: £724), provide a more fluid user experience, better creative control and higher efficiency. Photoshop CS4 also leverages the ...

Photoshop users may take a while to move to the new 64-bit version of Photoshop CS4, but it's an important development; meanwhile, CS4 offers plenty of other significant upgrades to keep 32-bit users happy

I tested both the 32- and 64-bit versions of Photoshop CS4 by installing them on a workstation with dual Intel Xeon CPUs, running Windows Vista 64-bit and 8GB of RAM. Photoshop requires that you manually allocate a specific amount of RAM to it, rather ...

Adobe Photoshop is the professional's choice in image editing software, and the latest version has some great new features.

While Photoshop CS3 may not have been ideally suited to the photographer, CS4 sees a change in emphasis for Adobe

Tabbed interface, Content-aware scaling, Camera Raw enhancements, Adjustments Panel

Still very expensive, OpenGL

It must be said that some of the changes are arguably more suited to the beginner or relative newcomer to image editing, rather than the more advanced user who would no doubt have their own workflow sorted in such a way that, for example, the need for ...