Diving Into the new Photoshop CS4
Monday, December 29th, 2008 running time 24:32
Principal Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop John Nack visits the show in a first of a 3 part special introducing Photoshop CS4 (aka Creative Suite 4).
In this episode we cover:
- A cleanup of the bridge interface
- Performance feature updates (what makes it run faster and feel better) - taking advantage of the GPU (graphics processor). John demonstrates a few things with a 442 megapixel image.
- Spring loaded keys
- Canvas rotation
- Tabs in the Photoshop interface
- Application frame that helps isolate your creative space
- The adjustments panel to take the best practices and bring them front and center
- and more...
Oh, and now that you've seen part 1, watch part 2 of our sneak peek at Adobe's upcoming Creative Suite 4!
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Product Manager, John Nack's Blog
Bert's latest book: Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy: Digital Painting
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" This episode a pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Hello and welcome back to the pixel per it would be -- on right. It's been a few weeks and we're glad to finally be back. We've got a whole new episodes of pixel perfect. I want to thank all of you out there for the messages of support clamoring to bring the show back beat up pounds of emails including your backgrounds. I -- when we got right here this caused by. Christopher about what and a night shows this one for today why because I love the guys you guys know that and that Leon back there is beautiful. And a -- pixel perfect we're back. -- before we start you know we gotta do right we -- thank our sponsors. And I responses this time -- Nvidia. And GoDaddy. Who have helped does ensure that we can continue to bring you new episodes of pixel perfect for sometime to come. Now you might think Nvidia is just for gaming. But with a graphics processor from Nvidia in your computer you can NASA speak the one language that never needs translation. Speak visual. Nvidia has put together a website -- speak visual back com where you can learn about Nvidia. The creative work that the Nvidia enables such as digital art photography. Movies 3-D modeling and how you can speak visual with -- Nvidia. Upload your artwork to the online gallery for the opportunity to have your work projected larger than life on huge buildings across the world. And broadcast online. This is your chance to show the world. What you have to say Nvidia is extending an open invitation to all digital artists photographers filmmakers and -- my hours. Visit speak visual dot com and upload your work to be online gallery why do it. Well in 2009 and video host to speak visual show featuring the most innovative art from back gallery. -- massive projections on building sides across the globe and broadcast online. And he'll work digital art photography movies three modeling to the gallery and you will be eligible to be selected. Adobe CS four is now Nvidia CPU. Accelerated. From which images and print video and film to dynamic digital content from a variety of media and video GPU. Accelerated Adobe solutions can be enjoyed by anyone who creates and interacts with the visual information. Now I have in my personal machine I have three Nvidia cards if you remember the tore my studio I have. Three monitors -- having an Nvidia card devoted to each one. And of course you want to thank godaddy.com. You want to make an impact on line godaddy.com. Has what you need. Cut back comments for as low the dollar 99 and could cope pixel wanted to -- and are doing a screen. And when you check out you'll save an additional 10% off the entire quarter. So now. Here we are back to pixel perfect which is why you come here is that."
" Here all that stuff you want it to learn things now while I was away. He noted the program changed. CS war became the U program out there -- And of course are dying to see what's new and well I'm gonna show you all kinds of stuff but you know it's not just me but I figured I want to get to the man. The one who knows it all to come in here with me to talk about it. Until about John Mac he is the product manager of of Photoshop and Adobe he also has what most popular blogs out there so -- introduce either."
" John Mac. Expert thanks for had -- I'm glad to have you here for you totally oversold and yeah value on the spot you gotta really shouldn't be seriously. Rebecca mantra -- not let it out but. But yeah I'm I'm really happy to be here and I wanna taking a quick tour of what's new in Photoshop 2000 and a lot of things that and he -- out you know its job. Start off. What do you stay organized is with the bridge. Or bridge the -- I had to stay Woodbridge and that's what I mean look at all my images you this. For so many different things it step by looking at."
" Create what's new and great. Our goal with bridge in CS four is really take what we had not you know completely around change what we have we don't want you have to go -- and we learned stuff. We just want to take what's there and unlock the power. So. This a folder of assets have never seen before I just copied into your machine so you we've got a bunch of raw files. Obviously tons of people are -- wrong with their cameras and the need to better way to go through an organized so really just cleaned up the bridge interface we've made it. Hopefully easier to find things you -- we've got a workspace switcher up tonton and so on a lot of power we found. Has been infringed or maybe a couple reds even if people are finding it through really wanted to change that. Make it much easier to go in and say hey want to edit the metadata. Congress we have added new things like a list view -- the one of the popular quest for a long time. A we've now had an output module. So if you want to make contact sheet to make web gallery splash galleries you can get them all without leaving bridge you dislike the SS you want to take a bunch of pinging sponsored in design spreads. Anything just choose the output module and you'll be able to quickly make an interactive web gallery. So. Don't really taken a bridge to we've got and go to streaming content much simpler. That was faster. And so. I will I'll get to some camera and some interesting features in there. As time permits I know. Photoshop tends to be the main attraction so -- Will be at that point in time but just in brief I know we floated the output module I can make a PDF despite hitting preview. I can do the same with my gallery I issues I'm no let's go ahead and she's not a flash gallery. I -- refresh preview and bridges actually can take all these raw files it's going to convert them to JPEG's on the fly. And it's and it'll load up. DF flash viewer right here inside a bridge. And the other neat thing is when I'm done with this. Again I don't have to leave bridge I can just say the sound like even FTP it to my website. Breaking the same interface so it's really supposed to one stop shopping -- web designer for him to Adobe. And we really want in this kind of just. You know let me grab everything and put it -- needs to go and get -- before the -- constitution. So. Really now bridge kind of it like this in a big basket ties them together. And -- so. So once upon a time to time on it but just know that that time because really need you capabilities there. And I'd give that a second hand down to will be there. Also just a few things to put up up top we've got this little we'll call trail of bread crumbs -- At one of the bits of feedback we got -- people still like to preview things but I don't necessarily want to preview. Every folder on the way from a to B to CD so I can just jump from one to another very quickly. We've got collections so that you can. Makes sort of a -- list -- virtual folder. A lot of they just little little core nips and tucks. As a national got a blogs -- just Google John Mac. We've got up a whole thirty minute demo just a bridge from drew and costs so really showing off all the new stuff in there. And so. While that's -- That are stereo nine concede -- files converted. -- into an interactive platform. And legacy when I'm -- I can either save these -- my hard drive or can even I shoot them up to the my web server -- from within bridge. All right so. But we jump to solution there it is okay -- this war. So. You know keep it's interest they were just talking about graphics processors and Nvidia and you know I always say the one that the single best feature we could ever do in Photoshop this performance so one thing that you never have to learn there's -- keyboard shortcuts -- nothing. It just runs faster and it feels better and so we've really. Worked on a lot of this release and one of the ways of doing that is taking advantage of the graphics processor. So a lot of folks you know out there are used to talking about CPU but now we talk about GPU's so it's the graphics processor unit. And so were running this on converts laptop. So it's by no means you know most muscle bound machine out there. But I want to -- take a really enormous files to show what you can now do come in part thanks to the GPU. -- it got her 29000 my 14000. -- pixel image so it's about 442 meg pixels but fifty times the size of what would come off an eight megapixel camera. And I did this deliberately to share that. We're not just accelerating sort of screen resolution stuff. Really taking anything you can throw a Photoshop and making it better by virtue Arafat tapping into your graphics card. So let me from the start demonstrating that so I take my as a tool that was gonna hold down and I'm. Start zooming on this image."
" And it's a little bits. Chunk you're just because we're also recording this on the screen. But the better the card you've got the faster that's going to be. Com you can also. Take this large image and actually now toss it around and you can see we've got some physics built in there. So of course you know the iPhone came out last summer and our engineers have been butchered -- geeks like us. I couldn't resist a trying to do some similar things but we did it not just because it's a neat thing to do that because it can actually help you navigate. When -- pirated files and I know when your work yeah you know its its all about sweating the details and really getting in there. One other thing you might appreciate is we've made it possible to kind of get the navigator panel out of the way -- by the way. Now we've renamed -- panels and I was go back and forth but. In case you wonder. Means the same thing why do we do we're trying to be consistent with with the other products but anyway. What we saw as you know when you're working on these these enormous paintings are a big panorama us. You want to be it would jump out and orient yourself and space and then cruise into another area. -- you know scroll all the way over so one of the really subtle things we have is so we called bird's eye view. So if you hold down the letter H on your keyboard. And then you click and hold on your mouse. Photoshop will temporarily zoom you out to fit the image on screen. And you'll see under my hand I've got this little rectangle -- want to go over and check what time is on the clock I'm still holding H electoral amounts. And I just that -- and there. If -- go read -- distanced -- street signs can do that want to check out the license plates on these cars that can do that. -- even with this enormous image. Because what's happening into the GPU and reason open GL. -- really get this very fast slick smooth experience. In another feature that we've heard painters request for many many years is ability to rotate the canvas so even if you're lucky enough to have a really nice -- display like us. It's still a you know big physical thing it's a lot harder to navigate. A rotation thing than just a piece of paper. And of course mechanically human arm. Lets you draw certain are truly comfortably -- can't just like. You know take your arm off and and do different -- sort come up with his canvas rotation. -- Cannot -- the I can't rotate tool and even with this whopper of an image -- should be about two gigs as a flash tips on disk. Because -- navigate just as quickly as I want affect the F hypnotize the audience feature can go up just stuff. You know really just is this is quickly as I can drag can navigate. The idea here is he can just very very easily rotate. And get to and angle that's comfortable for you to draw and paint. And then I keep just changing irritation."
" I gotta tell you know the decency does rotate them so I thought that's cute who did something. But I have actually gotten really used to that I don't rotated via the and take anymore and I've been doing that and I find it very useful because as the audience knows. I do a lot of -- torn so it is important to be here with just turned days I get that nice move. Movement and that features is really -- I am going to be cool it's turned out to be my favorite good and I'm glad to hear it."
" You know and in fact -- put on a couple other -- related things so. Let's blisters and actually Friday that Williams put on another very subtle feature. That you know you've you've probably you just read it how often features in front of shipping I can see these things. But it's one of those little tweaks. We wanted to make so. You know he can jump from any tool to any other excuse me for many tools to let's say the hand tool -- the space -- right any can jump to the move tool by holding our commander of the actual you know windows. But there's only so many of the special piece -- couldn't jump from life. You know that the marquee tool to the last -- that. We wanted to make it possible jump from anything to anything else so specifically when you're painting. We wanted to enable. Very easy navigation so let's have a hit the F coming brush tool and I could hit our go to rotate and I can be you can go to brush. But we thought to be simpler if you just hold down car. Click and drag to rotate and -- go in your back to eruption so called this spring loaded keys so there's no difference if you just clicking. -- press like the key features works like it always hands but if you press and hold it'll switch temporarily. When you like skeletal switch back. So you could be you know painting you know hit hard to rotate your back to your -- don't have to keep hitting BR BR BR. So it's literally one keystroke could -- you but. You know and and you might be -- I don't know how many hours today he got numbers he's just gonna and a and in fact in that they want to show you another much requested longstanding feature which is. The ability to re size the brush by dragging. So you know historically and by doing just trying to get to a later part of the image so it can see the cursor laboriously. Historically you've got the bracket keys right seeking go yeah I want to make this bigger security -- tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap it right make it smaller. And that can be a little tedious right so a lot of people pulled the context menu you know -- you can change your parameters for everything you've got to click away. So what we came up with is the ability just to hold down some modify her keys and -- get the right combo. And now on this Mac holding control option and just dragging with my brush. And you see an -- actively re -- has a very -- also very smooth so I can really get a precise. Spotted doesn't have to just be. You know whatever the next bracket key out once I'm same thing goes for size so if I hold down commanded that command option control. You can see now they can go from very hard brushed were very soft one. Just with one look at the rest. I'm windows I think it's. Shift option so slightly different and I think it's shift control option. For hardness. But -- you know just. It's one of those little lips and toxic doesn't show up as a big feature but hopefully while you're painting. You find it useful yet often."
" Very fact that you see the actual -- spot -- when -- playing around with the the hardness of it it's important see it and even in this size if you're working with a very soft brush. Well you can't really publicized because part of that that circle is these these the hardness of it right is not actually see to -- a great feature -- gets. Excellent and and I'm not just you know -- purchasing that we've these are exactly. The things we've heard from folks and that's what we do this and this is one of those other features which is an able company open GL and you're GPU's so. It's really by tapping into that extra graphics hardware that Sony machines now have. That we can -- name when these next gen features. Looking guys aren't."
" So. -- very talked a time let me show you some other things and -- just taken a quick tour the interface so. You don't lot of folks love tabbed browsing and in the web browsers I know I certainly be is something we want to to enable -- Photoshop so just to make second document here. You can see I now have content in the interface. I can drag these around I can also do. Multiple views very easily so now I can do to. You know by hand other files opened. You can see either tipped over here but I can say. You know give -- customer arrangement like this give me three -- the trip tic. Whatever is most useful. -- to work. We have what's called an application frame so is the president windows it's now available in the man it's off by default -- you -- anybody out. But now you can actually going to window so by the way -- do traditional Mac interface remains as spam. That you can also go down here and -- application frame. And now it keeps everything in one shall so as I -- after around the how documents move with it and it's you know it's totally. At at your discretion but I find I really like it it it helps kind of isolate. You create -- space so -- I get distracted -- emails coming in or something so nice way to kind of blocked out everything. Also in a -- meaning. Let me mention this adjustments panel over on the right so. What things are kinda. I don't that's heartbreaking exactly but it's it's a little tough as when we -- things to Photoshop and people keep you know working the way they've always worked they're not really finding the new stuff. And people saying hey don't get me so many things to show me the right way to do stuff I don't need it another way it's what we've done with adjustments is really. Try to take best practices and and make those fronts that are so we've taken all the -- and Dennis just requires we made him into a panel. And so if I want and something like curves layer to this document. I simply put -- it's not got my -- here so means you don't get a big dialogue box."
" Popping up over your image you can just do it and are actively and so you know I can make my changes again you can see this is all super fast even with this enormous image on a laptop. -- What's really powerful is because I don't have to jumping out of a dialogue I can doing here in just you know change the capacity to change the blending mode. You know and and still be screwing around with the -- curve. So we call this non volatile it's not an immortal dialogue now it's all just in -- panel. And if I want to jump back and it makes mother adjustments I can either Namibia would grab vibrant switches and you kind of a saturation control. You can see edited by -- later. Or I cannot work with precepts you know so I can go in and say. You know maybe a 1 apply -- luck. The he sat. And now that stacked up. And you see as I change my selection in the layers panel from layer to layer I go from adjustment to adjustment -- so we we think it's some. It's again not so much."
" Yet another new thing it's taking the best of what we've got making that -- sent her an encouraging people to work in -- really flexible way that actually. Boot time -- recent news is looking at about where I had. Thwart different adjustment layers of levels them for different movement and so I know I have to -- one of them which one's China had a opened a dialogue box that's netted him when I just click and there's there's the settings for the next in -- settings that open and close opening -- click click click and -- my things -- there -- like that feature I think fact that if I'm in one. I can quickly go to another one by simply clicking on a button and then do arrow sends it to the list of of this thing so it's is really. Putting it into power releasing a lot of time doing well again and we were kind of inspired by what we see in -- in camera -- where people really like the fact that they can just browser settings -- easily. -- it to should feel less like the Winchester mystery house more like one and elegant and innovative things."
" And while we're here let me just point out -- masks panel. And this feature some really long standing. Requests being addressed as well so now for the first time you can actually. Play with the density of the minutes so for example let's say wanted to put a graduated. Filter look on this image. It's -- actually trying to gradient and probably should have chosen a smaller image to make this -- a little faster. News shows speed of of such a huge image yeah yeah and what it racist registry is one point 18 gigabytes yeah nice size. Yeah yeah Italian artistic to start it is there's a gradient so I'm just tussle -- can see how it's affecting the mask and so it's visible. You know at the top -- isn't -- bottom. What can -- is actually changed the density that it's so it would affect the and it -- let -- right and it's all nondestructive. And so. He really gives you if you're doing compositing work. An awful lot of control that just wasn't possible before muted had to get into like kind of some goofy thing with maybe a layer century -- that. Now it's much more directs its density it's really just think it's the capacity of -- itself. Again a small thing probably not gonna show up on top feature last for something. And -- you know that the president's --"
" You accredited but they what would. Kind of scratched surfaces look at a lot more I'm sure people have been looking at the screen they see that hold you menu of this 3-D yeah that's not a lot of things going on here so. Rip as you guys already know we shoot quite a few shows that once Johnson stick around. And we're gonna do another show for next week who continue looking at CS for. Now it. I hope you learned something from this number to play with this stuff that's the way I would say to learn is to sit there -- play. And there's anything you'd like to see in the show email me at -- and revision3.com. Definitely be -- again. Also you can check out the form that revision3.com. Forward slash forums we can join discussions about the show. And if you want to see a lot of the stuff that I do my book this is still available is doing very well actually and you see a picture of it right there on the screen it's available you can get through my site or you get it right from Amazon or -- peach pit dot com. Lott -- are right go to your local bookstores should be did it. I want it once again thanks Christopher -- went up for that incredible. Background that we want to you know day -- night. And if you want you -- to be seen remember. You have to email me your designs to Burton's visions we are -- your background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and JPEG. 1280 by 720 you're looking quite a few things -- came in today and they -- like who claim things. We can't use those have to be those particular dimensions that we can fill up the screen. So I hope you learn something from this and I'm really looking forward to seeing you again next week."
" This episode a pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Hello and welcome back to the pixel per it would be -- on right. It's been a few weeks and we're glad to finally be back. We've got a whole new episodes of pixel perfect. I want to thank all of you out there for the messages of support clamoring to bring the show back beat up pounds of emails including your backgrounds. I -- when we got right here this caused by. Christopher about what and a night shows this one for today why because I love the guys you guys know that and that Leon back there is beautiful. And a -- pixel perfect we're back. -- before we start you know we gotta do right we -- thank our sponsors. And I responses this time -- Nvidia. And GoDaddy. Who have helped does ensure that we can continue to bring you new episodes of pixel perfect for sometime to come. Now you might think Nvidia is just for gaming. But with a graphics processor from Nvidia in your computer you can NASA speak the one language that never needs translation. Speak visual. Nvidia has put together a website -- speak visual back com where you can learn about Nvidia. The creative work that the Nvidia enables such as digital art photography. Movies 3-D modeling and how you can speak visual with -- Nvidia. Upload your artwork to the online gallery for the opportunity to have your work projected larger than life on huge buildings across the world. And broadcast online. This is your chance to show the world. What you have to say Nvidia is extending an open invitation to all digital artists photographers filmmakers and -- my hours. Visit speak visual dot com and upload your work to be online gallery why do it. Well in 2009 and video host to speak visual show featuring the most innovative art from back gallery. -- massive projections on building sides across the globe and broadcast online. And he'll work digital art photography movies three modeling to the gallery and you will be eligible to be selected. Adobe CS four is now Nvidia CPU. Accelerated. From which images and print video and film to dynamic digital content from a variety of media and video GPU. Accelerated Adobe solutions can be enjoyed by anyone who creates and interacts with the visual information. Now I have in my personal machine I have three Nvidia cards if you remember the tore my studio I have. Three monitors -- having an Nvidia card devoted to each one. And of course you want to thank godaddy.com. You want to make an impact on line godaddy.com. Has what you need. Cut back comments for as low the dollar 99 and could cope pixel wanted to -- and are doing a screen. And when you check out you'll save an additional 10% off the entire quarter. So now. Here we are back to pixel perfect which is why you come here is that."
" Here all that stuff you want it to learn things now while I was away. He noted the program changed. CS war became the U program out there -- And of course are dying to see what's new and well I'm gonna show you all kinds of stuff but you know it's not just me but I figured I want to get to the man. The one who knows it all to come in here with me to talk about it. Until about John Mac he is the product manager of of Photoshop and Adobe he also has what most popular blogs out there so -- introduce either."
" John Mac. Expert thanks for had -- I'm glad to have you here for you totally oversold and yeah value on the spot you gotta really shouldn't be seriously. Rebecca mantra -- not let it out but. But yeah I'm I'm really happy to be here and I wanna taking a quick tour of what's new in Photoshop 2000 and a lot of things that and he -- out you know its job. Start off. What do you stay organized is with the bridge. Or bridge the -- I had to stay Woodbridge and that's what I mean look at all my images you this. For so many different things it step by looking at."
" Create what's new and great. Our goal with bridge in CS four is really take what we had not you know completely around change what we have we don't want you have to go -- and we learned stuff. We just want to take what's there and unlock the power. So. This a folder of assets have never seen before I just copied into your machine so you we've got a bunch of raw files. Obviously tons of people are -- wrong with their cameras and the need to better way to go through an organized so really just cleaned up the bridge interface we've made it. Hopefully easier to find things you -- we've got a workspace switcher up tonton and so on a lot of power we found. Has been infringed or maybe a couple reds even if people are finding it through really wanted to change that. Make it much easier to go in and say hey want to edit the metadata. Congress we have added new things like a list view -- the one of the popular quest for a long time. A we've now had an output module. So if you want to make contact sheet to make web gallery splash galleries you can get them all without leaving bridge you dislike the SS you want to take a bunch of pinging sponsored in design spreads. Anything just choose the output module and you'll be able to quickly make an interactive web gallery. So. Don't really taken a bridge to we've got and go to streaming content much simpler. That was faster. And so. I will I'll get to some camera and some interesting features in there. As time permits I know. Photoshop tends to be the main attraction so -- Will be at that point in time but just in brief I know we floated the output module I can make a PDF despite hitting preview. I can do the same with my gallery I issues I'm no let's go ahead and she's not a flash gallery. I -- refresh preview and bridges actually can take all these raw files it's going to convert them to JPEG's on the fly. And it's and it'll load up. DF flash viewer right here inside a bridge. And the other neat thing is when I'm done with this. Again I don't have to leave bridge I can just say the sound like even FTP it to my website. Breaking the same interface so it's really supposed to one stop shopping -- web designer for him to Adobe. And we really want in this kind of just. You know let me grab everything and put it -- needs to go and get -- before the -- constitution. So. Really now bridge kind of it like this in a big basket ties them together. And -- so. So once upon a time to time on it but just know that that time because really need you capabilities there. And I'd give that a second hand down to will be there. Also just a few things to put up up top we've got this little we'll call trail of bread crumbs -- At one of the bits of feedback we got -- people still like to preview things but I don't necessarily want to preview. Every folder on the way from a to B to CD so I can just jump from one to another very quickly. We've got collections so that you can. Makes sort of a -- list -- virtual folder. A lot of they just little little core nips and tucks. As a national got a blogs -- just Google John Mac. We've got up a whole thirty minute demo just a bridge from drew and costs so really showing off all the new stuff in there. And so. While that's -- That are stereo nine concede -- files converted. -- into an interactive platform. And legacy when I'm -- I can either save these -- my hard drive or can even I shoot them up to the my web server -- from within bridge. All right so. But we jump to solution there it is okay -- this war. So. You know keep it's interest they were just talking about graphics processors and Nvidia and you know I always say the one that the single best feature we could ever do in Photoshop this performance so one thing that you never have to learn there's -- keyboard shortcuts -- nothing. It just runs faster and it feels better and so we've really. Worked on a lot of this release and one of the ways of doing that is taking advantage of the graphics processor. So a lot of folks you know out there are used to talking about CPU but now we talk about GPU's so it's the graphics processor unit. And so were running this on converts laptop. So it's by no means you know most muscle bound machine out there. But I want to -- take a really enormous files to show what you can now do come in part thanks to the GPU. -- it got her 29000 my 14000. -- pixel image so it's about 442 meg pixels but fifty times the size of what would come off an eight megapixel camera. And I did this deliberately to share that. We're not just accelerating sort of screen resolution stuff. Really taking anything you can throw a Photoshop and making it better by virtue Arafat tapping into your graphics card. So let me from the start demonstrating that so I take my as a tool that was gonna hold down and I'm. Start zooming on this image."
" And it's a little bits. Chunk you're just because we're also recording this on the screen. But the better the card you've got the faster that's going to be. Com you can also. Take this large image and actually now toss it around and you can see we've got some physics built in there. So of course you know the iPhone came out last summer and our engineers have been butchered -- geeks like us. I couldn't resist a trying to do some similar things but we did it not just because it's a neat thing to do that because it can actually help you navigate. When -- pirated files and I know when your work yeah you know its its all about sweating the details and really getting in there. One other thing you might appreciate is we've made it possible to kind of get the navigator panel out of the way -- by the way. Now we've renamed -- panels and I was go back and forth but. In case you wonder. Means the same thing why do we do we're trying to be consistent with with the other products but anyway. What we saw as you know when you're working on these these enormous paintings are a big panorama us. You want to be it would jump out and orient yourself and space and then cruise into another area. -- you know scroll all the way over so one of the really subtle things we have is so we called bird's eye view. So if you hold down the letter H on your keyboard. And then you click and hold on your mouse. Photoshop will temporarily zoom you out to fit the image on screen. And you'll see under my hand I've got this little rectangle -- want to go over and check what time is on the clock I'm still holding H electoral amounts. And I just that -- and there. If -- go read -- distanced -- street signs can do that want to check out the license plates on these cars that can do that. -- even with this enormous image. Because what's happening into the GPU and reason open GL. -- really get this very fast slick smooth experience. In another feature that we've heard painters request for many many years is ability to rotate the canvas so even if you're lucky enough to have a really nice -- display like us. It's still a you know big physical thing it's a lot harder to navigate. A rotation thing than just a piece of paper. And of course mechanically human arm. Lets you draw certain are truly comfortably -- can't just like. You know take your arm off and and do different -- sort come up with his canvas rotation. -- Cannot -- the I can't rotate tool and even with this whopper of an image -- should be about two gigs as a flash tips on disk. Because -- navigate just as quickly as I want affect the F hypnotize the audience feature can go up just stuff. You know really just is this is quickly as I can drag can navigate. The idea here is he can just very very easily rotate. And get to and angle that's comfortable for you to draw and paint. And then I keep just changing irritation."
" I gotta tell you know the decency does rotate them so I thought that's cute who did something. But I have actually gotten really used to that I don't rotated via the and take anymore and I've been doing that and I find it very useful because as the audience knows. I do a lot of -- torn so it is important to be here with just turned days I get that nice move. Movement and that features is really -- I am going to be cool it's turned out to be my favorite good and I'm glad to hear it."
" You know and in fact -- put on a couple other -- related things so. Let's blisters and actually Friday that Williams put on another very subtle feature. That you know you've you've probably you just read it how often features in front of shipping I can see these things. But it's one of those little tweaks. We wanted to make so. You know he can jump from any tool to any other excuse me for many tools to let's say the hand tool -- the space -- right any can jump to the move tool by holding our commander of the actual you know windows. But there's only so many of the special piece -- couldn't jump from life. You know that the marquee tool to the last -- that. We wanted to make it possible jump from anything to anything else so specifically when you're painting. We wanted to enable. Very easy navigation so let's have a hit the F coming brush tool and I could hit our go to rotate and I can be you can go to brush. But we thought to be simpler if you just hold down car. Click and drag to rotate and -- go in your back to eruption so called this spring loaded keys so there's no difference if you just clicking. -- press like the key features works like it always hands but if you press and hold it'll switch temporarily. When you like skeletal switch back. So you could be you know painting you know hit hard to rotate your back to your -- don't have to keep hitting BR BR BR. So it's literally one keystroke could -- you but. You know and and you might be -- I don't know how many hours today he got numbers he's just gonna and a and in fact in that they want to show you another much requested longstanding feature which is. The ability to re size the brush by dragging. So you know historically and by doing just trying to get to a later part of the image so it can see the cursor laboriously. Historically you've got the bracket keys right seeking go yeah I want to make this bigger security -- tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap it right make it smaller. And that can be a little tedious right so a lot of people pulled the context menu you know -- you can change your parameters for everything you've got to click away. So what we came up with is the ability just to hold down some modify her keys and -- get the right combo. And now on this Mac holding control option and just dragging with my brush. And you see an -- actively re -- has a very -- also very smooth so I can really get a precise. Spotted doesn't have to just be. You know whatever the next bracket key out once I'm same thing goes for size so if I hold down commanded that command option control. You can see now they can go from very hard brushed were very soft one. Just with one look at the rest. I'm windows I think it's. Shift option so slightly different and I think it's shift control option. For hardness. But -- you know just. It's one of those little lips and toxic doesn't show up as a big feature but hopefully while you're painting. You find it useful yet often."
" Very fact that you see the actual -- spot -- when -- playing around with the the hardness of it it's important see it and even in this size if you're working with a very soft brush. Well you can't really publicized because part of that that circle is these these the hardness of it right is not actually see to -- a great feature -- gets. Excellent and and I'm not just you know -- purchasing that we've these are exactly. The things we've heard from folks and that's what we do this and this is one of those other features which is an able company open GL and you're GPU's so. It's really by tapping into that extra graphics hardware that Sony machines now have. That we can -- name when these next gen features. Looking guys aren't."
" So. -- very talked a time let me show you some other things and -- just taken a quick tour the interface so. You don't lot of folks love tabbed browsing and in the web browsers I know I certainly be is something we want to to enable -- Photoshop so just to make second document here. You can see I now have content in the interface. I can drag these around I can also do. Multiple views very easily so now I can do to. You know by hand other files opened. You can see either tipped over here but I can say. You know give -- customer arrangement like this give me three -- the trip tic. Whatever is most useful. -- to work. We have what's called an application frame so is the president windows it's now available in the man it's off by default -- you -- anybody out. But now you can actually going to window so by the way -- do traditional Mac interface remains as spam. That you can also go down here and -- application frame. And now it keeps everything in one shall so as I -- after around the how documents move with it and it's you know it's totally. At at your discretion but I find I really like it it it helps kind of isolate. You create -- space so -- I get distracted -- emails coming in or something so nice way to kind of blocked out everything. Also in a -- meaning. Let me mention this adjustments panel over on the right so. What things are kinda. I don't that's heartbreaking exactly but it's it's a little tough as when we -- things to Photoshop and people keep you know working the way they've always worked they're not really finding the new stuff. And people saying hey don't get me so many things to show me the right way to do stuff I don't need it another way it's what we've done with adjustments is really. Try to take best practices and and make those fronts that are so we've taken all the -- and Dennis just requires we made him into a panel. And so if I want and something like curves layer to this document. I simply put -- it's not got my -- here so means you don't get a big dialogue box."
" Popping up over your image you can just do it and are actively and so you know I can make my changes again you can see this is all super fast even with this enormous image on a laptop. -- What's really powerful is because I don't have to jumping out of a dialogue I can doing here in just you know change the capacity to change the blending mode. You know and and still be screwing around with the -- curve. So we call this non volatile it's not an immortal dialogue now it's all just in -- panel. And if I want to jump back and it makes mother adjustments I can either Namibia would grab vibrant switches and you kind of a saturation control. You can see edited by -- later. Or I cannot work with precepts you know so I can go in and say. You know maybe a 1 apply -- luck. The he sat. And now that stacked up. And you see as I change my selection in the layers panel from layer to layer I go from adjustment to adjustment -- so we we think it's some. It's again not so much."
" Yet another new thing it's taking the best of what we've got making that -- sent her an encouraging people to work in -- really flexible way that actually. Boot time -- recent news is looking at about where I had. Thwart different adjustment layers of levels them for different movement and so I know I have to -- one of them which one's China had a opened a dialogue box that's netted him when I just click and there's there's the settings for the next in -- settings that open and close opening -- click click click and -- my things -- there -- like that feature I think fact that if I'm in one. I can quickly go to another one by simply clicking on a button and then do arrow sends it to the list of of this thing so it's is really. Putting it into power releasing a lot of time doing well again and we were kind of inspired by what we see in -- in camera -- where people really like the fact that they can just browser settings -- easily. -- it to should feel less like the Winchester mystery house more like one and elegant and innovative things."
" And while we're here let me just point out -- masks panel. And this feature some really long standing. Requests being addressed as well so now for the first time you can actually. Play with the density of the minutes so for example let's say wanted to put a graduated. Filter look on this image. It's -- actually trying to gradient and probably should have chosen a smaller image to make this -- a little faster. News shows speed of of such a huge image yeah yeah and what it racist registry is one point 18 gigabytes yeah nice size. Yeah yeah Italian artistic to start it is there's a gradient so I'm just tussle -- can see how it's affecting the mask and so it's visible. You know at the top -- isn't -- bottom. What can -- is actually changed the density that it's so it would affect the and it -- let -- right and it's all nondestructive. And so. He really gives you if you're doing compositing work. An awful lot of control that just wasn't possible before muted had to get into like kind of some goofy thing with maybe a layer century -- that. Now it's much more directs its density it's really just think it's the capacity of -- itself. Again a small thing probably not gonna show up on top feature last for something. And -- you know that the president's --"
" You accredited but they what would. Kind of scratched surfaces look at a lot more I'm sure people have been looking at the screen they see that hold you menu of this 3-D yeah that's not a lot of things going on here so. Rip as you guys already know we shoot quite a few shows that once Johnson stick around. And we're gonna do another show for next week who continue looking at CS for. Now it. I hope you learned something from this number to play with this stuff that's the way I would say to learn is to sit there -- play. And there's anything you'd like to see in the show email me at -- and revision3.com. Definitely be -- again. Also you can check out the form that revision3.com. Forward slash forums we can join discussions about the show. And if you want to see a lot of the stuff that I do my book this is still available is doing very well actually and you see a picture of it right there on the screen it's available you can get through my site or you get it right from Amazon or -- peach pit dot com. Lott -- are right go to your local bookstores should be did it. I want it once again thanks Christopher -- went up for that incredible. Background that we want to you know day -- night. And if you want you -- to be seen remember. You have to email me your designs to Burton's visions we are -- your background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and JPEG. 1280 by 720 you're looking quite a few things -- came in today and they -- like who claim things. We can't use those have to be those particular dimensions that we can fill up the screen. So I hope you learn something from this and I'm really looking forward to seeing you again next week."
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Started discussion: December 29, 2008 @ 3:09pm GMT
Episode 108 - Diving Into the new Photoshop CS4 [Discussion]
Principal Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop John Nack visits the show in a first of a 3 part special introducing Photoshop CS4 (aka Creative Suite 4).
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nextgenxbox
11 months ago
Awesome! Welcome back!
Smeerkaas
11 months ago
Downloading Right Now!
I just wanna say: Very very very cool to see that we are being heard as a community. Awesome to have Bert and his knowledge back tot enjoy and to learn from!
I just wanna say: Very very very cool to see that we are being heard as a community. Awesome to have Bert and his knowledge back tot enjoy and to learn from!
comspy
11 months ago
THANK YOU Revision3! PixelPerfect was one of my favorite shows on Rev3, so I'm so glad you've brought it back! I'm looking forward to seeing what new tricks Bert has to teach us! :)
Ajzzz
11 months ago
I could understand the other shows, but I really didn't get why this would get cancelled. It's great that rev3 listens and has seen sense. Welcome back Bert!
Looks like Adobe listens as well. Interface and performance get the attention they needed.
Looks like Adobe listens as well. Interface and performance get the attention they needed.
Cybersuchus
11 months ago
Oh my god, this is the best Christmas present I could have asked for. I'm so happy to see the return of one of the best shows on Rev 3. I look forward to many more Pixel Perfect episodes in the future.











