Digital BW, The Print

Are there any early reactions to CS?  Is it worth the upgrade from PS 
7.1 with Camera Raw?  Any bugs or problems?  

Thanks,

Steve

Hello Steve,

>Are there any early reactions to CS?  Is it worth the upgrade 
>from PS 7.1 with Camera Raw?  Any bugs or problems?  

I'm very happy with it.  No problems on installation and works without
a hitch.  Being able to do everything in 16 bit is the most important
change for me.  The new file browser is really nice and finally usable
(I never used it in 7, it was so poor).  The RAW converter is very
good - it does a better job than the one that came with my Canon G3.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

Thanks to both you and Alan.  Now that I have upgraded my computer it 
sounds like it is time to upgrade PS.

Steve


> Hello Steve,
> 
> >Are there any early reactions to CS?  Is it worth the upgrade 
> >from PS 7.1 with Camera Raw?  Any bugs or problems?  
> 
> I'm very happy with it.  No problems on installation and works 
without
> a hitch.  Being able to do everything in 16 bit is the most 
important
> change for me.  The new file browser is really nice and finally 
usable

> (I never used it in 7, it was so poor).  The RAW converter is very
> good - it does a better job than the one that came with my Canon G3.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

i second everything clayton says
16 bit editing is a joy, much easier than the old
workarounds, reason enough to upgrade for me.

john e

--- Clayton Jones <cj@...> wrote:
> Hello Steve,
> 
> >Are there any early reactions to CS?  Is it worth
> the upgrade 
> >from PS 7.1 with Camera Raw?  Any bugs or problems?
>  
> 
> I'm very happy with it.  No problems on installation
> and works without
> a hitch.  Being able to do everything in 16 bit is
> the most important
> change for me.  The new file browser is really nice
> and finally usable
> (I never used it in 7, it was so poor).  The RAW
> converter is very
> good - it does a better job than the one that came
> with my Canon G3.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> 
> 

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> From: Stephen Kobrin [mailto:kobrins@...]
>
> Are there any early reactions to CS?  Is it worth the upgrade from PS
> 7.1 with Camera Raw?  Any bugs or problems?

Big win for me. The full 16-bit processing (except for some of the special
effect plugins) simplifies my workflow. The new Camera Raw works much better
than the old one on the Canon 10D. The old one needed hacking to get it to
recognize the camera, and the color balance was way off. The new one has
chromatic aberration correction that operates on the Bayer pattern data, as
well as vignetting correction. The only downside to the new Camera Raw
plugin is that it puts EXIF data into a new XMP format, which makes it
invisible to most applications. This is a new XML-based standard invented by
Adobe, which looks like it will be really nice once the rest of the universe
gets on board, but it's a problem for the time being (if you care about EXIF
data).

There are other features that I haven't even tried yet, but those two are
worth the $170. Don't try to run it on an old, underpowered machine, though.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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