No Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac

Over on the Adobe.com boards, Element 3 was supposed to be the last Mac version.

Here's what Adobe Product Manager John Nack has to say on the subject of a Mac version of Photoshop Elements 4 over at http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack: "So, what about the Mac version? In short, we've said that it's in development (e.g. see the last line in the first paragraph here http://www.dpreview.com/news/0509/05092701photoshop_el4.asp ). We haven't been any more specific than that, largely because as a public company Adobe has to be very careful about forward-looking statements. (Technically speaking, if you asked me whether we were going to start selling garden gnomes tomorrow, I don't think I could say yes or no.) And so, fellow Mac users, please don't jump to any conclusions. We don't have a new Mac version to announce, nor can we provide details on when we might have one or what it would contain. That said, Elements Mac development continues, and in the meantime the great Photoshop Elements 3.0 for Mac is available now."

Any software company shipping large, complex Mac OS X apps right now *better* be thinking about getting their apps in shape to ship as universal binaries. If they're not spending time moving their code to XCode and polishing the hell out of it, they'll pay the price next year. If this isn't the reason for the delay in PSE 4, it certainly should be. Oh .... just one more thing. "There's no such word as 'boughten." American Heritage Dictionary, courtesy of Apple, Safari, Google, and Bartleby.com, in that order. http://www.bartleby.com/61/72/B0417200.html boughten SYLLABICATION: boughten PRONUNCIATION: b VERB: Chiefly Northern U.S. A past participle of buy. ADJECTIVE: 1. Commercially made; purchased, as opposed to homemade: boughten bread. 2. Artificial; false. Used of teeth. Remember - Think, Google, Think Again, Then Post, not Think, Post, Think Again, Google.

There's no such word as "boughten."

Really, I can't bring myself to care. I completely gave up on Photoshop some time ago and now use only The Gimp and MacCinePaint. I find all flavours of Photoshop overpriced and overrated.

John Nack - an Adobe Product Manager (I think) confirms that it will becoming at some point. But obviously he can't pre-announce. I guess the XCode transition might be behind it as mentioned before.

According to this page: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0509/05092701photoshop_el4.asp Elements 4 for Mac is coming "soon".

Wait... is this a sign that Apple is going to bring out Photo Pro, filling the gap left by Adobe PSE? http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0508adobe.html

Well, that sucks. I hope they are just waiting until Intel, but I kinda doubt that...they'd probably be on Photoshop Elements 5 by then (unless Adobe knows something we don't...) Maybe this is because of that rumored "Photo Pro" software of Apple's? Far-fetched, I know, but it's worth thinking about. Maybe. I would have probably boughten Photoshop Elements with my new Mac...I doubt I'll buy an outdated version, though. The GIMP it is. :)

That is called, we are moving everything to XCode because we need to be able to ship this on Intel.