Adobe CS4 announcement expected Sept. 23

To learn about the more capabilities that will come with adobe new cs4 software, visit:

http://www.atelier-us.com/consumers-and-ecommerce/article/adobe-creative-suite-4-release-brings-unprecedented-efficiency-via-a-unified-application-interface

-Frederick

These Adobe releases seem to be more frequent and I'm not seeing the gains....just more reasons to spend more money. Maybe CS stands for "continuous sucker."

I love how Adobe makes you pay for their phone tech support. I've never used it, but I hope that if anyone ever has, they got their money's worth.

How about an upgrade to Illustrator??? How long has it been since Adobe ate Macromedia? I mean, come on...InDesign's PMS color picker and grouping are better then Illustrator! Since I'm now forced to use Illustrator and not Freehand anymore, you'd think that would be the first thing they'd upgrade. And if they make us pay a separate upgrade cost for it and not bundle it into the CS4 costs, we're gonna be REALLY pi$$ed off...

To Yaphi & Ben

Adobe USED to put out "point releases", and charge us quite a bit for them, despite usually minor changes.

As far as the last product cycle went, CS2 to CS3 had MAJOR feature changes in most of the apps I use. (Maybe not Illustrator). I upgraded to get those features. No one forced me. In fact, I went into the announcement assuming I wasn't going to upgrade at all...I wound up buying two upgrades- Web Premium for the office and Production Premium for the studio.

Adobe DOES still do "point releases"...they're called updates and they're free. Premiere Pro had the most problems out of the box, but I've received 2 or 3 free "point releases" since then (I believe it's at 3.2) And Acrobat 8.1 solved a major problem for Windows users.

I'll approach CS4 the same way...right now my budget for it is zero. Once I see what they have planned, I may change my mind. (The theory that Director might be bundled in could be a big factor...I've never been able to justify the expense, and simply steer clients towards interactive DVDs if they ask for CD-ROMS.)

Gees! another version, come on now, is not fair lol, well I just bought cs3 and it took me a while to come up with 1200 bucks! I should just take it back! dreamweaver is the main one that change lay-out wise, but nothing major.

I'm not sure what else Photoshop needs. I've used it for ages and seldom touch the new features. The most notable exception is the Healing Tool, which I love dearly.

Adobe should take a lesson from Apple and not add any new features and instead focus on speed and stability.
I am very excited about Snow Leopard.
I am not excited about CS4.

lol at anyone who actually pays for their software, especially adobe products.

Since the first CS release, they just feed us bloated updates every, what, 18 months? No reason to upgrade yet, I'm still on CS2 anyway and it fills all my needs.