Customer Reviews

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Upgrade [Mac]

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1 star:		(10)

 

 

Turns out I'm late to this party. This upgrade will not work with a Creative Suite Serial Number even though your Suite contains a "Complete" and "numbered" version of Photoshop CSx. It says that deep in the fine print, but why would you continue reading after you see EXACTLY your version is upgradable. Complaints abound, even on Adobe site. 5-Stars to Amazon for prompt refund.

 

this is much the same as CS4 but with a few new features,but one thing you should know is that most plug-ins currently only work in 32bit,therefore you must start it in 32bit(double click on the PS icon in finder and "get info",then tick the box "open in 32bit").The problem here is that PS CS5 can only access 2gb ram max,unlike 32bit CS4 which can access 4gb ram,so perhaps it would be wise to hold on to your cs4 until all the plug-ins are re-written as 64bit,most will be available in the next 3 months.apart from this its a nice upgrade!

 

Been using Photoshop CS4 on a MAC for sometime and works like a champ. Upgraded to CS5 hoping to reap the benefits of the new release only to end up sending it back. Consistently crashed while editing images - crashed randomly, however consistently crashed. Adobe must have 50 plus crash reports from me in a little over a week of use. Not only that, when flipping images in CS5 Bridge so they would display correctly when being edited, these correction did not carry over to Photoshop CS5 as they do in CS4. Net, net, could not work with the product due to the number of application crashes - you can just loose you work only so many times. Reverted back to the old version of Photoshop (CS4) and have had no issues since. Photoshop CS5 is the ONLY app that crashes on my MAC Pro running Snow Leopard. /
Never heard anything back from Adobe (part of the reason I thought they wanted you email address in crash reports), nor have seen a mention on same problem in a post.

 

As a very experienced retoucher and printer working on a new Mac with advanced graphics cards, CS5 has turned out to be nothing but problematic. First, and foremost, Adobe forgot to make it compatible with most printer drivers. When I try to print an image in CS5, almost all my printing options are unavailable. This was never an issue in CS2, CS3, or CS4. Check the online forums - I'm not the only one with this difficulty. I have to open images in CS4 now to make a print. In addition, I see no speed improvements at all over CS4. This update from Adobe is definitely an over-hyped "work-in-progress" and lacks basic functionality on many levels. Avoid it until Adobe announces some major improvements.

 

Received my copy of CS5 from Amazon,installed and then found out
all my filter plug-ins don't work on this 64 bit cs5,and are not going
to work till you upgrade! Also my twain device,doesn't show up,so
see-ya $300 Canon scanner,same with my Canon print-pro plug-in,
so easy printing is gone.
You would think adobe would have a warning somewhere,but you
will find out after they cash your check.......

 

Beware - Adobe does not offer an upgrade from an Adobe Creative Suite to a single point product. They will give you a refund for your troubles though. They deem it as a downgrade from a Suite to a Point product even though you are going up in version numbers. Adobe fix this mess.

Upgraded to CS5 about a month ago.
As one other reviewer said, very difficult to print, drivers are not working properly
More importantly, I have now spent over 15 hours trying to update. There are a few patches which come up on my Adobe Updater.
They upload but "fail" to update.
I have also spent over 5 hours with tech support - written and over the phone.
NO Satisfaction.
They keep going in circles - try "A", then "B", then email says to try "A", etc.
Then they simply closed my case !!!

Useless. I'm going to Aperture and trying to sell my copy of Photoshop. I just can't waste my time like this.

 

I received this as a gift to upgrade my copy of Photoshop CS3 which was part of my copy of Creative Suite Design Standard.

Adobe does not support this upgrade path - but only calls this out in an obscure knowledge base article that you are unlikely to see until after you open the packaged and attempt the upgrade.

Even the website you are directed to for upgrade eligibility doesn't call out that this is ONLY for upgrading standalone copies of Photoshop.

This definitely makes me question my loyalty to adobe Photoshop & Lightroom.

 

There are a couple of specific enhancements in this release that I have been wishing I had, so for me the price of the upgrade was worth it.

I'll just put it in a nutshell here. If any of the following applies to you, it's probably worth your money to upgrade:

* you have a 64-bit computer and operating system;
* your computer processor has two or more cores, and your operating system uses them;
* you like to create 360º panoramas (see the caveat below);
* you like to create tone-compressed photos from HDR;
* you have a need to fill in large chunks of missing sky (such as from shading your lens).

Now the details:

The speed improvement of running in 64 bits, and having sub-processes distributed among multiple processor cores, cannot be overemphasized. The speed improvement from this feature alone (assuming you have the hardware and OS for it) is worth the price of the upgrade.

Only the extended edition will do 360º panoramas (WARNING: they will require Flash Player to view). I wish I had known that; I'm stuck with having to use other clunky, slow, and quirky panorama software until my next upgrade.

The prior version of PS would merge a 32-bit HDR file from a stack of bracketed exposures, but lacked any facility to compress the result into a tone-mapped image. You had to buy other software to do that. This release contains that capability; however, it is possible that those other 3rd-party apps still do a better job of it. I haven't made up my mind about that yet.

One thing that I have really wished I had through the years has been delivered with this release: the ability to fill in large chunks of missing sky, either because I had to shade the lens and got my lens shade in the photo, or just simply having pieces of sky missing after stitching together a panorama. They call it "content-aware fill" and it's pretty good.

I rate it four stars instead of five only because I'm a perfectionist who only gives five stars maybe once or twice in my life.

Upgrades to Photoshop are expensive enough that many users only take every other opportunity. I violated that rule this time by going right from CS4. It's definitely worth it to me. Because it's now a 64-bit app, it's possible to allocate much more memory (if you've got it), speeding up edits for very large photographs or images with many layers. It also appears to take greater advantage of my multicore Mac.

Most of my Photoshop work is with photos and there are a number of noticeable improvements. Context-sensitive fill makes it really easy to remove part of the image and replace it with data from the rest of the image. In most cases, it appears to do what you want, with only occasional touch-ups from the healing brush. It makes the job of removing power lines, road signs (and people) nearly trivial. There are also huge improvements in assembling HDR images and panoramas. In both applications, the auto-alignment works much better than previous versions--so much that I've been able to do a lot more with handheld shots. HDR Pro also gives you greater control of tone, contrast and saturation. To my eye, it's night and day from CS4 to CS5.

There are many more improvements--some large, some small--but even the handful of things I've mentioned have been big timesavers. This is a nice little bump.