Comments on: “Oct. 1″ (aka, “Just make something up”)

By: ceza

ceza — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:38:17 +0000

“and clearly bloggers and readers are all too happy to take what they read at face value.”
Personally – since I know where to find the source – I don’t start making up rumors until after I’ve read your comments. Kidding.
I figure when it comes to PS News – whether I like what I hear or not – I’ll go with what you say about it.
nice post

By: medyum

medyum — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:21:32 +0000

On the Warez posting: on close examination the graphic looks very much like a *book* mockup. I’m guessing a confused someone pulled it out of a book proposal and mistook it for/misrepresented it as Photoshop CS4. Pretty badly, too.

By: prefabrik

prefabrik — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:54:56 +0000

Got to agree with you mate.
It gets to the point that you really dont want to blog anything for fear of being miss-quoted.
As for the ‘warez’ site thing. It’d be laughable if it wasn’t sop tragic!
Don’t let it get you down mate..

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:14:56 +0000

Really. This is totally lame, you (John) did not do all YOUR research before running up half cocked against TG Daily. And you did it underhandedly in your blog instead of contacting the publication and author in an honest effort to correct the confusion. You say you are easy to get a hold of, and yet you don't bother to the same for others. Your unwarranted attack on TG Daily merely tarnishes your and Adobe's reputation. [I'm not sure why you are commenting on this now. I already expressed regret 5 months back, and both the TG Daily guys and I moved on a long time ago. --J.]

By: sohbet

sohbet — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:21:10 +0000

I hope this version will be fully multi-lingual like all the Mac OS X native applications !
It means multi-lingual in the interface and multi-lingual in the use with support for RTL languages …

By: Cartman

Cartman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:47:30 +0000

Since it now looks like it will be “CS4″, and “October 1″ will be the date, perhaps you could be less of a pompous arse when you criticize media that either know more inside info than you do, or are less inclined to disinformation than you are. Thank you.
[Bite me, anonymous troll. I never said anything about when the product would ship. I took issue with irresponsible journalists who either fabricate information or who slavishly repeat what others have fabricated. Do try to keep up. --J.]

By: photoshop_newbie

photoshop_newbie — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:10:41 +0000

lol this is funny. the comments are far funnier though.
& about the whole cs4. when i read that line, i just thought “oh well, he said it wasnt used publicly, maybe it was used privately”

By: Constantin

Constantin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:53:50 +0000

Thank you John for clarifying the mentioned post at TG Daily. I'm a little bit surprised that the whole discussion here concentrated around names and dates. Much more interesting is the idea of using GPGPU in future versions of Photoshop. Could you give a more detailed information on this subject? Is it going to be NVIDIA CUDA? If so, then what makes Adobe confident about this technology? Is Adobe going to provide customer support for GPU owners? What are real benefits of using GPU? Or maybe the whole news about the GPU usage is just a fantasy? [It's not a fantasy, and we're laying groundwork for more extensive GPU usage in the future. I can't say much more right now. --J.]

By: Jp Cooper

Jp Cooper — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:46:47 +0000

miffy said:
Well CS4 sounds like the logical suffix to use in a next version of Photoshop, seeing as how it progressed from CS, CS2 and now CS3.
I remember back before Creative Suite 1.0 came out how everyone was talking up Photoshop 8 and there were pre-release images floating around then. I know the verswion # was 8.x but still. The wonders of Photoshop.
Anyway…
“and clearly bloggers and readers are all too happy to take what they read at face value.”
Personally – since I know where to find the source – I don’t start making up rumors until after I’ve read your comments. Kidding.
I figure when it comes to PS News – whether I like what I hear or not – I’ll go with what you say about it.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:18:38 +0000

I hope this version will be fully multi-lingual like all the Mac OS X native applications !
It means multi-lingual in the interface and multi-lingual in the use with support for RTL languages …

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:31:27 +0000

Make the windows on the mac version native again, I don’t have any desire to resize them the tedious way you do on windows.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:06:18 +0000

I couldn't fit my thoughts here so I just posted to my blog: http://www.campphotoshop.com/Photoshop-CS4-is-everywhere

By: Knightshader

Knightshader — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:06:58 +0000

Seems a bit of an over-reaction for what seems to be obvious slips of the tongue. The counterpoint is you say it’s not Oct (Ok, but how is anyone to know other than Adobe folks, who could now make it Sept or Nov just to save face), and not necessarily CS4 despite all the preview stuff that says CS4, ends up like Vista/Longhorn where some apps still call it the codename even though it can be changed to whatever shortly before going RTM.
Seems like semantics to me. I’d prefer to just have people focusing on finally leveraging the power of GPGPU computing. It’s obvious being on top has let people lose focus on what’s important. I don’t care what they report, I care about what you guys deliver.

By: Cleo

Cleo — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:29:16 +0000

“I don’t know what to tell you, as the quest for ad bucks is eroding journalistic standards across the board.”
Most of what people are saying (and perhaps repeating incorrectly) is due to excitement. There are a few major sites which gain revenue from advertising (they’ll gain it regardless anyways) but the majority of the repeats found throughout the web are simply people getting excited about ‘potential’ features.
The community as a whole is looking for a speed bump. Adobe was on the right-track with CS2 and x64 support but got way off track in CS3. Opening a 50mb file is just simply a bear now as many people can attest to.
If Adobe was to do something ‘right’ the next go around, they will support x64 AND GPUs for handling large datasets.
If anything, this ‘reporting’ is just simply what image professionals wish to see in a future release and Adobe would be smart in sticking to that.
I think these articles have most of this correct, and the counter you have presented is misinformed as to the video releases.

By: Phillip Kerman

Phillip Kerman — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:26:28 +0000

Okay, I’ll modify my opinion slightly… that is, I agree it’s sloppy. But, I’ll stick with my opinion that it’s not very far off fact and I personally accept that most journalism is only some percentage accurate… say 80%. Whether that’s acceptable or not is not terribly important–that’s just the way it is.