Comments on: Pixel Bender now showing in Flash Player

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:29:57 +0000

Almost any new NVIDIA card supports CUDA. Not just the Quadro line. I run CUDA with significant render time decreases on a $80 GeForce 9600GT. Transcode times on some stuff is down from 8 hours to 30 minutes just with some CUDA stuff. It’s pretty impressive.

By: Jody Rusnak

Jody Rusnak — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:25:23 +0000

What will be the hardware requirements for each hardware vendor in order to utilize the GPU? I have heard for nVidia and CUDA you need a Quadro. Do you need a FireGL or FirePro workstation card in order to accelerate Adobe apps? Thanks!

By: Tazmikella Ilnezhara

Tazmikella Ilnezhara — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:04:13 +0000

Adobe's scroll wheel support for Mac has always been pathetic. I have never been able to use a mouse wheel to trigger scrolling in Flash Player [That's because, AFAIK, the Mac plug-in API hasn't supported sending scroll wheel events to the Player. (Of course that's "Adobe's fault"--as always.) --J.] (Dear God Almighty Flash Player for Mac has always sucked, right up there with the best crapware of all time!) and other Adobe BS quirks like the Illustrator layers palette. It's beyond pathetic. Would somebody please develop some professional alternatives! It sucks that lack of options is what keeps the remaining few Adobe apps here at work in the pipeline. Argh!

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:50:34 +0000

Will the new Photoshop CS4 support ATI Brook+ as well as Nvidia CUDA?

By: Arockiam

Arockiam — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:23:36 +0000

Hi John,
I have done mouse wheel action in flash. It is working in some browser and not working in some. But all the system has FP 9

By: PECourtejoie

PECourtejoie — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:00:41 +0000

On a related note, I found out, that nVidia is developing a guide, and plug-ins, currently in Beta, that allow plug-ins developers to use the GPU power to make complex operations faster than if they were using the CPU : http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/Photoshop/CUDAFilters4.pdf

By: Peter Dinella

Peter Dinella — Sat, 24 May 2008 09:45:34 +0000

My final decision on crash-laden Bridge CS3:
Wait for Photoshop CS4 and hope and pray that Adobe gets it right. In the meantime, I will use Lightroom and/or Nikon’s View NX in conjunction with Photoshop CS3 to do my work.
My conclusion is that Adobe tried to build Bridge to meet
eveyone’s needs and failed. It makes no sense wasting time trying to deal with a bad program. As an extremely famous Photoshop Guru said in a public forum: “Bridge is junk.” He was right.
Suggestion to Adobe programmers: Take the Lightroom quasi Bridge-like programming and add it to CS4.
You got it right in Lightroom-take advantage of a success.

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:20:37 +0000

dear john,
this is slightly off-topic but i noticed the new cs tools have a slightly new UI (it’s a bit of a shame because the CS3 ps & ai UI’s is so good). mainly what bothers me is the large thick window border on top which now contains the app icon in it.
[Please--as I've said before--don't make judgements based on some cretin breaking the confidentiality agreement s/he signed with us, then posting screenshots which may or may not have *anything* to do with reality. I just don't have the time or energy to debunk rumors, esp. the same ones repeatedly. As I've noted in the last day or two, I'll share more info about our UI plans, but not this minute. --J.]
does it really have to be that large? it’s eating up unnecessary screen-estate.
do you think it will be possible to slim it down to standard size (i’m talking from the OS-X point of view)?
let me know,
thanks

By: Steven P.

Steven P. — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:47:32 +0000

John, it’s not only Flash. Illustrator CS3 has also problems with the scrollwheel. The screen redraw halts until I stop scrolling with the scrollwheel. This doesn’t happen when I use the scrollbar.
So I guess you don’t use scrollwheels at Adobe to test your software ;-)
[I don't know what the deal is with Illustrator panels. Photoshop has supported the mouse wheel/trackpad for years for numerous functions, including panning and zooming. (A preference governs which one is the default, and holding Opt/Alt toggles the behavior to the other temporarily.) --J.]

By: Steven P.

Steven P. — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:15:40 +0000

I found another Flash app which doesn’t work with the Scrollwheel: Photoshop Express. Scrollwheel and trackpad scrolling don’t work on my Macs with the web app. I have to use the sliders. [This is nothing specific to Photoshop Express. My understanding is that the Mac browser plug-in interface doesn't communicate scroll wheel events to Flash. Therefore I don't think this is something the FP team is in a position to fix. I'll inquire further, though. --J.]

By: David

David — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:00:00 +0000

“Suffice it to say that whereas the GPU has traditionally been pretty marginal when building a good Photoshop machine, it’ll now be a more important consideration. –J.]”
Maybe this will cause Apple to ship with higher end video cards. They ship most towers with 8 cpu cores, then offer a sub $200 video card as an optional upgrade.

By: Steven P.

Steven P. — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:46:22 +0000

Ah! All Flashmovies flicker with the Flash 10.0.1 plugin on my MBP.

By: Steven P.

Steven P. — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:33:04 +0000

Hi john, I have the latest macbook Pro with Nvidia 8600 and the interactive demo doesn’t work. The main screen flickers and the effects diappear from time to time. [Hmm--not sure what's going on there. If you have a minute, please submit a bug report with your specs. --J.] I can’t scroll in the left column with my Mighty Mouses scroll wheel. Is this a preview on the new Flash-UI for CS4? [I asked the Flash Player team about this, and they say they don't get mouse wheel support via the browser plug-in API (only on Mac? I'm not sure). Are you aware of other Mac plug-ins that support mouse wheel input? If so it would be great to be able to point the team to them. --J.]

By: Phillip Kerman

Phillip Kerman — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:30:22 +0000

@gary you sure that there’s no GPU even on Windows? I swear I saw something where they said it would be supported on certain platforms. I’ll try to dig it up unless you can correct me first.

By: Steven P.

Steven P. — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:29:43 +0000

Great! I have seen this years ago with Apple Core Animation! Pixel graphics tweaked by the graphic card in real-time. I would call it Core Flash... [And before Apple showed it, you saw it in games. The difference here is that it's going into what's quite possibly the world's single most widely distributed runtime, the Flash Player, and it integrates smoothly with all the other things Flash can do (interactivity, connectivity, etc.). Therefore whether you're building apps for a browser, a desktop or both, whether for Mac, Windows, Linux, etc., you'll be able to offer a whole new level of graphical richness. We also expect cross pollination with Photoshop and AE, letting developers leverage their skills and code to bring fast visual effects to Adobe's flagship imaging tools. More places for your code to run = more business opportunities = more development. --J.]