[Sure, Jeff--that would be helpful. The point is, we don't want to do work just for appearance's sake. We need to spend time working on features people would actually use, and the Venn diagram overlap between "people who care about working in 16-bit" and "people who care about applying Plastic Wrap et al." is likely pretty tiny. --J.]

I realize that this video focuses on the core Photoshop team only, but I think it still would have been nice to give explicit shout outs to the individual researchers inside and outside Adobe who actually came up with those killer features (like the content aware fill or the brush simulation). Because it certainly sounds like they too played a pretty significant role in saving the day.

[That's a great idea, and your suggestion has gotten a couple of folks talking. --J.]

Can someone answer some questions about DNG for me and my agency? Here are a list of topics:

-File transmission capabilities using FTP and FFT
-File size reduction ratio and examples
-SDK update
-JPEG to DNG improvements/development

Please email offline of this blog, if possible. Thank you.

Cheers!

[Thanks, Jeff! And thanks for the really nice production. --J.]

Second, it’s hard to determine if the speed up is due to memory access or the larger amount of registers.

[Here's more info on the subject of Photoshop & registers. --J.]

But PS uses its own virtual memory system (or did, I think it was changed?) so any Mac OS X specific unrelateds are lost.

would you mind elaborating on why 64-bit doesn’t allow you to work on bigger files?
it certainly appears to allow Ps to use more RAM and I can work radically faster on bigger files. are you just being pedantic and saying that 64-bitness doesn’t change the size of file you can access in terms of read/write to the disk ?

(In reply to Tom Rohde) But, I’m sorry, Adobe may be at fault for some bad technology decisions or timing decisions in other areas, but the Carbon->Cocoa switch was not one of them. Carbon was not deprecated then and is not deprecated now which is what made it so impossible to find someone to scream at during the end of that WWDC session.

On an mostly-unrelated note, how do I get some “sit-down” time with someone from Adobe?

[Perhaps not exactly, but it allows them to fit into app RAM, and that makes working with them faster. --J.]

Second, I remember that moment at WWDC so well. Everyone in that room freaked the hell out. Seriously, our collective hearts stopped beating at once. There was no one in the room to direct the anger, the hurt, the feeling of betrayal to.

They should have hooked everyone up to an Ativan drip at the beginning of that WWDC session.

1. Content-aware Fill (Shift+F5 is now an auto reflex!)

2. Lens Profiles. Correcting chromatic aberration used to waste an enormous amount of time, not anymore

3. Double-click to set a slider to zero (default)

4. Convert to 8-bits and save as JPEG

Little refinements do add up during a session.

I have got to say that the (animated) PS CS5 splash at the start of the video is badass (all said and done about the CS5 branding)

Being a Photoshop user from the early 90′s, it is a product that I would be proud to give my heart and soul to. Photoshop CS5 is the greatest version of the product in its history.

– Matt Dial

And thanks for keeping Applescript support. It’s saved me hundreds if not thousands of hours of mind-numbing image conversions in the past year. I would have massive RSI if I’d had to do it manually!

[Yes, quite right! I actually was a beta, then alpha, tester for Adobe prior to working here. I guess my detailed bellyaching proved too much for the team, so I was sentenced to come aboard & watch the sausage-making close-up. :-) --J.]