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Photoshop CS 4 Will Use Your Graphics Card to Run at Light Speed, Do Fancy 3D Tricks

The next version of Photoshop (CS 4) will be juicing up performance by taking advantage of hardware it hasn't tapped before: graphics cards and physics processors. How much faster is the new 64-bit, GPU-injected Photoshop? At a demo at Nvidia's HQ, TG Daily watched "the presenter playing with a 2 GB, 442 megapixel image like it was a 5 megapixel image on an 8-core Skulltrail system. Changes made through image zoom and through a new rotate canvas tool were applied almost instantly."

3D effects are spiffier too, with direct 3D model manipulation and rendering, as well as a snappier 3D accelerated panorama. Overall, it sounds like it could be the most important Photoshop update in years when it drops in October.

Source: TGDaily

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MichelinMan

They are releasing a ton of "versions" in a short amount of time. CS3 hasn't been out all that long, and a new edition is coming out in less than 6 months? Wow.

beansbaxter

CS3 was released the Spring of 2007, and with CS4 not coming out until late fall (October 2008), thats a year and a half.

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plummy

figures

Mr. PNW

so when can I get that for my pc tell me oh great one plus how the hell do you do hdr shots

Mike Reyna

Let me guess... 600+ dollars. :( Still, it looks pretty cool though!

Photohog

It's a little too spendy for the pictures I take, for around $600.00 I think I can live with Elements that I got for $40.00 on sale at Bestbuy.