Photoshop 8

[Craig Hunter]

Hi,

Anyone got any idea when Photoshop 8 might be ready? I read that one of the
new features will be nested layer sets.. which will be such a great help.

Regards,
Craig Hunter

[Colin Walls]

Adobe have not announced anything.

[Robert Oliver]

Beta testers would not be allowed to tell us anything--they are under an NDA.

As to Photoshop 8's arrival. Best guess would be this Fall, but that's only an educated guess. Most major Adobe apps have a 1.5 year cycle between updates.

[Pierre Courtejoie]

A good time to officially launch a product would be at an huge graphic-related fair...

[Ken Nielsen •]

Photoshop will be here in the next three years for sure. Why not buy 7 now, update to 7.0.1 and then upgrade to 8 in a year or so with all that v.7 experience under your belt?

[Lawrence Hudetz]

Because 8 MAY be a true upgrade.

[dave milbut]

if you buy 7 now, changes are you'll get 7.01. but I agree with larry, if dave L. has no problem waiting, i'd bet ps8'll be along sooner rather than later.

[Ol' Whozit]

If you're not an upgrade junkie, wait. The differences from 6 to 7 aren't all that fantastic, and you will get those PLUS when 'X' is released...(Is PS 'X' different from '8'?)

[nospam]

No book publishers always replace the version number with an X for a book
related to an unannounced product. Unless Adobe does something stupid and
drops the numbers and goes to something like Photoshop XP X is 8.

R

[John Waller]

>Unless Adobe does something stupid and

> drops the numbers and goes to something like Photoshop XP.

Well it was good enough for Microsoft and Macromedia... ;-)

At least by using names, rather than predictable numbering schemes, it's a
little more difficult for the rumour mill to search the web for info e.g. do
I search for "Photoshop 8" or "Photoshop ???" in Google?


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Regards

John Waller

[Lawrence Hudetz]

Is that for real, Len?

Oh, I see. Wait until it is announced. So, why buy Seven then? Is there a long delivery time between announcement and delivery?

[Don McCahill]

Lawrence ... it could be as much as three months. Adobe don't preannounce too far in advance, but as soon as they do, they offer the free updates, to prevent sales for dying during the interval.

So it is not so important not to buy the day before the new version comes out, as to make sure you don't buy the day before the new version is announced.

(And if Robert is right in guessing this fall for a release, then an announcement could happen soon ... perhaps at the Fall Comdex or Seybold shows?)

[Patty Clarke]

I think this would be an entertaining and interesting topic, sort of like walking down "memory lane..."

I'm new to Photoshop at version 7. What was the most "orgasmic" (non-sexual connotation) added feature for you between versions. The one that you were SO EXCITED about.

Patty

[Cheesefood]

Patty,

I'll tell you one thing I was not excited about, and that's the Desktop and Taskbar Icon. Adobe's new look for their Icons is frustrating. I have PS, PM, ID and AI on my machine, and their icons are too similar, too busy and use the same color scheme. I get frustrated when I open the wrong program because I don't remember what the icon was changed to.

As for PS 7, I like the new Web Photo Gallery tool. It's much better than 6.0. The healing brush is nice, but my job doesn't call for me to use it as much.

I like IR better in 6 than in 7. The rollover and animation pallets were much easier to work with in 6.

What is 7.0's "money shot"? Don't think it has one. Version 6.0, on the other hand, is the Ron Jeremy of Photoshops.

[YrbkMgr]

Ditto what TDO said. Healing brush, Patch Tool, Pattern Maker, File Browser (being able to run batch actions against what you select in File Browser), The Workspaces.

What they changed that I DON'T like is how the scroll wheel of the mouse now scrolls the image up and down instead of zooming - man that rots.

[nospam]

There is also a Photoshop show coming up back east. I saw it advertised in
an e-mail from PeachPit Press. It is later Sep. early Oct (I think) this
could be a good time to announce too.

I suspect we will hear something in the next 30 to 90 days. But, that like
most other things is a guess.

R

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

I did upgrade just for the Healing brush Bill, but all the other extras are greatly apreciated, such as the file browser. I can set up yot keys for my mouse, and asign keys to those buttons, Guess i could do this to zoom, but Im a navigator man.

[Patty Clarke]

Hey thanks for the input guys.

Tony,

Glad to hear that you like and utilize the file browser. The teacher at school totally skipped that chapter in the book because she said it was "useless." It wasn't until last week when I was reading Scott Kelby's Photoshop for Digital Photographers that I "learned" that it was a feature with "value." Haven't had time to play with it yet. Any words of wisdom, or is it pretty straight forward with no real "pitfalls" to beware of??

I think it would have been better for the teacher to have said, I don't find it useful rather than labeling it as garbage.
You know when you're new at something, you take your "teacher's" words as gospel.

Patty

[Colin Walls]

I observe at <http://www.photoshopworld.com/> that it's very end of Sept. And they promise: "the first in-depth look at new Photoshop technology ... amazing Photoshop effects, hilarious fun, and some really big surprises."

Soooooooo....

[dave milbut]

really big surprises.




Dateline Photoship World 2003:

"Abode announced today that it is dropping support for the Macitush and Winders platforms and will be releasing the much anticipated Photship 8 as open source, GPL'd PhotoshipNix for Linix systems only."