Adobe Photoshop CS4
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop CS4
Customer Review: Horrible service from Adobe
Summary: 1 Stars
I had a nightmare experience with Adobe Tech support. This review describes this experience and says nothing about the product itself, so be advised.
I tried installing this one Sunday night, and it finished with a message "Done, but with errors." It would not run. I called Adobe and learned they are only open during weekdays, during the hours I am at work (unlike many of their competitors, who offer 24 hour tech support). So, the next day I left work early and went home and called Adobe. The tech support guy was very rude, was not interested in hearing what error I got, and instead had me delete all of my Adobe products and many other files from various directories. Then he told me he was leaving for the day and that Adobe Tech Support was now closed and hung up. I kid you not. I tried installing Photoshop again and got exactly the same error as the first time. My system would now no longer run properly, since the tech guy had me delete several things and hung up without helping me reinstall them.
So, the next day I took off from work and called Adobe again. This time a different tech support guy had me go through a different set of procedures, but once more when I tried installing it I got the same error as before. He told me he didn't know what was going on and would escalate the problem. He said that someone would call me within two hours. Well, no one from Adobe has EVER called me.
I used the internet to research the problem myself and was able to eventually install Photoshop successfully after many hours of work on my own and after taking off a day and a half from work. Adobe Tech Support was more than useless, they were actually destructive.
It is amazing to me that a company like Adobe can behave like this and stay in business.
Customer Review: From Gimp to Adobe, A gentle ride.
Summary: 5 Stars
Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 4. Wow, I've really crossed over into a whole new world from Gimp and all my other Open Source software.
Don't get me wrong, Open source software is great and in most cases very well assembled and very useful, even for commercial Projects. but Lets face it, It's not, in many cases, Commercial Grade or industry standard software.
Adobe is the Main option for many Industries that need to have image creation and manipulation more robust then MS paint or simple Photo cleanup and red eye removal. I see Adobe Photoshop CS4 does that as well.
I got this because my classes starting in August will be centered around 3D art production and projects, and part of the class revolve around texture creation and manipulation with Photoshop CS3/CS4. In fact this class is centered around the entire work flow where Photoshop is an impotent component of this work flow. the other part of this tool box being Maya 2009 (which along with this I bough as well) and a digital Camera. The only thing I didn't buy was a Wacom, not quite as required for homework, as these two programs.
The transition from my native Gimp to Adobe has been really quite gentle and pleasant as a lot of the same concepts and work flows remain the same it seems to me. Layers are still layer, channels are still channels and there a whole lot of things I can do with Photoshop that are masked in mystery in Gimp.
Great program this is...
Customer Review: I LOVE CS4. IF YOUR GONNA START, START HERE!
Summary: 5 Stars
FOR VETERAN USERS, THE CHOICE IS YOURS. FOR THOSE JUST STARTING, THIS PROGRAM MAKES IT EASY TO LEARN WITH. I HAD NO EXPERIENCE WITH PHOTOSHOP WHATSOEVER! THIS PROGRAM FELT COMFORTABLE.
I CANT COMPARE THIS TO OTHER VERSIONS. IM JUST GONNA SAY WHAT I THINK ABOUT THIS PRODUCT.
I HAVE PURCHASED THIS PRODUCT FOR THE DIGITAL ART MEDIUM, BUT I PUT THAT ON HOLD TO DISCOVER EVERYTHING I CAN ABOUT THIS PROGRAM. I LOVE TAKING PICTURES TOO AND I WOULD BE A FOOL NOT TO LEARN THE FEATURES OF THIS PROGRAM.
YOU CAN NEVER LEARN EVERYTHING ABOUT PHOTOSHOP, BUT I DIDNT WANT TO MISS OUT ON ANYTHING I THOUGHT MIGHT BE OF USE TO ME. THE CS4 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK HELPS TREMENDOUSLY IF YOU ARE A BEGINNER
Customer Review: adobe gamma plugin missing from photoshoip CS4
Summary: 1 Stars
i would never buy anything technical or electronic from amazon.com again. it took me many months after buying this software to realize a very important plugin was missing from this dvd. now i have to go through hoops to get a replacement for this defective productCustomer Review: Overpriced for what it does.
Summary: 1 Stars
I wont be buying Adobe anymore. The software is obsolete after a few years. You can't upgrade to CS4 extended, I also had CS2 and found plug- ins wouldn't work with it anymore. However if you buy Photoshop elements 7 for about 100 bucks, then you can use new plug-ins and it uses the same engine as the full blown photoshop versions. So buy elements and newer plug-ins to do the job. Amazing, photoshop is such a good program that you have to buy alot of aftermarket plugins that are better software. The old artistic filters are still being used. Probably why their sales are taking a hit in the stock market too.