


The palette area features all the tools for manipulating the picture. The parameters panel displays which tool is currently selected for use. The toolbar contains all the tools that may be used to edit a picture. It provides access to the main menu commands and interface management. Some graphics professionals move.Opinion in the creative/design world is that Apple is a 2nd rate platform for high end photo editing.Convenient control panel. Photoshop CS4 on Mac is an inferior product for two years. say, "Want Photoshop? Use Photoshop Express." build their own Photoshop.and Illustrator, InDesign, Flash to add to Final Cut (Premiere) and Aperture (Lightroom). suddenly support Flash on iPod Touch/iPhone.and maybe Adobe suddenly has the ability to port to Cocoa. deploy the Apple dev team to rescue CS4 圆4.like they did with Quark Xpress 6.5 Adobe is, for what its worth, in a battle with Microsoft over the Silverlight/AIR development platform so it doesn't need any more enemies. Check this MacRumors forum for more information on this issue.Īdobe is probably genuinely unable to deliver the product. So is this whole Photoshop 64-bit thing part of a behind the scenes Apple-Adobe war? Possibly.but Nack seems pretty genuine in his concerns and specifically says "no this isn't part of an Adobe-Apple War." The story is that Adobe was told that going to Carbon was the way to go for them by Apple (as opposed to Cocoa which supports 64-bit memory addressing) - then Apple dropped 64-bit support for Carbon. Video on the web and PDF rendering are perhaps the stakes in this battle.

Apple may even be trying to circumvent Flash on the iPhone altogether with new CSS and Webpage tricks. Apple isn't putting Flash on the iPhone to the dismay of Adobe and it looks like Adobe won't even be able to build a Flash program for the SDK. There are Flash problems that are causing browser crashes. Perhaps related to the Quark bailout (or Aperture/Final Cut Pro) is that Apple and Adobe haven't been getting along too well lately. While this might have upset Quark's competitor, Adobe, it assured the Mac platform that Quark would remain on the Mac - thus stopping (some) Quark users from switching to PC (or InDesign). They brought in their development team and has Quark up to speed in a matter of months. This news probably has Steve Jobs on the phone right now deploying his crack application development team.Ī few years back when Quark was totally incapable of moving its Xpress platform to OSX (the original owner had sold the company and the new owners weren't up to the task), Apple had to step in. Playing second fiddle to Windows isn't going to go down well, if at all, in Cupertino.
