http://timeout101.com/adobe Your source for all the best Adobe Blogs on the planet ... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:22:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Original Post: Living Photoshop Feed URL:: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/atom.xml Photoshop World - Heavy Lifting Well, another Photoshop World come and gone.  This year Adam Jerugim and I did a presentation on setting up a machine for doing very large file work.  Thank you again to those who attended - we were up against some interesting ... http://timeout101.com/adobe/photoshop-world-heavy-lifting/ Original Post: Living Photoshop Feed URL:: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/atom.xml 64 bits...when? I've gotten a number of questions on the beta forums as to why Photoshop CS3 won't have a 64-bit version.  It's definitely a when question, not an if, and there are a lot of factors involved.  I though I might collect some of the ... http://timeout101.com/adobe/64-bitswhen/ Original Post: Living Photoshop Feed URL:: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/atom.xml Beta! It's real.  A big, public beta of Photoshop CS3.  Now, if you own CS2, you can see what's been keeping us so busy lately. Now, you can read all about features on other sites - I don't think this needs to be yet another me ... http://timeout101.com/adobe/beta/ Original Post: Living Photoshop Feed URL:: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/atom.xml Vegas, baby! Ah, Photoshop World!  A chance to see some of the wacky and wonderful ways people use Photoshop in their work.  And, of course, to listen and watch for the kinds of problems people see in their everyday work. I'll be there, and so will several ... http://timeout101.com/adobe/vegas-baby/ Original Post: Living Photoshop Feed URL:: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/atom.xml Macintosh and the Intel switch. By now you have probably figured out that we aren't releasing Universal Binaries of our current application versions.  If you haven't, all you need to know is pretty explicitly spelled out here. "But, c'mon", I hear people saying, "Steve said it ... http://timeout101.com/adobe/macintosh-and-the-intel-switch/ Original Post: Living Photoshop Feed URL:: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/atom.xml Reap what you Measure You reap what you measure.  Measure twice cut once.  Don't tweak without measuring. So you want Photoshop to perform faster?  You're gonna want to measure.  But measure what? There are many things on a system that can go wrong.  You can run ... http://timeout101.com/adobe/reap-what-you-measure/ Original Post: Living Photoshop Feed URL:: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/atom.xml Modifiers Modifiers.  I have a love-hate relationship with modifiers.  On the one hand, they allow instant access to a lot of functionality in a way that's easy to manipulate with your non-dominant hand.  On the other hand, they have, in the past, hidden useful functionality in ... http://timeout101.com/adobe/modifiers/ Original Post: Living Photoshop Feed URL:: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/atom.xml Shovelware So, by this point we hopefully have all heard about spyware, adware, malware. And we all know that this is nasty stuff, and that we should avoid having it on our systems - they tend to slow things down, eat resources, get in the ... http://timeout101.com/adobe/shovelware/ Original Post: Living Photoshop Feed URL:: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/atom.xml The Sad State of Hardware I (vaguely) remember when I was a young, naive programmer, and I assumed that compilers could essentially do no wrong. Gosh, if something was broken or didn’t work right, it must be my fault. Of course, that assumption didn’t ... http://timeout101.com/adobe/the-sad-state-of-hardware/ Original Post: Living Photoshop Feed URL:: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/atom.xml A Good Day Photoshop pushes a machine harder than most programs. It’s part of squeezing out as much performance from a machine as possible. Sometimes that means marginal hardware can show problems that look an awful lot like software bugs but aren’t. Or, ... http://timeout101.com/adobe/a-good-day/