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License:
Free to try; $999.00 to buy (Buy it now)
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Downloads:
12,138,697
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Additional Requirements:
No additional requirements
- Limitations:
30-day trial
- Date Added:
January 19, 2009
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Publisher's description of Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
From Adobe Systems:Photoshop CS4 Extended offers unrivaled digital-image-editing power. New Adjustments and Masks panels slash the time it takes you to make nondestructive color and tone adjustments, and to create and re-edit feathered, density-controlled pixel and vector masks. With on-image controls and presets, there's less time mousing between settings. Fine modifications are faster and easier with additions like the new Vibrance adjustment layer and enhanced Color Range mask creation. And Content- Aware Scaling is the revolutionary new feature that automatically recomposes an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as it adapts to the new dimensions.
CS4 Extended also provides tools for increased productivity. Work more efficiently and naturally with fluid, natural canvas rotation, enhanced pan and zoom tools, and effortless large-image navigation. Vastly improved Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools let you intelligently and accurately adjust the exposure and color of image areas using simple brush strokes. Photoshop CS4 tools combine increased power and finer control with easier, more naturally controlled effects to boost productivity, no matter how you work with digital images.
New in CS4 are breakthrough 3D, motion graphics, and image analysis capabilities. In Photoshop CS4 Extended, you can now work with 3D objects and video frames as easily as with any traditional image. Paint directly on 3D objects. Combine 2D layers and video files into 3D layers. Easily convert any image into a 3D object or volume. And do it all with a brand new 3D engine that provides dramatic performance and capability improvements. In motion graphics, singlekey shortcuts let you move through and edit video layers faster and more precisely than before, and new controls enable you to preview and export audio tracks as well. Image analysis improvements include multiple counts with the Count tool and volume rendering of DICOM files.
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Editor's review of Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
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- "Photoshop CS3 improves help and video support"
- Version reviewed: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
Photoshop is the professional standard in digital imaging, with an endless selection of drawing tools, filters, and color-adjustment capabilities for manipulating items in almost any way. Originally designed for bitmap images, Photoshop lets you create eye-catching typography by placing text on paths or within shapes, perform shadow and highlight correction, explore expanded color-matching features, parlay efficient layer comps, and preview, search, and share images. Oh, and it's also the premiere program for managing home digital printing.
CS3 Extended includes support for rendering and integrating 3D images into 2D composites and video layer editing. There's also a greatly modified help menu to take the edge off your learning curve, with built-in how-to's on Preparing Art for Other Applications, Printing Photos, Working with Color and Type, and more. From simply lightening dark photos to improving color and contrast, to adding objects or people that weren't originally in the picture, Photoshop is an excellent tool whose innovative features meet any professional need.
Though it's an excellent software tool, the trial version demands a lot of download time, hard drive space, and RAM for rendering and other heavy tasks. However, the trial is fully functional, letting you edit, save, print, and export files, making it easier to assess this expensive product. Keep in mind that Photoshop has a steep learning curve, so great results take time and training.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 399 votes
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Version: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
"Well they came up with some new stuff."
Pros: Its first of its kind.
Cons: Just because they came up with new technology for the first time, they simply setting up ground to make money with those who cant stop them self from buying itch unless otherwise one has a profitable business with that kind of requirement.
Summary: Whether its really make money for you? Do you have business plan in place to get benefited out of it? or just because you are habituated to buy new things you are buying it? (Most have this weakness and usually corporates encash this kind of human i... read more >>
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Version: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
"Looks Like Very Awesome Software"
Pros: It looks like a very good editing program for anyone who is interested in image editing.
Cons: my computer doesn't meet their system requirements.
Summary: I bought it, then when i was installing it, it said that my computer needed something, and it wouldn't install. Now i'm trying to sell it, so if anyone is interested, email me at firetruckonyou@yahoo.com, and we'll talk.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
Pros: it is easy has quality work
Cons: but really $1000.00? i wouldnt pay for that in 1000 years how about bringing down the price about $700.00
Summary: great but too expensive
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
"Expensive but high quality photo editing tool"
Pros: + algorithms used in blurring, patch tools, resizing, etc are powerful, intelligent. Results are high quality
+ Advanced users have lots of fine control over their images
+ New tab structure in CS4 makes it easy to work on more than one image at onceCons: - Expensive.
- Overwhelming for beginners, the sheer amount of features make it hard to pick up overnight
- No inbuilt help in product, help function redirects to a webpage which requires net access (Uses Ion+)Summary: Almost everyone knows what photoshop is, even people who aren't designers or artists. I think Photoshop CS4 lives up to expectations, even if it's not really that different compared to last version.
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Version: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
"Too expensive just for a software."
Pros: It is, a good photo editing program.
Cons: In my opinion, you don't get what you pay for.
Summary: Adobe Photoshop is a very popular photo editing program, as we all know. Yes, it's very good, the results looked very professional, but in my opinion, just paying $999 for a piece of photo editing software really isn't worth the penny. It's even mor... read more >>
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