Did Adobe change the Brushes engine from CS3 to CS4?
Is Adobe taking "illustrators" in mind during the PS development?
We need better and realistic natural media controls, like watercolours (what about Moxi?),impasto, etc.; a colour wheel could be better than the actual color palettes, some palette to put a selection of brushes.
Could we hope that the "artistic" side of Photoshop will be improved soon?
Regards
Corel Painter would be more for that. Their strong suit is natural media. Painter 11 is due out in March,and you might want to have a look at it. Link <http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1166553885783#tabview=tab0>
Of course, Corel Painter is the first example when we think in software for illustrators, I've used for more than a year, it's an awesome program but I prefer Photoshop and back to it when created my first "Artistic Brushes Pack" and discovered that the brushes engine in PS is powerful (but could be too much better!).
We all, including the PS developers, know that a lot of professional illustrators use the software to work in art, why not to improve that area?
Photoshop started as a Photo Editor but actually is much more than that.
On your CS4 brush engine question,I do not see a difference from CS3,but you can download the trial version to see if I haven't missed something.
Then at this point you can let Adobe know what in your judgment would make a better brush engine. I wouldn't know how long that would take if it gets on their to-do list.
CS4 also allows custom Flash Panels. John Nack's blog has a color picker panel. I think Flash Panels are promising,you get to add what you want. Perhaps a better brush engine is do-able there.
<http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/12/photoshop_gets_1.html>
Chris Cox said: Photoshop serves many people in many different areas.
We try to support illustration, but can't devote the entire application
to it. The same goes for prepress, photographers, astronomers, doctors,
etc.
That's right Chris, I know it, but it feels like there's not too much improvements in the "artistic side" of Photoshop, I was talking with lots of colleagues (illustrators) that have the same idea and are hoping to have "some" more tools, mainly from the brushes engine.
I know that Adobe owns Moxi, a fantastic Watercolour engine, maybe you're working behind the walls to give us a nice surprise! ;-)
Anyway, thanks for your reply!
It's kind of fun if you are a Photoshop Geek,dave.
ya. i played with the demo. not long enough though! :)
made a button panel of some of my oft-used commands.
I've been waiting for and seconding requests for that since at least version 6!
time to jump i guess. :)
We are listening to all of our market segments. We are getting improvements in for all of them. But not every segment is going to get a huge feature in every release.
Moxi - nice demos, but scales horribly. They're still working on it.
Remember that just because something has a nice demo (or a paper at SIGGRAPH) does not mean it is ready to ship in a commercial product that has to work across a wide range of hardware, OS versions, document sizes, etc. Sometimes we can come up with better algorithms and make it work -- but that takes time. And sometimes there's just no good way to make them work.
As I said before, I've used Corel's Painter (and Ambient Design's Artrage too) and even with the impressive number of tools designed specifically for graphic artists I prefer to work in PS, 'cause it's stability, an easy to understand GUI and the open range of possibilities; right! ... but a couple of improvements in the Brushes engine will be more than Welcome! ;-)
(please, don't misunderstand me, I fully recognize the giant improvements in the last ten years)
Thanks for your time Chris!
We aren't completely ignoring brushing - but there's more to illustration than a brush engine. We have a lot of research ongoing in the area of brusing, and natural media effects -- but they aren't quite ready for prime time. (and the old saw about "computers will get faster and make it usable", well, that stopped about 5 years ago)