Well Photoshop CS5 has been released – all praise to Adobe – well that is how it feels at the moment. However, what does a photographer get out of the new CS5 that CS4 doesn’t provide? I have no answer to this rhetorical question other than to say in all things software if you don’t keep with developments it is very easy to drop behind. Another rhetorical question – is that a problem? After all all you are interested in is producing a photograph rather than the more prosaic design features – such as enhanced 3D which seems to be where CS5 has really had a lot of work put into it. I don’t use 3D and are not likely to do so – also too much manipulation is frowned upon in many of the competitions I enter. So the motivation to upgrade is not there.
Perhaps the way forward is to upgrade Lightroom which should be in the near future. There are two reasons for this. This first is cost and the second is usability. Lightroom is central to the way I handle my work and to an extent is more indispensable than Photoshop. No doubt I will get both sets of software over the next few months but not just yet.
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