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Real-World Productivity for Imaging Professionals
t Overall, Adobe Creative Suite 4
can save an imaging professional
hours of work every month, quickly
paying for the upgrade through
increased productivity.
t Photoshop CS4: The Adjustments Panel ...................................... 3
Photoshop CS4 accelerates non-destructive adjustments.
t Photoshop CS4: Managing Masks ............................................... 4
The new Masks Panel in Photoshop CS4 helps you save a lot of time when
working with masks.
t Bridge CS4: Manage Images More Efficiently .............................. 5
Sorting, choosing and managing large volumes of images can be slow going,
but Bridge CS4 can save you a lot of time.
t Photoshop CS4: OpenGL Support ................................................ 6
OpenGL support in Photoshop CS4 can speed up several frequent tasks by
taking advantage of your sophisticated graphics hardware.
t Adobe CS4 User Interface: Tabbed Windows ................................ 7
Find out how the new tabbed window management in Photoshop CS4
and other Creative Suite 4 applications speeds up working with multiple
documents.
t Creative Potential: The Magic of Content-Aware Scaling .............. 8
Photoshop CS4 has some new tricks for complex retouching operations.
t The Bigger Picture ...................................................................... 9
How Creative Suite 4 helps you save time and money.
t About the Benchmarks ............................................................. 10
How do we go about measuring productivity? Find out more about the
methodology and the techniques used to provide a reliable assessment of
productivity gains.
Introduction
is document presents key ndings
of a benchmarking project designed to
assess the impact of Adobe Creative
Suite 4 on the productivity of creative
professionals.
Benchmarks were designed to
measure how specic functions speed
up everyday tasks. For details on
the methodology used to conduct
these benchmarks, see “About the
Benchmarks” at the end of this report.
is report focuses specically
on features and functionality
geared towards the digital imaging
professional. Design, web design and
development of interactive content,
and video production are covered in
three separate reports.
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