Adobe CS4 Downloads are available.

[ATNO/TW]

November 17th, 2008, 8:21 am

Not certain what day they were actually released, but it appears CS4 downloads are now available for all products.

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/?PID=2294914

[graphixboy]

November 17th, 2008, 8:27 am

Time to start playing

[spork]

November 17th, 2008, 10:48 am

And paying :/

[SB]

November 17th, 2008, 12:29 pm

Why bother? the rate Adobe are issuing CS software i am convinced CS5 will be out before the turn of the year.

November 17th, 2008, 2:13 pm

I agree with SB, I did not even pay alot of attention to the new Adobe products lately but still I did notice how fast they released new product versions.

End of the year till CS5 comes? I think that's a bit early, but I guess it will only take a month or 3 for them to release it. Or they will give it a new flashy name to make people think it's 100% new.

[graphixboy]

November 17th, 2008, 4:08 pm

I think it really depends on why/how much you use the software. For instance I have Photoshop open and in use most of the day. The GPU offloading in CS4 will save me a huge chunk of time so I'm pretty happy that Adobe rolled out some updates and new features now instead of waiting several months.

Also the adobe roadmap says new releases every 18 months which is pretty much on par for most other software we use. Think how fast hardware changes. Imagine if you had a BlueRay drive but software was only released every 3 years you'd be stuck watching standard def for quite a while.

[ATNO/TW]

November 17th, 2008, 4:19 pm

I'm kinda with graphixboy. at some point in the day there's usually some adobe product open and working on something. In fact as I type this I'm editing a training video on how to make homemade pasta on my other laptop with Premiere Pro. These actually came at a really good time cause I can evaluate these trials on this spare notebook while my other is in for service.

[spork]

November 17th, 2008, 4:42 pm

*remembers that I get a massive student discount on Adobe products*

woot!

[digitalMedia]

November 18th, 2008, 4:27 am

spork wrote:

*remembers that I get a massive student discount on Adobe products*

woot!

You said "woot".

*remembers that my company is generous with software updates*

[George L.]

November 18th, 2008, 6:02 am

spork wrote:

*remembers that I get a massive student discount on Adobe products*

woot!

Are there any specific criteria I have to present, for them to verify me as a student?. I just e-mailed the customer service this morning about discount rate. I wonder if they would select students only from the America, or any continents.

[joebert]

November 18th, 2008, 6:03 am

*grumbles* -- Linux.

I hope Adobe reacts to everyone whining about Linux CS support like they did to AMD64 flash player support cries.

[SB]

November 18th, 2008, 3:53 pm

At no point was i ever complaining about the consistent release of new CS software. I figured i should make that a bit clear

November 19th, 2008, 6:33 am

joebert wrote:

*grumbles* -- Linux.

I hope Adobe reacts to everyone whining about Linux CS support like they did to AMD64 flash player support cries.

rofl.. joe, that took at least, what..4? 5? years.. for them to react. and that was just flash.. some piddly little 1MB download >.<

[joebert]

November 19th, 2008, 9:05 am

Realisticly, I don't see Adobe moving any of their flagship products to Linux because of licensing issues.

I think the majority of companies who produce commercial software are afraid of Linux because they feel releasing anything for use on Linux means giving it away for free.

I'm thinking the only reason Adobe has done anything with the flash player on linux is because the player itself is open source & bringing the player to more desktops just means a larger target audience for the people who buy their commercial offerings.


On a side-note, I was just going through my RSS feeds, it seems that Adobe has released previews for a good dozen or so products at Adobe Labs recently.

November 24th, 2008, 2:47 am

I guess this wasn't the most sought after version as CS3 was working really fine. Well, have to just wait and see for ourselves whats in store for us....