Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adobe Photoshop CS4 software offers more intuitive access to its unrivalled power for greater editing freedom and significant productivity enhancements so you can composite images and achieve amazing results more efficiently than ever before.
- Create powerful images with the professional standard
- Includes the new intuitive user interface and features
- More powerful printing options and multi-touch support on Mac laptops
Upgrade options
You can easily move up to Photoshop CS4 if you're currently a licensed user of a qualifying Adobe product. Just buy the appropriate upgrade software; then have your original product serial number ready when you install the upgrade.
Overview
Access the unrivalled power of Adobe Photoshop CS4 software through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements.
Photoshop CS4 features new ways to make image adjustments and create masks, more powerful compositing, improved colour correction, accelerated graphics handling, and enhanced raw image processing.
Features
Industry-leading colour correction
Enjoy dramatically enhanced control with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve colour and tone details. Make precise adjustments with Brightness/Contrast and Curves controls, the histogram, channel lines, and a clipping preview.
Multi-Touch support on Mac laptops
Pinch, swipe, rotate, zoom, and scroll with just the touch of your fingers by taking full advantage of the Multi-Touch trackpad on newer MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops (requires Mac OS X v10.5).
Adjustments panel
Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to non-destructively adjust and enhance the colour and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.
Masks panel
Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select non-contiguous objects, and more.
Non-destructive image editing
Experiment without harming your original photo. Visualise different effects and manipulate objects using non-destructive Smart Filters and Smart Objects.
Powerful printing options
Get outstanding prints with superior colour management, tight integration with leading printer models, and the ability to preview out-of-gamut image areas. Support for 16-bit printing on Mac OS offers increased colour depth and clarity.
Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4
Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.
Broad file format support
Import and export hundreds of file formats, including PSD, AI, PDF, NEF, CRW, TIFF, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, FXG, OpenEXR, PNG, and Targa.
Apple recommends for...
... professional photographers, serious amateur photographers, graphic designers & web designers.
System Requirements
Mac OS
- PowerPC G5 or multicore Intel processor
- Mac OS X v10.4.11 through v10.5.4
- 512MB of RAM (1MB recommended)
- 2GB free hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
- 1024x768 display resolution (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
- Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
- DVD-ROM drive
- QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services*
* This product may allow you to access certain features that are hosted online ("online services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection.
