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AMD Delivers Peak Performance for Key Features in Latest Photoshop CC Release

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AMD today announced that it has delivered significant optimizations in the graphics processing pipeline to increase performance for powerful creative features and workflows in the newest version of Adobe Photoshop CC. Use of both OpenCL and OpenGL standards enables Adobe Photoshop CC to directly tap the compute and graphics processing capabilities of AMD FirePro Professional Graphics, AMD Radeon Graphics, and AMD A-Series APUs to unlock new levels of performance in the Smart Sharpen filter, and provide highly responsive, visually accurate experiences for the new 3D printing workflows, and transformations such as Perspective Warp.

"Compute performance is essential to effective creative workflows," said Steve Belt, corporate vice president, Strategic Alliances & Platform Enablement, AMD. "An efficient, speedy process is often the difference between successfully capturing inspiration and seeing flashes of brilliance ebb away. That is the real essence of what the AMD-Adobe collaboration achieves. Together we continually find ways to successfully tap open standards in order to deliver the highest levels of performance for the most sophisticated new tools like those unveiled today in Photoshop CC."



This new version of Photoshop CC, a key offering of Adobe Creative Cloud, builds on the success of its predecessor, which leveraged OpenCL to power the Blur Gallery. The new updated version of the Smart Sharpen feature leverages the power of OpenCL parallel processing to take direct advantage of AMD GPUs and APUs to accelerate the entire Smart Sharpen pipeline -- including the broad palette of user-controlled options for achieving perfect results such as Amount, Radius, Reduce Noise, and algorithm choice. AMD's latest graphics technology can increase application performance up to 11 times the performance of non-OpenCL implementations and enables a lightning-fast editing experience, even with large images.

The latest version of Photoshop CC also brings new OpenGL pipeline support in AMD APUs and GPUs to enhance the responsiveness and display quality for new, high-value features including:
  • Perspective Warp - OpenGL performance provides virtually instant feedback for this new feature that enables users to selectively adjust the perspective of portions of an image in relation to other elements that remain untouched.
  • 3D Printing - OpenGL performance enhances the experience of working with the powerful new 3D printing capabilities in Photoshop CC by providing rapid visual feedback as 3D models are enhanced as well as accurate, WYSIWYG previews and fast mesh repair and 3D print preparation.

"We rely on OpenCL and OpenGL technologies to provide our customers superior performance and to take full advantage of all the power their hardware provides," said Pam Clark, director of product management at Adobe. "Working with AMD, we can leverage open standards to deliver the fastest and best experience for our Photoshop customers."

These new Photoshop features accelerated by AMD are just the latest developments of a long-standing collaboration that has brought dozens of hardware accelerated features to Photoshop including the Blur Gallery of effects, Puppet Warp, Liquify and many more.

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To bad the entire Adobe suite is now a monthly payment. Ill stay with Adobe CS6 until my OS can't run it anymore. There is NO WAY I am paying monthly for a program.

What's funny is I talk to people all around my industry and they all agree. There is zero willingness to pay monthly. I am curious how long they will continue this business model.

With all that being said these "enhancements" will only benefit a very small percentage of Adobe users. This seems more PR than anything.
 
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To bad the entire Adobe suite is now a monthly payment. Ill stay with Adobe CS6 until my OS can't run it anymore. There is NO WAY I am paying monthly for a program.

What's funny is I talk to people all around my industry and they all agree. There is zero willingness to pay monthly. I am curious how long they will continue this business model.

With all that being said these "enhancements" will only benefit a very small percentage of Adobe users. This seems more PR than anything.

i discovered jasc paint shop pro long ago and never looked back at photoshop since.. (it belongs to corel these days).

i click NO everytime a window pops up at the start of system encouraging me to visit their site and update the mighty FLASH plugin, lol.. way to starve adobe skinny ppl out.
 
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To bad the entire Adobe suite is now a monthly payment. Ill stay with Adobe CS6 until my OS can't run it anymore. There is NO WAY I am paying monthly for a program.

What's funny is I talk to people all around my industry and they all agree. There is zero willingness to pay monthly. I am curious how long they will continue this business model.

With all that being said these "enhancements" will only benefit a very small percentage of Adobe users. This seems more PR than anything.

This pay-to-use rather than buy-a-copy licensing model reflects the company's view of their future: running out of ideas how to innovate the product to sell more in the future. Adobe is so worried that they have reached the end of the development and upgrade path - that in 3 or 4 years time they cannot find a reason for users to buy a new copy or upgrade an existing product - that they have gone down this licensing route. They are foregoing sales revenues this year for the lock-in of income in years 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 ...

I too dislike the CC model. Not just for software, but for data. Serious enthusiasts and serious companies do not use "the cloud". They have their own software, they can work 100% offline, and they manage their own data backup and archiving. "Cloud" is just a way for the consumer and small business user to scale capability without IT departments. Enthusiasts love to be in control. International companies *must* be in total control of their business processes.
 
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i discovered jasc paint shop pro long ago and never looked back at photoshop since.. (it belongs to corel these days).

i click NO everytime a window pops up at the start of system encouraging me to visit their site and update the mighty FLASH plugin, lol.. way to starve adobe skinny ppl out.

I own jasc paint shop pro 6 and 9 and its amazing, I use it all the time for any non-serious photo editing.
 

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i discovered jasc paint shop pro long ago and never looked back at photoshop since.. (it belongs to corel these days).

i click NO everytime a window pops up at the start of system encouraging me to visit their site and update the mighty FLASH plugin, lol.. way to starve adobe skinny ppl out.
Nothing by Corel was ever worth my time. Adobe and Micromedia (before they were bought by Adobe) were industry standard.
 
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I used Corel in school, 1996 I think. It was on a mac, and man could I get high ummm, draw awesome shapes and colors for art projects.

You can buy the last year edition of Adobe for cheap, or there is Gimp, or paint.net, or many others that work as well, hell even excel can render art.
 
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