14 DAY TRIAL // A tech demo held by Adobe's Senior Product Manager John Nack over at Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara is creating quite a stir these days as a lot of sites are delivering bogus information on future installments of Photoshop and other apps included in the Creative suite.
Apparently, the spark originated from TG Daily whose article, written by Theo Valich, related the aforementioned demo. The facts are that Adobe is indeed working on OpenGL-accelerated Photoshop technology making the app run much faster and that this breakthrough will be included in a future installment. The bogus part is that TG Daily claimed "Photoshop CS4" was expected to be released on October 1.
"Earlier today I found myself over at NVIDIA, demoing some of the new OpenGL-accelerated Photoshop technology we've got cooking in the labs. The latest GPUs are just crazy-fast, and it's a great pleasure to see a 2-gigabyte, 442-Megapixel Photoshop file gliding around like buttah," John Nack wrote on May 22.
TG Daily published their article one day later. "According to information we were given, all of these new features are part of the next-gen Photoshop, which should be a part of the 'CS Next' suite. The package is expected to be released on October 1," the author wrote.
Another day later, John Nack attempts to clear things up on his blog. Here's what he had to say: "It seems that news of the demo I did the other day (a repeat of what we'd shown publicly three weeks earlier) is bouncing all around the online tech press. People are excited that the Photoshop team is exploring ways to make the app feel faster and smoother, and that's all good. What's irritating, though, is just how much bogus info is getting invented, passed around, and swallowed without question."
He continues: "Gizmodo is repeating info found on a site called TG Daily, stating that 'Photoshop CS4' (a term that I've never heard anyone from Adobe use publicly) is expected to be released on October 1. Uhh... expected by whom? And based on what?"
The conclusion: "I didn't say anything about schedule. In fact, I never said that any of this stuff is promised to go into any particular version of Photoshop. Rather, as with previous installments, it's a technology demonstration of some things we've got cooking--nothing more."
GPU acceleration has been around for some time now, but few applications actually use it to free Central Processing Unit (CPU) resources. If Adobe's engineers manage to tap into the GPU's power (and, apparently, they did) and implement this concept in future versions of the popular graphics editor, the improvement will be substantial.
So, don't start saving money for "Photoshop CS4" just yet or October 1 will come as a big disappointment and probably wreck the entire month. It's not worth it!