Has Photoshop Cs4 jumped the Shark ?

I’ve been playing around with the trial version of CS4 for the last few days, and I have to say, it’s pretty terrible. Sorry Adobe, but I can’t sugar coat it. It’s a terrible upgrade. They moved a bunch of stuff around for no particular reason. They got rid of some things, like twain support. Why? For the love of god why? And then there’s the inertia thing when you’re panning around an image. What the hell is that about? If you’re panning an image and let go of the mouse without bringing your cursor to a complete stop first it will keep going and slowly stop. It’s a complete and utter pain and serves no purpose what so ever other than to show off. And what’s with the drop shadow on the image area? And why do adjustment layers seem to turn on and off when I zoom in or pan around. The list goes on and on. I love Photoshop but CS4 is just crap. It’s no wonder no one is upgrading.

What’s really annoying is that Scott Kelby on his blog a while ago asked readers to send in what they thought should be in the next version of Photoshop and he then compiled a list of top things that people wanted. Adobe then basically blew it off saying that they can envisage stuff that people want before people realize that they want it (I’m paraphrasing). Well, most of the things on that list would have been better than the bloat inducing un-necessary changes that they did do. Shame on you Adobe, Shame.