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Adobe introduces GPU accelerated Creative Suite 4
Author: Tim SmalleyPublished: 24th September 2008
Adobe has released its Creative Suite 4 product family and it includes GPU acceleration in Photoshop CS4, After Effects CS4 and Premiere Pro CS4.
The release includes six suites, along with 13 standalone products, 14 integrated technologies and seven services according to a statement released by the company.
These include Photoshop CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, InDesign CS4, Illustrator CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, Dreamweaver CS4, After Effects CS4, Premiere Pro CS4 and more.
I could spend time going on about the new features integrated into Creative Suite 4, but instead I'll leave most of that to Adobe – what I want to focus on is GPU acceleration, because this was something first demoed to us in May during a meeting at Nvidia's Santa Clara headquarters.
Following the launch, Nvidia has now spoken to us about how it will accelerate Photoshop CS4, After Effects CS4 and Premiere Pro CS4 with GeForce graphics cards.
In Photoshop CS4, Adobe uses Nvidia GeForce and Quadro GPUs to make image rotation, zooming and panning creamy smooth. In addition, 2D and 3D compositing, high-quality anti-aliasing, HDR tone mapping and colour conversion are also handled on Nvidia GPUs as well.
After Effects CS4 uses the GPU to apply real-time effects like depth of field, bilateral blur effects, turbulent noise and cartoon effects, while Nvidia GPUs accelerate image distortion, opacity colour and motion in Premiere Pro CS4. It also enables faster editing of multiple high-definition video streams and graphic overlays, according to Nvidia.
What's more Elemental—the company behind Badaboom, the CUDA-accelerated video transcoding application—has released a RapiHD plug-in for Premiere Pro CS4 that apparently increases encoding performance by a factor of seven over a CPU. I'm not sure what h.264 profile the plug-in uses, though, but we do know that the Premiere Pro plug-in is only compatible with Nvidia Quadro GPUs – GeForce users need not apply.
There's another side to this coin though and that's AMD. The company said that it was working with Adobe to accelerate Photoshop and video encoding on Radeon graphics cards during its RV770 event in Malaga. However, before going to press, we spoke to AMD to ask if it was GPU-accelerating the application and, if so, how.
An AMD representative came back to us, saying that "We are working closely with Adobe, but we are not in a position to discuss specific products at this stage. Hopefully, this means that AMD can use its Radeon graphics cards to accelerate these applications just like Nvidia has done – as soon as we know more, you'll be the first to be told.
I've uploaded videos of a few of the more interesting effects incorporated into the new applications as a result of GPU acceleration – you can see them below. In the meantime, discuss this news in the forums.
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Or does that work on a GTX280? It's not very clear from the article...
now it won't be the worlds slowest slideshow when editing high res photos and applying filters.
Yep, for all intents and purposes the code should be reasonably portable between CUDA to Stream, but I believe there will be some minor code changes required in order to move it across seamlessly. As you say, the DX11 Compute Shader will solve all of this political garbage because apps will be seamlessly portable at that point as long as the GPU supports D3D11.
...wow.
:(
break out the ban hammer.
Because every one commenting here is going to go spend >£500 on photoshop....
...some of us actually are professional graphic designers who do so....
I see Amazon has CS4 listed:
£995.99 Adobe Photoshop Extended CS4 (PC)
£207.99 Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Upgrade Edition (PC)
The question is, what's the difference between the two boxes? Is one the full suite (Acrobat, Illustrator et al) and the other a PS standalone, or do Adobe really expect home users to pay £995 else suffer Photoshop elements?
+1. I'll be buying it for certain. No doubt.
@Silver51 - One is an upgrade package for people who already own PS, you can pay a smaller fee to upgrade to the new edition.
Great way to go too. +1.
Damn... I have CS2 at work, but I guess I'll have to stick with GIMP at home :(
If it were around the £150 mark, it wouldn't have been so much of a problem.
When will I be able to accelerate Paint with my GPU? :p
Well... I sure would like to see Gimp or Paint.NET to get CUDA acceleration...
Yes, but only for Windows users. Mac users will have to wait for CS5... :p
If you are a student the prices are probably going to be significantly cheaper. CS4 Extended for Windows or Mac for me as a college student is US $300. As I do no image editing work I won't be buying it, but just figured I'd post up the student prices for the US.
I also like the GPU acceleration feature, it would be awesome if I actually needed Photoshop for something, but it is nice to see companies using GPGPU programming.
I bet they would even buy me a copy just for the production increase it would give them.
That kind of sucks. You have 3way sli to encode some home hd movies in like lets say... 3 seconds... but hey you cant because the bios name of the cards must be quadro. Maybe some nice hacker can change that software check for me. ;)
Doubtful, unless M$ convince apple DirectX is worth it - afterall 'more' graphical users are using Apples!
Though one thing that hasn't changed is the massive (unjustifiable) price descrepancy between UK and North American prices. Us poor ripped off Brits will still have to pay nearly twice the price for CS4 products, like $1668 more for Design Premium CS4!!! The uprgrade alone is more than twice the price and the difference being enough to justify flying to NY to pick one up since my licensed copy of Design Premium CS3 was bought in the States. So now I have an excuse to do my Xmas shopping in NY, which is always fun.
>_>
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Good News! GPU acceleration on the Mac works!
Bad News. It's slower , Buggy and acts like Dream weaver.
Good News! We fixed GPU acceleration on the Mac!
Bad News. We added a toggle switch to turn off GPU acceleration on the Mac!
Good News! We got X-grid!
Bad News. How many Mac Mini's does it take to do the job of a real workstation?
Good News! The New Mac Pro. 8 cores standard, up to 3.2 GHz
Bad news. (if you are a Mac) PC. 32 cores,128GB-RAM up to 6Ghz. GPU acceleration THAT WORKS! (AMD CPU's BTW)
Did i forget to mention the 64 core version of the MO-BO?
Did I mention people in multimedia get paid by the hour? :-}
Nothing quite like throwing all of their hard work back in their face and stealing the product of it all. Now, imagine if everyone was a thief like you, there would be nothing to torrent.
bottom line.
Don't worry about these guys in this market share. At most, He or she will make Some riced up image for friends or a myspace page with lukewarm graphics . The real threat is people in 3rd world country's stealing the software and selling there work to the rest of the world. even undercutting the Independent pro in the states and talking food away from his table and kids.
Photoshp is NOT like an OS that is made to be easy to use and for everyone. Photoshop takes skill! If You got those chances are, you are the 99% that actually makes a difference and a foot print. Where others just makes funny Faces and use the Fisheye tool WAY TO MUCH!
their are Some things that you just can't download. For Everything else there is Debit Mastercard