Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Optimized for Apple's Power Macintosh G4

Strategic Insights -

Adobe's Photoshop 5.5, the world-standard image editing solution, has achieved remarkable performance gains with the new Power Macintosh G4 from Apple Computer. This optimization has resulted in significant speed improvements for professional users, allowing them to complete their work in half the time and giving them a competitive advantage. The combination of Adobe's professional products and the new G4 system is described as the "dream system" for professional publishers.

Key Takeaways:

  • Photoshop 5.5 with G4 optimizations is twice as fast as Photoshop 5.0 running on an Apple G3 system.
  • Specific functions have been accelerated by as much as 10 to 15 times, including lighting effects, distortion plugins, and layer blend modes.
  • The optimized lighting effects plug-in provides faster rendering of 3D lighting effects.
  • Image transformations such as resize and rotate can now be done in half the time.
  • Widely used filters such as Gaussian blur and unsharp mask perform significantly faster.
  • Color correction functions like curves and levels also perform noticeably quicker.
  • The Photoshop 5.5 "Altivec core" plug-in offers huge improvements in processor-intensive tasks.
  • Adobe is the only software developer whose G4-optimized plug-ins will be bundled with the latest Power Macintosh G4 CD-ROM.
  • The G4-optimized Photoshop 5.5 will be available to customers in any language, worldwide.

Statistics:

  • The Power Macintosh G4 offers supercomputer performance to the desktop.
  • Photoshop 5.5 can complete work in half the time, giving professional users a significant competitive advantage.
  • The optimized lighting effects plug-in provides 10 to 15 times faster rendering of 3D lighting effects.
  • The "Altivec core" plug-in offers significant improvements in processor-intensive tasks.

Sources:

  • Adobe Films and Video Interactive Group Press Release (no date, no URL provided).