Performance tweak plug-in for Photoshop CS2 Mac

John Nack on Adobe: Performance tweak plug-in for CS2 Mac available

Adobe has posted Disable VM Buffering, an optional plug-in for Photoshop CS2 (Mac only) that addresses painting pauses on machines with more than 4GB of RAM. From the ReadMe:

The Disable VM Buffering plug-in can be installed to eliminate pauses during painting on Macintosh […]

Tips for manipulating color swatches in Illustrator

Illustrator Tips: Color Swatches Swapping swatches with Photoshop; combining libraries; setting up permanent default swatches

Photoshop CS runs at 45% speed under Rosetta

Macworld: Feature: First Lab Tests: iMac with Intel Core Duo processor, Page 2

For those curious on how fast Photoshop CS runs under Rosetta – the PowerPC emulator for Intel-based Macs:

…our standard battery of 14 Photoshop CS tasks ran at 45 percent of the G5’s speed…

Flash Video Blog

Flash Video Blog – Optimizations and Tools

Fabio Sonnati shares his knowledge and tools about Flash Communication Server and Flash Video.

Create Flash animations and video with Flash 8.0 Professional.

2006 Adobe Design Achievement Awards call for entries

2006 Adobe Design Achievement Awards call for entries

Adobe Lightroom Beta

Lightroom is Adobe’s effort to engage the professional photography community in a new way, giving you the opportunity shape the feature set of a new tool being created just for you. Download the latest beta release, now supporting Intel-based Mac computers, and experience a new way to work with large volumes of digital images.

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Photoshop: Macintosh and the Intel Switch

Macintosh and the Intel switch

A good blog post on why it’s merely not a simple recompile to move Photoshop over to the Macintosh machines with Intel CPUs.