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phobos · Dec 21, 2002, 04:55 PM

Ii have no actual benchmarks but the whole working experience with 10.2.3 on photoshop is much much much better.FIle menus selecting tools with shortcuts and generally everything seems faster!!! Wow. I haven't tested this with big files but with some small work I had to do today. I'll get back tommorow with my experience on the 450MB file I'm working on on another project.
I don't know what caused this but whatever it is I hope it gets better with some new OSX updates

suhail · Dec 21, 2002, 07:06 PM

I didn't test the speed aspect yet, but I already lost the SpaceBar feature which is suppose to bring the HandTool

It is becoming a real annoyance�

issa · Dec 21, 2002, 08:33 PM

suhail - the space bar continues to bring up the hand tool in Photoshop 7 under 10.2.3 on my machines. Maybe you had some haxie installed that is disturbing things?

snerdini · Dec 22, 2002, 12:54 AM

Originally posted by issa:
suhail - the space bar continues to bring up the hand tool in Photoshop 7 under 10.2.3 on my machines. Maybe you had some haxie installed that is disturbing things?

It's not a 10.2.3 thing, it's happened to me intermittedly since 10.2. Sometimes the spacebar just does not work correctly in Photoshop (or Fireworks, or any other app that uses the spacebar for a shortcut), and the only way to get it back is to logout/login again. It is really annoying, and I have submitted feedback to Apple. I recommend you all do the same.

issa · Dec 22, 2002, 01:33 AM

snerdini writes:
It's not a 10.2.3 thing, it's happened to me intermittedly since 10.2. Sometimes the spacebar just does not work correctly in Photoshop (or Fireworks, or any other app that uses the spacebar for a shortcut), and the only way to get it back is to logout/login again. It is really annoying, and I have submitted feedback to Apple. I recommend you all do the same.

I don't use Fireworks, but haven't experienced this on my machines running Photoshop or elsewhere under any version of Jaguar. Not once. Perhaps you also have the same haxie installed that is giving suhail trouble? I'm sure it must be annoying. If the symptom ever shows up on my machines, I will be sure to submit feedback.

Cipher13 · Dec 22, 2002, 02:39 AM

PS7 is still slow as a scotter going uphill here. :|

Emotionally Fragile Luke · Dec 22, 2002, 02:56 AM

My Photoshop runs just as fast and smooth on OSX as it does in OS9.

kovacs · Dec 22, 2002, 03:00 AM

Originally posted by Emotionally Fragile Luke:
My Photoshop runs just as fast and smooth on OSX as it does in OS9.

Yep Photoshop 7 runs great on my iMac 500...

Adam Betts · Dec 22, 2002, 03:14 AM

Yep, 10.2.3 speeds up PS7 for me. Launching and quitting is instantaneously.

I'm not sure if it still have problem with slowness of switching apps. I don't seem to see any so far.

juanvaldes · Dec 22, 2002, 03:18 AM

might be faster at launching, definatly faster to quit. but when I launched it it messed up my curser, it got bigger and was bright yellowish and every 3ed line was missing. Very odd. Went away after I hit shft-apple-4-space to try to get a screen shot of it. Didn't show up in my full screen shot either....

mikemako · Dec 22, 2002, 03:56 AM

PS 7 is noticably faster for me, also. It starts up faster and is generally more responsive than before.

Jonesy · Dec 22, 2002, 05:28 AM

1st launch of PS 7 no obvious difference but I think that the subsequent one was quicker. Quitting the application was noticeably faster though.

Cipher13 · Dec 22, 2002, 06:02 AM

Originally posted by Jonesy:
1st launch of PS 7 no obvious difference but I think that the subsequent one was quicker. Quitting the application was noticeably faster though.

All rejoice.

Geobunny · Dec 22, 2002, 07:12 AM

Originally posted by Emotionally Fragile Luke:
My Photoshop runs just as fast and smooth on OSX as it does in OS9.

That really isn't saying much seeing as it's a complete dog in OS 9 too! Compare it with PS 5.5 to see what I mean. I don't use it enough for it to annoy me though, so I'm not gonna complain too much.

eevyl · Dec 22, 2002, 07:48 AM

If anybody can post startups times, filter times or anything I can hold on rather than "speeds up significantly", "faster", "snappy", "instantaneosly"...

I use Photoshop Elements 2 on a G4 400 (AGP Grapchics), and without a clock I cannot see any difference... no faster, and of course nothing close to "instant"

Adam Betts · Dec 22, 2002, 08:18 AM

Originally posted by eevyl:
If anybody can post startups times, filter times or anything I can hold on rather than "speeds up significantly", "faster", "snappy", "instantaneosly"...

I use Photoshop Elements 2 on a G4 400 (AGP Grapchics), and without a clock I cannot see any difference... no faster, and of course nothing close to "instant"

Grow up again please.

What a silly world we weavered.

OwlBoy · Dec 22, 2002, 08:42 AM

I dunno bput start up. But it does seem faster in use, playing around with my 300dpi CD labels it runs much better.

And Quit is faster, seems to beable to pull its self out of ram faster now.

-Owl

CheesePuff · Dec 22, 2002, 09:41 AM

Originally posted by Cipher13:

All rejoice.

Tell me about it... but actually PS7 was slow to quit with anyway, and now its at a normal quit speed.

phobos · Dec 22, 2002, 09:45 AM

No benchmarks yet but when you use photoshop day in day out every single thing that goes differentely you notice it. I know that every menu that appears appears faste tool changes are faster and all the little things that you expect to be instantaneous now they are. And ofcourse launching and quiting the app is faster. Well hope that adobe improves thing more with a new update.

kulverse · Dec 22, 2002, 10:03 AM

Originally posted by phobos:
No benchmarks yet but when you use photoshop day in day out every single thing that goes differentely you notice it. I know that every menu that appears appears faste tool changes are faster and all the little things that you expect to be instantaneous now they are. And ofcourse launching and quiting the app is faster. Well hope that adobe improves thing more with a new update.

Agreed. But my whole system seems to had a slight boost with 10.2.3 anyway. So all my apps seem to be running better.

The File Browser is still a dog though.

MindFad · Dec 22, 2002, 10:15 AM

Originally posted by Emotionally Fragile Luke:
My Photoshop runs just as fast and smooth on OSX as it does in OS9.

You must have the special snappy� version. I haven't gotten 10.2.3 yet, but OS 9 PS compared to OS X PS is quite noticeable. It's a dream in 9, slow as hell in X, and not just interface-wise where I can blame slow OS X. Scrolling sucks, the effects window opens slower. Overall it's just slower. We shall see what 10.2.3 does. Scroling is sped up more, right?

mrtew · Dec 22, 2002, 11:11 AM

Originally posted by Emotionally Fragile Luke:
My Photoshop runs just as fast and smooth on OSX as it does in OS9.

Same here. Photoshop in OSX has always been as good for me as in OS9. I never understood why people say it's slow on OSX. I use it every day, and I don't sit waiting for anything... it's just nice and fast and efficient, and now it never crashes.