What is the difference between CS4 and CS5?

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Posted 28 September 2010 - 01:53 PM

What is the difference between CS4 and CS5? I’m thinking of upgrading but is it worth the money??

I know Photoshop CS5 has significantly upgraded Adobe Camera Raw and Bridge and the tools are a lot more advanced but can I really justify the expense for the sake of a few more features?

Any advice from people using both CS4 and CS5 would be greatly appreciated!

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Posted 28 September 2010 - 02:48 PM

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 06:18 AM

I have found that CS5 has a faster reaction speed in regards to applying effects, etc and some improvements to other parts of the included software.

I run a Intel i7 Duel Quad Core Processor and 8GB Ram on my website work desktop PC.

I am sure that there are going to be security patches, etc included within CS5 to make the software more reliable and secure.

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Posted 13 December 2011 - 06:41 AM

I moved from CS4 to CS5 (now CS5.1). My hardware isn't something to brag about and the amount of resourse usage between those 2 programs is very different. Now personally I don't find the CS5 tools "a lot more advanced" at all.. if anything at all then I think the content aware scale tool was amazing(if you're into photomanipulation or something similar) and use it quite often but other than that it feels like I'm just using CS4. Not worth the buck.