Photo editing I'm sick of being tethered to my desktop and am thinking of purchasing this notebook so I can code and design when mobile. Anyone have experience running PhotoShop and/or Flex Builder using this little thing? Other than the small screen being a pain (price you pay for mobility), the specs seem to support using both products. - What are you thoughts? Photo editing I'm sick of being tethered to my desktop and am thinking of purchasing this notebook so I can code and design when mobile. Anyone have experience running PhotoShop and/or Flex... » Read More Photo editing I'm sick of being tethered to my desktop and am thinking of purchasing this notebook so I can code and design when mobile. Anyone have experience running PhotoShop and/or Flex Builder using this little thing? Other than the small screen being a pain (price you pay for mobility), the specs seem to support using both products. - What are you thoughts? « Show Less
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I agreed with you that I will use mouse to do any photo works. I'm looking for a laptop that can run Photoshop CS3 efficiently. I am debating whether I need a good desktop instead of laptop. If this laptop can do the work with my IPS monitor, then I don't need to buy a separate desktop any more. I like the laptop because it is light and easy to carry. I wish this is 11 inches instead of 12.1 inches. Any comment?
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Thanks DSY! My plan is to use an external mouse. I've never been able to get use to any notebook pointer device except ThinkPad's little red pointer. Appreciate the response.Anyone else want to comment?
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I've used Picasa with this machine and it works very fast. It easily applies the included fixes (contrast, hue/color saturation, etc. ) with no lag. Picasa is a lot less resource intensive then photoshop though. I take pictures with a 7.1 megapixel camera - the average photo is about 3.5megs.The mousepad takes getting used to when you want drag and drop things but you get used to it.
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Works for me [though W8 is a little strange from XP], I do a lot of foto editing almost daily. There are many tools that I haven't used [or used much] so glitches may still occur. I would say, if you have your computing power up, go with it.
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I've been using PhotoSuite 4 since it came out ... was it 18 years ago? Used it for 8 years in a professional photography plant to doctor bad photos. It's fast and easy. I only used Adobe for fine sharpening and more accurate resolution changes and cropping. And I just used it on my new Windows Home Premium 7 Acer netbook. Works just like it always did. Next I'll try it on Windows 8.1.
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The answer is YES. The HP Envy 20-d090 is well above the minimum requirements to run Photoshop or Adobe Elements. It runs on a dual core Pentium G640 processor that is way faster than a Pentium 4 single core. It also has a screen resolution of 1600x900, 4 GB of Ram, and 1 TB hard drive. Hope this helps! Photoshop CC system requirements Windows Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor (2 GHz or faster) Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 1 GB of RAM 2.5 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices) 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended) with OpenGL 2.0, 16-bit color, and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB recommended)* Photoshop CS6 system requirements Windows Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3 orMicrosoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1. Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 and CS6 applications also support Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. See the CS6 FAQ for more information about Windows 8 support.* 1 GB of RAM 1 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices) 1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB (1 GB recommended) of VRAM OpenGL 2.0-capable system DVD-ROM drive
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Any computer can in principle run any type of software. How much mileage you get out of it will depend on how complex the software is, how complex are the tasks you need to perform, how large are the individual images to expect to edit, how large your overall image library is, and how much you are willing to squint (or are willing to pay for an external monitor). Photo editing software is a broad category - power functions in Photoshop will work very slowly if at all, whereas cropping in Picassa will have no trouble. The 11"MBA was designed as a tool for common productivity tasks (at which it is fantastic), not as a photo editing powerhouse. It doesn't have the memory, storage, graphics and computing power to handle complex tasks. For very simple ones though - sure.
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Aye, I'm actually using Photoshop now on it. Don't see any reason why it wouldn't be supported.
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I think not just price. It depends on how you are using it. I don't use mine inside much, but I bought it so that if I want to do some linework on my desktop, I can plug it in and draw right on the screen using all the programs on the desktop. The real use I am using it for now is drawing and painting outside or away from my desktop. I don't need photoshop, just painting a sketching tools, so I prefer this one because it has an 11 hour battery life. the Companion, if not plugged in is only 4 hours. If you legitimately need all desktop apps and work plugged in on this thing all the time, you need the companion. I think not just price. It depends on how you are using it. I don't use mine inside much, but I bought it so that if I want to do some linework on my desktop, I can plug it in and draw right on the screen using all the programs on the desktop. The real use I am using it for now is drawing and painting outside or away from my desktop. I don't need photoshop, just painting a sketching tools, so I prefer this one because it has an 11 hour battery life. the Companion, if not plugged in is only 4 hours. If you legitimately need all desktop apps and work plugged in on this thing all the time, you... » Read More I think not just price. It depends on how you are using it. I don't use mine inside much, but I bought it so that if I want to do some linework on my desktop, I can plug it in and draw right on the screen using all the programs on the desktop. The real use I am using it for now is drawing and painting outside or away from my desktop. I don't need photoshop, just painting a sketching tools, so I prefer this one because it has an 11 hour battery life. the Companion, if not plugged in is only 4 hours. If you legitimately need all desktop apps and work plugged in on this thing all the time, you need the companion. « Show Less
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This laptop is works great with programs like photoshop, running smoothly even when I use tons of high resolution layers. I have not had any experience with video editing but I do not foresee it being problematic. It has the i7 processor which is something that would be very helpful for video editing and also has the very nice GTX760 graphics card, which though not the best out there, is still not shabby and I would expect it to be at least sufficient for video editing. It also has two slots for RAM so if the 8 GB doesn't end up being enough you can replace the RAM it comes with to get up to 32 GB of RAM. This laptop is works great with programs like photoshop, running smoothly even when I use tons of high resolution layers. I have not had any experience with video editing but I do not foresee it being problematic. It has the i7 processor which is something that would be very helpful for video editing and also has the very nice GTX760 graphics card, which though not the best out there, is still not shabby and I would expect it to be at least sufficient for video editing. It also has two slots for RAM so if the 8 GB doesn't end up being enough you can replace the RAM it comes with to get up... » Read More This laptop is works great with programs like photoshop, running smoothly even when I use tons of high resolution layers. I have not had any experience with video editing but I do not foresee it being problematic. It has the i7 processor which is something that would be very helpful for video editing and also has the very nice GTX760 graphics card, which though not the best out there, is still not shabby and I would expect it to be at least sufficient for video editing. It also has two slots for RAM so if the 8 GB doesn't end up being enough you can replace the RAM it comes with to get up to 32 GB of RAM. « Show Less
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I use my P7-1410 desktop everyday for Facebook and a lot of other social media sites. It works perfectly on everything I do. I also edit and produce movies on a regular basis and it handles those tasks very well also. I am very happy that I purchased this desktop.
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Hi Kateyn, I have use the photo side of this software for 10+ years to do any number of editing. I would say it is not a 100% match to Photoshop feature for feature, but it is all that a sophisticated non-professional needs in a photo editor. You can do so much with it and the learning curve is not so steep. Has very useful tutuorials and plenty of online forums with great user interaction. It all comes down to price, features and your intended use. It is a wonderful application for the price. I like to have fun editing my photos and to this day, I have never felt a need to spend the extra money for Photoshop. I hope this helped. :-)
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Love mt GTAB totally worth the money once you modify it. You can get full market access. As others have said visit XDA Developers. I'm running VegAN Gingerbread RC1 and I'd put my tab against a XOOM or iPAD any day. Super fast, stable, beautiful screen resolution, tons of apps and it just insanely rocks! Plus it only cost $279 as opposed to $599+ Definitely more bang for the buck!
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I use Photoshop Element which is provided with the tablet to edit and retouch my photos and I found it is easy to do so. The edited photo were awesome.
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Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 (and previous versions) will run on this computer, however it will run very ineffectively. It will use about 50% of this computers RAM and nearly all of it's processing speed. If you are using advanced tools such as the Healing Brush Tool, Blur Tool, Smear Tool, and anything else that does advanced pixel manipulation, the computer will slow down and the program may crash. I recommend finding a machine with at least 6GB of RAM, and quality performance dual core processor. You might find one for around $350
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this depends on what the main task is. If you are using it for email and internet then you are good to go. If you are going to do some photoshop editing and 3d modeling then way too low. Hopefully this help.
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Don't bother. Highly specialized apps (like those in CS3) you want to run natively. And the mac version is very good. Call Adobe; they DO offer a cross-platform upgrade (there is cost, but it's significantly less than buying a new product). You'll be much happier in the long run, and save time running them natively.
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I'm a concept artist and automotive photographer. When it comes to editing In Photoshop or modeling in Maya or 3DS max my Alienware has never let me down as far as performance goes. But when editing on the road it's a good idea to have an electricity source nearby since using those applications drains the battery in about an hour. Overall I give it an 11 out of 10
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This product needs to be connected to a computer. If you want to be 100% mobile I suggest the Surface Pro which is what I have for doing art on the go. It is about the same size but its a tablet/digitizer in one. If you are okay with being stationary go with the Yiynova, you cannot beat the price. Heads up though, the drivers for the Yiynova cause some games to crash, if you are a PC gamer just be aware of that.