CS4 Issues: This can't only be me.

[♦♦Jackdaw♦♦]

Right. I will explain this as best I can.

I use the original CS at work, and I use CS4 at home. The original CS DEFINITELY feels different, and better, than CS4.

I'd compare painting in CS to drawing with a soft-leaded mechanical pencil on Moleskine paper. It's smooth, it leaves a good mark, and the stroke feels nice and free.

I'd compare painting in CS4 like drawing on gloss photo paper with a ballpoint pen. It's slippery and resistant, and it doesn't really feel as though you've left a solid enough mark.

If that makes no sense to you, you obviously don't have the problem I am having, but surely there is someone out there who knows what I mean.

I definitely know it has nothing to do with my Wacom settings, And I have tried every combination (including turning everything off) when it comes to CS4s OpenGL settings.

Any help on this would be fantastic. Cheers.

[Bluewaters]

Probably because they are two different computers with different specs.
But yeah I also think the earlier CS photoshops are a tad better in memory usage than the newer ones. CS2, CS and 7 are the best versions yet, I think.

[ikken]

yep, I also noticed the different brush feel in cs4, it's due to brush engine upgrades or smthg -
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/definitive-photoshop-timeline.jpg
referenced as "smoother painting" here

[Arshes Nei]

Although I like the warp and transformation tools in CS3, I still prefer actually drawing and "painting" in CS. It just seems more stable than the newer versions.

[ikken]

Probably not, if it's in the brush engine - than it's changed completely.