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Nvidia sheds some flash light on Adobe CS4
AFTER A SOME five years in the marketing pipeline, Nvidia graphics card users will now be able to noodle about on Adobe's new Creative Suite 4, supported and accelerated natively on a GPU.
Adobe had already announced its new CS4 on Tuesday, but at a press briefing by Nvidia yesterday, shed some more light on the partnership between the two firms.
Purportedly, by rewriting core imaging kernels - using OpenGL - to ensure they use the GPU instead of the CPU, Nvidia and Adobe claim to have found ways to enhance the system and make images prettier, faster.
Of all the programs bundled into Adobe’s CS4, Photoshop and Premier Pro are really the two which benefit most from the GPU integration perspective, with general manager of the Professional Solutions group at Nvidia, Jeff Brown noting the tech would "enable much more output".
This is good news for impatient graphics geeks who want to cut down on the amount of time they need to render HD movies, for instance. Nvidia reckons movies which used to take up to 28 hours to render on Premier Pro could now feasibly be rendered in just two or three hours.
Nvidia claims that harnessing the power of the GPU would also allow for some more speedy editing. It reckons motion, opacity, colour and even image distortion could be done in real-time rendering.
Photoshop buffs will also supposedly feel the benefit of GPU integration, with Nvidia saying users will now be able to rotate images in real-time, not to mention zooming, and panning to their heart’s content. The GPU could also prove quite useful to Photoshoppers for smoothing out the jagged edges in their images, using anti-aliasing.
Really getting graphic, Nvidia noted that using the GPU to power programmes like Adobe After Effects could do a fair bit to provide better depth of field, reduce image noise, better bilateral blur effects and even add in all kinds of cartoon imagery.
Adobe says it will be shipping its CS4 next month. µ
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If one follows the photography announcements for the latest Photokina show, he will soon realize with harnessing the GPU power will soon become critical. Almost all dSLR cameras come with 12, 15 and now 21 and 24 Mpixel sensors, meaning that the image sizes they produce are really enormous (let's not even talk about the digital medium format cameras that have reached the 50MP counts). Even compact cameras come with no less than 8 MPs. This imposes a great pressure on programs like Photoshop both in the processing and memory requirements. 

If a modest GPU can help reduce the burden, it will be much more cost effective than using workstation class computers for the required editing and post - processing.
Does the term GPU mean "nV GPUs" here, or are Radeons supported as well?
... Before your Nvidia graphics chip dies its inevitable early life failure.

You can't undo your destiny, and Nvidia parts are destined to fail. If you install their "fixes" it just extends the failure point to outside the warranty period.

ATI by the way have been supporting Adbobe editing features for a while.