I found a few links since posting my message six days ago, and ACR 5.1 looks awesome. Lightroom 2.1 on your Mac will run 64-bit native and will be extremely fast compared to NX. Go with Lightroom and some of the presets that *almost* achieve identical results as NX. It's a must have and if you really what to get the best go for the Master CS4 Collection and get everything No questions CS4 is the biggest improvement Adobe have done to any CS series I use a Imac 2.8 and the new 3d filters are to die for Windows users have the benefit of running in 64 bit Macintosh users will have to wait. Cropping, rotating and transform options don't have the previous jaggies found in CS3 and images can now be held in tabs, rather than just floating about on top of one another. The layers palettes have been improved, cloning and other tools are much smoother. The Photoshop bit of CS4 is now available, although I'm still running the late beta. I wouldn't say necessarily that it's more powerful, but the interface has been improved, as has Bridge (although the first thing I did with Bridge was to change the work-space back to the darker grey I preferred). Photoshop CS4 has a lot of nice extras which are worth the upgrade, although it depends on your priorities. I have thought about upgrading to CS4 but at the moment it is just not worth the extra expense to have CS4 sitting there not being used, not that I wont upgrade, ime probably will at some stage, right noe I like the ease and convienience of NX2. I use NX2 and CS3, 90% of my work is now done in NX with CS being used now and again if its some serious changes to be done.
Would you suggest upgrading? And what are the big differences between 3 and 4? I already have updated the Camera Raw on my CS3 to the latest version which comes with CS4. I would still need CS on my computer for other work. I have recently discovered NX2 and am enjoying its simplicity and power. I am running CS3 on a Mac and am considering upgrading to the CS4.
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