Adobe CS4 upgrade

[carlosImage]

I have been a Adobe Photoshop supporter and fan for many years.
It is a great product and they have a fantastic team.............But Adobe are starting to remind me of Quark and others such....I had a look at CS4 and asked a number of freelance people to have a look, saying to them if you find something in CS4 which is a benefit to what we do I will upgrade.Not one person out of 5 came up with a reason and we all agreed we didnt need the upgrade for a few gimmicks.
All was going well until someone upgraded their camera to 5d Mk11 .The Camera Raw plug in require to open these files cannot be used in CS3...sure there is a work around ..but come on Adobe A$380 to upgrade.......... 6 machines....... just for the Camera Raw plug in.Can I say either come up with decent upgrades that are worth while or offer the Camera Raw plug in to CS3 users and future support to the software that made Adobe.
I am looking at the Capture One software workflow, I have three copies and they upgrade free.I hope Adobe listen to their customers and work with us all on this.I think most people will agree CS4 is a very poor upgrade.
I would end by thanking Adobe for Photoshop, prior to this fantastic software I was a High End retoucher working on very expensive equipment costing hundreds of thousands of dollars....Come on guys I could give you some ideas for a better upgrade...it will cost you though so I can pay for the upgrades.

[Tomi]

Yeah, I recently got CS4 - wasn't that impressed. The new look interface will take a little getting used too.

[carlosImage]

what about this

Ask Adobe to give people the option of buying a plug in for CS3 that allows the new Camera Raw plug in to be used....just that one thing...hey charge $50 for the development..GIVE PEOPLE THE OPTION....then you will really see how good the upgrade is..I realise its a one in a million chance..it may happen or even be looked at, but why would they. it allows people to upgrade if they like the changes and not bother if they dont....it gives true feedback about the upgrade."

[Glitcher]

Your freelancer friends must be pretty dense not to notice the updates in CS4. The interface has been improved so that docked palettes don't overlap each other, you now have tabbed windows, OpenGL graphics acceleration, advanced 3D manipulation and map painting, new Adjustments and Masks layers, revised colour correction tools, Content-Aware Scaling, and the scratch disk auto-erases in the event of a crash. That's just off the top of my head. I'd say that's a marked improvement.