On September 23, 2008 Adobe® unvieled its latest suite of products including the much anticipated Adobe® Photoshop® CS4. Photoshop® CS4 and CS4 Extended, will be indespensible to Graphic Designers, Production Artist, and Photographers everywhere, from what we can see of its new features.

These new features include things like: Auto Blending of Images, Content Aware Scaling, as well as Revolutionary 3D Painting and Compositing

So many of you may be wondering if the announcement took place on the 23rd when can we all look foward to CS4? Adobe announced that they will be releasing Creative Suite CS4 on October 15 of this year, which means that we are officially 4 Days from CS4 now!

Earlier I mentioned some of the new features of Photoshop CS4, now I will explain some of what this will mean for users.

Content Aware Scaling
Content aware scaling will  automatically recompose an image while its being resized, and will preserve vital areas as the image adapts to its new dimensions, meaning that Graphic Designers will be able to final for the most part “Design Once“. If you’ve ever had to make a banner ad package, and alter some of your elements to conform to various dimensions while preserving most of the look and feel, you can appreciate how much time this new feature will save you.

Auto Blending of Images
This is a dream come true for Photographers and designers a like. Finally an easy way of naturally combining images without having to worry so much about how to smoothly blend the color and shading of various images, and in this case it even allows us to alter the focal point easily, and alter depth of field.

Like many of you I will be downloading the trial of most of the Creative Suite Products before putting in my order, to figure out which Creative Suite Bundle is best for my projects (and my wallet!) I will be posting my reviews on the individual features and merits after the October 15th release.