*** IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have already updated from Photoshop 2.5 to an earlier beta version (2.5.1b5 or 2.5.1b9), you will need to re-install Photoshop 2.5 from your original disks, THEN run this updater application. ***
Dear Adobe Photoshop 2.5 owner:
We are pleased to provide you with this beta patch to Adobe Photoshop 2.5. We believe this patch will address certain minor bugs which were discovered after Adobe Photoshop 2.5 shipped. This beta version has not yet passed through the full quality assurance certification process at Adobe, although we believe it is robust. In response to user need, we are making it available now. Registered users will be sent version 2.5.1 for free when it is ready.
If the patch does not address your particular problem, please let us know immediately. Please fax bug reports to (415) 961-0612. Please include your name, address and phone number on each report.
The beta 13 version of Adobe Photoshop™ 2.5.1 also adds a number of new features:
• Support for previews of images in the standard open dialog when QuickTime is installed. Note that previews will only be available for files saved with this version of Photoshop and will not be generated for existing files until they are opened and saved.
• Support for doing searches from the open dialogs.
• Limited support for 16-bit grayscale and 48-bit RGB images. Given an appropriate acquire plug-in (vendors are working on these now) or an appropriate TIFF file, Photoshop will be able to open images with 16 bits per channel rather than 8 bits per channel. Operations in this mode are limited to the Levels and Curves adjustment dialogs and saving in Photoshop and TIFF formats. This feature was designed to allow users to bring in images and perform their initial color corrections before converting them to a more time and space efficient 8 bit per channel form.
• The enter key now strokes the current path if a painting tool is selected and converts the path into a selection in all other cases.
• Selective revert using the Fill dialog.
• 250 pixel radius for the gaussian blur, high pass, and unsharp mask filters and for all feathering operations. This increase may not work with all current Adobe Charged filter accelerators because it involved removing a limitation in some of the code we have licensed to Adobe Charged acceleration vendors. All Adobe Charged accelerators should work with radii of up to 100 pixels and we are working with the vendors to correct this problem.
This program makes a copy of Adobe Photoshop™ 2.5 and updates that copy rather than updating the original. To keep the size of this updater down, we have not made it capable of updating earlier beta copies of 2.5.1. If you have already updated to an earlier beta version, you will need to re-install from your original disks. If you want to be able to reliably launch the updated copy rather than original when double-clicking documents in the finder, you will need to delete your original after updating your copy. Also, be sure to replace any aliases you have to Adobe Photoshop™ 2.5 with aliases pointing to the updated copy.
This updater cannot work properly while virus detection software is running. Please make sure that you have disabled any virus detectors before applying the patch.
Thank you for your participation in this program.
Best wishes,
Adobe Systems Incorporated
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Disable virus detection/protection software
2. Decompress the self extracting Stuffit archive by double clicking on the "Install Photoshop Updater" icon
3. Launch the "Adobe Photoshop™ 2.5.1b13 patch"
4. Click the Update button
5. Locate the Adobe Photoshop™ 2.5 application on hard drive and click Update
