Alien Skin has posted updates on their web site – these fix issue with various Alien Skin Photoshop plug-ins that stopped working with Leopard.
Installs went perfectly well – nice to have the plug-ins back.
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Down for the Count with Leopard
Trick or Treat – it’s Leopard !
Here’s what’s borked on my Mac with the Leopard upgrade (that I’m aware of) :
- Some Flash upload sites – I use Slide Show Pro’s cms (which is awesome) and it uses a Flash interface to upload photos. That function stops working with Leopard. Work around is FTP (which dulls the convenience of a CMS somewhat) or using Windows. Adobe doesn’t mention anything on their site about issues with Flash, but the SSP folks say Adobe is aware of the problem.
- Almost all my Alien Skin PhotoShop plug ins. No work around, crashes PS if you try to apply the filter. Alien Skin claims it’ll be December before they fix. Damn, no more goofy Gel Filters for a while.
- AutoFX stand-alone, the apps don’t even launch. The plug-ins never worked with CS3 on Tiger so maybe they’ll fix the lot, but then again, maybe not. No mention on their web site.
There’s a very thorough review of Leopard on Ars Technica and couldn’t agree more with their review of the changes to the interface.
Leopard – network share GOOD !
Ok, Leopard is impressing me with its refined ability to find shared drives and machines. We still have a couple of Windows boxes running on our home network, and sharing was always a bit spotty. Leopard seems to have sorted that out nicely, and I’m seeing drives on the other machines that I had given up trying to connect with.
So. GOOD GOOD GOOD and super useful in our setup.
Leopard – not so much
Here’s my mini review. This is only after a few hours of use on the MacBook Pro and our household iMac .
1. eye candy, pure and simple. there isn’t ONE new function I really need, but it all look sweet.
2. slow baby, slow. one of the things I loved about my macbook vs. my sony vaio (PC) laptop was how fast the macbook boots. well my friend, leopard is a pig, at least on my machine, and I’ve got 4 gig of ram. maybe things will improve? but so far, my mac seems to be starting very window-esque. this might not be a big deal on a desktop machine, but in a laptop its critical. (There is a thread here about this – so I guess, just like with a windows box, I now have to start hacking my way through a NEW OS so that the machine runs properly. Hmmm, deja vu.)
3. is there a revert button on this thing?
If want you really want are a bunch of new effects in PhotoBooth, parental controls (probably easily side stepped), a different way to share machines and do backups (apple claims easier) and more things swooshing across the screen, then this is for you.