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» More Leopard: Upgrade and performance!

Alright so today I didn’t want to hold the upgrade off further since all I’m using on a daily basis was upgraded already included CS3 running fine. I went to the newly opened Apple Shop at the MediaMarkt store near where I live and got the Leopard. The “Archive and Install” went just fine and I’m now running the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard as seen in the screenshot above!

So far I’m very happy with the performance as well with it seemingly more alert than Tiger was before. In beginning of the week I’ll post a little more details on my Leopard experience when I’ve been running it for a little while. I’ll also be setting up Time Machine in the beginning of the week when I get the chance to reformat my external drive (backup and reformat) to partition it so that one partition can go to time machine and one to files!

» QT: Always open jpeg in Camera Raw

If you always want to open your .jpg files inside of camera raw, go under the Photoshop preferences, down to File Handling and tick the box “Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for JPEG Files”.

» CS3 almost fully compatible with Leopard!

So this is a small Leopard update with the great news you might already have heard! The CS3 applications are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard! The only exception to this (you know it was too good to be true) is that the Video editing applications in the Production Premium (and Master Collection) is not compatible and may run into errors (update will come in December) and also Acrobat 8 Pro might also run into errors (update scheduled for January 2008).
By now you are probably also wondering about Lightroom and why I haven’t mentioned it so far.  Well according to the compatibility chart, Lightroom is not fully tested under Leopard and may also run into errors. So far I haven’t heard much about Lightroom but I hope I will ASAP. The support will be fixed in the next lightroom upgrade, but it doesn’t say when that is. Lets all hope it will be soon! Here’s a link to the official Leopard support PDF from Adobe.

So my upgrade plan stays the same as it was yesterday, installing it first on a backup copy so I know my other applications will work. All seems very positive with it and hopefully I should be able to install it on my backup drive today or tomorrow (depending on how fast I can get my hands on Leopard) and then install it on my main computer this coming week again if all goes well with my testing! So stay tuned for some more Leopard news as we go more into the week!