Thanks Chris, I will be reading but need to pay attention to work at hand which pays for the upgrade. These forums have always been my ready source for information needed quickly. Through this coming winter, if work slows down (something we don't wish for these days) then I will enjoy study of the refinements and changes in an orderly fashion. The CS5 Classroom in a book really doesn't give information at this level, so you must be referring to release notes which I have not been able to locate yet.

Unless you have a better recommendation, I'll go into Google and do a search on 'PS5 release notes' which should do it.

Thank You,

Ken

Aha, here is what should prove to be the useful information I need, but on the "Windows" forum.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2790684

Chris Cox wrote:

 

You really should spend some time learning about new features when you install a new version.

While I appreciate the direct answer that accompanied this comment, it is obvious that we should all learn new features, but if we all learned new features there would be no need for these forums as there would be no questions.

I have spent the last three months trying to learn new features in PS 5.5 moving from PS CS3 and it has been a grueling process of trying to find 'Language' or 'Naming Conventions' that fit no one else's criteria than the designers of PS and Adobe. Even today, As I finally gave up and called Adobe technical support I was told by my tech support person, who went off the phone for 10 minutes to confer with other members of the tech support team to see if there was a method to turn off 'scrubby zoom' other than unchecking the box in the options bar at the top of the screen. They assured me that there was no other method even after I mention Chris Cox's comment here that there indeed was a method to turn off scrubby zoom in the preferences, or at least that Chris Cox, a design team member of the Adobe Photoshop crew had said so on these forums. After another 10 minutes of silence and being put on hold, they came back with the Preferences> Performace area where OpenGL Drawing was apparently what Chris was talking about. I'm still not sure if this was what Chris was referring to, but it is the only area that holds some promise of being able to turn off scrubby zoom so far in my search. This is after searching the help documents, the PDF user manual and making numerous searches online.

Egad, the old Adobe forums was frequented by users who brought the answers to the table and did not say 'You should learn it yourself before you dare post here.'

Times have changed, but- persistance still wins out, I'm glad to say,

Happy Holidays,

Ken