I’m off on my vacation in 2 days. Of COURSE I’m counting! I can’t wait….although I must say I feel a little nervous anxiety crop up in the pit of my stomach over the 19 hour plane ride over with my little boy Kingston. He’s now reached the age where he’s starting to understand he can own things if he holds on tight enough, AND he’s walking around like a champ now. A deadly combination on a plane ride I’m sure.
My stomach’s been a little queasy these past couple nights & I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night wide awake. This kind of happens for me before big trips but this time it feels a bit stronger than the past.
That’s ok, chill Raph……OMMMMM
I’ll see what I can do updating my blog on the road. This will be a good experiment to see how both my iPhone & the WordPress app performs overseas.
For those of you who might actually miss me *crickets*, there have been some recent news of the new features coming up in the latest CS5 apps. That’s right folks, it’s been about a year and a half since CS4 came out, so I guess that puts us right on cue for another spending binge upgrade.
Here are some features they’re working on:
I think I have some studying to do this Summer as I prepare to teach Photoshop and Illustrator again this Fall. I may be somewhat of a Photoshop geek but the new control points for Warping and “puppeteering” are pretty nifty.
More features? I hope so…
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some of the new features look cool, but is it really worth the $$? the creative suite is SOOOO expensive, and the CS4 suite didn’t quite deliver. neither did CS3 or CS2. i’m starting to get quite bitter about it, actually.
of course, if your income depends on image retouching, the new content-aware fill is worth the upgrade price.
have fun on your trip! noise-canceling headphones work wonders on airplanes, i highly recommend them. i wore mine even when i wasn’t listening to music.
Yeah I’m agreeing with you. Sometimes I’d be quite happy if they hung on to upgrades for maybe 2 or 3 years between releases.
Playing devil’s advocate though — if you look at at your typical feature upgrade like in this case with the better content aware masking, a lot of the photo pros out there might end up spending a few hundred bucks on 3rd party apps to do that sort of thing. Now it’d be built right into Photoshop itself. You look at last season’s 3D features and now these new Painter-ly brushes, I guess you could rationalize that the price reflects the fact you’re almost getting Photoshop + Corel + whatever at the same time.
Of course you and I might never touch some of these features, so it never ends up feeling like it’s worth the price of entry.
Thanks for the headphones advice… I may avoid them if only so that I don’t look like the asshole who let my boy cry the whole time while I slept quietly away with my noise-canceling headphones 🙂