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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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How have you been? So nice to hear from you. I consider you to be a great friend, one of my first real friends when I first joined deviantart.
Hugs,
Gale
How are you liking CS5? I have CS4, do you think the updates are worth upgrading to 5?
I too consider you one of my favorite people and miss talking to you, also we all miss seeing your beautiful work. I often stop by your page to look at it again and again. Hopefully soon you'll find time to fit a little DA back into your life, although I completely understand how hard it can be!
I've not yet bought CS5 because I'm still teaching the class CS4. The school provides them with education version software and there is some lag time acquiring the licenses, etc., so they will be getting it in July. The new features in CS5 for Photoshop seem great, but not earth shattering, definitely time savers though. Especially the edge detection in Masking, but of course in the demos, Adobe always shows the technique on images that are ideal. If it does great edge detection on objects that are against a complex background then I will be truly impressed. ie: remember how Adobe showed off the Extraction Filter a few years back, as though it was the best innovation of the decade, then a few years later no longer includes it as part of the regular install (people have to manually install it) ... seems it's no longer their golden child, didn't work well on most images (however still works brilliantly on fur against an uncomplicated background) ... so I continue to install it manually.
Illustrator has some new tools that could be brilliant if they work as per the demonstration. The perspective grids (which seem much like Photoshop's Vanishing Point Filter) ... but hopefully it won't be as glitchy, it could be an enormous time saver and could be absolutely worth the upgrade if it works as advertised. Same with the varied stroke width which can add so much more dimension to art. Those could make it worth the upgrade.
I will likely upgrade by June or July. But in the meantime, I tell students that mastering older versions is still essential, knowing how to do detailed extractions, how to do manual masking, cloning, etc., are important because many companies do not upgrade their software as frequently as individual users, due to the cost of commercial licensing of the software, so if they get hired at a company using older versions, they will find themselves in an embarrassing situation if they are unable to do these things manually, the way it was done back in CS and CS2 before the amazing Mask Panel feature was added, etc.
Well, better get back to the class lesson planning ...
Hugs,
Gale