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By: More CS5 info from Brian O’Neil Hughes and John Nack « Outofnapkins

More CS5 info from Brian O’Neil Hughes and John Nack « Outofnapkins — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:02:17 +0000

[...] first can be found on (where else) Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider Blog. Each wednesday he has a guest writer. Usually it’s a photographer, but on July 22, Brian [...]

By: Betsy Barron

Betsy Barron — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:37:21 +0000

Great article, thanks for all the good info! I’ve been holding off on the upgrade to CS4 despite hearing all the great things, and now reading your post and about Pixel Bender, I think I have to do it! Thanks a ton – now I’m clicking around to check out more of your work…

By: Bryan ONeil Hughes

Bryan ONeil Hughes — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:07:32 +0000

Good catch, thanks! Counting the dozen present when you load the feature, we’re up to 40…I guess I’d better lean on devs for another 60+ – Bryan

By: R

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:23:54 +0000

It’ actually 23 filters not 23 pages of filters on your link.

By: Troy B

Troy B — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:00:40 +0000

Wow – I am very impressed you think enough of this community to give your email address here. I hope, for your sake, that the privilege does not get abused.

Thanks for the great post – looks like I need to add Adobe Labs to my weekly visit sites.

By: mb

mb — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:45:57 +0000

Adobe ROCKS!
I didn’t realize how *much* Adobe rocked until I read this.
Thanks so much for taking the time, for caring, for sharing…

By: KC

KC — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:50:12 +0000

I wish that Adobe would put this much focus and effort into all majors pieces of the suite: Illustrator, InDesign, etc. I am subscribed to Layers Magazine’s tip-of-the-day newsletter, and I have noticed a great deal of “tips” on how to get the suite to work like CS3.

Many questions stem from not being able to find panels, or attributes for tools. Others are explanations as to why something that was simple to do before, is now harder to find and accomplish.

With sites like Scott’s, NAPP, Layers, etc., it also seems like Adobe has made everything but Flash and Photoshop a dirty, smelly stepchild. While I greatly appreciate to afore mentioned sites, there doesn’t seem to be the same enthusiasm about the rest of the Adobe Create Suite. Layers probably comes the closest to covering the rest of the suite, but there is still a heavy focus on Flash (and Photoshop Extended’s animation/3D capabilities) and regular Photoshop. I need more from InDesign and Acrobat!

Sure Flash is neat, but once LiveMotion was taken away, it’s a pain to use, with a very steep learning curve. As an all-around designer, I need all of the Creative Suite to work as well as Photoshop. More often than not, I have Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, and Lightroom open at the same time, bouncing between programs.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:55:04 +0000

Sounds like the Adobe team has been busy… and we appreciate every waking hour of effort!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:36:34 +0000

Great article and yes, DNG Rocks.
N.

By: Borna

Borna — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:37:43 +0000

Just one question. Will Adobe finally include a noise removal filter that wouldn’t force me to buy a plug-in. I think that the software costs enough even without buying plug-ins for basic functions in photography.

By: Bob DeChiara

Bob DeChiara — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:03:19 +0000

Great post Bryan thanks for sharing!

-Bob
(Boston)

By: Patrickwc

Patrickwc — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:19:16 +0000

Bryan,

Thanks for the insights and especially the links to various labs and downloads. Great work by you and the PS team @ Adobe.