The day I have waited months in anticipation for is finally here, Adobe CS5 is officially public. While it does not hit shelves until the 3rd of May, you can do what I did and download a copy of the entire Master Collection off of the Adobe website. You can use the demo for 30 days or enter a license once you have purchased it, no need to reinstall.
There are so many wonderful improvements in CS5 that I can’t even begin to scratch the surface. All of the programs run natively in 64 bit mode for one thing, making them far more responsive and able to render nearly all effects and filters in real time. Photoshop also added some amazing features like content aware fill , 3d brushes / paint mixing, and puppet warp. Plus Photoshop now has better built in HDR processing… which I just HAD to play around with first thing today. Below are some pictures I took downtown using multiple exposures and the new HDR features.
Even while quickly slapping together these photos I found all the new features greatly sped up my workflow. I can’t wait to dig into the rest of CS5′s Master Collection to see how my illustration, video editing, and audio editing workflows will be affected. Oh and just in case any of you missed out on the launch video, here it is. It covers quite a few of the new features in all of the programs included in the Master Collection.
The past well… 6 months, have been very sparse in updates (a.k.a. none) and I intend to rectify that today a bit. To start things off, I got a job in Perrysburg back in March at a small website company. Because of this job I was able to move in with Becca and Sam here in Perrysburg. Many fun times were had cooking, hanging out on weekends, and going to the studio to work on Becca’s posters. We ate at a restaurant called Zingo’s a lot and practically used it as a meeting spot after work. Still we were not completely content. Our family seemed incomplete and the place we were living was not quite a “home”.
It was because of this that we started looking for a new place to live and also adopted a new member of the family. A small blackish gray tiger cat named Oliver Teagan Talouse. He was, and still is quite the handful, albeit a much larger handful now that he is bigger. Around this time I began to tire of my job and needed to find some place new… a place where management actually took the time to understand what their employees did, and I don’t know… paid them more. I got this call from a very nice guy that worked for a company called Toltest in Maumee Ohio. I could not pass it up. Finally I work in a place where I feel like part of a team instead of just a cog in a machine. Everyone here is very nice and extremely supportive. I even have an office with a window now! I work on designing and developing the user interfaces for all the web applications the company uses internally, as well as working on the public website and public web applications. Because Becca and I were looking for a new place to live Sam started hunting around as well. She found a nice, new loft apartment above some stores downtown and moved out. With one less person in the apartment and an extra room, Becca and I began molding it in to a place that felt a tad more hospitable. Becca was also done at the studio in BG, so we decided to give it up and attempted to rebuild Sam’s old room into a work place.
Becca and I have been trying to spend as much time with our families as we can lately. She finished up her posters so she has a bit more free time to do other things; but my new job makes it a bit harder to get out on weekends. Still we have managed to go kayaking, celebrate the 4th, go to fairs and baseball games, help with a 5k run, go to the parks, play with alpaca babies, and watch the Olympics (grats to Michael Phelps!) with our families. Yet our families have yet to meet each other. Hopefully we can take care of that soon.
Well, that is about it for now. I have to get going, but I will be back soon with more updates and even more pictures. I hope you like the pictures below from some of our random times over the past few months.
This past weekend Becca, Sam and I went to back to Oak Openings to take some pictures of the Evergreen Trail. I have to say that this trail contains one of my new favorite places in Ohio by far. The place I am referring to is a small area of the trail that contains some stripped evergreen trees, which we now dub the “magical forest.” Anywho, I thought I would share some of the photos I took along the trail. I hope when Didier and Rachel come home for Christmas that we can all make another trip there with snow on the ground.
