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Photoshop CS5 – update

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I’m part of Adobe’s Prerelease Program for beta testing it’s apps: Photoshop & Bridge, specifically. It’s getting close to the end of the process for CS5 and will be on the market soon enough. So this week I’ve been working Photoshop and Bridge CS5 pretty hard and watching for bugs and issues. I haven’t come across many worth mentioning. In fact, it’s working great and I love it!

Back in the beta testing phase of CS4, there were tons of bugs and issues. In fact, it wasn’t until late in the testing that I was actually able to trust Photoshop enough to use while working on a live project. In all fairness, the Adobe developer team had a pretty big job to tackle with CS4 since the architecture of the software had changed radically from all previous versions. I’m amazed it worked as smoothly as it did. But it had bugs.

When I began testing CS5, I expected similar issues. I also expected I would have to switch back and forth between CS4 and CS5 in order to get my real work done. This never happened. I’ve been able to use Photoshop CS5 for all of my work with limited problems. The bugs and quirks I have encountered haven’t even been severe enough to interrupt my workflow and have been mainly little cosmetic problems. This week while working on a massive job with tons of elements to design, I was able to log more than 70 hours in a single week in front of CS5 and was fully expecting any problems I hadn’t found yet to reveal themselves. To my surprise and amazement, I really only came across one tiny issue, and it wasn’t enough to slow me down.

Now that it’s getting near the end, I think most of the issues have been logged and worked out or at the very least, recognized. When CS5 launches, I will be the first in line to purchase the Suite! There have been several new features added to Photoshop and Bridge that really make a difference. I’m so excited, I wish I could talk about them, but it’s proprietary and confidential in this phase. All I can say is that anyone who loved all the cool stuff that CS4 had to offer will be even more excited about the features that have been added in this release. Once again Adobe’s developers have really done a damn nice job. I’m just happy to be a part of the process!

Update to Free Graphics

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Symbols-radialgraphics

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Ai Symbols Radials

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vector

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After my post about the Adobe Illustrator Symbols earlier today, I decided to give away a couple more. Actually, they are on my Graphics Downloads page, but for the sake of making things easier on my friends that don’t like to click much, I am adding links to the downloads right here. You can download the Radials Symbols zipped file by clicking here or just click on the image.

One of the libraries is a set of Illustrator Symbols. I created a whole bunch of radial designs one day while trying to come up with something else entirely for a client project. In the process I ended up with a series of different radial graphics that actually make interesting little pieces of art on their own, and with a little help from some other designer who sees things from a different perspective, they could become something really interesting. They are symbol instances, so use them as I described in my earlier post and do with them what you want! Break the symbol link (control + click on a simple that’s on your artboard, select the “break link to symbol” option) and they are fully editable vector graphics that you can pick apart, rearrange, merge into other stuff, or whatever. Knock yourselves out.


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Ai Swatches Carbonfiber

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Patterns

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The next one, as long as I’m in a generous mood, is a bunch of patterns that I created for my website backgrounds. Several of the patterns look like a carbon fiber texture (same as the background pattern of my site), some are dot patterns of varying frequencies, and there’s a diamond plate pattern also. Here’s the link to the zipped file: Patterns, or click on the image to get the download.
The same process applies for installing the pattern swatches into Illustrator: just drop the .ai file (after you’ve unzipped it of course) into your Illustrator app folder > Presets > en_US > Swatches. Notice the only difference is that it goes into “Swatches” rather than “Symbols”. You can also drop it into your User > Library > Application Support > Adobe > Adobe Illustrator CS4 (or CS3, or CS2) > en_US > Swatches. Activate it by going to your Menu > Window > Swatch Libraries > Patterns or User Defined (depending on which folder you put them in), and you’re good to go.

One more time in case you missed it; to get into all of my free vector graphics, vector textures, photo textures, and Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator Presets, just jump over to my Graphics Downloads page and take what you want. It’s all free. One day I’ll have enough money to pay the extra fees to get my ecommerce shopping cart active on my site and I will be charging actual American dollars for some of the more complex stuff. If I were you, and obviously I’m not, I would loot the whole damn page while I’m still mentally ill.
Who knows when I’ll come to my senses? It could be tomorrow (but the improbability factor there is very high), or it could be next month. Don’t be like me; do it before it’s too late!