CS4 rocks my socks! i also got a new weapon a few months ago, 'color efex' and 'Sharpener Pro' from Nik. god-dang that's nice. i feel crippled without it now. PS's sharpener blows huge monkey balls. if anything do it in Lightroom.

fuckin color. bane of my existence. every time i sent stuff in CMYK to someone assuming they will NOT fuck with it and send it to the print shop, they assume it's in rgb and completely F the thing. oh wow, i wonder why there is no blue or yellow in this picture. change your damn color space. GOSH. my monitor came corrected, like I bought the little calibration spider deal and turns out Apple knows what the fuck they're doing!

shit i've been doing PS for like 7 yrs but I am horrible compared to people that have to use it every day. I really need a tablet, too. and another $1000 for a second monitor. arg.

I'm thinking about CS4, but I kind of want to wait until they get all the bugs worked out. My brother sent me a bootleg copy, but I don't want to install it since I use my personal macbook pro at work.

Not that my CS3 is a legit copy or anything.

i gt to try it before I buy(ed) it. being that they stepped up from CS2 to CS3 which was like doing from a Pinto to a 911 Turbo, in speed and capacity, I expect them NOT to do another useless update like CS to CS2 ever again. it's not a huge difference from CS3 in most functions, but the way it works on higher bit files and uses memory is a big deal. but it's a memory hog and in a new way. I have 2GB ram and I could use oh... about 10 more.on a quad-core mac pro. i don't think they make computers more suited to run graphics...

i'll pirate some stuff, hard to find movies mostly; but at some point you have to put money in to get money out. it's a tool for my job; and for some reason if my house was built with hammers the guy stole from Home Depot I would feel drity. y'know?

I have never pirated anything else. I would never steal movies or music.

I got this while in design school and just haven't had the money to purchase. My employer is purchasing machines and software next year, so I'm riding it out for now.

oh sorry yeah of course i would never steal anything. except Hanson CDs, because, oh man, they're worth more than money. really, though, you can get about anything legally online if you're willing to sit through some ads. You can also milk the student discount pretty well, too. I know my old school will give you almost any software for $5 if you are or were a student in a class that used it. They somehow pay a shitload of $ for an infinite license or something. And I'm talking $40,000 solid modeling packages and full CS3 suites and all. Dunno if UF does that, though.

Anyway you can do anything in PS but i do think illustrator would be better for this. more importantly, stop the cliches.

When I was a student (this year), it was $400.

$5??? Its easy to be holier than thou for $5.

I wouldn't pirate Adobe stuff but they just make it so easy it's ridiculous, download the free trial, get a cd key generator and your done!

UF still does student discounts and you get great deals but it's still a good amount of money. I ended up buying Final Cut Studio 2 from them last year becuase the price dropped to about $500 for the whole thing.
I was going to actually purchase Adobe CS4 Production stuff (since I abused the hell out of CS3 for free) but my teacher has informed me that our After Effects class is still going to be CS3 since our school is to cheap to upgrade. I've heard the updates are great though, so far all I'm using is Media Encoder CS4 and it blows the old one out of the water.

Here's a tip for people who want Adobe products:

My boyfriend called to upgrade CS2 to CS3 for his entire office. What he figured out while talking to a rep, is that they don't verify that you already own the product. He even pointed it out to them. He then told the phone rep, "you realize people can get the entire package for the upgrade price, never having owned a license in the first place?"

They said yes, we just trust people.

Schmart.

adobe makes so much money they can't possibly give a poo about the people that steal it. they'd go broke trying to chase down all the 14 year old kids making their own t-shirt designs and myspace pictures to look like Warhol pop art. autocad actually has a bounty out on pirating, though! they'll pay you to report a stolen copy being used, that's how you stop it, turn the people on themselves, hehe.

yeah, everyone has morals for $5. everyone's honesty has a price. it's all relative, right.

the new flash will probably rule, too.

But does SFCC. Janeen and I both graduated from their Graphic design Tech program.

Though it has advanced quite a bit since I graduated.



Another tip:

If you ever lose a code or otherwise need one, you can find it online.

I know this is true for apple but Adobe is probably the same you can just order stuff online for the education price. They never have a way of checking. The education price is usually around the same as the upgrade one.

But does SFCC. Janeen and I both graduated from their Graphic design Tech program.

Though it has advanced quite a bit since I graduated.


Things are a changing - Its SFC now, and may soon be SFSC (state college)

But yeah SF > UF for design, best bang for your buck and all the big players in town employ SFC graduates.

No $5 software packages though, that's for sure.

I sometimes think, they don't mind it too much if pupils and students download it and so make sure it stays the standard of editing photos ... what would happen if it would be really hard to copy it and there is new software, not even as awesome, but just cheap or maybe even free for private use? a lot people would work on that, use that program and use it later on in their professional life and that would definitly risk the monopel of adobe

I hear GIMP is all the rage these days for a freebie photo editing program.