Today I’m probably a bit over-excited, for two reasons;
1. This is my first post on the new dualcoremusic.com, and I think it’s excellent. So hello to anyone reading this, thanks to all our fans for buying/listening to Dual Core music and checking our shows, and ‘big ups’ of course to the man int eighty and our web developer friend Seth. You’re all great.
2. The reason I started to write this post – Adobe Creative Suite 4!
You may/may not know, but as well as being ‘c64′, I spend my days working as a Graphic Designer. More often than not, trying to help (battle) clients who are unhealthily in love with ‘Comic Sans‘. Anyway, late last week I received one of the most exciting gifts in the land of the designer – a copy of the brand new CS4 Design Premium package from Adobe. This was coupled with a shiny new PC to run it (sorry Mac lovers). Whoop! For years I’ve been using the first CS editions of Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop etc, with their primitive ape-like tool set (if apes had computers). Now I feel like Marty McFly, travelling 5 years into the future to an exciting new feature-packed world. Well…a meagre 5 years of time travel would make a pretty poor film, but you get the idea.
Without going into every detail, I can now unleash my creativity with such delights as tabbed documents (a la Firefox), collapsable palletes, multiple Illustrator artboards, transparency in gradients, and many other features I’ve yet to discover after a couple days use. Check Simon Yuen’s blog for more comprehensive breakdowns. It’s all very exciting (to me/designers!). I’m sure after a few days I’ll start to notice the “they’ve still not fixed that from 5 years ago, what the hell?!!” type bugs, but for now I’ll just enjoy figuring out suggestively-named features such as the ‘blob tool‘.
- c64
