Anybody else watching the Adobe CS5 launch event?

Volitions Advocate on 12/4/2010 at 14:57

not that i'm uber excited or anything but being a multimedia field I figured it was worth watching. Starts in 2 minutes apparently. Hopefully they've got some 'gate crasher' deals. I woudln't mind getting my hands on a student license of the master collection. It'd be pretty opportune too, because i held off on getting CS4 last year.

thoughts?

Queue on 12/4/2010 at 15:22

I had to google it just to even know what you were talking about.

No.

Aren't these "events" just a silly marketing ploy to whip people into a buying frenzy?

Volitions Advocate on 12/4/2010 at 15:32

yeah, I'd say you're right, but its also a kind of tech wank for them. Maybe a marketing ploy, but its impressive nonetheless.

Elusive Paladin on 12/4/2010 at 15:43

There is one thing of note in CS5: the abiity to export to HTML5 canvas. A strange inclusion for a company that rules the plugin world with Flash.

Muzman on 12/4/2010 at 16:17

What are they giving After Effects this time around?

Last time it was like "Photoshop. The one, the only, the legend. Now with all new feature: most of the stuff After Effects can do! Including the plugins and every goddamn thinggg! What the fuck else do you need for your stupid AMVs? Never buy another program. Next it'll be an OS"

"After Effects: You know it, you love it. Now pretty much the same! But with... better multiprocessor support at last, and... this paper doll animation thing is pretty cool. Guys? It is! Look. The tweening and deformation stuff was hard to program! You can use it for all kinds of... guys?"

Renzatic on 12/4/2010 at 16:52

I dunno about this After Effects stuff, but when I saw CS5 do all that "content aware editing" trickery, I had to pull it out and wank one off. Well, not really. But I was sorely tempted.

To think that 2 hours worth of work is being compressed down to a lasso and 15 seconds of waiting is impressive stuff. Add in all the better edge detection tools, and...damn...I might have to squirrel up 500 bucks.

Edit: (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/04/12/some-awesome-videos-that-showcase-new-adobe-creative-suite-5-cs5-poten/) A link showing some of what's so neat about CS5 for the uninformed who might want to dork out with us

Muzman on 13/4/2010 at 00:11

I was going to make fun of your onanistic tendencies, but as someone who has exported footage as individual frames so I can use magnetic lasso in Photoshop rather than struggle with replace colour or animating masks in AE, that rotobrush looks mighty fine. Mighty mighty fine. All I need is to rob a bank sometime.

I'm not really getting this HDR..thing all that much. I suppose it's just usage. There's probably plenty of good stuff I don't even know is HDR that I see every day. But there's that certain "Hello! HDR here!" look that's been kind of faddy the last few years, that people seem pretty proud of but I think just looks gross. No better than Burn'nDodge overuse or lens flare from back in the day.

Renzatic on 13/4/2010 at 02:36

HDR photography isn't a new concept, and is ultimately just another method of controlling tone. If used it properly, you'd see more nicely lit pictures, where overexposures are used for effect, rather than an unavoidable consequence. The problem is, the whole washed out, chromed up, fullbright HDR look has become, like you said, a fad. Most people abuse the hell out of it.

So instead of getting nice pictures like you see over at (http://www.abandoned-places.com/schotte-01.htm) Abandoned Places, you get a whole bunch of photos like (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24156646@N07/2308017119/sizes/l/) ...herk.

(http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08022004) also somn-onanist

Kolya on 13/4/2010 at 08:57

I started with PS5. Didn't even have a history. And we still made great pictures with it. During lunch break we got out and played barefoot soccer on a frozen acre with a cannon ball. Then we each smoked a pack of Blue Gauloises and beat each other in the nuts with the plotters for after effects. Nothing you kids could fancy on a winters day.