Geeky goodness
Tonight's entry comes at you live from MY NEW LAPTOP! My old one was almost five years old, and starting to get all, "You want me to play a YouTube file? Oh, if I must... *chug chug chug*" so I have retired it to the green pastures of my closet, where it will serve as backup when the hard drive on this one hits the three-year mark and dies. (Seriously, every internal hard drive I've ever had has died after three years. It's like a curse. Perhaps this one will be different, though!)
And holy crap, this is fast. Soooooo fast. Photoshop launches in under five seconds. I love it.
Since I now work at an educational institution again and can purchase software at deep, deep discounts, I also treated myself to the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium Edition, which means I get a version of Photoshop that's light-years beyond what I had before (I can do 3D! Apparently, anyway, as I haven't figured it out yet, but it's there!), Dreamweaver to replace my old web editor that they stopped updating almost ten years ago, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and Fireworks. I don't even know what Fireworks does, but I can do things with it when I find out! I really only needed the first two, but since getting them individually would be the same price as getting the set, I figured why not? Plus it would be good to get my desktop publishing skills back up to speed with InDesign.
(I won't deny that I would've traded all the extra programs for Premiere if they offered a package with that combination, though. iMovie works well enough for my purposes, but I lust after more interesting effects and being able to vid non-linearly without awkward workarounds.)
Anyway. Fun times! Off to play some more. :D
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And holy crap, this is fast. Soooooo fast. Photoshop launches in under five seconds. I love it.
Since I now work at an educational institution again and can purchase software at deep, deep discounts, I also treated myself to the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium Edition, which means I get a version of Photoshop that's light-years beyond what I had before (I can do 3D! Apparently, anyway, as I haven't figured it out yet, but it's there!), Dreamweaver to replace my old web editor that they stopped updating almost ten years ago, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and Fireworks. I don't even know what Fireworks does, but I can do things with it when I find out! I really only needed the first two, but since getting them individually would be the same price as getting the set, I figured why not? Plus it would be good to get my desktop publishing skills back up to speed with InDesign.
(I won't deny that I would've traded all the extra programs for Premiere if they offered a package with that combination, though. iMovie works well enough for my purposes, but I lust after more interesting effects and being able to vid non-linearly without awkward workarounds.)
Anyway. Fun times! Off to play some more. :D
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