I'm in Adobe heaven!

Post by **Transient** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:19 pm

I plunked down 5 $1 raffle tickets at a campus fund raiser last week that has several decent prizes. Well, a bunch of crappy prizes and 2 grand prizes. One of my tickets was a winner and I got to choose between the 2 grand prizes: a mediocre laptop valued at $850ish and Adobe Creative Suite 2, which is $1,200 (which probably costs less because the campus store gets educational discounts). It's not an educational edition of CS2, though.

I've been installing/configuring all afternoon now that I've got it home. It's fucking sweeeet!

It comes with the following proggies:

* Photoshop CS2
* Illustrator CS2
* InDesign CS2
* GoLive CS2
* Version Cue CS2
* Acrobat 7 Professional
* Bridge
Plus a ton of fonts/brushes/scripts/etc.

I'm not familiar with Version Cue and Adobe Bridge. Bridge seems to be a browser type thing for viewing files and organizing all my art stuff. Version Cue is a file backup and version creator, I think. It seems interesting, but it needs to be on in the system tray and is probably a resource hog, so I'll skip it. I can't get the Bridge program to work right, either.

But I don't care, All I want are PS, Illustrator, and InDesign, really. GoLive I haven't used before, but if I do anything web-based it should help out.

Has anyone used GoLive or those other 2 programs I'm not familiar with?

I'm so happy, woot! :icon32:

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:20 pm

If you can work out what Adobe Cue CS2 does, let me know. I just uninstalled it due to it being utterly, utterly pointless.

Post by **DooMer** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:26 pm

I would have went with the laptop.

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:26 pm

Congrats man. I would have been tempted to take the laptop and pawn it on ebay.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:36 pm

Yea, honestly.

Post by **Transient** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:53 pm

Well I have next to no use for a laptop. My major is Graphic Design and I do all my work on my desktop.

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:55 pm

Transient wrote:Well I have next to no use for a laptop. My major is Graphic Design and I do all my work on my desktop.

meh dont pay any attention to the whores.they would have taken the laptop and auctioned it to pay for their crack habits

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:55 pm

Transient wrote:Well I have next to no use for a laptop. My major is Graphic Design and I do all my work on my desktop.

So you only use legit software? Noble man.

Post by **Transient** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:01 pm

I admit, I have (had, actually) a pirated copy of PS 6 on my PC, but I bought an educational edition of Illustrator, and drove down to the campus to use InDesign at the lab there.

I'm trying to be as legit as possible now that I'm getting close to actually selling my work.

Post by **brisk** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:09 pm

Very noble indeed. I would have probably taken the laptop too, as getting a copy of CS2 is easy. But at least you're legit, so if you ever do any freelance/commercial work, you can sleep easy knowing the Adobe World Police aren't coming for you.

Post by **Grandpa Stu** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:56 pm

sweet dude. i woulda gone for the laptop myself but that's only because i already get all the adobe stuff for free hehe.

but if i were in your shoes i woulda done the exact same probably.

Post by **Scourge** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:17 am

Nice. :icon14: I would have taken the software too.

Post by **Transient** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:19 am

I just treated myself to a Wacom tablet for my artwork. An early x-mas present to myself.

I've got a bunch of projects for some classes it should help out with tremendously.

Post by **losCHUNK** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:28 am

whats the best way to learn PS ?

i meant to learn it before but didnt quite get round to doing anything

Post by **SplishSplash** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:08 am

My skills improved incredibly after working with people who knew it really really well for a while. Just watching them work was very insightful. For example, I never used keyboard shortcuts before. Now I do more on the keyboard than with the mouse. Well, almost.

Post by **Transient** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:15 am

Here's a 20-minute sketch I did of a model some weeks ago. Scanned it into my PC and played with it in my new PS to get used to it (been a while since I used PS, let alone a new version). Pretty much just changed the levels. Oh, and I scanned in a separate image of the bra and added it on to her. She wasn't wearing one when I drew her originally. Once I get my tablet I may airbrush in color to make it look like it was painted. :icon10:

And chunk, I taught myself. Just pick a tool and play with it a bunch. Get some random image online and start editing it until you think you've got it. Learning some of the more intricate things like clipping masks and whatnot will take a lot of time. You may want to see if you can hover over the shoulder of a friend who knows PS while he's working or something.

Post by **dmmh** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:25 am

she has a head like a crack-whore

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:57 am

So was that drawn from a nude model or is she someone you made up? If she was real I want that fucking class!

Post by **mjrpes** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:52 am

Wouldn't it have been a better deal to pawn off the shrinkwrapped Adobe Suite, since that would get more money off of ebay? Or is selling software on ebay too risky?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:34 am

Transient wrote:Well I have next to no use for a laptop. My major is Graphic Design and I do all my work on my desktop.

don't mind them, they just haven't figured out how to warez hardware yet.

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:31 am

losCHUNK wrote:whats the best way to learn PS ?

i meant to learn it before but didnt quite get round to doing anything

first, dont install any filter plugins.

then fuck about with the basics or layering et al.

then take a random image from the net and see if you can recreate it from scratch. you'll learn many a filter/blending combinations this way

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:36 am

I would of taken the laptop, downloaded the rest...

Post by **Transient** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:31 am

bitWISE wrote:So was that drawn from a nude model or is she someone you made up? If she was real I want that fucking class!

It was drawn from a model, but it wasn't for a class, it was for a separate student-organized life drawing thing. Heh, I can't draw that well from scratch. The model's name is Monica. She's a friend of mine and owed me a favor. :icon32:

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Transient wrote:Well I have next to no use for a laptop. My major is Graphic Design and I do all my work on my desktop.
don't mind them, they just haven't figured out how to warez hardware yet.

:icon26:

Post by **Transient** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:53 pm

Here's another pic I did (not a 20-minute pose, though) last week. No real editing except for the bathing suit to make it Q3W-friendly.

Ok no more pics.

If I ever get around to "painting" one of them, I'll make a new thread though. For now I need to customize the settings of all these new proggies to my satisfaction.

BTW, can a moderator tell me if I have to censor artwork for Q3W?

Post by **horton** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:22 pm

hmmmm a laptop that might be useful, or could be sold real easy...or software that u can warez anyway...what a dumbass