On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > I installed Photoshop CS5 last night, and this is the first image I've > created with it. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/4865885325/sizes/z/in/photostream/ > > More on Photoshop at the end, but first, a little background - > > I got out of school last Friday with no assignments due, and nothing to > photograph but what *I* wanted to photograph. > > Decided to make a weekend of it and see how far west I could get on US 64 > before I'd have to turn back on Saturday so I could make it back for my > final class on Monday. I ended up making it as far as Memphis; went to > Graceland and Sun Studios before heading back. > > I've been fascinated with US 64 for a number of years now. It was once the > major thoroughfare through North Carolina and west through the middle of the > nation. Along with US 1, Route 66 and US 70, US 64 was a major coast to > coast artery prior to the development of the interstate highway system. > > Although it's mostly been widened to 4 lanes now, I want to document the > experience traveling the old two-lane highway where I can. Along the way I > passed a historic marker at a cemetery in Hendersonville, NC and backtracked > to take some photos. > > Thomas Wolfe's father was a stone carver in Asheville, NC and apparently > this stone angel, commissioned as a grave marker, was the inspiration for > the title of Wolfe's seminal work. > > ... and now to Photoshop CS5. > > I didn't use content aware fill in creating this. I don't know how useful it > will actually be because I mainly either want the background unchanged with > all of its faults or I want it completely gone as I did here. I noticed that > some of the "tools" I use most often operate freakishly in CS5. > > I use CTRL + and CTRL - a lot to zoom in and out of images so I can work on > details. In CS3, these keyboard shortcuts worked linearly, each time you > pressed the + or - while holding CTRL, the view zoomed proportionally. > > With CS5, the shortcuts operate anything BUT linearly. Once causes no > response, twice causes a small response and the third time causes an > extremely non-linear, disproportionate response - 1%, 2%, 3000%. > > The other "tool" I use all the time in Photoshop is holding down the > space-bar to move around the image while zoomed in. Photoshop CS5 seems > prone to extreme lag. > > You press down the space-bar and the tool takes a loooooooooooooong time > before it changes to the hand. > > If you're in the groove and don't wait for it you end up using the wrong > tool to do the wrong thing in the wrong place so that you have to go back > and correct a mistake before you can go back to trying to move to the > correct place in the image. > > Then, once it does change, the default seems to be some kind of "finger > flick" mode that causes the image to slide under the cursor. Once you start > it moving it keeps moving when you let it go. It doesn't stop where you put > it. > > Very difficult to position the cursor where you want it, although I believe > I may have found the place in preferences to turn "finger flick" off. > > And, apparently, the extract filter is no more. Haven't used it in a long > time, but it would have been useful in creating this particular image. No > can do, so I spent hours figuring out how to do what I could have done in > just a few seconds with the extract filter. > > Anyway, that's my impression from about 4 hours playing with Photoshop CS5.
Don't give a rat's ass about CS 5. I use GIMP fer gawd's sake. ;-) Nice pic, though. Unlike Bob and Doug, I like the sign. Don't know why, I just do. But since two of the best and most knowledgable photogs on the list don't like it, who am I to say? ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
