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Swampy · #16 05-24-2005, 03:21 PM

I'll call myself a "pro", because I use PS everyday. As an "ad agency", it's what I do to pay the bills. I've got the CS2 upgrade, but haven't installed it yet. Waiting for a few issues with fonts in OSX Tiger to be resolved before I install and do the registration/activation thing so I'm still at CS1. There is still so much I want to learn about PhotoShop!! It is just totally awesome.

The ad below recently appeared in National Geographic Traveler Magazine, so I guess for a gal from the "swamps", I've made the big time. The ad was done completely in PS.

DonaldP · #17 05-24-2005, 07:13 PM

I think I would consider myself somewhere between the first three, as I used PS extensively while in college, here at home, and now back at the college. Of all the possible students and soon to be graduates in a computer art and design degree program, I was approached by the college marketing department (just before graduation, two weeks ago) to do some scanning and restoration work on photos and newspaper articles that will be appearing in the college's 90th anniversary, happening later this year.

At the college, I use CS2 and what limited plugins that come standard with the program. At home, I use PS7 for both the PC and Mac platforms as well as a rather large host of plugins and brushes to accomplish different tasks in graphics creation and animation.

Also, depending on what "look" I am trying to achieve, I will sometimes find myself reverting back to some older versions of other software. So, I guess you "could" say that I am a semi-professional enthusiast that uses the tools available to get the desired results.

Donald P

deadants · #18 05-24-2005, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Swampy

Waiting for a few issues with fonts in OSX Tiger to be resolved before I install and do the registration/activation thing so I'm still at CS1.

I get my new Dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 with 20-inch Apple Cinema Display Hopefully this Saturday, Yeehaar. I have PSCS Academec version. I was looking to upgrade to CS2 later this year. What are the font issues? Something minor I hope.

Swampy · #19 05-24-2005, 09:27 PM

Deadants

There are a number of discussions on the Adobe forums regarding font issues with Adobe products under Tiger and both CS1 & CS2 seem to be affected. Most who are having success are those on a single user platform using a minimal number of fonts and either FontBook or Font Agent Pro.

Apparently Apple made extensive changes to the font routines in Tiger (Adobe seems to keep tweaking font routines as well) and I think many "pros" were hoping that FontBook (Tiger's native font handling module) would be sufficient to handle their diverse font needs, but most are very disappointed and still find a need to use a third party font manager such as Extensis Suitcase, or Font Agent Pro. Font Agent Pro has been updated to work with Tiger, but Suitcase has not released a stable and reliable version for Tiger and CS2.

The biggest need for the "pros" (especially those in "bureau service" type environments) to be able to load customer fonts on the fly have auto activation of fonts and deal with active duplicates, corrupt fonts etc. Suitcase is said to handle these needs better than FAP, especially fonts delivered from a server.

I'm a Suitcase user and am waiting for the Tiger update which is "very close" according to Extensis. I did try FontBook under Tiger and it was very unstable. Fonts would show up fine in InDesign and not at all in Illustrator or PhotoShop. Or fonts might show up in Indesign and then when trying to export a print resolution PDF I'd get a dialog box saying the font(s) were not available for inclusion. (All problems were with CS1)

I think it will all work itself out in the next couple weeks, but I'm still working under OSX 10.3 Panther and have 10.4 Tiger loaded on a separate partition to "play" with it and all the neat new features.

deadants · #20 05-24-2005, 09:47 PM

Thanks for all the info Swampy, I wonder if the new update 10.4.1 was an improvement on the problem? Lets hope so. Anyway, roll on Saturday. I can't wait. It's just like being a kid again at Christmas time, 3 more sleeps

cazubi · #21 06-13-2005, 02:40 PM

I am both one and two. I use it on the job, but I use it more for my personal projects and art.

Cathy

Marthig · #22 08-21-2005, 08:14 AM

First Congratulations "Swampy" that cover is beautiful, can you visit places like in the photo of the main background ? I mean are you relatively close to them?

On the subject of this thread I am definitely a Committed Enthusiast - currently using CS2 and there is sooo much still to be learnt ! Though since I became a member of RP I made great progress reading tips and tutorials available here.

I used to use almost exclusively Fireworks since 4.0 all through MX2004. The first ps version I used was 5.0, quite a long time ago, then had to sell my PC with all the programs.

The next PC had Fireworks 4 installed, and the PS CS2 I am using now is a sort of giveaway present from my Daughter who had it installed in her last PC. Complicated I know, but that's how it is

The switch to PSCS2 from FW I made was on account of a PS battle I entered at another forum, which forced me to re-learn PS and regretfully have to admit that for creating graphics and image retouching it is far more powerful than FW.

Well regards to all those who managed to read up to here

Martha -

Swampy · #23 08-21-2005, 08:57 AM

Martha, thank you for the comments on the magazine cover. Yes, you can get right in the middle of a scene like the background of the piece. Just visit our state park or take one of the environmental tours. As for me, my house is surrounded on three sides by native scrub. The fourth side is lakefront - best of both worlds :-)

On the issue of Apple/Adobe/Fonts...I bit the bullet and purchased Font Agent Pro and switched from Extensis Suitcase. Extensis STILL (4 months after the release of Tiger) has not updated their font utility! With the purchase of FAP, I was able to install CS2, but I still haven't migrated from Panther to Tiger.

I've got a copy of Tiger 10.4.2 installed on a backup internal drive, but strange thing whenever I boot into it, I lose all my external firewire devices. Neither my 160g nor 250g external firewire drives will mount. Not good!!!

dee dee

screenfx · #24 09-16-2005, 10:44 AM

Things have a tendancy to perpetuate themselves.

In the 80's there was betamax vs vhs. There were more movies to rent in vhs so more people bought vhs players, which caused more video rental stores to stock more vhs tapes etc. etc.

I thinks it's like that. If you look in the newspaper, and you want to be a graphic artist you will constantly see photoshop as the required software to know. So, you go buy photoshop, you take photoshop classes and buy photoshop books. When employers open new businesses, they look to see the kinds of professionals that are available and they see a lot of photoshop pros so that's what they hire.

Ken45140 · #25 01-28-2006, 03:05 PM

The poll originator should have given a category for using multiple editors. I am a basic beginner (hopefully graduating soon) and I have and use PS7 and PSPx on various tuts and tasks and it seems to me (and others) that there are strengths and weaknesses with both of these tools.

Ken

aylaah · #26 03-04-2006, 04:02 AM

At $650 US I won't be buying it any time soon. Another learner here. I've had photoshop for a very long time but only recently had the guts to try to learn it, its been in the too-hard basket for a long time.

Mine is PS7, a gift from my father who uses it himself and swears there is no need for CS/CS2 at this point, and 7 is plenty. Considering where I am - and the wealth of info out there for previous versions (tutorials and so on) there isn't really any great need to upgrade at this point for me.