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.
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