• Is it just me or are those guys on the adobe launch programme really boring?

    It’s probably me. I got involved with CS5 way back when Flash was called FutureSplash – those were exciting days. Flash hasn’t really moved on from there in all that time. Well not the Flash that I use – it’s a brilliant drawing tool and the drawing tools have hardly been touched in years. If anything, some tools have got worse. Illustrator just doesn’t have that intuitive drawing feel to it.

    Flash has become a tool for programmers and developers. What’s needed is a something like Flash that is just a drawing tool that can then be imported into Flash for the geeks to play with. (No, not Illustrator)

    I also use Photoshop and inDesign and occasionally Dreamweaver, but only to cut and paste simple code.

    I have to admit that Photoshop’s new Content Aware eraser is eye-poppingly incredible as is the Puppet tool. Do not believe a single thing you see from now on! But somehow, I’m uderwhelmed by that too. It’s almost as if I’ve become so jaded that I feel “well, it’s about time, what took them so long?” Once, everything new in software was mind-blowing
    now it’s just – great.

    What I was really interested to see was the Flash export to iPhone and iPad. But when you look at it, this promise is hedged about with disclaimers. There is a massive grudge match going on between Adobe and Apple and I don’t want to get mashed up in the middle, so all the ideas I’ve been having recently based on the rumours and sneak peaks of CS5 can go into the bottom draw and I can get on with trying to make a living in the real world. That will save me a bit.

    All this digital developing business has got so out of hand. It ain’t fun anymore. The geeks and the bean-counters have taken over and spoiled it all for everyone – as usual. Bring back simple, hand-knitted html websites!

    Oh yeah… the CS5 image and design suck. If that’s all they can do with the new tools…

  • Say, “Grrrr!” Say, “RaaaRR!” Then get your pens and pencils out to draw this angry, Grizzly Bear video that I’ve just put up on YouTube. It’s easy – You can do it – C’mon – let me hear you say, “Roooar!

  • Arrgh! I’ve hit the 300 barrier in YouTube stats. If you reach around 300 plays too quickly, YouTube puts a block on the video stats – for no apparent reason. My Angry Lion drawing got stuck like that for a couple of months. I deleted it and reloaded it in the end.

    It’s so frustrating. You get a bit of luck on one site but the site that viewers get directed to doesn’t like it – thinks you must be up to something. I’ll never know what this day of good fortune has meant to the featured video. Thanks YouTube. You give such an amazing service to the world, but this little thing is incredibly irritating. There are many videos complaining about it too!

    That has been the story of the internet for me for the last thirteen years or so that I’ve been doing websites and stuff. The internet gives and immediately takes away.

    It has always been that I find something good, start to exploit it and then the rules change. Youtube downloads is one such thing – I put on my site a message to teachers to download my videos and take them into school as they can’t view Youtube through the school’s firewalls. Now YouTube has stopped downloads! Duh! The rumour is they will charge 99c for downloads – that’s okay, I’d get a cut (I hope), but yet another rule change that ruins my plans.