Artryst.com: Design by Gregory Tarnoff

Design Premium CS3

Well I finally am upgraded to Adobe Design Premium CS3. After having tried out the Photoshop CS3 Beta earlier this year I was truly lookign forward to the new interface. I found the collapsing panels extremely convienent. I also liked the addition of the live filters. I have been working in a non-destructive mode for about two years now (delete is not in my dictionary anymore) and adding these filters in will only make this easier.

I also really fell in love with the new Adobe Bridge, especially the fact that you can view Flash files inside of it finally. I felt that was something Bridge should have been able to do from the get go even though Macromedia was the competition. I have not spent much time in Illustrator, Flash or Dreamweaver yet, but the consistent interface I am really excited about.

My most anticipated feature is something I had suggested to the Photoshop Product Manager at Photoshop World in Boston two years ago. I realize I am not the reason they put it in, I am just happy to see it is there. This is the integration between Flash and Photoshop and Illustrator. Now any file you create in Illustrator or Photoshop can be imported to Flash in a number of ways, most importantly with each layer remaining its own layer. This should make cartooning in Flash, which has always been cumbersome to draw in, much easier to do.