Wildlife Photography across the Water: Adobe launch Creative Suite 5 today

Monday, 12 April 2010

Adobe launch Creative Suite 5 today

Later today, in about four hours time, Adobe launch the new Creative Suite 5. For most of our readers that means a new version of Photoshop CS5 might be of interest.

I will certainly look forward to it and judging by the some of the early feature releases, then I think this will be a good update.

I am expecting Adobe's handling of the Canon RAW files to get better. The engine they have used in previous versions and Lightroom have not been good in my opinion, certainly on the later Canon models. However, I have recently had a quick play with Lightroom 3 beta 2 and the files look pretty good with the 7D.

I will do a more comprehensive blog on LR3 beta 2 when I have had some more hands on time with it.

CS5 will be launched as a standard or extended product, and either in full version or upgrade variant.

If you have CS2 or newer, you can get away with the upgrade. Older versions will see you shelling out around £600 or so.

Now on to pricing, which is where I start to get far more vexed about it.

In the US, the upgrade is scheduled to be $199, whereas with around a 1.5 $ to £ we pay....wait for it. Roughly the same.

But if you think that is bad, wait for this.

You can buy the boxed version with a DVD, delivery, cardboard etc from Adobe for £186, or you can download it for £192.

Now maybe I am naive, but I would have thought that logic says that downloading would be cheaper.

Anyway, it is not due to ship until early to mid May. I will wait until it has been out a couple or three months so that the early un paid 'beta testers' can find the bugs. Certainly, CS 4 had some pretty serious problems with some aspects on launch.

Martin

1 comment:

Bobbster12 April 2010 at 19:54
I am also using lightroom 3 beta 2 with the 7d raw files from yesterday (I find the canon software to slow for my liking) Be interested to see your findings.
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David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.