Adobe CS5

Adobe had been emailing me for several weeks before the big release of Creative Suite 5, and I even signed up for the “Global Online Launch”, which seemed to actually be a couple videos they would have sent me anyway. I guess I was hoping for a live, Apple-style event or something.

Don’t get me wrong, Adobe makes great improvements to their tools with each update, and I’ve even seen a few updates that make me excited. The Illustrator “shape builder” tool and art board enhancements look great, and this video (via yewknee.com) on the content-aware fill looks too good to be true. But other than this, I haven’t really checked it out too much.

Here’s the thing — I’ll buy it. New tools, enhancements, all great to see. But I’ll buy it because it’s the software for my industry. It’ll get hard to do my job if I don’t stay up-to-date. So that’s that — I’m saving up for it. And (begrudgingly) looking forward to getting my teeth into it.