Macworld Winds Down
Dateline: Macworld Expo 2007
Photoshop CS3
I spent some time watching the Photoshop CS3 beta demonstration today, and it was wonderful - The main impressions I’m taking away with me are:
- It’s jammed with new, very worthwhile features
- It’s a lot faster (on Intel Macs), and
- It’s going to be worth the upgrade, but…
- We will all need to take tutorials to find the best new tools.
Once Photoshop CS3 comes out in final, production form, I will probably be giving overview classes, just to motivate everybody to learn more.
Apple Consultants Network
I spent some time chatting with the folks representing the Apple Consultants Network today, and I think that I’m going to re-join. I used to belong to the ACN back in the very first days, but it didn’t suit my needs at the time. According to everything that I’m hearing, it’s time to give it another look. I expect that I’ll be getting referrals from other local consultants, once they find out that my specialty is CREATIVE people - Fussy, non-linear, high-maintenance types. I love ‘em!
MOST nerdly consultants get a bad case of the hives from folks like that. Creative folks don’t communicate in the same fashion as technical types, and they tend to talk right past each other. I’m unusual because I can speak fluent Geek (sometime it feels like Ancient Geek), but I relate better to artists than to accountants.
Final Thoughts
There are a lot of vendors, products, publications, handouts, demos and people that I haven’t written about, and I feel guilty about it (that darned Catholic Guilt!). Instead of trying to feed you the whole smorgasbord via two-fingered typing, I chose to absorb the entire show osmotically and to use what I’ve learned in future writings. If you’re one of my local clients, you can grill me directly, next time that we see each other!
I’m very glad that I came here this week… It’s wonderful to be at the very tip of the wave of change, and everybody here is on the same blissful high. I haven’t seen anybody be a jerk. I’m surrounded by Techno-Hippies!
