CS5 - love it or leave it?

[Blue]

I just rebuilt my pc and have finally taken the time to start diving into the new master collection...

I like what I see. Dreamweaver is MUCH better than before, even better than some high-brow open-source coding software I'm used to. It is still missing a couple features from other free software that I would like, such as mouse-scroll zooming and bracket selection (without the weird fill it does). But the auto-syntax warnings have already been a huge time saver. I still wish they had some color theme options that didn't require you to specifically define every single color... uhg. But once all the settings and preferences are set this ends up being a really snappy and helpful coding tool, for php/javascript apps. They seem to have fixed a lot of the FTP issues I had with CS3/4.

Flash doesn't seem all that different to me, aside from the iPhone portability that is sadly no longer an option. Other than that it has a bit more of the old feel that Director once had. I have had less and less projects involving large flash, since clients are no longer asking for them... I spend more time in jQuery land nowadays which is often faster than simple flash, but we still use flash as a 'garnish' for sprucing up sites that need to feel reactive. CS5 seems a bit more stable than CS4, which is good cause CS4 was crashtastic when it came to heavy movieclip nesting. Still waiting on 64-bit version...

Photoshop has a host of new tools, and I really like the way they've thought out the tools and layout. Makes work go quicker, which is the whole point I guess.

[image]pretend there's a moderately censored goatse here[/image]

Anyone else into CS5 yet?

[VirusClock]

I upgraded everything just because of Dreamweaver. Photoshop is a bit faster, especially in 64bit mode.

[AstronautClock]

I love the cs5  have it at work

[F U Clock]

I've always been of the mind that Dreamweaver needed the biggest improvements, and I still think that someday it could be a really powerful web-tool. I don't know much about CS5, but every version before has made hardcore code guys go, "Psssssh."

I know InDesign has some cool things like multiple page sizes in one doc. Also my office passed around the videos for the content aware fill before it came out convinced it was a hoax. I'd like to try it for myself and see how well it works... My boss isn't too sure about it.

[RocketFetus]

CS3 for flash, CS5 for all other products is my opinion

[Pineberry]

Hey dude that goatse thing is still pretty nsfw even with that thing blurred out might want to not get me fired

[Blue]

Hey dude that goatse thing is still pretty nsfw even with that thing blurred out might want to not get me fired

Sorry, but the CC has always been nsfw. Need only look at a few avatars. And the goatse image was a valid example of the content-aware-fill, the newest and most lauded feature of Photoshop. If it can cover his ass, it can cover anyone's.

[FileCabinetClock]

What is flash?