A new name, Photoshop and my fucking mouse..
Regular visitors (stop sniggering, they exist) may have noticed that I changed this weblog’s (or blog’s, for the cool kidz) name from my own to something a bit more fitting. It is now called Media Bitch or Media B*tch.
I have also done some minor tweaking and removed the ‘Sporadic Creativity’ page because I’m putting myself out there as it is and don’t want to overdo it. So. I’m going to talk about two geeky things today.
1> I got my first real chance to play around with my ‘trial copy’ 
of Adobe’s brilliant new Photoshop version for the Mac platform. CS4.
I’ve always thought of Photoshop as a huge resource hog of an app that takes ages to launch and for small jobs is a bit like unholstering a Colt to kill a fly but I must say I’ve been pleasantly surprised with this new version. It’s screaming fast, light and for the first time ever it’s features are easy to get to and use even if you aren’t some Photoshop Uber-Geek with mad skillz. The speed difference must be because this is the first version of Photoshop that is actually GPU accelerated. On a mid level system like mine (2.4 Ghz Merom Core2duo, 3 Gb DDR2 and a 256MB Nvidia 8600M GT) that seems to make an immense difference. The usability is much better too, for me at least. So I spent a few hours and threw together the logo at the top of this page and ventured the courage to edit the CSS style sheets for this site to get WordPress to display the art work. Read more…