CS3 and SketchUp
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I have had CS3 for a couple months now and what little I have been able to play with it is simply amazing. I have been on a crazy deadline working solely in sketchup, so my usual daily photoshop grinding has been put on hold. I did import a sketchup file and play with it quite a bit and I have to say, anyone with sketchup should get extended. It's well worth the price.
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I look forward to the day I get to use something newer than Photoshop 7. Yes I said 7.
We also use Pegasus mail at work... don't get me started on that one
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@unknownuser said:
I look forward to the day I get to use something newer than Photoshop 7. Yes I said 7.
We also use Pegasus mail at work... don't get me started on that oneOuch... That hurts. I feel your pain, at least its Photoshop and not Paint Shop Pro.
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I've been using CS3 Extended since day one of availability...I pre-ordered it after playing with the beta.
I have found the enhanced Vanishing Point capabilities (for applying textures and scaling inserted images into existing 2D exports from SU) and the Smart Objects (think: Photoshop components or blocks) much more useful than the "3D layer" capabilities, however. The 3D layer function is limited by it's inability to generate real (or real-looking) shadows and light sources...you can only choose the general direction of light, and then what you get is very much like shading in SketchUp.
There is some decent video editing capability in PS 3 Extended. I'm very much looking forward to the next animation task, so I can give this a shot. Unfortunately, like most architects I mainly deal with still images, so it just hasn't been terribly useful so far.
The big problem with CS3? In general this release has many unresolvable issues with printing (just do a web search to see exactly how many people are unhappy about that). Where I could simply hit "print" in previous versions of PS and send the image to a color or BW laser writer with some assurance that I would get on paper something like I saw on the screen, with CS3 that is not usually the case...I'll get a coarse-screened mess, no matter how much tweaking I do of the driver settings. To get a decent print, first I must export my PS file as a Photoshop PDF and from Acrobat print that. Quite a nuisance...I truly envy those rare individuals who lucked out with printers or printing systems that worked "out of the box" with Photoshop.
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@unknownuser said:
I have found the enhanced Vanishing Point capabilities (for applying textures and scaling inserted images into existing 2D exports from SU) and the Smart Objects (think: Photoshop components or blocks) much more useful than the "3D layer" capabilities, however.
Heh...my best friend from Boston is visiting Deb and me this weekend in Boulder. He's the guy who invented Vanishing Point along with another friend. He's a huge fan of SketchUp too! Glad you like it Lewis, I'll let him know tomorrow at breakfast!
Cheers,
- CraigD
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