Adobe CS5!!!

[Torniquet]

Being Launched 12th April (next monday)

jus thought id let u knows :p

[Jackolantern]

I am very interested to see what is in it, but i have to question their strategy is being so hush-hush about the new features. This is Adobe's CS5 launch center. It says nothing about what it will be able to do. Instead, they are offering a short, guided preview of it on launch day. I can understand them not wanting to make the new features public too far in advance, considering that Expression Studio 4 is likely going to be surfacing some time soon with the release of .NET 4.0, and a closed door policy would likely mean features would stay proprietary longer, but that is kind of rough on some of their customers. This isn't a game or a movie, where short, ambiguous trailers fit the bill. This is a large, expensive (for private citizens) purchase. Some, such as myself, have to make a decision well ahead of time to start saving the money before release. But I know nothing about it, and I have no idea if it is something I would want to buy over CS4. It kind of makes me wonder if the new features are not that important or revolutionary, as if they want me to buy it on day 1 without knowing anything about it because they know I would not buy it otherwise.

But of course I am still very excited to see it lol

[Ravinos]

I'm kind of exited to see the Flash CS5 functionality with improved AS3.0 support, code hinting and even a large list of ready made scripts. I'm just now learning actionscript so it looks like this will be a good start for me. As for the others in the creative suite I really haven't looked into those at all. However photoshop's new "Content-Aware" features look pretty damn sweet.

Content-Aware "healing" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtQs-oS92xc
Content-Aware "fill"- http://cs5.org/?p=624#more-624
Puppet Control - http://cs5.org/?p=634#more-634