I've been completely in the dark about CS6 until like a week ago. (Yeah I dunno how that happened either.)

Well, there's a pretty interesting thing Adobe's done this time around -- in what seems to be an attempt to curb piracy as well as step up their game to a degree. Have you guys seen Adobe's CreativeCloud yet? [link] This is an interesting offer. You can basically subscribe to use Adobe software 100% legally, and you get a pretty nifty online cloud system to boot. For any regular user, you can subscribe to 1-year contracts to gain access to the entire Master Suite and their filesharing/storing/etc cloud services for $50 a month, ($600 each year, saved you some math there.) At first I thought subscribing to this sort of thing would be dumb, because sooner or later you're going to end up paying MORE than the entire cost of the Master Suite, but you'll never actually *own* it. But then I noticed that, if you subscribe, you get access ALL FUTURE CS releases immediately as they're rolled out. This is actually a pretty great deal, then. The Master Suite is $2600 to buy brand new. You'd have to be a subscriber for almost 5 years to pay that in $50 monthly increments. And you can bet between that time there will be at LEAST 2 major CS releases, each of which usually cost $550 for a Master Suite upgrade -- practically the cost of another full year subscription. So if you like having the latest versions of the software, this nearly seems like a no-brainer, and all those cloud features seem pretty handy if you're a CS power user. Most standard-to-premium cable TV plans cost $50 or more a month. And this does a heck of a lot more for you, especially with sites like watchseries.eu out there. I'm seriously considering hopping onboard, myself.

It's also nice how they have $75/m access without an annual contract, so that way if you need all the software for, say, a 1-2 month freelance gig, you got it, all legal n' stuff.

Speaking of, I've been trialing Photoshop CS6 for a bit and I've been liking what they've done so far. The new (changeable) darker gray interface is nice, easier on my eyes from my Cintiq, and the improved 3D implementation stuff IS pretty cool. Not sure if I have any real uses for the 3D stuff, but based how it was implemented in CS5, it's a notable step up. One of my favorite new additions is actually how brush outlines ROTATE WITH YOUR PEN. FIIIINAAALLLLYYYY. UGH it's SO GOOD that happens now. I have noticed some slowdowns, though, which I might attribute to two factors: something that will be fixed in an upcoming update and the fact my system only has 4GB of memory. I'm expecting a big speedup as soon as I get my new order of 16GB in next week hahaha.