If you dislike activation so much why do you use Photoshop? Judging by your website you have absolutely no need for it. I'd suggest MS Paint might be more your speed.

Really not fair Stuart. I'm a technologist. Just because I'm not good at art doesn't mean I don't enjoy it. And as a technologist I have a decent grasp (continually self-updated) of the entire industry and what and where problems look to be coming from, both legal, privacy-wise and technologically. I don't like when restrictions are placed on technology. Call it gut instinct, or sentimental foolishness. Whatever. I believe what I believe and it's based on fact as reported in many technology publications and my own research, experiments and endevors in technology.

And my website is YEARS out of date. Or did you miss the last update was : "Changes last made around about: Aw-Ghost 26, 1999." I didn't even own photoshop back then. I didn't get my own personal version (non-work) before ps 6 had almost run it's cycle. I was thrilled enough with it to come up with the money for the Dynamic Media collection myself when it had nothing to do with my chosen profession, which I'm pretty good at, if I can say so myself.

I do professional, non-artistic web sites at work. Strictly financial stuff. Data base access and updates. Very dry. No design (as in image) elemnts at all. Layout of text and tables and grids and buttons and colors is more my business. Making the pages run smooth and fast while juggling HUGE amounts of data on an intranet is what I do. The thrill I get from my web work is in the code (ASP, HTML, DHTML, vbscript, javascript, css and xml & xslt) all working together on the same page, meshing... making music. But, just because I can't/don't/am not good at "drawn" art, doesn't mean I don't appreciate it, or that I don't ooze jealosy over those of you who can.

Do you see many in here who stick up for Adobe more than me? PS is the only way I can even approximate the talent that most of you guys have in drawing/art. I'm grateful for it. I'm talented in music, writing and all manner of technology. But I can't draw for shiete, even though I FEEL it. It facinates me. It calls to me the way music calls to me. But while I can play the bass, the guitar and the piano and sing quite passably, I suck at drawing. Don't you think I know that? From my posts over the last couple of years don't you think or see that I'm intellegent enough to recognize that?

But I also see beyond the "appplication" of the application - to the beauty of the program itself. It's a technilogical marvel. Amazing. Fast, sleek, powerful and always evolving. In it's own way, it's as beautiful as any work of art created with it. Do YOU see THAT?

Like I said, that comment was really not fair and really hurt, especially coming from you, someone I respect.

dave

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