Actually I just wanted to get a new journal to my front page, but now that I'm writing one I could tell about a few updates...

A week ago I got Photoshop CS3, which I really expected to be better than the old Photoshop Elements 5 I've been using. Well, I was kinda disappointed. So far I've only found one pro and three cons...

I like to start things positively so I'll list the pro first. Yays, I can finally organize my layers into folders! I've been wanting to do that ever since I visited blackberry-L and saw that she could do it with her Photoshop CS2.

And then, the lovely cons.

Most disturbing might be the fact that I can't just press ctrl+z ten times if I want to erase my ten last brush strokes or whatever I had done. I can press ctrl+z once, and it will undo the action, but when I press it again it just "undoes the undo", meaning I get back to the starting point. If I want to go back more steps, I have to manually go to the history tab, look up the right action that I want to go back to, then click on it. It just takes too much time when I could do all that in Photoshop Elements 5 just by spamming the ctrl+z command.

Secondly, I use a customized brush when I draw. In photoshop elements I would get that brush by going to a "tablet options" panel, then check a square that will make the brush opacity differ on how much pressure I put on the pen when I draw. I've searched every single brush and tablet option in CS3 and just can't find the same option! And I'm completely lost without it D:

Third. Is there any way to quickly/easily toggle between open documents? 'cause I haven't found one <.< - I have to minimize all documents and then I can open the document I want. In Elements 5 there were small arrows that you would click to get to the next or previous document.

Hmm... was there anything else? A lot of things are different than in Elements 5, but the rest I can easily get used to. Those above three things just bother me so much I'm not sure if I really should switch from elements to CS3. Somehow it feels like CS3 would be slower than elements 5 o.O;

Okay now I'm off to do something else . Got some ideas for pictures, let's see if I can make them into something decent.