Updating we will go.

I have spent the past day or so updating both Photoshop CS4 - now 11.0.1 & Adobe Lightroom - now 2.3.  It never ceases to amaze me how quickly some software gets out of date so quickly.   In the case of Lightroom this is in part due to the continue development of new cameras that mean that the Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) has to be continually updated.   However, both are also to fix known bugs/faults call it what you will.

One interesting aside about running 64 bit.  At the recent Focus on Imaging show at the NEC  I spoke to the onOne people about when the 64 bit version of Genuine Fractals was going to be available.   The advice was that this is unlikely to be available until well into the latter part of the year.  I was also informed that I should consider using the the 32 bit version of both Lighroom and Photoshop as there was 'no difference between 32 bit and 64 bit'.  This may be so but if you have built your workflow around the 64 bit products then moving back to 32 bit can be problematic.

Age of Empires - a bit of s distraction

Age of Empires III

Well I have decided that I will not have anything to do this weekend with photography.  I was thinking about going for a nice long walk but unfortunately I have a nice blister on one of my toes so that seems to be out.   Instead I have installed a copy of Age of Empires III.  (AOE) I know this is a bit sad but it is a way of taking your mind off things.

The only problem with this is, of course, I still keep thinking about photography.  Am I becoming an obsessive person?  Possibly or just very dull.  Anyway, back to AOE.  The new game is not really as good as the older versions but there are a couple of problems with the older versions.  Firstly, I sold my copies a long time ago and somewhat pine for them now.  However, the second problem means that even if I still had my copy I probably wouldn't be able to play them.  You see AOE will not run on Vista 64 bit.  Well this is not strictly true.  What happens is that when you go to run the program you are told to download a patch from Microsoft.  Why, you may ask this is not covered in a service release I just don't know.  Anyway, once the patch is installed then AOE III runs fine.  I suspect that this may not be the case with the earlier versions.  Such is the way of life.