After having spoken with a couple of my friends about the Adobe Creative Suite, I’m beginning to reconsider the harshness of my critique. Keith Annis points out that Photoshop can now handle raw digital photo files, which could be useful for him and hot redhead photographers, but not so much for me yet. (Yet.) And Nick Bastin points out that InDesign now includes InCopy, a built-in text editor. Which kind of makes me say, “Okay, who the hell uses InDesign as a text editor?” But then again, you’re talking to a man who stopped writing his stories in Word and started writing ’em in BBedit, for crying out loud.
There’s a progression into geekery there that’s kind of mortifying, now that I think about it. Oh, well.
The long and the short of it is, I’m going to do some research and probably revise that piece for our Winter edition. Stay tuned.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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