Ummm...kiwi's and avocados...two wonderful fruits in my book. So the season is upon you and you're hard at work. Bought some kiwi's today and I love the tart fruit. Nice to hear from you and thanks for the fruits of your labor but sorry to hear of the delayed retirement. Best of luck in that endeavor.

Yes I've been following this artist for some time now. Exquisite stuff. 

You didn't upload a representative image so I wouldn't know what you mean by faint and washed out but I'll take a stab...no pup intended...and say that perhaps putting your blood splatter on seperate layers and setting the layer's mode to multiply several times should do the trick.

Just wanted to shout out and say thanks and also to let you know that I'm enjoying your recent work with these greebles...outstanding stuff really.

Hay, very cool UVDan, looks really good. I was waiting to hear the brew bubbling.

I've also noticed over the years that many of the models used, their creators request that they be mentioned in the least and are not. It's one of the reasons I don't create and offer here anymore. It's in full bloom where many...and often well known artists, use other artist's models and do not even mention them as their source model. Personally I think it's disgraceful and should not be allowed. But it's been going on so long that I think no one cares anymore...so much for copyright integraty.

I don't know what's going on but from brillient blue to gray seems a little better except the header is still a bland white and gives the illusion we're not at an art site but it's better than before. What would we do without the powers that be? I thought they would have posted a challenge as they always do for the design...or is that just me?

8^D

Loved it...also liked the music. Very well done.

LOL...I'm pushing this forward to some friends who I know will appreciate it. This from an underachiever...or is that 103% statement? (He...he)

LOL...very cool Analog...thanks for sharing.

Attached Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2013/01/07/download-adobe-cs2-applications-for-free/

"Adobe is terminating the activation servers for CS2 and that for existing licensed users of CS2 who need to reinstall their software, copies of CS2 that don’t require activation but do require valid serial numbers are available."

 It continues to say that;

"You are only legally entitled to download and install with that serial number *if *you have a valid license to the product!"

AgentSmith; "...and I would cry like a baby if I had to go back to v7, lol."

Oh, I'm sure, so would I if I used the extended 3D aspect of the program LOL. No doubt different people use it for different purposes. Now to take a look at Dogwaffle.

Well, it seems Forbes is willing to come foreward even if Adobe isn't. Thanks for that post Danny_Gordon it sure helps clarify the situation. But I'm left wondering why Adobe doesn't post anything on the page? By now I'm sure tons of people are playing with their PS CS2.

I bought Photoshop CS3 outright and find their upgrade prices to be outrages. I won't upgrade until my next computer upgrade. I personally don't find all that many meaningful changes from Photoshop 7 which I also own to their present version. Perhaps their new brushes module require a look see.

Really don't know Bobby, here it is Jan 12th whereas that article in CGSociety was posted on the 7th. One would think that it's a nothing operation to close down a web page but nevertheless it lingers on. Obviously they'er not supporting the server for those products and Adobe are not saying one way or the other whether it is legal to download and use these packages. I could only imagine that a large portion of the graphics community have downloaded these packages and are already using them at will free of charge. The question still remains; are these then considered pirated goods since Adobe continues to keep the page with the downloads and their serial numbers open?

Personally I would be pissed if I had paid $600+ for Photoshop CS2 and now find that it's openly available for free to anyone who wants it.

Ancient or not, if you can't afford Adobe, here's a chance to try these progs out at your own leisure. My experience with Photoshop has been that they haven't really changed all that much unless you go into the extended 3D versions. So the question is, I must imagine, are they a legal download?