CS4 + Graphire4 + TheCore4

I've been sketching a bit in Photoshop lately. With my new fast computer and Photoshop CS4, there's no slowdown at all for me.
I remember back in Fall 2004 when I was in the Martini Art War with a girlfriend at the time, and I was creating digital martini art on my old 450MHz computer with a 16Mb gfx card [painfully slow] and bought myself a new laptop which ran at like 1.2Ghz...
Going from 2 processors at 1.4Ghz with an integrated-crappy-Intel gfx card on my more recent laptop to this desktop tower [I named it "TheCore4" -- a hommage to The Final Five in Battlestar Galactica, swapping alliteration for a rhyming scheme] with 4 processors at 2.6Ghz and a decent gfx card is like the same transition. ^_^
It took a little tweaking to get my Wacom Graphire4 tablet running well in CS4 under Windows7, but it's working and possibly better than ever -- it feels more sensitive. =) That might just be because my processors are processing the input faster, but either way it feels better.

I've uploaded a couple of new bits of digital art to my DeviantArt gallery, and this is what I did tonight (go to the gallery to see it in full, clear resolution and of course my commentary).

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