Just to further distract me (and yes, I’m sure that it is all about me), Adobe has released a public beta version of the new Photoshop CS6. How could I not download it and how could I not wasted endless hours checking it out? Happily I had some real work that I could use it for… which I did… and then I started playing around with the fun stuff. Lo and behold, who knew there was a new Oil Paint filter? I had to give that a go and the result is what you see above — a stylized and slightly Tim Burton-esque view of the redbud tree blooming in my backyard. It’s probably a little hard to make out all of the paint effects at this size but, trust me, there’s some cool stuff going on in there. This warrants further investigation.

So far I’m less impressed with the new Content-Aware Move Tool, but I also found an additional set of controls for it that may make me change my mind. Chalk today up to one, big productivity loss… I mean… professional development opportunity.