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Adobe updates Bridge CS4 Output module

It seems like Adobe is releasing an update a day this week. Today brings a small tweak to the output module of Bridge CS4. The Output Module in Bridge CS4 provides PDF and web gallery creation capabilities from  inside Bridge CS4.
This update provides the ability to add header and footer information to PDF files and reduces [...]

New Targeted Adjustment Tool (TAT) in Camera Raw

I have been playing with this new feature all day. It is addictive in its ease of use and powerful adjustment capabilities. According to John Nack, the Targeted Adjustment Tool (TAT) is used “on-image adjustments (i.e. click and drag on a certain color or tonal range to adjust the corresponding values)”
The new tool is located in the menu [...]

Adobe Updates Camera Raw 5.2

Adobe has released an update to the Camera Raw Plug-in for Photoshop CS4. 
The following cameras are now supported in Camera Raw.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon PowerShot G10
Panasonic DMC-G1
Panasonic DMC-FX150
Panasonic DMC-FZ28
Panasonic DMC-LX
Leica D-LUX 4

According to Adobe: Lightroom has not been updated with the new camera support listed below. Lightroom will be updated in December to Lightroom 2.2 with new camera support

According to dpreview.com:

“The update includes enhanced color [...]

Adobe Configurator

It seems that these days I get most of my information from John Nack, well here is some more great news, Adobe Configurator is available now. You can download it now at Adobe Labs. 
Configurator lets you create your own panels in Photoshop. It is very, very cool.
Just download Configurator and install the application.

After the program has been [...]

Pixel Bender

I just read on John Nacks Blog that pixel Bender is now available for download from Adobe Labs. The first question you might have is, “What is Pixel Bender ?”
Pixel Bender
Pixel Bender is a new technology from Abobe that “delivers a common image and video processing infrastructure which provides automatic runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware.”  What that [...]

Adobe CS4 trials

If you want to try before you buy, it is now possible to download the 30 day free trials of the Adobe CS4 suite.
Go here to do it: http://www.adobe.com/downloads

Lightbulb

I recently spent a day learning how to light using small flash units. The seminar was taught by David Hobby of Strobist fame. One of the images he used in his demonstration was of a floating lightbulb. The simplicity of the image was really striking and I decided to practice what he preached by re-shooting [...]

Updates !!

Sorry for the lack of new posts. There will be new stuff soon.  
In the meanwhile here is whats being going on around the Photography / Photoshop / Technology world.

Adobe has released the new Creative Suite 4. For more info, go here: CS4 
Apple released an update to the Macbook Pro and Macbook line of laptops. [...]

Guest blog spot

I feel honored to be the guest blogger over at Scott kelby’s blog Photoshop Insider. Scott might have met me when he was doing some tutorials for the Lexar website, but I met Scott years before that.
It was back in March 2002, March 16th to be precise. I was at Photoshop Rocks, the 2002 West [...]

Photoshop CS4 as expected

As Expected, Adobe announced the new Photoshop today, Creative Suite 4. You can read the whole press release here: PRESS RELEASE. According to the press release, the Abobe CS4 products will be:
Delivering radical workflow breakthroughs that bring down the walls between designers and developers — and packed with hundreds of feature innovations—the new Creative Suite [...]

 

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