Archive for the 'General' Category

Adobe Lightroom Beta 2 Released

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Adobe has released Lightroom Beta 2. The main changes since the first version are:

Now available as a Universal Binary for compatibility with Intel-based Apple hardware
Crop and Straighten tools included in the Develop module
Ability to add music to slideshows
White balance support for the Nikon D2X, D2Hs and D50 cameras
Ability to create hierarchical keyword sets
XMP Import and [...]

IstockPhoto joins Getty Images

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Istockphoto announced yesterday that they have reached an agreement with Getty Images and is now part of the Getty Images family. According to the reports Getty paid 50 Million $ to acquire IstockPhoto. I have mentioned IstockPhoto before in my Cheap Stock Photography post, but here is a small presentation. IstockPhoto was the pioneer [...]

Adobe Proxy Volume 2

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Adobe has released the first issue of the second Volume of Proxy, Adobe’s free quarterly interactive design publication. You can find it and download it at Adobe’s Proxy site. At Proxy’s site you can also find and download the four issues of Volume 1.
This latest issue includes a Photoshop Vanishing Point filter tutorial, an interview [...]

Photoshop tops wishlist of linux users

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

In a poll conducted by Novel, asking which is the program most Linux users want to see ported from Windows/MacOS, Photoshop ranks number one. The top five applications after a month of voting are
1. Photoshop
2. Autocad
3. Dreamweaver
4. iTunes
5. Macromedia Studio
Via Desktop Linux

Radiant Vista

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I have just found this website and it went straight into my bookmarks . Radiant Vista is a site offering Video and PDF Photoshop tutorials but it’s much more than that. The site is run by three people Craig, Mark and Mathew, all three of them are photographers and they provide daily critiques for photos [...]