Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Terry White just released a new video in his Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast. As you may have guessed from the post’s title, this one shows you a couple of cool tricks to get around situations when Photoshop‘s Content Aware magic doesn’t quite work the way you want it to.
These are a couple of groovy, yet simple, techniques that will keep you from pulling your hair out.
[YouTube via Terry White]
Adobe has released an incremental update for Lightroom 3 and Camera Raw 6. This update is geared toward a fix for a rare bug related to JPEG files from the HP PhotoSmart R607 digital camera. Additional details about the bug are available on Adobe’s Lightroom Journal.
Download instructions for the updates on Adobe’s website.
Right now, you can get Lightroom 3 from Amazon for $179.99. For those unaware, Lightroom 3 is a RAW image processing program that makes life working with RAW files so much easier. It also carries a hefty retail price of $300, so getting it for $180 is a real bargain.
If I could only have one photo editing program, this would be it. Here’s the link to the Amazon.com deal page.
Topaz Labs recently unveiled its new Lens Effects plug-in for Photoshop. Lens Effects allows you to apply depth of field effects and other effects to your images during post processing. Lens Effects uses a depth map for fine tuning out of focus areas, which helps make the depth of field look more natural and optical-based. [Read more…]
The recently announced updates to Photoshop CS5 that enabled remote control of the application from your iPad just got more exciting. Three new “remote” Apps are now available from the iTunes store. [Read more…]
The recent update for Photoshop CS5 adds the power to remotely control elements within Photoshop from external devices like the iPad.
Shawn Welch walks through his latest app, “Remote for Adobe Photoshop,” created using the Adobe Photoshop Touch SDK. Remote for Photoshop provides users with a live interactive document and remote connections to tools and filters from both the iPad and the iPhone. Additionally, Shawn’s app also gives users the ability to easily move documents between devices. –AdobeTV
Check out the video below that demos Photoshop Remote for the iPad. [Read more…]
Along with Creative Suite 5.5‘s release today, Photoshop CS5 gets a free update to version 12.0.4. This update gives you remote connections to Photoshop CS5 through the use of the iPad, along with several minor bug fixes. [Read more…]
UPDATE: OUT OF STOCK – Looks like Amazon’s stock has sold out. The page now features third-party vendors selling through Amazon. Congrats to those who got the deal before it sold out.
Amazon is offering Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 for $39.99 for one day only.
They’re taking $40 off the $99.99 price and then you get another $20 mail-in rebate. Details here on Amazon.com.
Adobe has released final versions of Lightroom 3.4 and Camera RAW 6.4, which are now available. The new versions add RAW file support for the following camera models: [Read more…]
When Adobe announced CS5.5 a couple weeks ago, a couple of commenters on Photography Bay and/or its Facebook fan page expressed some frustration because they had just purchased a CS5 product. It looks like those of you who purchased CS5 products on or after March 10, 2011 will be eligible for a free upgrade to CS5.5. [Read more…]