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Lightroom 4 Now Available on Creative Cloud

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Lightroom 4

Adobe has made Lightroom 4 available on Creative Cloud for subscribers to download now.  Lightroom 4 normally runs $149 at retail or $79 for an upgrade from Lightroom 3.

If you are a Creative Cloud subscriber, however, Lightroom 4 is included in the package deal, along with all the other apps from Adobe Creative Suite CS6.

I signed up for Creative Cloud earlier this month.  Being an existing Production Premium customer, I was able to get the introductory rate of $29.99 per month.  I’ve installed a number of CS6 apps with zero hiccups thus far.  If you aren’t an existing Creative Suite customer, you can still get Creative Cloud for $49.99 per month if you commit to a one year subscription.

Of course, I had already upgraded to Lightroom 4 and it is a solid update to an already fantastic RAW image processing application.  If you’re on Creative Cloud already and you aren’t using Lightroom for your image processing, nothing is stopping you now.  If you’re not on Creative Cloud, this is just the more incentive to pull the trigger.

 

Photoshop Tip: Justifying Text

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Justify Text Not Selectable

If you have ever added text to an image using the type tool in Photoshop and later decided that you wanted create a different paragraph justification style (as opposed to the available right-, center- or left-align options), you may have been frustrated to discover that the justification options in the paragraph palette were grayed out.

There are a couple of ways to make sure you have the ability to justify text in your chosen format when working with the type tool in Photoshop.  I can confirm that the following directions work in Photoshop CS5 and CS6. [Read more…]

Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual – New Book

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Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual

Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual is a new book O’Reilly Media and author Lesa Snider, who explains what the book is made of.

“This edition features all new screen shots, new and updated practical techniques, as well as a new chapter on video editing… It’s simply the most comprehensive yet conversational, Photoshop book on the market and I’m incredibly proud to have it available upon ship date of the software.”

Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual retails for $49.99, however, you can currently find it for $27.26 on Amazon.

 

Adobe CS6 Available Today

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Available

Today is the first day of availability for Adobe Photoshop CS6 and all the other new CS6 products.  You can download CS6 apps from Adobe’s website.

If you’re ordering a boxed copy, it should ship today.

Also, student and teacher editions are available from Adobe’s website here.

The full list of new CS6 products is below. [Read more…]

Adobe CS6 Ship Date is May 7, 2012

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Adobe CS6

I have confirmed that Adobe CS6 products will ship and be available for download on May 7, 2012.

  • CS6 Ship Date (English, Americas, and European versions): May 7, 2012
  • CS6 Ship Date (Rest of the world): May 10, 2012

Pre-orders for Adobe CS6 products are available direct from Adobe here.

Upgrades to CS6 from other CS products are only available from Adobe here.

CS6 Student & Teacher editions are available from the Adobe Education Site.

The new Adobe CS6 products available are listed below. [Read more…]

Adobe Creative Cloud Launches, Gives You All CS6 Programs for $50/mo

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Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud has finally launched with a subscription model for Creative Suite apps and cloud integration across many apps. The launch event will be streaming live today at 10AM PT / 1PM ET and is viewable here on Adobe’s site.

Creative Cloud will offer users access to all of the Creative Suite applications, including Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Illustrator for as low as $49.99 per month if you commit to a one year subscription.  An introductory offer is available for existing individual users at $29.99/mo.

Of course, you can still purchase the retail products as well.  Production Premium CS6 runs $1899, Photoshop CS6 is $699 and Photoshop CS6 Extended is $999.

More details in the press release below. [Read more…]

Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CS6 Extended Launched, Available for Pre-Order

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Photoshop CS6

Adobe has officially launched Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CS6 Extended.  For those who have been playing with the beta for the past month or so, you kinda know what you are getting into.

Photoshop CS6 retails for $699, while Photoshop CS6 Extended retails for $999.  Additionally, Photoshop CS6 will be available via Creative Cloud subscription for as little as $49.95/mo. for the full Creative Suite.  Adobe will be holding a launch event today, April 23, at 10AM PT/1PM ET here online.

Pre-orders for Photoshop CS6 are already available on Adobe’s website and at B&H Photo.

More details in the press release below. [Read more…]

Key Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Updates

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Premiere Pro CS6

Adobe’s booth at NAB 2012 is a madhouse.  The seating area for every speaker is full and the aisles surrounding the booth are packed as well. Lots of third-party vendors are also showing off CS6 products as well. Adobe is clearly on the march with the new apps in Production Premium CS6.

I sat down with Premiere Pro Product Manager, Al Mooney, on Monday at NAB 2012 to discuss some of the new features in the app that is buzzing among editors at NAB. [Read more…]