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For Photoshop users with some extra time on thier hands (and who like crossword puzzles) there’s a web site just for you.

From the Rob Galbrath.com Forums page:

The RG DPI forums are closed to new posts while we negotiate the sale of the forums to a suitable new owner. Please read the Forums Closure FAQ for more information about why we’re doing this and what it’s likely to mean going forward. – Rob Galbraith

Source: Forbes
Written by Kate DuBose Tomassi

Despite the “constant chatter” of investors about the potential threat to Adobe Systems from Microsoft’s expected entry into some of Adobe’s markets, Piper Jaffray senior research analyst Gene Munster said the threat may be overblown.

The Disable VM Buffering plug-in can be installed to eliminate pauses during painting on Macintosh machines with more than 4GB of physical RAM installed. It will have no effect on machines with 4GB or less of RAM. On machines with more than 4GB of RAM, it can eliminate pauses during painting operations at some cost in performance with very large documents.

FOUND Magazine editor Jason Bitner has made it a habit of picking up after us, walking down the back alleys of our lives, and accumulating all that we’ve thrown away or mislaid.

 
One afternoon not long ago, after lunch at a small Midwestern diner, he stumbled onto a forgotten archive.

 
In the back of the restaurant were box upon box of studio portraits of the townspeople of LaPorte, Indiana—over 18,000 in total.
 

Source: ZDNET Blogs
Posted by Jason D. O’Grady

Bare Feats has posted a set of benchmarks comparing two non-Universal Binary applications, Adobe’s Photoshop CS2 and After Effect 7.0, running on a three different machines to gauge the true impact of Rosetta emulation.

Woodson exhibit features canvases worked by pixels rather than paintbrushes

Source: Wausau Daily Herald

“Electric Paint: The Computer as 21st Century Canvas” features the cutting-edge work of 22 artists from all over the world, including Russia, Turkey, South America and Europe.

The exhibit opens Saturday and runs through June 18, 2006.
 

Press Release: Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) today announced a new Adobe® Creative Suite 2 print professional eSeminar series event. Hosted by industry experts, the free eSeminar series will feature two new sessions on Job Definition Format (JDF) and Variable Data Publishing (VDP), as well as providing insight into the enhanced tools and features that will help print professionals improve production workflow and productivity by getting the most out of Creative Suite 2.

Source: Computer Arts

The 1970s and 80s saw the emergence of graffiti culture, and its transition into a respected art form. Designer Ric Blackshaw traces the roots of his own passion for a whole new graphic language.

Source: Aperture 1.1 Update Page

Developed in consultation with pro photographers, Aperture 1.1 — available now for $299 and as a free Software Update for current owners of Aperture 1.0 — offers increased computer and camera compatibility. The first Universal version of Aperture, the upgrade allows photographers to run Aperture on both PowerPC-based and the new Intel-based Macintosh computers, including MacBook Pro.