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George Jardine by Jeff Schewe

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast about Adobe Lightroom with Richard Benson and Thomas Palmer.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom book By Martin Evening has been updated to include Adobe Photoshop Lightroom version Beta 4.

Peachpit & Adobe Press will be publishing the book in the final printed form (estimated release date is February, 2007) but the Rough Cut version of the complete book–the book in “beta” form–is available now as a 304 page version, updated for Beta 4.

Through special arrangement with Martin and his publisher, PhotoshopNews has a free PDF download of Chapter 1. (click HERE to download-4.32MB PDF)

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book describes Lightroom’s features in detail and with photographers in mind. Photographers who routinely work with raw (and even jpg & tiff) images will find Lightroom–and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book–an indispensable tool in their digital darkroom.

Press Release: REALVIZ®, a leader in image processing software development, is pleased to announce the availability of Stitcher® Unlimited 5.5 DS (“Double Shot”), which offers the ability to automatically stitch 2-shot fisheye photos. Stitcher Unlimited DS delivers the most versatile and accessible solution for a wide variety of industries, for the creation of stunning panoramas from horizontally and vertically stitched photos, and fisheye shots.

The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts.

The competition, which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software, honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world’s top institutions of higher education.

Source: AP via Business Week

Shares of Adobe Systems Inc. rose to a 52-week high Tuesday, after an analyst predicted strong demand for the software maker’s Creative Suite 3, which includes Adobe’s flagship Photoshop and Illustrator graphic design programs.

The San Jose, Calif.-based company’s stock rose $1.08, or 2.6 percent, to $42.39 in morning trading on the Nasdaq after rising as high as $42.75 earlier in the session. The stock hit its previous 52-week high last week, and has traded as low as $25.98 in the last year.

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As noted in DIGIT, Photoshop is once again In the Movies.

“So what’s product placement got to do with Digit? Well, there was one piece of — I’m guessing — unpaid product placement for the software at the core of every creative’s lives: Photoshop.

I’d say it’s unpaid as after one of Bond’s spy chums has framed a policeman with a doctored photo, he pops out the line: “it’s amazing what you can do in Photoshop“.

Now, while it would be wonderful if Adobe did one of those traditional Bond tie-in adverts, with copy reading ‘the next time you need to frame a public official to further your own ends, make sure you turn to Photoshop’, it’s rather implausible.”

Source: CNET
Written by Stephen Shankland

Adobe promotes its Digital Negative (DNG) format as a replacement for the profusion of useful–but proprietary–image formats of today’s high-end cameras. The San Jose, Calif.-based company believes the industry and consumers would benefit from a unified format.

Press Release: Light Crafts, Inc., a Palo Alto (CA) based photo editing software company, ushers in a new generation of integrated digital workflow tool, LightZone 2.0. LightZone 2.0  is a new intuitive tool which extends the capabilities of professional and amateur photographers, based on Ansel Adam’s Zone System.  LightZone provides photographers with precise control over exposure, contrast and color, in a straightforward interface that streamlines workflow and dramatically saves time. With LightZone, photographers regain the use of their intuition in processing their images.

Restores Film Grain Effects in Digital Images and Automates Labor-Intensive Retouching with Single-Click Ease

Newly Enhanced Noiseware Plug-in version 4.1 also Released

Press Release: Imagenomic, an independent software vendor specializing in high-performance software tools for digital photography, has announced the release of two new Plug-in products to complement its award-winning NoisewareTM portfolio. Imagenomic’s Noiseware Plug-ins have also been updated to version 4.1, with new enhancements such as a faster preview mode, an undo/redo feature, and other improvements.

kuler is a new hosted application for creating, exploring and sharing color harmonies.