Photo of ‘extinct’ tiger sparks controversy
Source: China Daily
XI’AN — A newly-released photo, which Chinese forestry authorities say proves the continuing existence of wild South China tigers which have been thought to be extinct, has sparked heated controversy from Internet citizens, questioning its authenticity.
The digital picture, purporting to be a wild South China tiger crouching in the midst of green bushes, was released by the Forestry Department of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province at a news conference on October 12.
Zhou Zhenglong, 52, a farmer and former hunter in Chengguan Township of Shaanxi’s Zhenping County, photographed the tiger with a digital camera and on film on the afternoon of October 3, a department spokesman said.
Experts had confirmed the 40 digital pictures and 31 film photographs are genuine, the spokesman told reporters.
But dozens of netizens expressed doubts about the authenticity of the digital picture — the only one of the 71 taken to be released at the news conference — after it had been posted on the Internet, especially in on-line forums discussing Photoshop (PS) technologies.
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Written by PhotoShop News.Interpol closes in on Photoshop-paedophile
Man identified as 32 year-old English teacher from Canada
Source: vnunet.com
Written by Tom Sanders
Interpol has identified a suspected paedophile as 32 year-old Christopher Paul Neil from Canada.
The man worked as an English teacher in South Korea and was last at Bangkok’s international airport on 11 October.
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Written by PhotoShop News.Lightroom, Aperture cautions with Leopard
Source: Macworld
Written by Rick LePage
As Leopard gets out into both the developer and user communities, we’re seeing a few cautionary notes from developers regarding compatibility and performance. Recently, Apple and Adobe issued advisories regarding their respective image management and catalog applications, Aperture and Photoshop Lightroom…
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Written by PhotoShop News.Adobe’s Platform Changes The Game In Applications
Source: Investor’s Business Daily delivered by Newstex
Adobe Systems wants to blur the line between Web and PC applications with a new computing platform that aims to change the way digital information is presented — and perhaps give Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows some future competition.
The Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR, will let developers build and deploy rich Internet applications on the desktop. Applications made with AIR can run online or offline, and can run on Windows, Macintosh or Linux PCs.
AIR combines the speed of desktop applications with the up-to-date data capabilities of the Web, backers say. AIR applications run outside of the Web browser, so they aren’t constrained in their design.
This month at a conference for Web developers, Adobe ADBE showed off AIR applications created with a test version of the software. The first official version of AIR is due out early next year. Companies with AIR applications in the works include eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) EBAY, FedEx (NYSE:FDX) FDX, SAP SAP and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) YHOO.
AIR can be used to design consumer and business applications.
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Written by PhotoShop News.Lightroom Update Mid November for Leopard Compatibility
From Lightroom-News.com
Lightroom Product Manager Tom Hogarty has announced that there be an update to Lightroom in mid-November. This will bring Lightroom to full Leopard compatibility.
“As noted in Adobe’s Leopard FAQ the current version of Lightroom 1.2 is not fully compatible with Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5. The good news is that we’ll be releasing an update in mid-November that will address key compatibility issues. In the interim, the following list describes areas where photographers may encounter problems with Lightroom 1.2 on Leopard:
- The Print module may not load
- The Import dialog and other dialogs can “disappear” below Lightroom’s main window.
- The dialog can be retrieved by switching to another application and then returning to Lightroom.
- Lightroom’s web module may not provide a visual update after a setting is changed.
- The left-side panels in the Develop module may not display properly. Resizing or closing/opening the panels will correct the issue.
- The interaction between Leopard’s Time Machine and Lightroom’s catalog files is unknown at this time. Running Time Machine backup or restore operations while Lightroom is in use is not recommended until more information can be obtained.
Feel free to share your Leopard/Lightroom experiences in this post’s comments section.”
Check out the posts and comments over at the Adobe official Lightroom Journal
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Photoshop inventor gets Lifetime Innovator award
Source: Oakland Business Review
Written by Nathan Bomey
For Thomas Knoll, manipulating pixels topped his priority list in 1987.
Never mind that the sideline effort distracted him from working on his doctoral degree in computer information and control engineering at the University of Michigan.
Because the payoff yielded a landmark result: His tangential project changed the software industry forever.
Knoll’s creation, which eventually became known as Adobe Photoshop, has become an indispensable tool in the graphic design and photography industries.
Knoll, a longtime Ann Arbor resident with his wife, Ruth, received Business Review’s Lifetime Innovator award Oct. 4 at the second annual “Innovation Michigan” event at The Henry Ford Museum.
Knoll could have left for greener pastures many years ago, considering that Adobe is based in San Jose, Calif.
But the software genius has always liked Ann Arbor better - primarily because he likes the changing of the seasons here and hates the traffic in California.
Thomas in his favorite “code writing position” at home in Ann Arbor (photo by Jeff Schewe)
In a rare interview, Knoll marveled at the longevity of Photoshop. He said the only program that has matched its prominence is the software suite Microsoft Office.
“It’s remarkable that it’s managed to stay at the top of its market,” Knoll said of Photoshop. “There aren’t many programs that are still the state of the art in their fields after so long.”
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Written by PhotoShop News.Adobe Posts OS X Leopard Compatibility Statement
Adobe has posted a PDF outlining Adobe application compatibility for Creative Suite 3 apps as well as a host of other Adobe applications. The six page, 120KB PDF can be downloaded here.
First weekend reports around the net indicate most Adobe apps such as Photoshop CS3 and Bridge are working with no significant issues. Issues have been reported for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom version 1.2 which will be addressed in an upcoming update.
Also due for compatibility updates are Premiere Pro CS3 and Soundbooth CS3. Earlier versions such as Creative Suite 2 and former Macromedia apps are listed as being “Not Designed for OS X Leopard” and users are warned that these versions are “likely to encounter issues for which there is no resolution”.
Apple only made the final GM shipping versions of Leopard available to ADC members late last week so all sorts of software developers are scrambling to double check Leopard compatibilities this week.
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Written by PhotoShop News.Ducati 1098 - Strictly Pro
PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2007
Photos © 2007 by Martin Evening and Andrew Rodney
The annual PDN Photo Plus event took place from the 18th–20th October at the Javits Center, New York. Once again, the Pixel Geniuses were all out in force at the show, as were many of our friends and colleagues at Adobe. Here is a picture diary of some of the things that happened last week, with photographs by myself and Andrew Rodney.
If you haven’t attended PhotoPlus Expo before, it’s a huge event where camera manufacturers, software companies and just about anyone connected with the photography industry gathers to show off their wares and catch up on the latest innovations. PDN doesn’t exactly take over all of the Javits Center, but the show still manages to take over most of the main floor.
Jeff Schewe was pretty much everywhere, speaking at the Adobe booth, doing demos at the Canon stand, signing prints as well as presenting seminars in the conference rooms downstairs.
Jeff even brought his special “third eye” to make sure he got the shot.
Here is Jeff in action handing out prizes at the end of his talk on Camera Raw in Photoshop. Jeff’s also got a new book coming out: a revised CS3 update to the late Bruce Fraser’s Real World Camera Raw book.
Also at the Adobe booth you could meet Adobe experts such as Tom Hogarty (product manager of Photoshop Lightroom sporting a new half-beard) who were on hand to answer customer questions about Lightroom and Photoshop.
At night it was time to go find somewhere to eat. Pictured here are (left to right): Andrew Rodney, Becky Schewe, Jeff Schewe, Mac Holbert and Seth Resnick.
Uh oh, looks like Jeff was about to take one of his famous upside down, between the legs, looking back shots!
No, wrong. It’s me shooting Jeff shooting me with Michael Reichmann of the Luminous-landscape looking on pityingly.
Mac Holbert of Nash Editions photographed with Andrew Rodney’s Halloween style lighting.
Seth Resnick speaking at the Adobe booth.
Seth again during his presentation on ‘One Photographer’s Workflow Solution’. Note Seth’s hard drive held together with Gaffer tape, thanks to an over-zealous TSA person who dismantled the drive at a security check but forgot to replace (or return) the screws.
There were also private meetings with Adobe engineers where invited Photoshop and Lightroom testers were given sneak previews of what might be coming up in the future. Here is a shot of me with Sarah Kong in the foreground. I can’t tell you what they showed me, but I guess you can tell I was quite excited by the demo.
The Pixel Mafia dinner
No Photo Plus gathering is complete without the annual Pixel Mafia dinner, which this year was held back at Zoe’s in Prince Street, SoHo with almost 70 people invited (you know who you were).
George Jardine with Jay Maisel , enjoying a pre-dinner drink.
Seth Resnick, squeezing past John Paul Caponigro
And shown here with his wife Jamie. Seth and Jamie got married shortly after Photo Plus last year and are due to have a baby in March of 2008.
Julieanne Kost from Adobe (looking very pink).
Photoshop engineer Jeff Chien looking very pleased to see Andrew.
Henry Wilhelm of Wilhelm Imaging Research, pictured here with Philip Andrews, who among other things has written the successful series of books on Photoshop Elements.
Stephen Johnson with Steve Gorman in the background.
Addy Roff, marketing manager for the Photoshop family of products with Tom Kuntz from X-RITE trying to hide under a napkin.
Liz Quinlisk of X-RITE with photographer Andy Katz and Suzanne from Lowe Pro.
Myself with Frederick Johnson, the new Adobe marketing manager for Lightroom. We like Frederick – he’s a great new addition to the team.
Addy and Liz, keeping Jay happy!
William Hollingworth from NEC with Andy Katz.
Chris Murphy with Eddie Murphy (note, they are not related, just good friends).
Becky Schewe with Seth and George
Greg Gorman (the Pixel Mafia consiglieri and chooser of the wine) pictured here with photographer Rich Marchosottoi.
Here is one of the bottles drunk that night. Have no idea what it is, but it looks expensive. (Editor’s note: it WAS expensive)
Photoshop engineer Gregg Willenski with your host for the evening, Jeff Schewe (aka The Godfather).
Time for us to settle up and leave. Was it something I said Steve?
Meanwhile, the show went on…
Peter Krogh was at the Adobe booth each day presenting on how to work with metadata in Lightroom.
And despite the evening’s excess the night before, Andrew, JP, Mac, Jeff and Greg were on call to present a group conference the next morning for the Epson Print Academy. Although Jeff’s voice was beginning to fade by then!
With so much going on there was barely time to check out the other stands at the show. Canon had sample camera bodies of the latest EOS 1Ds MkIII camera with its larger sensor, bigger screen and live video display. Nikon was also getting a lot of attention with the new Nikon D3 camera. Epson exhibited some great prints made with the latest Exhibition Fiber Paper (that PixelGenius has produced free profiles for) and there were daily print signings by well known photographers.
As I scouted around the rest of the show I wanted to check out the Drobo booth to see their much talked about automated storage system. These drive systems have been out for a while now and are a marvel of simplicity in concept. Check out the site link for more details.
I was also quite taken by the dedicated Dymo CD printer. I know other printers have this as an option, but I liked the compact size and speed at which this thing worked. You also have the software that makes it easy to design and customize your own CD labels.
My Apple 30″ display is nearing the end of its life, so should I upgrade to the latest Eizo FlexScan SX3031W 30″ calibrated display when it comes out next year? The 30″ display market does offer several choices, but this is looking like the best in show so far (but at a steep price).
Oh yeah, and Kodak was giving away free sample film again (there was quite a queue).
Taking time out from the show
For myself, this was also a family trip. One where I was able to travel to New York with my wife, Camilla, and our daughter, Angelica, who is now seven months old.
Oh, and Camilla’s mother Hannah came too, so that Camilla and I could have some time together and get to enjoy all the pixel dinners.
Here’s us on our last day in New York, which was unbelievably hot and sunny nearly all the time we stayed there. I also got to shoot a few cityscape pictures (created using the Airtight postcard gallery for Lightroom). Some of these will doubtlessly feature in a future book somewhere.
So that was it for 2007. PhotoPlus Expo will be returning next year. If you want to go in 2008, then bookmark the Photo Plus Expo website.
Original post by Martin Evening
Written by PhotoShop News.