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Apple has posted a new update, 10.5.4 for Leopard users that is stated to resolve an issue with saving and reopening Adobe Creative Suite 3 files on a remote server. This issue has resulted in corrupted Photoshop and InDesign files when documents have been saved over a network volume.

The update should show when running Software Update and is available as a stand alone installer from Apple Support Downloads. The stand alone installer is 88MBs while the combo installer is 561MB.

The 10.5.4 update also includes recent security updates as well general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. The 10.5.4 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard. Additional info about the update is here.

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Donnie Hoyle’s return is derailed by an unexpected email in You Suck at Photoshop #11 Smart Objects

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Source: Washington Post Capitol Weather Gang

Fake or real? As pointed out by PBS, it’s a question being asked about more and more pictures in this age of digital photography and advanced image editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop.

It turns out that weather photos are often the victim of “photoshopping” — the term now popularly used to describe the manipulation of photos beyond mundane tweaks in color, contrast and the like, often for the purpose of deception. One example that has circulated widely across the Internet since 2002 is the above picture, which purports to be a triple waterspout descending from the rainbands of Hurricane Lili as it approached Louisiana in early October 1992.

Like tornadoes, waterspouts often form in families, and in fact ships at sea have reported as many as 30 in one day, with as many as nine seen forming in a 90-minute period. A classic and spectacular example of multiple waterspouts –four funnels at the same time — was taken by an Italian sailor in 1999 while on a cruise in the Adriatic Sea. However, it became apparent that the above photo was a fake when it was discovered that an identical shot, except with only one funnel, appeared in the Fall 2001 issue of Anchor Lines.

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Press Release–DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–www.splashmedia.com, an innovator in digital video publishing and Internet television captured the prestigious Lone Star Emmy for Excellence in Informational and Instructional Programming for its production of Dr. Brown’s Photoshop Laboratory at the recent Advanced Media Awards.

Steven T. Miller and Brian Shelton collaborated to direct the award winning show, starring Adobe’s senior creative director Russell Brown. Brown, a Photoshop Hall of Fame winner, brings his wacky persona of a zany, mad scientist to life as he delivers on-target Adobe ®Photoshop® instruction. In addition to Dr. Brown’s Photoshop Laboratory, Splash Media has partnered with Adobe to produce 5 original series which are featured exclusively on Adobe TV.

“For 20 years, Adobe Photoshop has allowed its users to push the boundaries of visual experience and has had a profound impact on the way everyone views images,” said Bob Donlon, executive producer for Adobe TV. “Adobe is thrilled that this innovative new online TV program featuring Photoshop and Russell Brown, Adobe’s first art director and a pioneering evangelist for our technologies, has garnered a sought-after Lone Star Emmy.”Miller is an award-winning director, writer, and editor with over 20 years of experience in a wide variety of film productions. Prior to joining Splash, Miller quickly developed a niche in the music video world, producing, directing, and editing over 100 music videos from every major record label. Miller served as a governor on The Texas Board of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Shelton has over 15 years of experience in television production spanning all areas of live and pre-recorded television programming. His experience includes live sports, news, corporate training, business television, infomercials, and cable television programs.

The Lone Star Emmy Chapter is a subsidiary of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Entries for the AMAs include vodcasts, podcasts, webcasts, video blogs, web-site programs, mobisodes, video-on-demand content and any other forms of material delivered over an IP network or platform such as wireless, broadband or VOD.

“I’m extremely proud of Steve and Brian and the rest of the team at Splash for their dedication to creating work worthy of being recognized by our peers,” said Chris Kraft, president and founder of Splash Media. “One of our goals is to create the best instructional content in the industry and it is an honor to have an Emmy Award to represent that hard work and dedication.”Splash Media has developed a wide variety of programming content and tools to support the development and creation of niche online television networks for the corporate marketplace. Utilizing its $5.5-million, state-of-the-art studio and its award-winning team of producers and directors, Splash Media is the market leader in creating content for internet television initiatives across a wide variety of industries.

About Splash Media

For more information, please visit www.splashmedia.com.

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George Jardine has just posted a video podcast of photographer, Martin Evening at work in his London studio, using and discussing how Lightroom fits in with his studio workflow. It shows all the steps in a typical fashion shoot from discussing the brief to looking at the finished shots, as well as discussing his upcoming book on Lightroom 2.

Click here to read the LRN article.

Click here to go to George’s podcast info.

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Adobe has posted a release candidate of Camera Raw 4.5 on Adobe Labs. The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that the plug-in is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to customers. If you do experience an issue with this release candidate please report them to the Camera Raw User to User forum.

Newly supported cameras include the Olympus E 420 and E 520. Additional compatibilities have been added for the DNG 1.2.0.0 specification. Photoshop Elements users will now be able to control the camera profile used. 

For more information on the Camera Raw plug-in please visit the Camera Raw pages on Adobe.com.

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Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 with Adobe Acrobat 9 Now Shipping

Press Release: San Jose— June 25, 2008 –—Today Adobe announced that Adobe® Creative Suite® 3.3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection editions are available immediately for creative professionals. Creative Suite 3.3 incorporates Acrobat® 9 Pro, bringing together the power, reach, and richness of the Adobe PDF and Adobe Flash® formats and introducing numerous enhancements to print production workflows. Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium also bundles Adobe Fireworks® CS3 software as a special offering for designers who need to rapidly prototype Web sites and Web applications. 

By using Acrobat 9 Pro software in Creative Suite 3.3, creative professionals can combine diverse documents, video, audio, and other file types into easy-to-distribute PDF Portfolios, complete with customisable interactive navigation. Thanks to new native support for the Adobe Flash format, PDF files can now incorporate and smoothly play back video, audio, and application files created in Adobe Flash for richer and more engaging experiences.

With the enhanced Overprint Preview feature, print professionals can view accurate interactions between overlapping objects on-screen. Overprint Preview automatically toggles on by default when it detects overprinting in PDF/X files or if the user sets a preference to detect overprinting in any PDF. Print professionals can also reliably convert RGB and CMYK to black or to different colour spaces.

Additionally, Acrobat 9 Pro lets designers collaborate on documents more effectively and efficiently. Design professionals can now, literally, get their clients on the same page easily using Acrobat 9 Pro and Acrobat.com, Adobe’s new set of hosted services.

Adobe Fireworks CS3 includes a common library of pre-built assets for rapidly prototyping Web sites, enables easy creation of Web graphics, and allows seamless integration with Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe Dreamweaver®, and Adobe Flash.

Pricing and Availability 
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection editions for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5 and for Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista® are now shipping worldwide in English, French, German, and Japanese versions. Information about additional language versions is available separately. All editions of Creative Suite 3.3 are available through Adobe Authorised Resellers and on the Adobe Store. Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 is priced at US$449, or $159 as an upgrade from Acrobat Pro 8. Upgrades from Creative Suite 3 to Creative Suite 3.3 cost $159 and include Acrobat Pro 9 along with Adobe Fireworks CS3.

For additional upgrade policies and pricing, visit http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite. For more information about Acrobat 9 Pro for creative professionals, visit: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/acrobatpro.

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Events planned for San Francisco, Milan and Tokyo

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 25, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced dates and locations for its MAX 2008/2009 event series. MAX is the premier industry forum for designers, developers and business decision makers focused on creating and delivering rich, engaging digital experiences across mediums and devices. The series begins Nov. 16 to 19 in San Francisco, followed by events in Milan from Dec. 1 to 4, 2008, and Tokyo from Jan. 29 to 30, 2009.

Adobe also launched its call for entries for the 2008 worldwide MAX Awards program, which recognizes the most innovative work from designers and developers around the world. Entries are being accepted through Sept. 5, 2008.

Under the theme, “Connect. Discover. Inspire.” the San Francisco event will feature keynotes from CEO Shantanu Narayen and CTO Kevin Lynch, as well as technology “sneak-peeks,” business discussions, technical sessions, hands-on workshops, exhibits and networking events. More than 200 sessions will engage designers, developers and business strategists on the topics of:

- Designer/developer workflow

- Cross-media design, including Web, video, mobile, print and interactive

- Rich Internet applications

- Services, components and tools

- Designing for multiple screens

“MAX inspires creatives and technologists to design, build, and share new ways for people to deliver engaging experiences over the Web and on any screen,” said Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch. “Nowhere else can passionate members of the Adobe community learn from the best, be on the inside track of breaking industry news, connect with peers and industry experts while discovering cutting-edge technologies.”

MAX 2008 promises to deliver a glimpse into the future of digital experiences, enabling designers to dive into the art and science of designing across media, while developers broaden their expertise in architecting, building and deploying next-generation Web, mobile, enterprise and rich Internet applications.

2008 MAX Awards

2008 MAX Awards will honor the most engaging and innovative work from designers and developers using a broad spectrum of Adobe products and technologies. Categories include: Advertising and Branding, Enterprise, Mobility and Devices, Public Sector, Rich Internet Applications, Video, and People’s Choice. Adobe is accepting nominations now through Sept. 5, 2008. All entries must be submitted online atwww.adobemax2008.com/awards/submit . To see last year’s finalists, visit:www.adobe.com/events/max/max_awards/ . The 2008 MAX Award winners will be announced on Nov. 18 at an awards ceremony during the North America event.

Exhibits and Sponsorship

Companies interested in exhibiting or sponsoring MAX North America should contact Robb Trost at 1-650-226-0656, robb.trost@gpj.com . For MAX Europe, emailsponsorships-europe@max.adobe.com .

Registration

To register for MAX North America, visitwww.max.adobe.com/na/reginfo/ . Register before August 31, 2008 to qualify for the early bird discount.

Registration for MAX Europe will open in mid July. More details about MAX Japan will be announced later in the year.

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Source: The Guardian

Written by Kate Connolly

Did United Artists doctor a photo of anti-Hitler plotter Claus von Stauffenberg to make him look more like the Top Gun actor?

The latest eyebrow-raiser over Valkyrie, the troubled screen version of the failed assassination plot against Adolf Hitler, comes in the form of promotion stills issued by United Artists which, it is claimed, have been doctored. Film bloggers seem fairly united in their belief that a photo of the would-be assassin, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, has been altered to make him look more like Tom Cruise, the actor who plays him in the Bryan Singer thriller due out next February.

The speculation began on slate.com, whose designers say Stauffenberg’s nose, eyebrows, chin and cheek bones have been manipulated. United Artists have so far refused to comment. But speculation in Germany is rife that the alleged doctoring took place in order to increase acceptance towards Cruise playing a man considered to be the country’s greatest hero.

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dekePod Video Podcasts Launches With ‘101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes’

Press Release: SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — They claimed no matter how fast you gabbed (or crooned) no creature (or robot) could deliver 100-plus, real-world Photoshop instructions in five minutes or less. Yet today, digital imaging master and modern day troubadour Deke McClelland proved the naysayers wrong. In his new music video — titled 101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes and Deke’s kickoff to his new video podcast series,dekePod – he breathtakingly sings, buzzes, leaps, dances and kick-boxes his way through dozens upon dozens of useful Photoshop tricks.

Whew! Sponsored by O’Reilly Media and lynda.com, this all-new, irreverent, laugh-out-loud music video not only entertains, but also captures the zany, intense enthusiasm essential to most (if not all) creative endeavors. What inspired Deke? “This has long seemed like an obvious idea to me: Come up with 101 Photoshop Tips, rattle them off in precisely 5 minutes and set them to music,” says Deke, creator of O’Reilly’s One-on-One book series, which uses video, step-by-step exercises and hundreds of full-color illustrations. “I didn’t see anyone else doing it, so I figured I better do it myself.”

There’s more. “When I was writing the piece, I kept coming back to Nada Surf’s ‘Popular,’ which is essentially an enlightened football hero’s advice against going steady in high school. I’ve listened to the thing like Orson Welles watched Stagecoach before making Citizen Kane. Obsessively. But I didn’t want my 101 Tips piece to come off as some kind of parody or homage, so I hooked up with this amazing band called The Jellybricks and we rewrote the tune and made it our own. The result is an authentic music video with a make-or-break story line. If there’s any humor in it, it’s because I’m taking my ridiculous task so extremely seriously,” explains Deke.

You can start enjoying and learning from “101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes” now atdigitalmedia.oreilly.com/dekePod. And it’s available for immediate download, sharing and also reposting on O’Reilly, iTunes, lynda.com and YouTube.

Indeed, Deke’s wacky Photoshop tips-fest portends more good times ahead for dekePod. The upcoming all-new instructive video podcasts promise to be uncensored, unregulated and frankly unlike any other videos on the topics of computer graphics, digital imaging and the unending realm of creative manipulations. New five-minute video podcasts in topics ranging from “Stretching a Photo in Illustrator” to “Metadata Forensics” and “Stealth ‘Shop: Don’t Fear the Lab Mode” are scheduled to be posted every other week and available for download starting Tuesday, July 8.

“101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes” as well as all the upcoming dekePod episodes are produced by San Francisco-based Flying Moose Pictures. “The production work that went into this was mind blowing. Flying Moose specializes in character-driven storytelling, so they bring a completely different aesthetic to my process,” says Deke.

So what fuels Deke’s compulsive impulse to entertain while teaching? “There’s a massive amount of video training going on these days,” says Deke. “It’s expanding like wildfire. Much of it is educational, but very little of it could be mistaken for entertaining. And yet, my field, computer graphics, it’s exciting stuff. Computer graphics are the backbone for every flashy magazine ad, every televised sporting event and every blockbuster action movie. I mean, Pixar for crying out loud! And yet we just take for granted that computer graphics training should be so dull it puts you to sleep?”

For those excited by computer graphics, eager to learn, but weary of tediously dull training videos, dekePod delivers precisely the opposite. “Some folks will love it, some will hate it, but hopefully no one will yawn,” says Deke. “If we get people watching this who don’t know Photoshop from a hole in the ground, then I’ll know we succeeded.”

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