Wow, Adobe has a lot of my money! dobe builds great creative solutions, and through the years, I’ve purchased, upgraded, and cross-graded a slew of their products. My primary focus has been Photoshop, and I was surprised to find that I had a stack of Photoshop versions dating back fifteen years or so. The Adobe [...]

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Adobe has made many of their CS3 applications available for download, including Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator, Flash, and others. They are actually the full versions, provided you have a valid serial number. Otherwise, you can choose to run them for 30 days for free (supposedly). Installation Woes My system is a Windows XP Professional install [...]

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As you’re probably aware, there are two editions of Adobe Photoshop CS3, regular and Extended. What’s so great about Extended? Why would you want to shell out more cash for Extended? The upgrade for Photoshop CS3 Extended is $150 more than the upgrade for Photoshop CS3, while the full package price differentials are $350. Over [...]

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Adobe has released a Photoshop CS3 Beta (and Bridge CS3) for customers with a valid Photoshop CS2 serial number. It is available for Windows and Mac, including Intel-based Macs. New features in this beta of Photoshop CS3 include (from the release notes):

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In old news (well, a couple months old), Adobe Lightroom Beta 4.1 is available for download in both Mac and Windows flavors. Check the release notes for what’s new. I have found Lightroom to be a bit slow, particularly when importing, but nevertheless intriguing. It clearly feels like a photographer’s tool, rather than an image [...]

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Adobe has released Camera Raw 3.3 for Mac and Windows. Updates include Improved redraw speed at some zoom levels. Added warning dialogs when attempting to cancel or reset the dialog when there are changes to non-selected images. Tuned Bayer demosaic algorithms. Fixed DNG decoding for some camera models. Write “legacy” IPTC data block (in addition [...]

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Great article on geotagging, HOW TO GPS Tag Photos: Flickr, Mappr, Google Earth…, at the MAKE: Blog. Goes into some detail on taking photos, noting the lat/lon, then tagging the images with the location for later display via mappr.com or Google Earth. Here’s the simple, non-techy way of tagging photos with the location of where [...]

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dpreview.com has posted a nice review of Adobe Photoshop CS2 that touches on several of the new features, comparisons to alternatives (such as using PTLens instead of the new Lens Correction tools), and a fair-minded conclusion:

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Nikon has released Nikon View 6.2.6 for Windows and Mac OS X.

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Microsoft has released the 48 MB Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP

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