Adobe today is releasing the full creative suite of CS5 products including Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended ($699 and $999 respectively with CSx upgrades costing $199). The newest features added to PS CS5 include: 64-bit native code for Mac and PC (Mac had been 32-bit previously) Content-Aware Fill … “magically removes any image detail or object, examines the surroundings and seamlessly fill

In February 1990 Adobe released Photoshop 1.0. 20 years later the landscape of photography has forever been changed. “Changed” is too light of a term… Photoshop revolutionized how people manipulate pixels resulting in an edited image file. The cultural impact over the past several years has been quite pronounced as “photoshopped” or “‘shopped” is commonly used in every

Adobe Lightroom has been a critically important application to my photographic workflow, but from early on watermarking functionality has been limited. The standard copyright text line provided by Adobe Lightroom is enough, but lacks the ability to be customized giving photographers using it some level of individuality. As noted in my earlier blog articles on watermarking watermarks are not only functional to avert i

Over the past week I’ve received a few inquiries from readers wondering whether I use Apple’s Aperture or Adobe’s Lightroom. The answer… I use Lightroom. The decision is rooted back when Aperture was first released and Adobe put Lightroom out as a Beta. At the time I was about to purchase Aperture, but before I did I went to MacWorld to get a little more information on it. The 2006 MacWorld wa

Last week I discussed the Adobe Photoshop Express terms of use (ToU) and how the wording was nothing short of a rights grab (see Adobe Photoshop Express & The Mindless Photo Rights Grab). By weeks end John Nack posted an update, regarding the ToU, that “the Photoshop Express team has made some changes”. Reading the paraphrased revisions on John’s blog post alleviated what concerns I had, but whe

For those that are using Adobe Lightroom you may be interested to learn that the Beta of Lightroom 2 has been released with in the Adobe Labs. John Nack’s blog details some of the new features including: Greater CS3 integration with Smart Objects, panorama creation, HDR creation and multiple file management. Additional editing functionality has been built into the application enabling regional editing of “

This past week Adobe launched beta of Photoshop Express, a little over 1 year since Adobe announced its intention to put Photoshop online (see Photoshop In A Software As A Service (SaaS) Model?). Unfortunately for Adobe what proved to be most noteworthy about this new application is not its functionality, but the rights grab they’re making for each image that is processed in the online application. Adobe makes

From time to time a lot of buzz will surface about GPS devices for photographers that will track, map and embed GPS coordinates in the EXIF metadata of captured images. I use a GPS in the field when I’m out in remote locations not just for safety but to mark locations I’ve either photographed or plan on revisiting. To date I can’t say that I’ve missed having this information embedded in my EXI