The digital camera industry has reached maturity early, and the heady growth rates will slow, according to a report.

Connects Pro Photographers With Creative Community.

We had forgotten to post a weekly summary on Friday, April 22, 2005. We added a summary on Monday, April 25th so this week’s summary will be a bit shorter than usual (if you can call anything “usual” for a publication that is only four weeks old as of today).

This is the result of replacing an image in the book using the new Smart Objects and Warp features in Photoshop CS2.

Source: E online
Written By Charlie Amter

It was the perfect shot–a little too perfect.

Star magazine is finding itself the subject of sensational headlines Thursday after the glossy faked photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on a beach together.

With bitter rival Us Weekly reportedly paying upwards of $1 million to lockup exclusive U.S. rights for the actual paparazzi-taken photos of the are-they-or-aren’t-they couple of the moment, Star wasn’t to be outdone. The magazine ran its own photos of the tandem lovingly gazing at each other. But the images, which grace the cover and appear on page 46, are actually cut-and-paste jobs.

Apple has posted Photoshop CS benchmark tests comparing the newly announced Power Mac G5 Dual 2.7 GHZ, Dual 2.3 GHZ & Dual 2.o GHZ machines vs. both Dual Intel and AMD chipped machines.

Online computer and peripheral retailer TigerDirect has filed suit against Apple claiming Mac OS X 10.4, known as “Tiger,” infringes on its trademarked name. According to court filings obtained by Bloomberg, TigerDirect is seeking an injunction to stop Apple’s new operating system from going on sale.

Events are being planned ahead of tomorrow’s launch of Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” across Apple’s 105 retail stores worldwide and in participating resellers such as CompUSA beginning at 6 p.m. At that time, Apple will unleash the new version of its operating system, said to include some 200 new features.

The OpenRaw Working Group has launched a Web site, www.openraw.org, to promote open documentation of Raw file formats.

Merge to HDR in Photoshop CS2 – A First Look

At the recent Adobe ideas conference in New York City, photographer Chris Rainier gave a session about a recent book project, ANCIENT MARKS: The Sacred Origins of Tattoos and Body Marking. Part of the session was about the unusual manner in which the book evolved, was produced and finally published.

The ANCIENT MARKS book and Exhibition explore the intrinsic connection between mankind’s culture and the old tradition of marking the human body dating back two thousand years, with tattoos and scarification as a form of initiation, beauty, and highly ritualized ornamentation.

The 30 day demo versions for both Windows and Macintosh are now available for download via FTP.

If anyone understands the ins and outs of RAW, it’s Dave Coffin, he has reverse engineered the RAW formats of almost every digital camera on the market and provides his code (dcraw.c) freely for anyone to use.

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Adobe has launched a web page dedicated to helping users of all of Adobe’s products register for usability testing and research.

rawformat.com has posted a list of software and announced cameras that support Adobe’s non-proprietary DNG format.

John Wiley & Sons says firm pulled all of its books following spat over unauthorized Jobs biography.

On the Adobe User TO User Forums, a new forum has been added, the Adobe Bridge forum. This new forum adds Bridge to the current list of User to User forums already hosted by Adobe. Note: you will need to register (free) to post on the forums.