As a registered Intuos3 owner you can qualify to purchase a full version of Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 for just $299. This is a savings of up to $300! Offer ends June 30th, 2005.

Pete Walsh, a photographer based in Glenlyon, Victoria, Australia has started a personal blog regarding his experiences with a brand new Epson Stylus Pro 4800 production unit. Part personal diary, part informational record, Pete’s blog gives an interesting look at his experience setting up and exploring the capabilities of his new printer.

The previous article, DNG Workflow / Part I outlined the basic use of Adobe DNG Converter for converting proprietary Raw files into DNG files. While useful for a variety of reasons, it does indeed add a step in a Raw processing workflow.

So, what if you used Adobe DNG Converter right from the very beginning of your Raw processing workflow–Image Ingestion?

Press Release: Regensdorf, Switzerland, – May 19, 2005 – GretagMacbeth, the worldwide technological leader in color measurement and management solutions announced that it is shipping the accelerated version of its award winning Eye-One color management solutions that set a new benchmark for speed, error free handling and usability.

It’s Done!

Bruce Fraser reports that he has received his author copies of Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 and the expected ship date of the book, slated to be May 25th., 2005 will be met! Bruce has said that almost 80% of this edition is new-required because of the dramatic improvements to be found in Photoshop CS2, Adobe Bridge and the new Camera Raw 3.x–some of which Bruce himself had a hand in (although he’s too self-effacing to admit it).

I’ve heard various complaints about the limited range of output sizes offered by Camera Raw. It’s true that the Size menu in Camera Raw’s workflow options only offers six or seven output sizes, but Camera Raw also has a hidden feature that lets you choose any output size up to 10,000 pixels on the long dimension. It’s hidden in the Crop tool.

Source: Adobe Bridge User to User Forum (Mac)

User Thomas Bricker posted an issue with Camera Raw settings not being applied to the Bridge settings when opening Raw images with Camera Raw hosted by Adobe Bridge.

Editor’s Note: The Raw Flaw is an article by Michael Reichmann and Juergen Specht posted on LuminousLandscape.com and OpenRAW.org about the problems facing the digital photographic industry and the use of undocumented, proprietary RAW file formats by Camera Companies.

Source: SiliconValley.com
Written By Dan Lee, Mercury News

Meet James and Jessi.

These two human figures, male and female, are athletic, attractive and ready to be digitally manipulated in just about any way you could think of.

Source: Forbes

Piper Jaffray maintained an “outperform” rating on Adobe Systems (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ) with a $74 target price and raised estimates.

Source: DPReview

ABSoft has announced upgrades to its noise reduction software program Neat Image for both Windows and Mac.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) has been in talks that could soon lead to a decision to use Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news) chips in its Macintosh computer line, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Source: Yahoo News

Torrent of images is leaving film in the dust. Evolution of photos creating unforeseen effects on society.

When the DNG format specification was announced at last year’s Photokina, a little touted free application was also announced called Adobe DNG Converter. The application is for the conversion of undocumented, proprietary Raw files into the publicly documented DNG format. At the time, many people played with the DNG Converter and decided that while interesting, it didn’t really add anything to their raw processing workflow except perhaps adding a step. As a result, most people don’t really use a DNG workflow.
(Updated 05/25/05 at 4:00PM Central)

Well, things have changed, and now both the DNG file format and the Adobe DNG Converter do have something substantial to offer.

Bruce Chizen was holding his company’s future in the palm of his hand. It was a Nokia cellphone with a 3-inch-by-2-inch color display, running a series of music videos and other snippets of digital entertainment material.

Source: Los Angeles Times
Written By Michael Hiltzik

Artists in U of I exhibit provide powerful studies of how emotions are perceived.
Source: DesMoines Register
Written By Amanda Pierre

Source: Photoshop Support Knowledgebase

“Error 2: photoshop is undefined…” when you try to browse to Bridge from Photoshop (CS2)

Source: Photoshop Support Knowledgebase

Error “…writing metadata to [filename]” when you rotate, or add metadata to, files in Bridge (1.0)

Source: Photoshop Support Knowledgebase

Issue
The installations for Adobe Creative Suite as well as the individual Adobe Creative Suite applications (such as Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2) progress through installation and then appear to stop with “less than a minute remaining” listed in the installation dialog box.

Adobe has posted an update, for Macintosh only, for the Adobe Help Center of Creative Suite 2.

Source: Publish
Written By Robyn Weisman

Quark Inc. has not specified when it plans to release Version 7 of its venerable QuarkXPress desktop publishing program, but company officials revealed several new features of the upcoming iteration at this week’s AIIM On Demand conference.

Quark executives also are taking on the widespread notion that Adobe Systems Inc. has won the long-running desktop publishing war with its Creative Suite 2.

The last week saw some worthy stories appear on PhotoshopNews. In case you missed them (for shame) or wish to have your memory refreshed, here they are;

Opinion: Gretag MacBeth, Colorvision and X-Rite garner photographers’ interest with differing approaches to pricing and usability.
Source: Publish
Written By Edmund Ronald

If you have the Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition, you can add RSS newsfeeds directly in the Adobe Bridge Center and read news stories right in Bridge. Note, this will ONLY work in the full Suite version, not the individual application versions of Bridge.