Source: Photoshop Support Knowledgebase

You may encounter performance or redraw issues in Adobe Photoshop CS2 if you run it on a computer that has an older video card installed or that uses an older video card driver because of the increased demand in Photoshop for system resources. Older video cards use slower processors and less RAM than is optimal for processing screen redraws in Photoshop.

Press Release: Mac Design Conference & Digital Photography Expo – Tampa, FL – Jun. 21-23, 2005

Tampa, FL – June 13, 2005 – The Mac Design Conference & Digital Photography Expo, the summers hottest event for Designers, Digital Photographers, Illustrators and Video Editors, is opening it’s Tech Expo to the public for one day only on Wednesday, June 22 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Source: TechWeb
Written By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News

Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out 10 security bulletins that covered 12 vulnerabilities, and for the first time, offered up its monthly patch batch using the revamped update services and tools for both individuals and enterprises.

On Friday, June 10th, 2005, Microsoft unveiled a graphics application code named “Acrylic”. In their own words: About Acrylic “Acrylic” is the codename for an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive media. Industry pundits immediately labeled it as an Adobe rival (see CNET article). Some even went so far as to attribute Adobe’s stock decline on Friday to increasing competition by Microsoft (see this Bloomberg News item). PhotoshopNews felt compelled to look into Acrylic and see if indeed it might be considered a viable competitor to Photoshop.

Source: CNNMoney
Written By Paul R. La Monica, CNN/Money senior writer

The stock’s down on concerns about the Macromedia deal and competition from MSFT. It’s time to buy.

Extensis has updates available that address issues with Photoshop CS2 and for Mac users, Tiger (10.4.x).

Source: Adobe Support: Tech Document 331688
Release Date: June 9, 2005
Product: Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Creative Suite 1.0, Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5
Platform: Windows
Vulnerability Identifier: CAN-2005-0151

Bruce would be too self-effacing to mention this (his publisher isn’t) but today on Amazon, Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 was #1 in the Computer & Internet category and an impressive #93 of all books on Amazon.com’s sales rank overall.

While being #1 in the Computer & Internet category is in itself impressive, for a computer industry book-let alone a book directed to digital photographers-to break the top 100 books on Amazon.com really is a feat.

Press Release: San Diego, CA – June 13, 2005 – nik multimedia, Inc. today announces nik Sharpener Pro™ 2.0 is now available through the nik multimedia retail Web site and specialty camera stores.

Press Release: GRANDVILLE, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 13, 2005–X-Rite (NASDAQ: XRIT – News) today announced that its new Pulse ColorElite System has won Photoshop User Magazine’s Five Star Award.

Source: DIGIT
Written By Jim Dalrymple

Apple’s new partnership with Intel will have far-reaching effects, not just for the two companies, but throughout the tech industry, an Intel spokesman told Digit’s sister publication MacCentral.

Source: Forbes

Thanks to the ubiquity of things like digital cameras, flat-panel televisions and videogames with ever-more sophisticated graphics, Forbes.com’s Infoimaging Index has outpaced the S&P 500 by nine percentage points since its December 2002 inception.

Source: Forbes

Piper Jaffray maintained an “outperform” rating and $37 target price on Adobe Systems (nasdaq: ADBE – news – people ) and looks for the company to beat second-quarter and third-quarter Street estimates.

The summary, for the week June 3nd–June 9th, 2005.

Russell Preston Brown is proud to announce an update to Dr. Brown’s Services 1.0
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From Jim Heid’s Macintosh Digital Hub Site.

It’s here! My Epson R2400 arrived from Adorama yesterday, and I’ve spent the last several hours setting it up, making test prints, fondling it, and doing all the usual things one does with a brand-new piece of expensive technology.

First impressions: This is one serious printer. The speed and quality of the mechanism are remarkable—this is no toy inkjet. (Of course, at $849US, it isn’t priced as one.)

From the Microsoft TechNet website.

As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides advance notification to our customers on the number of new security updates being released, the products affected, the aggregate maximum severity and information about detection tools relevant to the update.

The July issue of Outdoor Photographer has a useful article titled Beauty & The Beast, Tame the large files produced by a high-resolution digital SLR written by Ibarionex R. Perello.

They’re beautiful—one look and I’m captivated. I stare and find myself absorbed by every detail. If this isn’t love, it’ll do. As a card-carrying photo geek, I admit that looking at digital files produced by the new 12- and 16-megapixel SLRs leads to a rush that normally means a trip to the confessional. Okay, maybe I exaggerate, but not by much.

Source: SPYMAC
Written By Judy Westcott

Reaction to the news of the “Mac-tel” deal is ranging from anger and betrayal to hope and optimism from the Mac faithful.

Source: The Motley Fool

Written By Rick Aristotle Munarriz

Signs, sales, and software will play more than just bit parts in the week that lies ahead. Let’s take a closer look.

Once upon a time, I fell in love with an artist who couldn’t draw, Jeff Schewe. Luckily he found out that with a camera he could accomplish what he couldn’t in other mediums. We set up a studio, worked together and lived happily . . . until one day, he met Photoshop.

Hi, my name is Becky Schewe and I am an unwitting member of the Photoshop Widows Club. I guess it’s the same old story but now that it’s personal, I have a new respect for those who wait and wonder.

Source: CNET
Written By Renai LeMay

Microsoft has released a test version of a new professional graphics tool code-named Acrylic.

On May 27th, PSN reported that Michael Reichmann, publisher of the Luminous Landscape website, had written an article titled Understanding ProPhoto RGB A Preferred Working Space for Digital Photographers. The article was useful (read the original article on) but spawned a lengthy discussion of the relative merits and risks of using ProPhoto RGB in the Luminous Landscape Forums.
 

But focus likely to remain on pending Macromedia buy.

Source: MarketWatch
Written By Michael Paige, MarketWatch

Source: The Harvard Crimson
Written By Michael M. Grynbaum and Zachary M. Seward

It was a semester of bad headlines for University President Lawrence H. Summers, but nothing a little Photoshop couldn’t fix.