After a lot of secrecy and speculation, Aperture is here.

PhotoshopNews is on the road to PhotoPlus Expo…we’ll try to post updates and show info but posts will be light. We’ll try to find out more about the Apple announcement due tonight.

Be sure to check out: PixelGenius at PhotoPlus Expo for a listing of Conference Sessions and Adobe Theater presentations by the members of PixelGenius.

New Professional Compactflash Reader Is The Latest Addition To The Company’s Award-Winning Line

Press Release: FREMONT, Ca., October 18, 2005 – Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: LEXR), a world leader in advanced digital media technologies, is demonstrating its focus on meeting the needs of professional photography workflow by strengthening its line of memory card readers from the new Professional CompactFlash Reader and high-speed multi-card readers to the single slot unit ideal for the mobile photographer.

Source: ars technica
Written By Dave Girard

Introduction

Welcome back to the Digital Imaging Without the Mystery workshop and thank you for not commenting on my lack of a shirt. We can’t stop the dissemination of knowledge just because it’s laundry day so let’s just STOP STARING AT MY TATTOO OF A BUTTERFLY and move right along. If you’re here for the first time, you might want to read the first workshop since this builds on some fundamentals established there.

ACDSee Pro Photo Manager Streamlines Professional Photography Workflow

Press Release: VICTORIA, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 17, 2005– New software that helps professional photographers confidently manage their photos to be unveiled at Booth #801 during PhotoPlus Expo

New Server Version of InDesign Enables Automation of High-end Editorial Workflows, Collateral Creation, Data-driven Publishing, and Template-based Web Publishing

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 17, 2005 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® InDesign® Server CS2, which enables system integrators and third party developers to build automated, design-driven publishing solutions. Built on the same code base as Adobe InDesign CS2, the award-winning professional design and layout program, Adobe InDesign Server CS2 brings high-end composition and graphics support to a server platform, allowing Adobe partners to introduce new levels of automation and design quality to editorial workflows, collateral creation, data-driven publishing and template-based Web publishing solutions.

Press Release: Bibble Labs releases version 4.4 Update with support for Canon 5D & 1D Mark II N. Includes new Fill Light control and improved sharper output.

Austin Texas (October 17th, 2005) - Bibble Labs today announced availability of version 4.4 of its popular Raw Workflow software. Now supporting over 60 of the most popular DSLR and prosumer cameras, this update includes support for the new Canon 5D and 1D Mark II N cameras, as well as the Minolta 5D, A200 and Pentax *ist DL.

By Michael R. Tomkins, The Imaging Resource

Since last week when we published our coverage of the CCD sensor failures disclosed by several digital camera manufacturers, the story has continued to develop.

From a story on MacCentral comes word that Apple has scheduled a special invitation only event in New York City on the eve of PhotoPlus Expo, the major photographic convention to be held October 20th-22nd. See the original story by Jim Dalrymple: Apple to hold special press conference in New York Oct. 19 to “unveil Apple’s latest pro innovations”. Will this be the announcement of “iPhoto Pro“?

Press Release: Friday, October 14, 2005, Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: LEXR), a world leader in advanced digital media technologies, announced today that Greg Gorman, Stephen Wilkes and Nick Vedros will appear in Lexar’s booth at the Photo Plus Expo Trade Show and Conference to exhibit their breathtaking images and offer insight and motivation to attendees while spurring innovative thinking and creative ability through the use of digital photography.

BreezeBrowser Pro v1.3 adds lens distortion correction, Canon EOS 5D and EOS-1D Mark II N Raw Conversion

Press Release: 14th October, 2005 : Breeze Systems announce the immediate availability of BreezeBrowser Pro v1.3, latest release of their acclaimed image browsing and raw conversion software. BreezeBrowser Pro v1.3 introduces Canon EOS 5D and Canon EOS-1D Mark II N raw conversion and automatic lens distortion correction.

Designer Jan-Henrik Andersen, in conjunction with particle physicists, developed a visual language that describes the interrelationships between the elementary particles, both known and hypothesized.

Source: symmetry magazine
Written By Elizabeth Wade

Few facets of nature are more mysterious than the quantum world. Particles that appear and disappear from nothing, interactions governed by probability, and intrinsic uncertainties are enough to baffle even the most experienced scientist.

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 13, 2005–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq:MACR) today announced they have received clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for Adobe’s proposed acquisition of Macromedia. The closing of the transaction remains subject to regulatory approval in a few European jurisdictions. The companies continue to anticipate the transaction will close sometime this Fall.

Bruce Fraser, noted author, lecturer and the original “Color Geek” is resting comfortably (more or less) at home. Bruce, after a recent speaking engagement in Oslo, Norway with fellow PixelGenius member Martin Evening, suffered a health related issue while traveling home. Upon his return to San Francisco, his wife Angela, in the final stages of training to be a registered nurse, prevailed upon Bruce to seek medical attention.

The doctor immediately plopped Bruce in hospital to begin a series of tests. The testing indicated Bruce required surgery, which was successfully done at UCSF Medical Center on Thursday, October 6th. He was released from ICU on the following Saturday where he remained until today.

Bruce is the author of the highly successful Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 (pictured in this photo of Bruce taken by Angela). He is also the co-author of a series of other books including Real World Adobe Photoshop CS2 with co-author David Blatner who wrote to say that the current revision is safely finished and on the way to the printer. He has also co-authored Real World Color Management along with Chris Murphy and Fred Bunting. Bruce has also penned numerous articles, most recently for CreativePro.com.

Bruce is also a founding member of PixelGenius where he designed the very successful PhotoKit Sharpener.

Bruce indicated that he was still going to be “off-line” for a short period of time but passes along his thanks for all the well wishes he’s recieved. PSN is very pleased to be able to report that Bruce is well on the road to recovery…

Press Release: Digital Photo Professional 2.0.3 is software exclusively for editing and converting RAW images shot by EOS Digital cameras. Users of EOS Digital cameras can install Digital Photo Professional 2.0.3 by downloading Digital Photo Professional 2.0.3 Updater for Windows or Mac OS X.

Samsung announces agreement with Pentax to co-operate and jointly develop new digital camera products.

Press Release: Seoul, Korea - October 12th, 2005: Samsung (CEO Lee Joong-Koo, www.samsungcamera.com) announces an agreement with Pentax to jointly develop Digital-SLR cameras.

Service Grows to More Than 450,000 Royalty-Free Images

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 13, 2005 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced four new royalty-free image collections are available through Adobe® Stock Photos, bringing the total number of images to over 450,000. Adobe Stock Photos is accessed through Adobe Bridge, a hub for productivity, imagery and creativity that provides multi-view file browsing and smooth cross-product integration within Adobe Creative Suite 2 and CS2 versions of Adobe products.

Adobe has recently added RSS news feeds for top tech support issues for Adobe products.

Canon releases firmware updates for EOS-1Ds & 1D Mark II DSLR Cameras. The EOS-1D Mark II DSLR firmare is now at version 1.2.4 while the EOS-1Ds Mark II DSLR has been updated to version 1.1.4.

Adobe Acrobat-based soft proofing workflow approved for advertisers and publishers of web-printed publications

Press Release: Minneapolis, MN – Advertisers, agencies and major publishers have reacted favorably to last week’s SWOP certification of CGS Publishing Technologies International’s digital soft proofing system. With solid approvals by the review committee, CGS’ interactive soft proofing system, ORIS Soft Proof, was granted SWOP certification for the 23″ Apple Cinema and the Eizo ColorEdge CG2200 displays.

Calibrate your Printer to the Factory Standard

Source: The Luminous Landscape
Written By Michael Reichmann

If you have an Epson R2400, 4800, 7800 or 9800 printer using the new Epson K3 inks, and you own or have access to one of the spectrophotometers listed below, then you may be interested in a new utility from Epson, called ColorBase. It is available for both Macs and PCs.

Every year in October, the photo industry meets in New York City for its annual conference and convention–PHOTOPLUS EXPO which runs from Thursday, October 20th through Saturday, October 22nd at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

This year several members from PixelGenius will be speaking–we usually do–in both conference sessions (paid lectures/workshops) as well as at the Adobe Systems, Inc. booth.

Source: imaging resource
Written By Michael R. Tomkins, The Imaging Resource

Visitors to this site (www.imaging-resource.com) will doubtless have noticed a common thread across several of our recent news items: We’ve reported on digital camera service advisories from no less than four manufacturers, with all four offering to fix certain problems experienced by their customers regardless of warranty status.

AMD comes out ahead in our first lab tests of mainstream dual-core systems. Plus: Hands-on with the new 64-bit Celeron and Sempron chips.

Source: PC World
Written By Kirk Steers

Have you been lusting after a dual-core processor but are unwilling to pay the premium price? Your wait may be over. New dual-core CPUs from AMD and Intel are showing up in desktop systems priced around $1500, within the budget of mainstream computer users. Our first tests of such systems indicate that dual-core chips provide good value.

Starting with DNG Converter version 3.2 (available for download from Adobe) the application can be controlled via command line control on both Macintosh and Windows systems.

As a direct result of DNG users’ requests, the command line control was authored into DNG Converter 3.2 by its primary author, Thomas Knoll. While this has not really been documented, Thomas recently posted the following on the DNG User to User forum hosted by Adobe.