Unparalleled Integration with Adobe After Effects, a Revolutionary Tool for Accelerated Review, and Comprehensive HD and Flash Video Support Anchor Milestone Release

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 17, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced and shipped Adobe® Premiere Pro® 2.0, the latest version of its popular video editing software application. This major new release of Adobe Premiere Pro enhances productivity and delivers deeper creative control, while allowing editors to work with the latest digital formats including HDV, HD and Flash Video.

Flexible Design Environment, High Fidelity OpenGL Support, Flash Video Export, and Professionally Designed Animation Presets Highlight Major Release

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 17, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced and shipped Adobe® After Effects® 7.0 software, the industry standard tool for producing motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, DVD, and the Web.

The Adobe Lightroom public beta has been updated to version 1.1 according to George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist at Adobe. In a messaged posted to the Lightroom Beta General Discussion forum, George posted the following;

Source: RobGalbraith.com
Written by Rob Galbraith

Camera Bits has posted a new beta release of Photo Mechanic 4.4.1 for Windows and Mac. The changes since 4.4, as noted in the accompanying Read Me, are listed below:

Source: dpreview.com

From dpreview: “Nikon UK has made an interesting announcement titled ‘Nikon prepares to strengthen digital line-up for 2006′ that signals the beginning of the end of nearly 60 years of Nikon fllm cameras. Nikon Corp has made the decision to ‘focus management resources’ on digital cameras in place of film cameras, and is discontinuing most film camera bodies, manual focus lenses and accessories, and all large format and enlarging lenses. In Europe only the flagship F6 film camera will remain on sale.”

Source: The New York Times
Written by Michael Brick

The last best address leads to a metallic gray warehouse by the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Trash haulers go about and there is a dull buzzing sound in the hallway. Graffiti gives information that white people are devils.

…with a few friends for the new Epson Print Academy – TEXAS style!

Source: The New York Times
Written by Randy Kennedy

Winter, to put it politely, is not kind to Rochester. How many other cities, after all, are regularly in the running for the Golden Snowball, an annual award presented to the upstate city with the most snowfall? (Rochester, at 113 inches, was bested last winter only by Syracuse at 137.)

Source: Forbes
Written by Danit Lindor

NEW YORK - Like a recently married couple showing off their new baby, the newly merged Adobe Systems and Macromedia presented their first integrated product at Macworld Tuesday in San Francisco.

Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape has started a regular column called Lightroom Tips & Tricks.

New products offer professional photographers unprecedented image quality

Press Release: 9h January, 2006 - Hasselblad launches the world’s first 39 megapixel DSLR camera, the H2D-39, and a comprehensive line of 39 megapixel camera backs

Source: eWeek
Written By David Morgenstern

Opinion: Will the new Macs run Windows and Linux as well as Mac OS X? Here’s a history lesson on multiboot machines.

Source: Publish
Written By John Rizzo

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft and a pack of enterprise developers say they are on target for creating Intel-native Mac software despite Apple’s surprise Macworld Expo release of the first Intel-based Macs six months ahead of schedule.

Source: Newsfactor.com

Apple is shepherding the Mac and its legions of software developers through yet another major transition — this one nearly as momentous as the shift to OS X. Once again, the centerpiece of the change lies in the microprocessor at the heart of the Mac.

If one thing dominates the technical history of Apple Computer, it’s transitions. The most recent example: the shift from Apple’s old operating system OS 9 to OS X.

It was like starting all over again with a completely new computer.

Source: ZDNET Between the lines
Posted by Dan Farber

Guy Kawasaki gave one of his patented demos, evangelizing for FilmLoop, a photo sharing company he has invested in that is run by his old friend (since 9th grade) and former Apple colleague Kyle Mashima and Prescott Lee. FilmLoop is the “killer app for the Macintosh,” Kawasaki said, joining MacPaint, Photoshop and PageMaker. Definitely a case of evangelistic exaggeration.

Source: Boston Globe
Written By Gareth Cook

An explosion of new digital image technology has left many of the world’s top biology journals vulnerable to fraud, scientists say.

SAN FRANCISCO–Addressing a packed crowd of the Mac faithful, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday served up the first Intel-based Macs, introducing a new high-end laptop and a revamped iMac.

Source: CNET
Written By Ina Fried and John Borland

The new machines both include Intel’s Duo dual-core chip.

A number of reviews, previews and Lightroom resources have just sprung up. Here’s a roundup of a few of them (in order of them being found).

Adobe Unveils Lightroom Public Beta and Delivers New Technology for Digital Photography Workflows

Professional Photographers Instrumental in Developing New Modular Software to Import, Manage, Develop, and Showcase Images

Adobe has written a Lightroom FAQ. It answers, from Adobe’s point of view, some of the questions that are bound to surface regarding Adobe’s intentions regarding Adobe Lightroom Beta 1 and the development of the commercial release sometime later this year.

Q: What is Project Lightroom?
 

The development of Adobe Lightroom, code named Shadowland, was not something Adobe started after Apple announced Aperture. The Shadowland project has been going on for years.

How do I know that Adobe has been working on Shadowland for so long?

Because that’s how long I’ve been working on it.
 

Adobe announces Adobe® Lightroom®, a new digital photography application and provides a free Public Beta download.

Bell Labs’ Willard Boyle and George Smith receive Draper Prize for the Development of the Charged-coupled Device

Pioneers Honored with World’s Top Engineering Award for Invention That Ushered in the Modern Age of Digital Imaging

Press Release: MURRAY HILL, N.J. — Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), today announced that Dr. Willard Boyle and Dr. George Smith, both former researchers at Bell Labs, are this year’s recipients of one of the highest honors in engineering, the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Charles Stark Draper Prize, for their invention and development of the charge-coupled device, or CCD. This award honors engineers whose accomplishments have significantly impacted society.

This is one of those No-Win situations…

There is a rumor that Adobe is going to make an announcement about “something” some time next week at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The AppleInsider web site has posted a story and it’s been picked up by other web sites as well. PhotoshopNews, being a blog about Photoshop kinda needs to address the question, but circumstances prohibit us from saying anything other than to mention the rumor without confirming nor denying it.

On the other hand, inquiring minds might want to check PhotoshopNews early Monday morning, January 9th, 2006 to see if circumstances change.

Editor’s Note: Talk about a scam-hopefully this won’t bring rize to similar scams elsewhere.

Source: The Hindu Business Line
Ahmedabad , Jan 6

EDIT seven pictures on Adobe Photoshop, a common software, and walk away with Rs 7,500 per month. Too good to be true? For about 5,100 people, mostly students in Ahmedabad, it was exactly that as they fell prey to a Ponzi scheme that allegedly duped them all to the tune of Rs 5 crore.