New cross-licensing and co-marketing agreement creates workflow improvements for imaging professionals

Press Release: ORLANDO, Eastman Kodak Company and Bibble Labs announced a cross-licensing and co-marketing agreement that will allow both companies to offer new, improved products to imaging professionals that further strengthens Kodak’s ‘Connect with Pro Quality’ products and programs.

New online service instantly delivers DVD-quality training tutorials from world renowned Photoshop experts

Press Release: Software Cinema, a leading software training company supporting the imaging industry of photographers, videographers and graphic artists, today announced Workshops-On-Demand, a new online service providing instant access to individual training courses covering a variety of Adobe Photoshop related topics.

Source: Macwold UK
Written by Jonny Evans

History, they say, repeats itself - and the success of Apple’s Intel transition looks set to be based on speedy delivery of key graphics, photography and desktop publishing applications.

Source: Motley Fool via Yahoo
Written by Jeremy MacNealy

Peter Lynch’s book One Up On Wall Street argues that the average person doesn’t have to look far to find knockout investments; we can begin by looking around in our day-to-day life. Applying this street-sense mentality, he offers the following example:

Source: Photoshop Support Knowledgebase

Issue: When you save a JPEG image with an embedded sRGB profile in Image Processor, Image Processor returns one of the following error messages:

Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking is a complete view of a creative project from the artist’s perspective. Julieanne Kost, a Photoshop and creative thinking expert, has taken her own experience shooting images out of commercial airplane windows to create a unique creative seminar.

The first section of the book, The Art of Creative Thinking: The Principles, outlines Julieanne’s method for staying creative in an increasingly complicated world. In her personal stories, advice, and philosophies, you’ll find inspiration if you’re stuck or just can’t get started. You may recognize some of your own less-than-productive thought processes as she describes her own struggle to let go of the everyday flotsam of life to find a quiet mental space in which she can think, dream, and create.

Scott Kelby is Recognized as the Top-Selling Computer Book Author in the U.S. for 2005, According to Nielsen BookScan Data

Press Release: TAMPA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 15, 2006–For the second consecutive year, Peachpit and the Pearson Technology Group are recognizing Scott Kelby as the number one, top-selling computer book author in the U.S., according to research based on Nielsen BookScan data for the 2005 calendar year.

Companies to jointly develop and distribute digital photographic software and technologies

Press Release: SAN DIEGO, CA – February 14, 2006 – Nik Software, Inc. (formerly Nik Multimedia, Inc.) announces that it has reached a worldwide agreement with Nikon Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) that enables technological collaboration between the two companies to develop and distribute digital photographic software and imaging technologies.

Check out the new updates to his ADOBE PHOTOSHOP TIPS & TECHNIQUES page.

What’s New?

A number of Lightroom resources have sprung up, here’s a roundup of a few of them.

Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape has updated his Lightroom Tips & Tricks page to include information about Lightroom Beta 2.

Source: Photoshop Support Knowledgebase

Issue: When you start Adobe Bridge, Bridge returns the error message, “The application could not load Adobe Camera Raw. Use the Adobe Bridge installer to reinstall the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in. If you continue you may experience some problems when attempting to modify raw image files.”

…with a few friends for the new Epson Print Academy in Boston!
Baked Beans, the Celtics, the Red Soxs, maybe some “tea”…

This Fine Art Printing Workshop focuses exclusively on improving your fine-art digital printing, primarily using Epson inkjet printers. Concentration will be on inkjet printing with color pigments and black/gray ink combinations on coated and rag papers. Learn from the digital pioneer how he obtains his impressive results during four days of lectures, printing, and feedback in the studio.

In merging with Macromedia, the aim was to import its DNA as well as its product

Source: Business Week

A year ago, Stephen A. Elop had just become CEO of Macromedia Inc. and was getting ready for one of the most pivotal — and clandestine — dinner dates of his life.

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals Announces Winners of First Annual Worldwide Adobe Photoshop Competition

Press Release: The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) today announced the winners of the Digital Canvas Awards — its first international competition for users of Adobe Photoshop software.

In a post at the Adobe Lighroom Forums, George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist fessed up to the fact that his most recent movie tutorial for using the Develop module of Lightroom was done with Adobe Lightroom Beta 2. From the post:

This tutorial movie was not really supposed to hit the streets until B2 was ready…. but some sly character on this forum somehow found the link and posted it. So the cat is out of the bag.

Miami Beach Convention Center, March 22-24, 2006

Each year thousands of Photoshop users from around the world come to Photoshop World to learn the latest techniques and the hottest Photoshop tips from a hand-picked team of the industry’s most talented and creative instructors.

Press Release: San Diego, CA – February 7, 2006 – Nik Multimedia, Inc. announces today that the company has changed its name to Nik Software, Inc. effective immediately and has unveiled its new corporate identity keeping the familiar “Nik” and replacing “Multimedia” with “Software” to better represent the company’s focus on software development for the digital imaging market.

Press Release: February 6, 2006 — Digital Film Tools releases Snap for Adobe Photoshop. Snap is an easy to use interactive image cutout tool. Image cutout is the process of removing or isolating an object in a picture.

Release Date: February 2, 2006
Products: Adobe Creative Suite 2, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2
Platform: Windows, Mac OS
Vulnerability Identifier: APSB06-01

Overview: Adobe has been made aware that the file and folder permissions for Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, and Adobe Help Center can permit non-privileged users to change key program files. This condition presents a risk for shared, multi-user systems. Adobe is providing update utilities which correct these access permission issues and prevent manipulation of the program files by non-privileged users. Adobe recommends that customers using CS2 products on shared systems apply these updates.

Camera Bits, the developer of Photo Mechanic has shipped version 4.4.1 which includes a Universal Binary version of the application optimized to run on both PPC and Mac-Intel based CPUs. Photo Mechanic is optimized for Mac OS X and Windows XP/2000.

Source: RobGalbraith.com
Written by Rob Galbraith

Like us, you may be considering the purchase of an Apple MacBook Pro as a way to bring deadline-friendly processing speed to a Mac-based field workflow. For several years, certain models of Apple’s Powerbook line have represented a superb blend of features, screen quality and portability; in fact, the overall design of the company’s mobile machines has far eclipsed computers we’ve used from mainstream PC vendors in all key areas, except one: speed. A PowerPC G4-equipped Mac laptop simply can’t keep up to a Windows laptop powered by an Intel or AMD processor.

Source: ZDNet
Written by Munir Kotadia

The Kama Sutra worm, designed to begin deleting files on infected computers this morning, has caused virtually no damage, according to antivirus firms.