Source: theunofficialphotoshopweblog

Jan Kabili posts for a final time…

This is the final post on The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog. It’s also a new beginning for Photoshop Online, which I’ll be hosting as an independent video podcast at http://photoshoponline.tv . Join me there in a couple of days (once the little elves get the domain names resolved) for a feast of Photoshop tips and techniques.

In the meantime, you can watch as I get the site up and running at its temporary URL http://kabili.libsyn.com. The RSS feed for Photoshop Online will be http://kabili.libsyn.com/rss .

Source: The Mercury News
Written by Mark de la Viña

For a brief, digitally charged moment — OK, for seven days — the ZeroOne festival turned San Jose into the nation’s art and technology capital.

Russell Brown, the chief Adobe Evangelist and all round funny guy has started a photo contest-The Best Photos of Russell.

The contest is only actually open to those photographers that went on the “Lightroom Iceland Adventure” but Russell has given PhotoshopNews permission to post them so our readers can also add to the vote tally.

The winning photographer from the trip will receive an Apple iPod (probably given to Russell by Apple).
Editor’s note: We’ve added the photo credits to the images so you can see who shot which images.

George Jardine by Jeff Schewe

In what can be described as a podcasting orgy, George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted 3 new iTunes Podcasts. They were all recorded during the “Lightroom Iceland Adventure” and these new podcasts are enhanced podcasts that includes photos taken by the photographers. They can be viewed on Photo and Video iPods as well as iTunes. Audio only will be heard on other devices.

Derrick Story’s legs by Mikkel Aaland

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast. This is the second podcast from the “Lightroom Iceland Adventure” with Derrick Story.

Source: ComputerWorld
Written by Dan Tennant

The Association for Computing Machinery held its annual Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (Siggraph) conference in Boston earlier this month, paying special tribute to Martin Newell, an Adobe Fellow at Adobe Systems Inc. Computerworld’s Dan Tennant spoke with Newell and David Story, Adobe’s vice president of Digital Imaging Product Development, about their work at Adobe, how the development process unfolds, and kinds of products they’d like to be working on. Excerpts from the interview follow.

Source: The New York Times
Written by Maria Aspan

The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated pictures he took for Reuters has raised questions about the standards of photojournalism at a time of widespread digital photography.

The incident also increased pressure on news photo editors, who select and edit thousands of photographs under deadline each day, to detect digital alterations.

Source: ars technica
Written by Eric Bangeman

I thought I was getting a new Macintosh PC. Instead, the box said “Quad Xeon 64-bit workstation.” It was then that it really hit me—the Big Switch was over and my once shiny Power Macintosh G5 was yesterday’s news.

In 1981, IBM’s 5150 took the business world by storm and moved the PC into the mainstream.

Source: PC World
Written by Lincoln Spector

Twenty-five years ago, IBM changed the world. It wasn’t intentional. When Big Blue announced a microcomputer called the IBM Personal Computer on August 12, 1981, it hoped only to make a nice profit.

Viacom to Leverage Adobe’s Engagement Platform for Creating and Delivering Digital Experiences Online and On the Go

Press Release: NEW YORK and SAN JOSE, Calif. — Aug. 10, 2006 — Viacom, Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B) and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a strategic alliance to develop and deliver Viacom’s exclusive branded content using the Adobe® Engagement Platform. Through this agreement, Adobe will become Viacom’s preferred technology provider for rich media authoring tools and interactive online video solutions, enabling Viacom to deliver content from its television, motion picture and digital properties to online and mobile audiences in compelling ways. The two companies will also work together in developing new media applications leveraging Viacom’s exclusive content and using Adobe’s next-generation developer tools and ubiquitous cross-platform client software.

Source: New Adobe Downloads
Update Posted 7/31/2006

This update for Adobe InDesign CS2 software provides key fixes in the areas of indexing, launch issues, transparency, shortcuts, text and fonts, scripting, inline graphics, InDesign Interchange (INX) files, German hyphenation, XML, library files, performance, QuickTime 7.x support, printing, SING glyphlets, EPS export, text import, and others. For a list of resolved issues, see the Adobe InDesign CS2 4.0.4 ReadMe file. This file will be located in the Adobe InDesign folder on your hard drive after you install the update. The update is for both Mac and Windows.

Source: New Adobe Downloads
Posted 08/08/2006

The Multiprocessor Support update fixes a problem discovered after Adobe Photoshop CS2 (9.0) was released. Machines with more than four processors in total (counting HyperThreading) will now use all of those processors.

Major Traveling Exhibition of Annie Leibovitz Photographs on View at Brooklyn Museum October 20, 2006–January 21, 2007

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005, an exhibition of more than 200 photographs, will debut at the Brooklyn Museum, where it will be on view from October 20, 2006 through January 21, 2007, prior to an international tour. The exhibition, sponsored by American Express, is being organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Among the other venues it will travel to are the San Diego Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the de Young Museum, Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and London’s National Portrait Gallery, with additional venues to be announced.

Press Release: MELVILLE, NY, AUGUST 9, 2006 – Building on the extraordinary success of the D70 and D70s, Nikon® (www.nikondigital.com) today introduced the new D80™ digital SLR camera – an impressively featured, high performance camera that incorporates Nikon’s latest digital and photographic technologies, and offers advanced features as well as automated operation to satisfy any photographer with the passion to create beautiful photographs and preserve special moments.

Source: The Daily Utah Chronicle
Written by Andy Thompson

Construction on the John E. and Marva M. Warnock Engineering Building, just north of the Olpin Union, began in April 2005 and is scheduled for completion Dec. 4, 2006.

One of the biggest improvements, located at the core of the building’s 100,000 square feet, will be the Michael O. Leavitt Student Learning Center.

Source: CNET
Written by Stephen Shankland

Researchers have unveiled an image-processing technique that shows promise for fixing images spoiled by camera shake.

The technique is based on an algorithm that deduces the path that a wobbling camera took when a photo was shot, then uses that path to reverse much of the resultant blurring. The method isn’t a miracle cure, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto have used it to significantly help a wide variety of sample images.

Source: blogs.Reuters.com
Written by Gary Hershorn, News Pictures Editor for North America

News photographers routinely process images using Adobe Photoshop software. But there has been a basic premise in the world of photojournalism that what was allowed in making prints in the pre-digital days of darkrooms is all that is acceptable today.

Mikkel Aaland by George Jardine

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast. This is the second podcast from the “Lightroom Iceland Adventure” with Mikkel Aaland.

Leading publishing software runs natively on Intel-based Macs

Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO - August 7, 2006 - Quark Inc. today announced the immediate availability of QuarkXPress 7 as a Universal application for Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger.” The QuarkXPress 7.01 update, which is available at no additional cost for Mac users of QuarkXPress 7.0, was built to run at peak performance on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.

Source: The Mercury News
Written by Katherine Conrad

When cities compel developers to set aside money for public art, it’s one of those for-the-greater-good regulations that encounters little if any resistance from the corporate world.

Get a glimpse of the not-so-distant future. Introducing Mac OS X Leopard.

The New Mac Pro: 64-bit Quad Xeon. Up to 3GHz.

Source: The New York Times
Written by Juston Jones

Adobe Systems has tussled recently with Microsoft over software used to create PDF documents. Behind the scenes, it is forging ventures with Google and Verizon Wireless and is preparing products to ship later this year and next spring. Adobe is also digesting Macromedia, which it acquired in December.

The company’s chief executive, Bruce R. Chizen, 50, spoke recently about the competitive landscape, about being on pace to surpass $2 billion in sales for the first time and about how far-reaching Adobe has become in Americans’ daily lives. Following are excerpts:

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Check out the results of the Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop Adventure 2006

And all reports are that Michael Reichmann is fine…

Source: CNET
Written by Tom Krazit and Ina Fried

When Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage Monday for his Worldwide Developer’s Conference keynote, it’ll be hard for him to top last year’s performance.