Adobe launches a weekly podcast series, including a monthly interview with Adobe’s head of creative solutions, Johnny Loiacono, to discuss hot topics and trends in the marketplace.

New podcast episodes will be available weekly at www.creativesuitepodcast.com. Or subscribe via iTunes for FREE.

During the Boston 2007 Photoshop World keynote, Scott Kelby, president of National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) announced the 2007 Photoshop Hall of Fame Nominees.

Photographers, educators, artists, and Adobe visionaries – these are the people who have pushed Photoshop to new heights. For all their work creating, testing, and teaching others how to use all the latest Photoshop advances, a select few are honored by inducting them into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

Formed by NAPP, the Photoshop Hall of Fame recognizes those individuals whose contributions to the business, education, development, and art of Adobe Photoshop have enduring value.

The official induction into the 2007 Hall of Fame will occur during the opening keynote at Photoshop World Las Vegas, on September 6-8, 2007. The Photoshop Hall of Fame is sponsored by iStockPhoto.

Best In Show | “Cowbucks Poster” by Matt Zumbo

At the Photoshop World keynote, Scott Kelby, president of National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) announced the winners of the Photoshop Guru Awards for Boston, 2007. Check out all the winners at the Guru Awards page.

Since Adobe’s launch of Creative Suite 3.0 last month, interest in the software amongst creative professionals has skyrocketed, with nearly all attendees surveyed at this week’s Photoshop World conference saying they plan to update to one of the new bundles by year’s end.

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Written by Katie Marsal

Creative professionals, eager for a glimpse of the new Adobe suites in action, flocked in herds to the Boston, Mass.-based Photoshop conference earlier this week, selling out the show for the first time in its history. Researchers from investment research firm PiperJaffray were on hand for the event and spoke one-on-one with 73 professionals regarding their spending intentions for 2007 versus last year.

Press Release: Oakland, CA – Paravue® Inc., has announced Turbo Mask™, an image masking tool designed for graphic and web designers, photographers, and motion graphic artists that work with Adobe Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS Extended. Most image masking tools rely on skill to get the desired results. Turbo Mask works like human eyes to pick out the important subject in an image. Leveraging the Paravue technology, Turbo Mask understands images like people do and can isolate subjects and remove them from backgrounds accurately-often with just one click. With Turbo Mask, digital artists can focus more on creativity and less on time-consuming cutouts.

Source: Science News
Written by Patrick L. Barry

On the Cover: In one new aspect of computational photography, a dome contains hundreds of precisely positioned flash units. A high-speed camera captures a frame as each flash fires in sequence. Computers can then relight the scene as they reconstruct it.
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When a celebrity appears in a fan-magazine photo, there’s no telling whether the person ever wore the clothes depicted or visited that locale. The picture may have been “photoshopped,” we say, using a word coined from the name of the popular image-editing software, Adobe Photoshop.

But today’s image processing is just a prelude.