Adobe Photoshop QE has been able to reproduce a crash in the Windows version of Photoshop CS3 when the Microsoft IntelliPoint version 6.1 is also installed. Rolling the IntelliPoint drive back to version 5.5 seem to resolve the issue. Adobe Photoshop Q&E is continuing to work on the problem with MSFT.

Additional info available on this Photoshop Windows User to User forum thread.

From John Nack’s Adobe blog comes this bit of info regarding upgrades and platform switches…

The elves at Adobe have been busy…producing video tutorials about all the various products in the Creative Suite 3 including a ton of “tuts” for Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended. Broadband net connections suggested.

Source: NewsBiscuit

(Editor’s note, pretty sure this is a parody…hope it’s a parody)

Northern Ireland awoke to a new era of peace this morning thanks to the latest digital imaging techniques.

Utilising the latest Photoshop software, Tony Blair and Irish Premier Bertie Ahern toiled into the early hours, cutting and pasting images of DUP and Sinn Fein members together to create a new power-sharing assembly at Stormont.

Source: Yahoo Canada
Written by Victoria Ahearn

TORONTO (CP) - A wooden sawhorse, a few photographs and the computer program Photoshop were all Karen Ostrom needed to create “Smoking Gun.”

Source: PDN Online
Written by Daryl Lang

Need proof that photo alteration has entered the popular imagination? It’s there in the Daily Bugle.

USA TODAY does a profile on Scott Kelby

Source: USA TODAY
Written by Jefferson Graham

LOS ANGELES — You can’t get rich writing computer books. Advances are low, and the lifespan of the book is short.
But you can get rich — ask Scott Kelby — by turning the book model on its head and expanding it into a $20 million-a-year empire.

Kelby’s books have topped Nielsen BookScan’s computer and photo categories for three years. But he has much more on his plate than the eight books he’ll write this year.

If you aren’t sure yet if Photoshop CS3 Extended (or any of the Creative Suites) are for you, you can now download the demos (30 day trials) from Adobe.com. English versions only so far…click here for the download link.

ImageReady is dead; long live ImageReady.

From John Nack’s Adobe blog comes this bit of advice and explanation regarding the end of ImageReady in CS3.

OVER 500 LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS PARTICIPATE AT MORE THAN 200 VENUES ACROSS THE GTA.

TORONTO — CONTACT, Toronto’s premier annual photography festival, is launching for it’s 11th year and taking over the GTA. From May 1 – 31, 2007, the work of professional, emerging and established photographers will transform Toronto into a huge art gallery as restaurants, government buildings, public spaces, street corners, hotels, schools, museums and galleries become the backdrop for their work.

PictureCode has announced that the Noise Ninja plug-in is now available for the Photoshop CS3 running natively on Intel Mac. This offers a significant speedup compared to the emulated execution that was necessary for Photoshop CS2 running on Intel Mac. The official release is available on the download page. The Windows version (v2.1.3) is already compatible with CS3.

[Story updated to correct broken link]

Source: WIRED

Creative works of art? Here’s a look at the nerd revolt in pictures, from T-shirts and roadside signs to a hodgepodge of Photoshop creations.

One MySpace user calls out Digg’s lucky numbers.

[Editor's note: in case you haven't heard, the AACS "secret key," is a 16-digit number that is illegal to possess and disseminate. AACS is the anti-copying system built into HD-DVDs . Check out more info in this boingboing post.]

Check out the rest of the Photoshopped encryption key images at WIRED.

Source: Adorama
Written by Mason Resnick

If Adobe has its way, there will be no photoshopping allowed from now on. Photoshop, as Adobe correctly points out, is a registered trademark name and shoud be capitalized and accompanied by a ®m. It’s not a verb.

So, we can’t say “I photoshopped that image” but we can say “I enhanced that image using Adobe® Photoshop® software.” “Trademarks are nouns,” notes Adobe in its Incorporated Terms of Use page, and “Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.”

Source: eWeek
Written by Darryl K. Taft

LAS VEGAS—Designers welcome Microsoft’s foray into the design tools space and the software giant’s competition with Adobe, because in the end the designers ultimately win, some design professionals said.

Indeed, designers said the increasing competition between Microsoft and Adobe is likely to lead to better technology and better values for designers.

Reports are indicating that the Adobe Photoshop CS3 public beta are due to expire in the coming days at the beginning of May, 2007. One report by Buko, on the Mac Photoshop User to User forum reports that the beta will expire on May 2nd. Other reports claim May 5th (which also happens to be Cinco de Mayo). In any event, rest assured that the beta will expire soon.

For those who still have the Beta installed, Adobe suggests (really emphatically) that you must remove the beta properly before installing the final release version.

On the Mac, the uninstaller is in Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers. Note: You cannot uninstall by dragging CS3 applications to the trash; instead, you must use the uninstaller.

On Windows XP, uninstall via Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.

On Windows Vista, in the Programs section of the Control Panel, select Uninstall a Program.

To aid in the manual removal, Adobe has posted TechNotes regarding how to remove the beta.

Manually Remove Photoshop CS3 public beta (Mac OS X)

Manually Remove Photoshop CS3 public beta (Windows XP)

Manually remove Photoshop CS3 public beta (Windows Vista)

Adobe has also posted scripts for the removal of the beta, see:

CS3Clean Script for Mac

CS3Clean Script for Windows

Source: SiliconValley.com
Written by Ryan Blitstein, Mercury News

Someday soon, you might walk into the corner video store, point your camera phone at a DVD box, and instantly see reviews of the movie on your mobile screen. Or you’ll come home from a family vacation, upload pictures from your digital camera, and watch your computer throw out the ones with closed eyes or no smiles, and maybe even predict which shots you’ll like best.

Source: CNET
Written by Dawn Kawamoto

Security researchers have found a “highly critical” flaw in the portable-network graphics plug-in for the latest version of Adobe Systems’ Photoshop Creative Suite, as well as for other versions of the software that run on Windows.

Free upgrades now available for Intellihance Pro 4.2, Mask Pro 4.1, Genuine Fractals 5 and PhotoFrame Pro 3.1

Press Release: Portland, OR. – April 30, 2007 onOne Software, Inc., announces today the immediate availability of all Photoshop® CS3 compatible updates to their Photoshop plug-ins Intellihance Pro, Mask Pro, Genuine Fractals and PhotoFrame Pro software. Free updates are available for registered owners of Intellihance Pro 4, Mask Pro 4 and PhotoFrame Pro 3 software products. Users who purchased Genuine Fractals 4.1 or Genuine Fractals Print Pro 4.1 on or after December 18, 2006 qualify for a free upgrade to Genuine Fractals 5 and Genuine Fractals Print Pro 5 respectively.

In addition, all Photoshop CS3 compatible plug-ins will be available for purchase in the new onOne Software Plug-In Suite 3 which will be shipping May 10, 2007.

Tom Fors, the author of the AcrCalibrator script has released his final 1.0 version. It is available for download now from his web site chromoholics, oh, yeah, and it’s still free.

AcrCalibrator is a Javascript that can be loaded in Photoshop CS2 and CS3 to automate the process of determining the optimal camera calibration settings of your particular camera.