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.

Scott Kelby, on his Photoshop Insider blog has revealed that The “Photoshop Guys” are holding their first photography contest called: “The Photoshop TV Shopping Spree at B&H Photo”. UPDATE: here’s the link for the contest.

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.

I’m leaving, on a jet plane… don’t know when I’ll be back again.

Well, actually, I should get home Friday night as long as ORD (O’Hare Airport) doesn’t get closed due to weather…seems to happen a lot in the spring.

So, I’ll be at Photoshop World this week. If you haven’t already registered, it’s too late-it’s sold out. I’ll be pretty busy. I’ll be at the mini Epson Print Academy Tuesday afternoon as well as stopping in to the Photoshop Soup 2 Nuts precon events.

On Wednesday I’ll be speaking from the Peachpit booth in the Tech Expo-I’ve committed to carry on Bruce Fraser’s Real World Camera Raw book so Peachpit wants me to talk at the booth. I also have two general sessions; Thursday at 11:00a-12:00p Lightroom to Photoshop to Lightroom for Printing, and Friday at 10:45a-11:45a In Search of the Perfect B&W Print.

If I get the chance, I’ll try to post a story or two from the event. See ya in Boston!

Watch a special episode of Photoshop TV at the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Announce Party from New York. Scott Kelby interviews Bruce Chizen, Adobe’s CEO as well as Senior Vice President - Creative Solutions Business Unit, John Loiacono (aka Johnny L). Click HERE to go to the Photoshop TV Special CS3 Launch Episode.

This eSeminar series is designed for professional photographers, web professionals, graphic designers, video professionals, architects, engineers, photography enthusiasts, and others.

Give yourself an edge

Register now for this momentous event. Be one of the first to learn new features and techniques available only in Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 that will change the way you work and create.

Hello from the Big Apple!

PhotoshopNews will be blogging live from the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Announcement event to be held at 3:30PM Eastern time.

We’ll have photos from Seth Resnick and myself as well as backstage stuff including some party pics.

Since Adobe will be webcasting the event, you can watch the actual announcement live by visiting http://www.adobe.com/go/cs3launch.

Photoshop Soup2Nuts is going to Boston to be a part of Photoshop World to show off the new baby–Lightroom.

If you are already going to Photoshop World in Boston (hope you already registered as Photoshop World is now sold out) and you are interested in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom you owe it to yourself to attend the Conference Pre-con event, Photoshop Soup2Nuts with Thomas Knoll, Mark Hamburg and George Jardine and others. Proceeds of Soup2Nuts 2007 will honor the memory of Bruce Fraser.

Birds of a Feather Meeting – Medical & Scientific Research Professionals
April 4, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Track: Special Event — Room: 207 in the Convention Center

Hosted by Adobe – Open to Conference Attendees and Medical Professionals and Research Professionals.

Attention All Photoshop Developers!

How’s your Mac Intel migration going?
Interested in new APIs for CS3?

Here’s a great opportunity to make sure your plug-ins are ready to go for CS3. Members of the Photoshop engineering team will be flying out to Photoshop World (in Boston) on April 3rd and hosting a developer workshop to assist with writing CS3 plug-ins.

That’s right, each year Photoshop World opens the Tech Expo floor to the public for free just one day, and this year it’s Thursday, April 5th, 2007 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.

The Tech Expo show floor is completely sold out this year (every single booth was sold out in advance), and you’ll see exhibits with the latest Photography, graphics, and photography gear from the leading vendors in the industry including Canon, Epson, Wacom, and many more. Go to Photoshop World.com to get your free pass (if you wait, and show up at the door, it’s $25).

…with a few friends for the Epson Print Academy in New York City this Sunday, January 28th, 2007.

We’re coming to the Big Apple for a special one day Epson event - check out the Epson Print Academy web site for details. Sadly, if you haven’t already registered too late, it’s already filled.

Source: Macworld
Written by Peter Cohen

IDG World Expo on Thursday offered details on this year’s Market Symposiums at Macworld Conference & Expo, which happens at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif. from January 8 - 12, 2007.

…with a few friends for the Epson Print Academy in Atlanta this Saturday, December 2nd, 2006.

We’re coming to Atlanta for a special one day Epson event - check out the Epson Print Academy web site for details and online registration. There’s still room available!

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals Announces Call for Entries for Photoshop User Awards

Press Release: TAMPA, Fla.–The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) today announced its call for entries to the second annual Photoshop User Awards - the only worldwide competition exclusively for Adobe® Photoshop® users.

The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts.

The competition, which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software, honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world’s top institutions of higher education.

Photo Plus East was held again this year at the Javits Center in New York from the 2nd-4th of November. Several members of the Pixel Genius team plus friends were there to take part in the various seminars and events. Here is a summary of what took place, in particular the Adobe Booth seminar sessions, where demos of Lightroom Beta 5 were shown for the first time in public. To find out more about what happened, read on…

New York, NY–O’Reilly Media announced the winners of the Photoshop Cook-Off Contest at PhotoPlus Expo 2006. Grand Prize Winner Suzanne Pitts and ten additional winners in five categories were selected from hundreds of submissions created by Photoshop aficionados.

Premier Global Student Competition Recognizes the Best Student Work in Design, Film and Interactive Content for the Web; Expands to Include 30 Countries

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov. 1, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced its call for entries to the seventh annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). The program honors and recognizes the most talented and promising student designers, photographers, illustrators, animators and digital filmmakers from the world’s top design, film, interactive and Web higher education programs. This year, the competition will accept entries from 30 participating countries.

If you are a registered member of the Adobe Solutions Network (ASN) or a part of any Adobe pre-release program, you should be recieving an email regarding the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite Developer Summit on November 6, 7, 8, 2006.

Adobe will run a developer summit for third party developers with a focus on the Creative Suite products - Illustrator, InDesign, InCopy, InDesign Server, Photoshop, Version Cue, Bridge, XMP and Lightroom. The goal is to inform developers about upcoming changes in all products, and to prepare them for the CS3 launch. The summit will include presentations by Adobe engineers and product management on all topics of interest.

Scott Kelby, Editor of Photoshop User Magazine, and President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) wants pay your way to Rome, Italy and all you have to do is win.

(Editor’s Note: this is a location correction-originally we had posted that the trip was to Photoshop World but Italy is way cooler)

Room with a view…34th floor looking North.

Photoshop World was last week and it was both a lot of fun and educational for those who attended. This is my report of the first day of my first Photoshop World. I only shot stuff on this first day (I was speaking the other days) so this is the only posting I’ll be doing.

Last week, at Photoshop World, Epson held a special “mini” Print Academy. The question was, would people come and could we cover what we needed to cover in such a short period of time. The answer to both questions was yes!