Scott Kelby has our own Andrew Rodney of PixelGenius on board as a guest blogger on his Photoshop Insider blog. Andrew talks about “getting old” along side Photoshop and how he, as a Photoshop user of 18 years has learned to love Lightroom. Check it out here. BTW, the image above is a shot Andrew did of his late dog Tosh. He still has 3 dogs (hence the “Digital Dog“ moniker), Zia, Mela and Brisket.

The blog isn’t signed by the author, but apparently some Londoner has noticed that there is an overabundance of banana skins littering the streets of London and decided to do something about it. Thus the start of london bananas.

For those of you with a bit of time on your hands (or want to check out just how bad some people’s Photoshop skills are), check out PhotoshopDisasters.com.

Here you’ll find some really shoddy Photoshop work. So bad in fact that it’s really rather amusing…such as this Hungarian ad for Red Bull.

Red Bull: Gives You Nightmares

Comment: Red Bull in Hungary makes you wish you had never seen this image. Scrubbing your eyeballs doesn’t work, I tried.

EEEK!

Source: CNET
Written by Ina Fried

DeviantArt gets 1.5 billion page views a month, making it one of the most popular Web sites that many people have never even heard of.

Despite the name, only a fraction of the art on the site is what might be labeled deviant. In reality, the site boasts millions of user-uploaded works of art, everything from photography to 3D digital conceptual art to old-fashioned canvas-and-paint portraits.

On Thursday, Scott posted on his blog (Photoshop Insider) that Photoshop User TV DID finally air on the Fox Business channel.

From Scott: “Hard to believe as this must sound, but Photoshop User TV actually did air on “real” television last night on Fox Business channel. Now, as you might expect, besides the date problem, there was apparently a time slot issue in some parts of the country, and as soon as I’m back in the office (tomorrow), I’ll track it down and hopefully get you the right info for next week, but hey….it’s a start. ”

So, some people in some parts of the country got to see it, others may not have. The good news however is that regardless of the Fox Business channel’s scheduling “issues”, you can STILL be assured of seeing each and every episode on Photoshop User TV‘s web site!

The Mad Doctor is at it yet again-producing Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended video tutorials (along with additional important foolishness)

Dan (Dano to his friends) Steinhardt of Epson America was on Photoshop User TV this week with host Scott Kelby. Episode 104 featured Dano talking about his photography as well as Epson’s new Exhibition Fiber Paper.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA’s Web site received a significant multimedia award this week when Adobe Systems Inc., of San Jose, Calif., honored the interactive International Space Station Reference Guide with a 2007 Max Award.

Worth1000, the perennial Photoshop contest web site has just posted a recent contest titled Counterfeit Art 11–How to tell your fine art is a forgery. The contestants have been taking liberties with the classics…

From the web site come these contest rules: “The rules of this game are thus: You will take any famous painting or artwork (any period is fine) and alter it in such a way that it is obviously a forgery, as in the themepost. As always, quality is a must. We will remove poor entries no matter how much we like you. You’ll have 48 hours to submit for this contest, so make your submission count.”

Hit list: NO celebrities. NO guitars. Use them and get disqualified.

The entry shown here is Goose by MissChief

“Although she couldn’t quite put her finger on it, the museum’s curator became suspicious after viewing the back of the latest acquisition for the ancient, Roman, sculpture galley.”

Image Sources: germany/berlin/museums/altesmuseum/sculpture/rome/statuary/433.jpg and 437.JPG

View the other entries at this URL.

Original story source: boingboing

Scott Kelby posted a story about Photoshop User TV celebrating its 100th episode.

“You can watch the historic 100th episode, which features a look back at the history of Photoshop User TV, including clips from our premiere episode (which wasn’t pretty) right on our web page at PhotoshopUserTV.com“

Layers Magazine launches Layers TV today–hosted by little Cory Barker and “RC”.

We love that goatee RC!

The first episode should be available later today.

(BTW, that’s RC Concepcion on the right and Cory Barker who does Planet Photoshop on the left). Be sure to check out the Photoshop Guys™ on Photoshop TV.

Jeeesh, maybe I should do some videos–oh, wait, I have! More info on that soon…

Source: John Nack’s Adobe Blog

The Help files that ship with Adobe products seem to catch a lot of slings and arrows from users.  There are some fair points to be made, and one small team of writers can never be as specific, detailed, or personable as the many third-party books out there.  This is especially true when the Adobe writers are trying to finish their work far in advance of shipping the product, in order to have time to localize the content into multiple languages.

Source: CNET
Written by Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com

Digital photographers on Monday were debating whether a retailer can also offer professional camera reviews without creating the perception that the opinions are biased.

Source: CNET
Written by Caroline McCarthy

Amazon.com announced on Monday that it has acquired Digital Photography Review, also known as Dpreview.com, a London-based site that specializes in reviews, information, news and discussion forums pertaining to the digital-camera market. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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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.

Scott Kelby is a pretty busy guy.

Not only is Scott a best selling Photoshop book author, President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), the editor and publisher of Photoshop User Magazine, Layers magazine, host of Photoshop TV and the guy who does the keynotes at Photoshop World, he’s also now got a blog-Photoshop Insider.

The Mad Doctor is at it again-producing Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended video tutorials.

 Wikivid does Photoshop.

If you want to find a tutorial video about Photoshop, Wikivid has plenty. Over 550 videos listed and counting…

The top linked videos seem to be from Lynda.com with plenty from RussellBrown.com, PlanetPhotoshop.com as well as Video-Tutes.com.

An offshoot of Wikipedia, Wikivid is an encyclopedia of informative videos. Each content page is made up of links to free videos laid out as a video-course for anyone to watch and learn. Each page can be edited and moderated by anyone. In addition to Photoshop, there’s Wikivids for After Effects, Dreamweaver, Illustrator and others.

The Mad Doctor is at it again-producing Adobe Photoshop CS2 video tutorials.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips web site

Get your daily video dose of the coolest Adobe^® Lightroom tutorials, tips, timesaving shortcuts, photographic inspiration, and undocumented tricks with Matt Kloskowski, one of “The Photoshop Guys” from Photoshop TV.

“This site will be dedicated to one thing – teaching you how to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom – the new killer application from Adobe for Photographers.” says Matt.

New videos are posted each Monday as well as other news during the week.

Jan Kabili’s Photoshop Online is up and running. In addition to news and info, Jan is doing podcasts available from Apple’s iTunes (search podcasts with the term “Photoshop Online”). The videos are also available from the web site.

Subscribe via iTunes

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 .

John Paul Caponigro presents a stunning collection of new images in his annual studio exhibit. The studio is at 73 Cross Road, Cushing, Maine.

This extremely popular event is open for one weekend only: August 5-6 from 10A.M. to 5P.M. The artist will discuss his work daily at 2P.M.

Press Release: Haarlem, Netherlands, July 29, 2006– MisterClipping.com is an online supplier of hand-made Photoshop clipping paths. The company was founded in November 2005 and is entirely dedicated to making clipping paths for third parties. The online application, which has been active since June 1, was developed by a renowned Dutch Internet company. In September, the campaign “Let Mister Clipping do the clipping” will be the starting shot for a worldwide roll-out of the service.