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Craig April 16th, 2007

Adobe have announced the immediate availability and shipping of Creative Suite 3.

PRESS RELEASE: Adobe Ships Photoshop CS3 and Flagship Creative Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 16 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of the highly-anticipated Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Standard editions and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Standard editions. This revolutionary release of brand-new, tightly integrated, design and development software unites the best of Adobe and former Macromedia product innovation to provide designers and developers worldwide with a broad spectrum of creative options.Also available for purchase today are new versions of the following stand alone Adobe creative applications: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3 and Adobe Contribute CS3. These new Adobe CS3 applications and Adobe Creative Suite 3 editions are available as Universal applications for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs and support both Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista. Customers will experience increased levels of performance and speed running Creative Suite 3 natively on Intel-based Macintosh systems and the latest Windows hardware.The expanded Creative Suite 3 family also includes Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, a complete integrated post-production solution for video and rich media professionals and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection, which combines all of Adobe’s new CS3 design and development applications in a single box — the most comprehensive creative environment ever delivered. Both of these Creative Suite editions are expected to ship in the third quarter of 2007.Fully Integrated Design Toolkit Powers Creativity

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium delivers an essential, highly-efficient toolkit for print, web, interactive and mobile design. The software integrates new releases of InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3 and Acrobat 8 Professional for creating compelling publications, Web sites, rich interactive experiences and engaging content. Also available today is Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard software for designers and print service providers focusing on professional design and print production.

With Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, users can experiment with, save and apply color combinations quickly and intuitively using the new Live Color feature in Illustrator; perform image editing tasks such as selecting image areas, compositing images and applying filters faster and more flexibly with Photoshop CS3 Extended; master Flash more easily thanks to its new Adobe-standard user interface; and repurpose print content on the web by exporting InDesign CS3 documents as XHTML and the modifying them in Dreamweaver CS3 using CSS.

Innovative Web Design and Development Tools Maximize Productivity

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium edition is a comprehensive suite that combines the essential tools for web and interactive design and development including the new versions of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Contribute CS3 — along with major releases of key design tools such as Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS3 and Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard edition is also available today to serve the professional designer and developer focused on design, development and Web site maintenance.

Loaded with new and innovative features, Creative Suite 3 Web editions offer users faster, more productive workflows across the applications. Now, for the first time, web professionals can import native Photoshop and Illustrator files directly into Flash and Fireworks with full fidelity. Users can also create consistent experiences across all browsers, operating systems and a range of mobile and handheld devices with the new Spry Framework for AJAX, a pre-built, cross-browser compatible library of widgets and effects that make it faster and easier to build rich, interactive Web sites. Fireworks CS3 boasts new workflows for rapidly prototyping RIA layouts for Web sites and web applications, intelligent Photoshop and Illustrator integration and a library of common and customizable graphics assets.

New and Enhanced Integration Technologies Boost Performance

Both the Creative Suite 3 Design and Web editions include Adobe Device Central CS3, designed to boost the productivity of creative professionals developing content for mobile handsets with essential tools to design, emulate and test content across a wide range of mobile device and handheld frameworks. These editions also incorporate an updated version of Adobe Bridge CS3, the hub of Adobe Creative Suite, which provides instant access to Version Cue CS3, Acrobat Connect and an expanded Adobe Stock Photos service.

Pricing and Availability

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium and Web Standard are immediately available to customers in the United States and Canada and are available through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store at http://www.adobe.com/go/gn_store. Estimated street price for the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium edition is U.S.$1799, U.S.$1199 for Creative Suite 3 Design Standard edition, U.S.$1599 for Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and U.S.$999 for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard. There are numerous upgrade paths available for Adobe customers. For more detailed information about features, upgrade policies, pricing and international versions please visit: http://www.adobe.com/go/creativesuite.

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Craig April 12th, 2007

James Nachtwey, founding member of VII photo agency is busy telling his story to anyone who’ll listen.

“I am a witness and my testimony may not be acceptable. My pictures are to be displayed while the events are still going on so it will become a part of society’s daily dialogue”.

Speaking at the University of Tennessee, Nachtwey talked about his personal experiences in 26 years as a war photographer, as well as presenting three slideshows of black and white images of war. Telling the audience that he became a photographer so that he could be a war photographer, Nachtwey went on to say that he believes that pictures from the past, such as those of the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement in the US and Nazi death camps in WW2, are more shocking than his own work.

Nachtwey’s career started in Northern Ireland which lead to a 23 year association with Time magazine and numerous awards, including the Common Wealth Award, the Martin Luther King Jr. Award, the World Press Photo Award (twice), Magazine Photographer of the Year (seven times), the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, the Canon Photo Essayist Award and the Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times).

While this was going on, another story was unfolding in Iraq. April 12 marks the day that AP photographer Bilal Hussein has been held, without charge, or any release of evidence, in a prison camp run by the US for the past year. On April 12, 2006, Hussein was arrested in the western city of Ramadhi and has been held since that time because he’s been deemed a”security threat”. According to Paul Gardephe, the lawyer handling the case for the AP, Hussein hasn’t been interrogated since May 2006, suggesting that he’s not thought to have any intelligence value.

One of the allegations the US miltary makes against Hussein is that he took photos that were synchronised with explosions caused by insurgents. Gardephe examined all of the more than 900 images that Hussein submitted to AP, and said “There are no photos that are synchronized with an explosion.”

“April 12 is a sad anniversary for Bilal’s AP colleagues worldwide,” said the AP’s executive editor, Kathleen Carroll. “He has now been held by the U.S. military in Iraq for an entire year without formal charges or the due process that a democratic society demands.”

Bilal Hussein was one of the photographers who contributed to AP’s 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning submission. More on this can be read here.

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Craig April 10th, 2007

I’ve just made an update to the gallery portion of this site with some work from the past month. To view the images, either click on the gallery link at the top to enter the main page of the gallery, or click here for the latest work.

Included in this update are some documentary shots from an abandoned prison and a busy fishing port. As well, there are images from Neidong falls in Taiwan, an abandoned hotel/apartment complex that looks positively alien, a couple of shots from Taiwan’s new high-speed rail system and a few other random images. Enjoy.

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Craig April 9th, 2007

Scott Kelby, president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) has announced the nominees for the 2007 Photoshop Hall of Fame, during the keynote address at the 2007 Photoshop World in Boston. Founded in 2000 by NAPP, the Photoshop Hall of Fame recognises those whose contribution to the business, development, education and art of Photoshop have enduring value. The induction of the 2007 hall of famers will take place at Photoshop World, Las Vegas, September 6-8.

Nominees for 2007 are

• Dave Cross
• David Blatner
• Andrew Rodney
• Greg Gorman
• Michael Ninness
• Peter Bauer
• Seth Resnick
• Sherry London
• Martin Evening
• Scott Kelby
• Felix Nelson
• Lynda Weinman
• Rick Sammon
• Linnea Dayton

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Craig April 8th, 2007

Following on from news posted a couple of weeks ago about Photoshop tutorials available on Wikivid, an offshoot of Wikipedia, comes the news that there is now a page dedicated to Lightroom video tutorials.

Content so far includes

• 1 Intro
• 2 Interface
• 3 Preferences and Customizing
• 4 Basics
• 5 Importing and Organization
• 6 Tools
• 7 Image Enhancement
• 8 Slideshows
• 9 Techniques
• 10 Workflow
• 11 Posting to the Web
  • 11.1 Web Galleries
• 12 Printing and Scanning
• 13 Examples
• 14 Using Lightroom with Other Programs
  • 14.1 With Photoshop
• 15 Miscellaneous

Being a Wiki, any page can be edited by anyone, so expect to see more tutorials added in the future.

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