New from O’Reilly: Take Your Best Shot by Tim Grey

Digital imaging expert Tim Grey tackles your digital darkroom questions in his new book, Take Your Best Shot (O’Reilly, $35), written in Q&A format where he answers your most common and vexing digital darkroom questions.
Grey, who is host of the annual Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, is a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of Instructors and he has written over a dozen books, such as the Tim Grey Guides series for Sybex that includes Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers, Photoshop CS3 Workflow and Color Confidence.
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Read entire articlePTLens Auto Lens Correction for $15 Good Enough for You?

The promise of the PTLens software for lens correction is so inviting you could probably plunk down $15 without much thought to it. Hey, if it matters, you can still try it for free. Download the software and it’s good for 10 images, free. Pay via PayPal if you like it.
Tom Niemann’s PTLens offers to correct lens pincushion/barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective in your photos and it’s available for the PC and Mac platforms. Tom's done a good job of including almost all current camera models for his lens correcton ...
Read entire articleForensic Photoshop Tutorial - Correcting Color Shifts
Forum Nokia: Flash Lite 2.x Components for Mobile Development
Forum Nokia has posted a Flash Lite 2.x Components for Mobile Development. Go download it !!
“This package provides components for Adobe Flash Professional 8 and Adobe Flash CS3. The package includes mobile components for status indicators (device battery charge and signal level) and a general list component. The components can be further customized with custom graphics and parameters”
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Read entire articleNik Software Releases Color Efex Pro Version 3.1

Nik Software says the update to their award-winning Color Efex Pro 3.0 photographic filters is now available. The update is available for free download for current owners of the application.
Color Efex Pro 3.1 now supports Aperture 2.1, Apple’s groundbreaking photo editing and management software, Capture NX 2, the latest version of Nikon Corporation’s award-winning photo editing software, and the Smart Filters feature of Adobe Photoshop CS3.
Color Efex Pro 3.1 features Nik Software’s patented U Point technology and offers a comprehensive, powerful, and easy to use set of ...
Read entire articleBen Long Rolls Out His Photoshop Action Pack Version 3.7

Ben Long at CompleteDigitalPhotography.com has released Version 3.7 of his Photoshop Action Pack, a collection of 90 Automator Actions that allow you to script nearly all of Photoshop's functionality from within Apple's Automator in Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
The new version, which is for Photoshop CS3 adds two new actions: Set Blending Mode of Current Layer, and Copy IPTC to Spotlight Comments. The first lets you change a layer's blending mode, just as you would from Photoshop's Layers palette, while the second lets you automate the process of copying IPTC tags ...
Read entire articlePhotoshop High Dynamic Range - HDR - Training Video
Photoshop CS3 Retouching E-book From Gry Garness
Adobe CS3.3 Adds Acrobat 9 Pro, Available Now

The updated Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 now incorporates Acrobat 9 Pro; Adobe CS3.3 is available in Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection editions.
Adobe said Acrobat 9 Pro brings together the power, reach, and richness of the Adobe PDF and Adobe Flash formats and introduces numerous enhancements to print production workflows. It allows the user to combine documents, video, audio, and other file types into easy-to-distribute PDF Portfolios, complete with customisable interactive navigation.
Additionally, Acrobat 9 Pro lets designers collaborate on documents more effectively and efficiently. Design professionals can now, ...
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