Adobe Photoshop CS3 for $299

[This post has been updated. See below.]
No, this isn’t some cheap take on a educational software gray market scam. This is the real deal from Adobe.
If you’ve been wanting to get your hands on Photoshop CS3, but don’t really want to shell out $650, then Adobe has got a deal for you. You [...]

Nik Software Dfine® 2.0 Brings Revolutionary Noise Reduction

 Pre-PMA Press Release
Las Vegas, NV – January 18, 2008 (PMA 08, Booth #L161) - Nik Software Inc.’s award-winning noise reduction software tool Dfine 2.0 now features Nik Software’s patented U Point technology for selective editing control and a completely new user interface that is easier to use and improves workflow for busy photographers.
“Many photographers have [...]

Nik Software Showcases New Color Efex Pro™ 3.0 at PMA 08

Pre-PMA Press Release
Las Vegas, NV – January 18, 2008 (PMA 08, Booth #L161) – Nik Software, Inc. showcases today the latest upgrade to its award-winning Color Efex Pro collection of photographic filters for Adobe® Photoshop® and Photoshop Elements. The new Color Efex Pro 3.0 filter collection now integrates Nik Software’s patented U Point® technology [...]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 10, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the highly anticipated Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 6 software for Macintosh® is now available for pre-order at www.adobe.com/go/buyphotoshop_elements_mac or Amazon.com.

Photoshop Elements 6 software for Mac® combines power and simplicity so consumers at all experience levels can easily achieve outstanding [...]

28 Great Adobe Lightroom Resources

If you’re an Adobe Lightroom user (or a wannabe), you’ll want to take a look at these books and links:
Links
Free 30 Day Trial - try out LR on Adobe
Adobe Design Center - tons of info from Adobe on how to use LR effectively
Lightroom Keyboard Shortcuts - a simple, but handy chart
Lightroom Journal - blog by [...]

Edit your photos! On Flickr!

Flickr’s got a new feature that enables users to edit photos that are already in their Flickr accounts - with no downloads in between. Flickr does this through a new partnership with Picnik, which I’ve raved about before and love as an online editing tool. Read more about this cool new feature on [...]

7 Alternatives to Flickr

Before we talk about what the alternatives to Flickr are, let’s first consider what flickr does for us. Flickr is great for sharing photos for free. It’s definately the biggest photo sharing community on the web.
The community features on Flickr are very deep and part of what makes Flickr so successful. Groups [...]

Adobe Lightroom 1.3

Adobe has released a Lightroom version 1.3 update, which is now available for download for Windows and Mac. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.3 update includes these enhancements:

Additional camera support for the Canon 1Ds Mark III, Nikon D3, Nikon D300, Olympus E-3, and more
Updated Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard support
The import dialog now offers the [...]

7 Free Online Photo Editors

Interested in taking your photo editing workflow online? Well, don’t get ahead of yourself, we’re not quite there yet. However, if you want to share some family photos or do some fun stuff with photos online, there are plenty of editors out there that can suit your needs. I’m taking a look at [...]

Some Lightroom Tips

If you use Lightroom, you might find some of these tips useful.  The first two were news to me and I know I’ll be using this one:
if you press Shift-4, rather than just 4, it assigns a 4-star rating to the current photo and then immediately brings up the next photo
Thanks to Nycgraphix for the [...]