Wondering what to do over a wet and windy New Year’s holiday?… Deke McClelland has 20 (yes count them!) video clips previewing Photoshop CS3 Beta over on Lynda.com … that’s well over an hour and a half’s viewing entertainment.
And who says the internet is taking over from TV!
link: Deke McClelland Photoshop CS3 Lynda.com

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Scott Byer of Adobe sparked off a flourish of excitement over the holidays, with photoshopers wishing for a little extra in their xmas stockings, when he wrote about the potential for CS3 to become a 64bit application in his blog.
Today Russell Williams, another Abobe staff member, has added further clarification with this reply…
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Today we finally got our hands on one of Think Tank Photo’s “Rotation 360” camera back packs. So we thought we’d test it out over the holidays.
But meantime some first thoughts.
It arrived in a substantial box. The bag is substantial too, pretty firm with no hint of floppiness. Its a backpack configuration with heavily padded [...]

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Darn it, doesn’t that always just happen!
Well this was bound to make it onto YouTube.
So here’s the footage from last Saturday 16 December 2006.

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We’re sad to report that Bruce passed away over the weekend.
link: in memoriam (John Nack blog) 

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Just a few days after we announced his new book we are very sad to report that colour and digital imaging guru Bruce Fraser is seriously ill with lung cancer. Following a failed programme of chemotherapy his prognosis is not good.
We are sure that your thoughts are, like ours, with Bruce and his nearest and [...]

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Martin Evening writes:
There have been recent rumours in the last week that Adobe were planning to announce a public beta of Photoshop CS3, and today Adobe have confirmed that a public beta of the latest Photoshop CS3 and Bridge 2.0 software will be made available for download within the next 24 hours for Mac and [...]

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Appleinsider reports that Adobe may release a Beta version of eagerly awaited Photoshop CS3 as soon as this coming Friday, the full release of which is slated for Spring 2007.
One of the key improvements that Mac users have been waiting for is the change to Universal Binary that will allow it to run natively on [...]

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“Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2″ arrives just in time for seasonal present buying.
There’s a sample chapter available online courtesy of Peachpit Press and InformIt.com
link: Real World Image Sharpening sample chpt

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Martin has written a substantial introduction on how to shoot via a tethered connection using Lightroom. The article appears on PhotoShopNews. He also discusses using Nikon and Bibble software to achieve similar live viewing of each capture.
I was very interested to see the new Nikon wireless tethered solution at a presentation in Manchester recently. [...]

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The Gowers Review Report is to be published shortly. Early indications are that Gowers will recommend an exception in copyright law for ‘private copying’. This is rather unsettling.
Of course in advance of the publication we do not yet know how “private copying” is intended to be interpreted. But it does have the potential to [...]

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Some details of PS CS3 are starting to spread across the internet in advance of its anticipated release.
Think Secret lists Live Filter effects working in a similar manner to adjustment layers, native support for Mac Intel chips, Flash animation capabilities, and enhanced Save for Web functions.
Completion of the CS3 application is said to be in [...]

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Johnson has been previously mentioned here, and now he has a new book.
This isn’t a Photoshop book, although Photoshop has its place within the book; it’s a book that a master teacher and photographer creates after a lifetime of showing others how to understand and make great photography. Johnson’s book covers everything from:

The basics of [...]

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