Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) is now Available

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May 102012
 

The Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) product line includes powerful new releases of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe llustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Flash Professional and other products as well as four suites – Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium; Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard; Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium; and Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection. The release is packed with innovation across Adobe’s industry-defining design, Web, video and digital imaging tools.

Top new features across the Adobe CS6 product line include:

  • New levels of performance with tools that take advantage of Mercury Graphics functionality, allowing users to go from idea to finished work faster than ever before.
  • Enhanced user interfaces that vastly simplify workflows, so users can focus on their content and achieve results quicker.
  • New capabilities that streamline the creation of responsive content, ensuring web site and apps look great across virtually all screen sizes and form factors.
  • Remarkable new science, integrated into imaging and video apps, makes previously impossible tasks possible.

Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) products are immediately available through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Southeast Asia Online Store.

Estimated price for the suites is:

Upgrade and education pricing as well as volume licensing are also available. For more information, visit the Adobe.com Southeast Asia store.

Check out Tech65′s video first looks on the Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6).

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta Available for Download

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Mar 232012
 

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta is now available at Adobe Labs for free to try out. Check out some of the resources below to learn more about Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta.

  1. Watch the Russell Brown’s 6 Favorite Features in Photoshop CS6 beta video
  2. See tips and tutorials for getting started in the Photoshop CS6 Kelby Learning Center

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Adobe demos unblur feature for Photoshop (Video)

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Oct 112011
 

You know those impossible TV-magic image sharpening software that FBI agents seem to all have and use whenever they have a super low resolution zoomed up image and they try to sharpen it? Well, this isn’t it. But it’s close enough. This new feature, and we all secretly hope it’ll be out in the next version of Photoshop, will take your blurry image and unblurs it. Even blurry text can now be unblurred to make it readable.

Amazing. I want.

Adobe Touch Apps – 6 Apps for Android Tablet and iPad

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Oct 042011
 

Adobe Photoshop Touch lets users transform images with core Photoshop features in an app custom-built for tablets. With simple finger gestures, users can combine multiple photos into layered images, make popular edits and apply professional effects. The tablet-exclusive Scribble Selection Tool allows users to easily extract objects in an image by simply scribbling on what to keep and then what to remove. With Refine Edge technology from Adobe Photoshop, even hard-to-select areas with soft edges, such as hair, are easily captured when making selections. Additionally, the apphelps users quickly find images, share creations, and view comments through integration with Facebook and Google Search. Using the syncing capabilities that are a component of AdobeCreative Cloud, files can be opened in Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Collage helps creatives capture and refine ideas and concepts by allowing them to combine inspirational images, drawings, text and Creative Suite files into modern, conceptual mood boards. Features include importing of images, four customizable pen types for drawing, adding text, and applying color themes. A virtually unconstrained canvas grows as needed to accommodate more assets.  Files can be shared or transferred for access in Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Debut allows users to present designs to clients and stakeholders virtually anywhere. Adobe Debut quickly opens tablet-compatible versions of Creative Suite files for convenient and beautiful viewing on the tablet, including Photoshop layers and Illustrator® art boards. Feedback is gathered using a markup pen tool to add notes and drawings on top of the work.

Adobe Ideas is an easy-to-master, vector-based tool for drawing. By using a stylus or finger, strokes appear smooth at any zoom level. Starting with a blank canvas, users can choose color themes, and pull in tablet-compatible image files that can be controlled as separate layers. Finished results are easily accessed in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

Adobe Kuler makes it easy to generate color themes that can inspire any design project. Color can be explored and discovered, with hundreds of thousands of Kuler themes already available via the creative community. Social engagement in the community is enhanced by rating and commenting on themes, which can be exported as color swatches for Adobe Creative Suite projects.

Adobe Proto enables the development of interactive wireframes and prototypes for websites and mobile apps on a tablet. Ideas are communicated and shared with teams and clients using a touch-based interface. Gestures quickly express a design concept, explain website structure or demonstrate interactivity. The wireframe or prototype then can be exported as industry standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and shared in popular browsers for immediate review and approval.

Adobe Touch Apps will be available for Android devices in November 2011. Adobe expects to make an announcement regarding iOS availability in early 2012.

Adobe Ideas is already available for the iPad. Introductory pricing is US$9.99 for each app. Access to the file viewing, sharing and transfer functionality of Adobe Creative Cloud is included in the price of each Adobe Touch App.

Adobe Lightroom 3.4 is now Available for Download

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May 022011
 

Adobe Lightroom was just updated to version 3.4 with many bug fixes like a broken Facebook integration, SmugMug publishing errors, and many others. They’ve also added  additional camera support for several new camera models including the Canon Rebel T3i, Nikon D5100 and Fuji FinePix X100.

Download Adobe Lightroom 3.4 for Windows
Download Adobe Lightroom 3.4 for Mac

Lightroom 3.4 Bugs – Fixed

  • Lightroom encountered issues presenting double-byte character metadata after the image was edited on Photoshop.com
  • Video files were allowed to be added to a SmugMug publish collection not capable of supporting video uploads
  • The up and down arrow keys did not work properly when trying to adjust a point tone curve with the Targeted Adjustment Tool
  • In a Flickr publish collection an error would occur when attempting to republish an image marked as “Hide from Public areas”
  • Images rotated once in a publish collection could have displayed inconsistent rotations between the grid view and the filmstrip (Windows only)
  • Mouse movements when a secondary window had been enabled would cause unnecessary processor activity
  • The SmugMug Smart Publish Collection dialog on a 1024×768 display could have closed without warning and prevented access to the main Lightroom window
  • Keyword completion was broken when spaces were included Multiple Facebook publishing errors have been corrected in Lightroom 3.4
  • Publish collections did not work properly if the sort order is set to descending. (“Z to A”)
  • Cropped images could have momentarily appeared without a crop while moving from image to image in the Develop module
  • Image counts were not updating properly when nested collection sets were separated
  • If image files were located on an unavailable network volume, it might have taken several minutes for Lightroom to properly display the thumbnails in the grid view (Windows only)
  • Using the up/down arrow keys or the mouse wheel to adjust a parameter while the graduated filter is activated caused increments of plus or minus 100 instead of 1
  • Interlacing artifacts, and a slight magenta cast in the deepest shadows could have appeared on some high-contrast edges of Canon mRaw files.
  • Video files captured by an Apple iPhone and imported into Lightroom showed the incorrect capture date of December 31, 1903
  • In some instances, photos labeled as “Modified Photos to Re-Publish” in a Publish Collection would fail to be re-categorized as “Published” after a succesfull publish operation
  • A magenta color cast could have appeared on Nikon D7000 or Pentax K-5 images if the multi-exposure feature was used with raw capture
  • Updates have been made to Lightroom 3.4 to comply with Metadata Working Group standards
  • An image at zoom level “1:2″ may have momentarily blurred when the mouse is released from a slider (Windows only)
  • Folder creation caused an expanded folder hierarchy to close unexpectedly in the Library Module
  • Virtual Copies added to a Publish to Hard Drive collection could fail to export properly if the original image had already been published
  • Updating the metadata of a file by selecting the update button in the Metadata panel would fail to update the metadata
  • A Japanese language file name is not properly preserved when uploading images to SmugMug
  • Color Noise reduction values were not properly saved in presets
  • Not all appropriate metadata fields were excluded when choosing the Minimize Embedded Metadata export option
  • The Lightroom Plug-in Manager may not have displayed correctly when operating Lightroom with the French language selected

psdGraphics – Great Resource for Stunning PSD Backgrounds, Images, Templates

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Apr 252011
 

I found this great website with a lot of images, icons, background that comes with the Adobe Photoshop PSD file for you to use and possibly learn how these stunning graphics were created. What’s more, it’s free for personal use! There are a lot of free fully editable Photoshop PSD files and high resolution stuff for webmasters and designers like abstract backgrounds, textures and patterns, PSD icons and graphics, web design elements, Photoshop text and video tutorials, Photoshop recreations, etc.

Source: psdGraphics

Be a Layer Mayor – Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers

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Apr 042011
 

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers is a list of helpful and *subtle* suggestions to organize Photoshop Documents, making the transfer of them less painful. This set of guidelines is intended for any group of people looking to standardize web design in Photoshop.

I have worked with many web designers and I wish they had these guidelines to make my life as a developer slightly easier, instead of having myself to learn Photoshop to get what I need out of the psd file. All web designers should at least some of the guidelines, if not all.