Photoshop World will be at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center in Las Vegas. The Pre-con sessions start on Wednesday and the main conference on Thursday. The Tech Expo runs all three days and if you are in Vegas (but not attending the conference) you can get a free expo pass for 2 of the days here. Aside from [...]

Photoshop World Tech Expo - Sept. 5-6, 2008 - Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino - South Convention Center Press Release: TAMPA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A free Tech Expo pass (valued at $20 per person) is now available online athttp://www.photoshopworld.com/freepass.html for the largest gathering of Adobe® Photoshop®, digital imaging, and graphic design technology by the biggest names in the industry at the upcoming Photoshop® World Tech Expo in [...]

New Photoshop.com Membership Boosts Capabilities of Desktop Experience Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — Aug. 26, 2008 —  Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 7 software with new Photoshop.com membership, a milestone release of the No. 1 selling consumer photo-editing software*. Available for Windows®, Photoshop Elements 7 makes it quick and easy to organize, edit, [...]

Image by Ken Kokotek (aka Picasso) Ken Kokotek mocked his superiors on the Internet. Now he’s paying for it. Source: creative loafing.com Written by Alex Picket On May 5, around 6 p.m., St. Petersburg police officer Ken Kokotek walked into SPPD headquarters carrying a bundle of homemade invitation cards. The cards announced his retirement party, something he had been looking forward [...]

Press Release: BERKELEY, CALIF. (Aug. 25, 2008)— Peachpit today announced the publication of Lessons in DSLR Workflow with Lightroom and Photoshop , by seasoned photographer Jerry Courvoisier. This detailed guide, loaded with tips and techniques, delivers a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera workflow that allows readers to spend less time at their computer and more [...]

Been there, done that, want the tee shirt? Now you can…offered through Cafe Press. Here’s the link.

John Nack, the Senior Product Manage of Photoshop noted a new web site on his blog recently. It’s called Dear Adobe and it’s devoted to, well, providing a place for people to post rants and raves. Viewers can submit their own gripes and vote on the gripes of others. You can see what John thinks about [...]

On Scott’s blog, Photoshop Insider, Scott has announced that all the book sales of his new Lightroom 2 book for Digital Photographers from today will be donated to the Spring of Hope organization that runs is building a care center for orphans in Kenya. Now Scott isn’t just donating a portion of the proceeds, he’s donating [...]

I’m off for a short visit with TK in Ann Arbor (I’m going to get to meet Eric Chan) and then off to Toronto to tape some stuff with Michael Reichmann. So, I’ll be off-line till the end of the week.

FOUR’S A CROWD After her divorce, Laura Horn, second from right, decided to have her ex-husband (guess who?) removed from the picture with Photoshop. Source: The New York Times Written by Alex Williams REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing [...]

Boing Boing’s contest entry. (boingboing.net, submitted by THEBLUEONE) Source: The New York Times blogs Written by Errol Morris As almost everyone knows by now, various major daily newspaper published, on July 10, a photograph of four Iranian missiles streaking heavenward; then Little Green Footballs (significantly, a blog and not a daily newspaper) provided evidence that the photograph had [...]

Lightroom-News.com (Photoshop News’ sister site) has posted an interview with Tom Hogarty, the Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (can you say that in one breath?). Tom is also Product Manager for Camera Raw and DNG. Our own Martin Evening did the interview (pretty much by email although I think there were a few phone calls [...]

Parts of the spectacular Beijing Olympics opening ceremony were faked, it has emerged. Source: SkyNews.com From Mark Stone, SkyNews The global television audience of more than three billion people watched in amazement as a series of giant footprints outlined in fireworks proceeded through the night sky from Tiananmen Square to the Bird’s Nest stadium - except they were [...]

Source: FOX News People magazine did not Photoshop the picture on its latest cover of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s smiling newborn daughter Vivienne, as New York magazine suggested in a recent piece, a rep for the celeb weekly told FOXNews.com on Thursday. “Contrary to blog speculation, PEOPLE did not photo-shop Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt’s smile. One can [...]

PixelGenius, LLC has added a free ICC profile for the new Epson Stylus® Photo 2880 Printers designed to work with the Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper. The free profiles are available from the PixelGenius web site on this page. This brings the number of free profiles available to 10 including profiles for the R2400, 3/4/7/9800 series as well as [...]

Scott Kelby has our own Andrew Rodney of PixelGenius on board as a guest blogger on his Photoshop Insider blog. Andrew talks about “getting old” along side Photoshop and how he, as a Photoshop user of 18 years has learned to love Lightroom. Check it out here. BTW, the image above is a shot Andrew [...]

John Paul Caponigro (JP to his friends) has self-published a new book, ANTARCTICA drawn from his two photographic expeditions to, well, Antarctica. The book has been published via Blurb, and online print on demand service. The printing is said to be equal to that of a traditionally published book. The page count is 64 and the size [...]

The blog isn’t signed by the author, but apparently some Londoner has noticed that there is an overabundance of banana skins littering the streets of London and decided to do something about it. Thus the start of london bananas. If you want to see a lot of banana skins, check it out…

Check out Eric’s thoughts on the DNG Profile Editor and the new DNG Profiles for Camera Raw 4.5 and Lightroom 2.0 in this post on John Nack’s blog.

At the Photoshop World Conference & Expo (held Sept 4-6, 2008 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino), two new members of the Photoshop community will be inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame; English photographer and author Martin Evening and Senior Photoshop Product Manager John Nack. Martin Evening, photo by Jeff Schewe Long time Photoshop alpha tester and [...]