Update: the official release of Photoshop CS6 turned out to be the same as the beta, so this article and the video are relevant to the official release as well. In this video, I show you the features that have most caught my attention so far in the Photoshop CS6 Beta: The content-aware patch tool feature [...]
Adobe tonight announced the availability of a beta version of Photoshop CS6. You can download it at Adobe Labs . I have been very focused on Lightroom 4 lately, so I have not spent a lot of time on this yet to understand and evaluate every new feature. In this related post, I show you a [...]
Here's a great video by Terry White demonstrating the new Adobe Photoshop Touch app for iPad and Android devices. It really is Photoshop -- though not with complete functionality, of course. But if you are a Photoshop user, you will be happy to see layers, blending modes, refine edge, and more. I love how you can [...]
Adobe today announced the release of Photoshop Touch for iPad 2 and Android tablets, available for $9.99. According to Adobe, the new app "lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, share the results with friends and family through social networking sites like Facebook, and more." According to the Adobe site, You can easily browse and select photos [...]
The Adobe Photoshop team has been out doing Photoshop Sneak Peaks, suggesting that CS6 must not be too far away. From what they have shown so far, content aware move and expand are what I am looking forward to most: Liquify tool performance enhancements (no lags!!) and a much larger brush size will be huge [...]
In this post from November, I reported Adobe's announcement that only customers on Photoshop CS5 would be eligible for upgrade pricing on CS6 when it comes out in the first half of this year. (I also reported on the alternative Cloud version and how that should factor into your upgrade decisions.) What this meant was that [...]
Ever loved a photo you took, but threw it away because it was blurry due to camera shake? Well, stop doing that!! Adobe demonstrated its new Photoshop technology for removing camera-shake blur from photos at Adobe Max 2011. Will this make it into Photoshop CS6? I have absolutely no idea. They even qualify this by saying [...]
Students often ask me whether they should buy Lightroom or Photoshop or something else, so I thought I would put down my thoughts on this in writing. Lightroom is Adobe’s image management and enhancement program designed specifically for serious amateur and professional photographers. With more and more powerful features being added with each new release, Lightroom [...]
In this Lightroom and Photoshop video tutorial, I demonstrate how to copy eyes, faces or heads (or anything) from one photo into another and transform them to fit. This sweet cat of mine died a couple weeks ago, and I wanted to make a print of this image. However, the eyes were out of focus [...]
As hard as Adobe works to keep up, when you buy a newly released camera, it may be quite a while before there is a new Lightroom release to support it. In the meantime, Lightroom will not recognize your camera raw files. And if you haven't upgraded from Lightroom 1 or 2, you will never [...]
As I wrote in my recent post on sharpening in Lightroom , occasionally when I go to a photography show at a gallery, my first reaction isn’t “What great/horrible photographs!”, but rather “Wow, too much sharpening!” Sharpening has always been a tool that is easy to go to far with. Unfortunately, with all the new powerful [...]
In case you haven’t already updated, be sure to go to Help>Check for Updates within Lightroom and Bridge or Photoshop to download and install these free updates. I haven’t kicked the tires sufficiently yet, but I am excited about the Lightroom 3.3 update because I have experienced agonizing performance issues with certain aspects of 3.2, particularly [...]