If you’re an avid Photoshop user or graphic designer, you’ll surely be able to appreciate this unique photo frame. It mimics a window from the popular Adobe program, Photoshop. For $50, you too can slap a picture of you and your wife dressed up as Darth Vader in this frame. Will it start conversation come your next cocktail party? Of course, but don’t come crying to use when you accidentally apply the Gaussian blur.
Adobe today announced the next installment of it’s popular editing software suite that includes Photoshop and Illustrator. The beta has been available on Bit Torrent sites for quite a bit now but today, we’re getting real. There’s going to be tons of new features, tons of performance upgrades and quite possibly tons of coked-out design going on the minute it hits store shelves. Photoshop CS4 is supposed to take advantage of your graphics card but that has yet to be confirmed. Read on, get the skinny then get the torrent. Bon voyage!
Meme-makers and graphics designers alike are going to have a great September this year. Adobe has just announced that it’s latest update to the Creative Suite series of products (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) will be released September 23rd. The update, CS4, will contain the long-awaited Photoshop CS4, which will be available in a 64-bit Windows version. That doesn’t make much sense considering how much power is in a Mac Pro running a 64-bit OS but I’m sure Adobe will come to its senses.
No word yet on cost but in another three weeks you’ll be hitting the Bit Torrent sites like wildfire.
The Pixelation forum came up with a neat contest for it’s users. They poked at the question, “what would modern games look like on an original Gameboy?” They ask their users to re-create screenshots of their favorite modern games in pixelated Gameboy-form.
You’ll find games like Guitar Hero, BioShock, ICO, Okami, Sam & Max, Flashback (not so modern but very cool) and so many more. Needless to say, we’re very impressed with some of the images their community has come up with. Kudos, guys. The forum is now holding a contest for user’s to make their own Mega Man level, with the only restriction being the graphical limitations of the original NES games. Show ‘em what you got.
Most of the scanners in market nowadays have OCR functions, that is, they can recognize the alphabets on the paper and convert them into texts (not graphics). More advanced scanners can scan documents and safe them directly as PDF or MS Word files. PFU, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Japan has just brought out a scanner that can scan your graphs into MS Excel. The new ScanSnap S510 can scan paper sizes from small business cards up to A3. Scanning speed at 150dpi is 18 sheets per minute, it can also perform scanning at up to 600dpi but at a much slower speed obviously. Bundled with the $500 kit is Adobe Acrobat Standard, ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap and a couple of more ScanSnap softwares. The ordering opens today, but the scanners will be shipped in early February. — Sam Chan
Press Release [PFU]
This is what happens when a company looks at Apple, realizes that their simplistic ways are becoming very popular with consumers, and decides to one-up Apple. Well, maybe it’s more of a 3 or 4-up, simply put, Adobe took it too far. These are the icons for the upcoming Creative Suite 3 from Adobe, which has begun with the release of Photoshop CS3 beta that many people have downloaded and taken a look at. These early adopters thought that the icon Photoshop installed was just a placeholder for what was to become the next CS3 icon, they were wrong. These icons are nothing more than a pretty gradient background with white acronyms for their respective applications. Ps=Photoshop. Di=Director. Fl=Flex. So on and so forth. The way that Adobe released the icons is nice, isn’t it? A color wheel with the many variations of colors with each icon placed where its background falls. Wrapping up, if you use Adobe products, with the CS3 lineup, your desktop will become indecipherable, have fun! — Nik Gomez
Adobe CS3 icons revealed [The Unofficial Apple Weblog]
Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, the next version of the end-all-be-all for digital photo editing and graphic design, has been announced to be released this Friday. Adobe has also stated that Photoshop will be the only version for which a CS3 beta will be released. Adobe Creative Suite 3 is the next version of the Creative Suite line (which was created because Adobe couldn’t keep adding numbers for software versions), and the first version of CS to be released since Adobe bought Macromedia and all of its software. Another little detail, Adobe has also said that they will put out an “Advanced” version of Photoshop CS3 that will focus more on the video and science markets, and will have enhanced capabilities for the most demanding and specialized images. Because of the expensive cost of the Adobe CS products, upgrades are a major part of sales. In order to be allowed to try out the new version of Photoshop, you will need a valid serial number to one of the various Creative Suite 2.0 distributions. — Nik Gomez
Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta to drop this Friday [AppleInsider]
