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Sumo is a flash based photoshop clone that works within a web browser. Impressive!

It’s that time again: time to upgrade your copies of Adobe’s apps to the latest and greatest Creative Suite 4 releases. Adobe is offering six bundles this time, including the Design Premium ($1,800), Design Standard ($1,400), Web Premium ($1,700), Web Standard ($1,000), Production Premium ($1,700), and the anything-and-everything Master Collection ($2,500). Of course, upgrade pricing is available as well, and with new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, After Effects, and Premiere available, that’s a really great thing.

Adobe has announced that the next version of Creative Suite will be unveiled on September 23. Adobe is showing web broadcasts to publicly launch the new software, but it probably won’t be available to buy until October. Adobe recently released the beta version of the CS4 Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth. Go to Adobe Labs to download them.

To see the web broadcast of the CS4 unveiling on the 23rd, register here:

http://adobe.istreamplanet.com/default.asp

Pixlr is a new free flash based online image editor from Sweden. It’s like Photoshop Express, but easier to use. Jump in and start to edit, adjust, filter. It’s just what you imagine!

This site converts bitmap images to vector art it’s an online auto-tracer. Just upload your image and we will vectorize it for you.

vectormagic

Here’s some handy Mac and PC shortcuts for Photoshop CS3 - organized into four pages, by menu, as well as alphabetically by key. They’re available in 2 PDF downloads - one for mac and one for PC.

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A Worth1000 Photoshop contest. Detouching: removing the retouching from airbrushed celebs.

The UK publication, The Sun, was caught ERASING THE CAPTAIN of a tiny boat that contained Prince William and seven sailors. Well, they didn’t erase all of him. You can still see his disembodied leg in the altered photo.

Awesome effect pics! Images created using the Escher Droste effect formula. Created using Mathmap and the GIMP. From Flickr user Droste Effect.

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UK reborn artist Deborah King and her fake baby-dolls. The process of reborning a doll is being able to create as realistic baby as possible.

This is achieved by firstly buying or creating a doll mould to start the reborning process. It is then neccessary to begin colouring the dolls head, body and limbs through a variety of different techniques to give a very realistic human skin effect. This takes multiple layers of different paints to create mottled effects such as that of a newborn baby.

Wow! see the sexy animal, Check out see more sexy animals!!!

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Essential HDR is an HDR generator and tonemapper. It has a global and a local tonemapping operator. The local TMO (Detail Revealer) is the big selling point. According to the developers it is a new algorithm that produces less artifacts (halos, over-saturation) and runs at a decent speed (multicore support). I can wholeheartedly agree: this is indeed a very powerful tonemapper. Without much fuzz I got a very natural images, the preview is pretty accurate, and it is super-easy to use. For control freaks there might be too few sliders, but I find it very intuitive.

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Hehe, well, I just wanted to share this lovely Photoshopped image - a true cameraphone.

cameraphone.jpg [intomobile.com]

You can create stunning panoramas by “stitching” together several adjoining images with Photomerge. Then, with just a few tweaks, you can create a poster print for your home or office.

Shooting a panorama is easy if you keep a few things in mind;

• Overlap your images by at least 1/3rd when photographing.
• Set your exposure manually, if possible, to avoid dramatically different lighting conditions across your panorama.
• Shoot 6 to 8 frames across your horizon, then pick from the best.
• Please Note: Merging many images together can create some massive file sizes. Be aware…

Once you have your images, go to [File> Automate> Photomerge...] From the Photomerge dialog box, Use [Files, Folders, or Open files] Select Files and click [Browse] to locate the images you want to use. Once selected, the names of your images will appear in the window. By default, Attempt to Arrange source Images will be checked, if you uncheck this you will have to order the pictures yourself. Photomerge does a pretty good job, so I leave it checked. Then click OK.

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Considering last week’s Iranian missile story, I though that Henry Hadlow’s Tell A Lie project was rather fitting:

The most controversial lies told with photography today are those told by news photographers who manipulate their work photographs to tell a different story, for example, Liu Weiqiang’s faked photograph of antelope and the China-Tibet rail link.

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onOne’s Plug-in Suite has been updated. This award-winning software suite features six essential tools at one low price, conveniently offering photographers the products they need to improve their busy workflow.

Available in early May, onOne Software’s Plug-In Suite 4 combines full versions of six essential software tools — Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro, PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition, PhotoFrame 3.1 Professional Edition, Mask Pro 4.1, PhotoTune 2.2 and FocalPoint 1.0 — an affordable combination that includes everything a photographer needs to make their images look their best.

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More accurately this should be called “7 Things Photoshop Does Automatically That Aren’t in the Automate Menu”, but I found that title to be a bit lengthy. Of course, Photoshop does many things “automatically”, but these are a few things I find especially useful and easy-to-use, that you may not know about yet. For the example images I’m going to use a few shots my girlfriend took during a trip to Europe using her point-and-shoot. I figure this to be the most ideal scenario for this example.

1 Auto Color

Image > Adjustments > Auto Color or [Ctrl + Shift + B]
For those of us that are professionals in the color-correcting field, this is a great feature to sometimes fix the poor colors a digital camera can capture. This isn’t a perfect fix for all photos all the time, but it can usually get you pointed in the right direction.

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As a frequent user of both NetNewsWire and FeedDemon, I was excited to read that NewsGator has decided to give away its entire suite of award-winning RSS readers for free to individual users, including NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go!

One of the key benefits to using NewsGator products is that they can be set them up so that they automatically synchronize with each other, meaning you can run multiple programs on multiple computers, and if you read a story on one, it will automatically be marked as read on all of the others.

Very GTD.

If you haven’t already, then now is a better time than any to join the RSS revolution.

[NewsGator]