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Hall of Fame, Mark Hamburg, the second engineer to be hired for Photoshop and more recently the creator/founder of Photoshop Lightroom has decided to leave Adobe for Microsoft. There, he will lead the OS user experience team.  •  “  •  “Now, given that I find the current Windows experience really …

For a bit of background on the tool, watch this video on what is happening and how it works.  •  The video looks amazing in theory but does it actually work? I found out this week that the plugin is now available for the Gimp so I had to install and try it on one of my own photos.  •  What happens …

Now that Photoshop is a brand representing a family of five individual products, Adobe has decided to create a logo to represent this.  •  Adobe has experience with public criticism after the recent changes to the application icons and there is always some degree of negative public feedback when …

I do like the default Adobe icons but these look pretty good too.

Color genius and award winning Bruce Fraser recently passed away but will live on in Photoshop CS3. Adobe has left a dedication and tribute to Bruce Fraser's work by hiding a photo of him within the startup screen of Photoshop CS3. Read this to see how the levels command can find it.

Next week, we finally find out what the new Adobe applications will look like and how they have integrated all the Macromedia products.  •  From Bruce Chizen, Adobes CEO:  •  “  •  Regarding the Creative Suite, we have had about a year and a half to get this right. And I can assure you that we …

I have found very little information on this topic but I can't be the only one experiencing it. There seems to be a little bit of mystery voodoo with how Photoshop handles EXIF data and after some experimenting on Windows and OS X in both CS2 and CS3, I can consistently have Photoshop destroy …

What I originally though was Beta place holder graphics turns out to be the actual icons that will be used for the next release of Adobe's Creative Suite Applications. Adobe's attempts to merge in Macromedia's line of products and redesign for consistency has some interesting results.  •  Although …

Bert Monroy has started a weekly podcast called PixelPerfect. The first episode is an updated version of his classic lightning tutorial before seen on Lynda.com, Photoshopworld and TechTV.