Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium beta Specifications

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  Google launches Picasa 3

  Google's photo application, Picasa, has been taken out of beta and there are plenty of new features for users who choose to upgrade.

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  Adobe soups up Photoshop with Pixel Bender

  Adobe Systems on Monday launched a technology called Pixel Bender that brings new effects to Photoshop — and some new work for often-idle computer graphics chips.

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  Adobe's Lightroom 2.1 brings fixes, camera support

  Adobe Systems plans to release an update to Lightroom and a Photoshop CS4 plug-in for processing raw images, bringing the software up-to-date with many of the latest SLR cameras.

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  Interactive Flickr: Now for everyone

  Yahoo has finished a redesign of its Flickr home page that emphasises the photo-sharing site's social aspects.

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  Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

  With Creative Suite 4, Adobe aims to make Flash easier for newbies to learn and less of a hassle for veteran users to use.

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  Adobe embraces latest Canon, Nikon, Sony SLRs

  Adobe Systems has updated Photoshop's ability to deal with raw-format images from several of the latest SLR cameras.

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  Adobe After Effects CS4

  After Effects, the popular post-production tool for video professionals, offers numerous workflow improvements for the CS4 release.

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  Adobe Illustrator CS4

  While it looks like Illustrator CS4 will be a must-have upgrade, don't feel bad if you've got some lingering annoyance that it should have had these must-have features a couple of versions ago.

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  Adobe defends Aussie CS4 price hike

  Global software giant Adobe has defended recommending local prices for its new Creative Suite 4 software packages that could see Australians paying hundreds of dollars more in real terms than US residents for the same products.

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  Adobe soups up Photoshop with Pixel Bender

  Adobe Systems on Monday launched a technology called Pixel Bender that brings new effects to Photoshop — and some new work for often-idle computer graphics chips.

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  Bluff it as a fashion photographer

  Whether you're interested in a career in fashion photography, or just want to take impressive portraits of your friends, this is your essential guide to the latest techniques that photographers are using to get their work noticed.

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  Adobe's Lightroom 2.1 brings fixes, camera support

  Adobe Systems plans to release an update to Lightroom and a Photoshop CS4 plug-in for processing raw images, bringing the software up-to-date with many of the latest SLR cameras.

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  Interactive Flickr: Now for everyone

  Yahoo has finished a redesign of its Flickr home page that emphasises the photo-sharing site's social aspects.

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  Adobe embraces latest Canon, Nikon, Sony SLRs

  Adobe Systems has updated Photoshop's ability to deal with raw-format images from several of the latest SLR cameras.

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  Google adds Android app for Flickr photos

  Google's Photostream will let phones running its Android phone operating system view photos stored at Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site.

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  Flickr revamp spotlights photos, social features

  Yahoo is trying to improve how people can use its Flickr photo-sharing site with a home page revamp. Next up: better photo pages, too.

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  Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces

  A new face recognition feature on Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software.

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  Adobe hopes Lightroom captures photo trends

  Lightroom 2.0 is better at editing just a portion of an image and it plays more nicely with Photoshop. More broadly, it's designed for digital-era photography challenges.