Adobe Photoshop CS3
Posted on 29 May 2007
It’s hard to believe, but Photoshop is nearly 20 years old. The original Apple Macintosh version was written in 1988 by brothers Thomas and John Knoll. The first full version published by Adobe appeared on the Macintosh in 1990. The entire program came on a single 1.44MB floppy disk.
Photoshop has grown and changed over the years, but has always incorporated the latest developments, reinforcing its position as the industry standard for professional image editing. The first Windows version (v2.5) appeared in 1992, layers were introduced in version 3.0 in 1994, multiple undo history in version 5.0 in 1998, and camera RAW support was added with version 7.0 in 2002. The concept of Creative Suite, incorporating and harmonising a whole range of Adobe’s other programs, including ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Encore and AfterEffects, was introduced in 2003 along with Photoshop 8.0, known as Photoshop CS. An update, unsurprisingly called Photoshop CS2, came along less than two years later in April 2005, adding many new features such as Smart Objects, a red-eye tool and the invaluable Spot Healing brush.
Adobe Acrobat is Old and Fat
Posted on 16 Mar 2007
Every Tuesday and Thursday, I’m late for my Physics discussion.
I say this without the typical grasping for excuses: The reason for my tardiness is Adobe Acrobat.
You see, the Michigan Physics department has required its undergraduates to print off a set of practice questions for each discussion, twice a week. And so, twice a week, I wait until the last ten minutes before class to print out the questions. This is obviously not my fault.
Adobe OS X 10.4.9 improves camera RAW support
Posted on 14 Mar 2007
Apple has just released an update to its operating system, OS X, in version 10.4.9. The release is primarily geared towards improving the functionality of Apple Aperture. Several new camera RAW files are now supported, including those from the Nikon D40, Pentax K10D and K100D, and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1. GPS metadata will also be preserved when images are imported.
Quarkxpress 7 gets Vista update
Posted on 11 Mar 2007
DTP software-maker Quark says Quarkxpress 7 will support Microsoft Windows Vista -- and the DTP maker is planning to deliver a free download update in the next 30 days for existing Quarkxpress 7 customers. Quark says the move shows its continued commitment to Windows, and that Quarkxpress 7 on Windows Vista will offer users a modern, fast, feature-rich design environment.
Adobe eyes fraud-busting tools for Photoshop
Posted on 11 Mar 2007
Adobe Systems' Advanced Technology lab is working on plug-ins for Photoshop that would detect whether a photo has been tampered with, according to an Adobe representative. So far, the company has two plug-ins that are in a fairly advanced stage of development. Adobe is working with Dartmouth professor Hani Farid, an expert in photo fraud detection.
One tool from Adobe, called Clone Tool Detector, determines whether a section in a picture, such as a patch of sand or a field of grass, has been recopied from another part of the picture. Last year, Reuters admitted that a photographer cloned a smoke plume in a shot of wartime Beirut. The tool can't ascertain with absolute certainty whether two items, say a pair of clouds or other images, have been cloned, but it will say that the two images are "improbably similar."
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