Photoshop Insider

“The Photoshop Guys” take you live On Location to Adobe’s CS3 Launch Event in New York City (held earlier this week), in a special bonus episode of Photoshop TV. It features a look at the sights and sounds of this amazing event, plus we were honored to have one-one-one interviews with Adobe’s CEO Bruce Chizen, and Adobe’s VP of their Creative Solutions Business Unit, John Loiacono (who’s also the featured keynote speaker at Photoshop World Boston next week!). You can watch this episode right now online at http://www.photoshoptv.com

If you were thinking of taking us up on that offer of a FREE Expo-only pass at Photoshop World in Boston next Thursday, here’s another reason to come: O’Reilly Publishing is hosting a series of free Photoshop sessions at their booth on the show floor, featuring some of the leading Photoshop authors, including Photoshop Hall of Famers Deke McClelland, Katrine Eismann, and Eddie Tapp, along with authors Derek Story, and Peter Krogh. You can find O’Reilly’s class schedule by clicking here, and you can get your FREE Expo pass at the Photoshop World Web site.

If you’re thinking of getting Adobe Lightroom, this is just a reminder that Adobe’s introductory price of $199 goes away in around 30 days, and then it’s $299 for there on out. You can buy it direct from Adobe or wherever really insanely cool software is sold.

Here’s the news (or at least, the news I know about).

• Debbie Grossman over at Popular Photography magazine posted her review of Photoshop CS3, along with her top five reasons to upgrade. Click here to read it online.

• Derek Story has a helpful article on using Photo Rescue to recover erased photos from a memory card (Here’s the link).

• Want a free lens hood for your digital camera lenses? Well, this is the next best thing (it’s free, and it’s a lens hood, but….). Well, just check it out.

• Got a minute to watch something really cute? It’s a really clever animation (sent my way by Julie, our Photoshop World conference director), but I don’t want to spoil it by telling what it is, other than I promise it will make you smile). Then click right here

• My new book on Adobe Lightroom (The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers—shown above) is off press and will be making its debut next week at Photoshop World, where we’ll have copies for sale in the official bookstore. The book will be showing up in bookstores any day now, and if you’ve preordered your copy, you’ll be among the first to get yours. If you haven’t ordered yours (and I hope you will), click right here.

• Adobe has posted the latest edition of their cool PDF-based magazine called “Adobe Edge” and you can download it free from their site.

• Want some really cool free Photoshop Brushes? These are brushes that look like water stains (like you left a cold drink on a newspaper or fine wood table). They’re cooler than it sounds, and….we…. they’re free! Check ‘em out by following this link.

• If you’re a photographer and you’re already signed up for Photoshop World next week, you’ll want to snag one of the remaining spots for the Lightroom hands-on pre-conference workshop, held on Tuesday, April 3rd. It’s called “Photoshop Soup2Nuts” and it features a who’s who of Lightroom development, including Thomas Knoll (the man who wrote Photoshop and Camera Raw), plus Mark Hamburg (the “Father of Lightroom”), plus Jeff Schewe, Andrew “The Digital Dog” Rodney, and Adobe’s Pro-photo evangelist George Jardine, among others. To reserve your spot, call 813-433-5005.

The Photoshop Guys were in New York yesterday at Adobe’s CS3 Launch Event, taping a special bonus episode of Photoshop TV (which is set to air tomorrow) from the launch event, complete with one-one-one interviews with Adobe’s CEO Bruce Chizen and an interview with Adobe’s Senior VP of Creative Solutions Business Unit, John Loiacono (who’ll be doing the Photoshop World keynote next week), among others. But in the meantime, I posted a flickr gallery where you can check out these photos from the event (taken by our man Matt Kloskowski).

Here is the photo series at Flickr.

The Adobe event isn’t starting until 3:00 pm today, and it’s 8:53 am and we’re in NYC, so it’s time to go to B&H Photo’s Superstore!!! We brought a video camera with us, so if there’s something you’d like to see us do as an “On Scene” report from B&H, let me know and we’ll try to shoot it for Photoshop TV.Here’s some other news:

• Adobe’s posted another page on the Creative Suite, and it’s definitely worth a visit (click here).

• Adobe is Web-casting today’s Launch Event, so if you’d like to see it as it happens, click this link (though, I’d probably wait to click it until around 3:00 or 3:30, eh?)

•PhotoshopNews.com has some great CS3 coverage today (as always), and they’re covering the event today with live posts, so make sure you stop by (click here).

. In some “Non-CS3 News:” Popular Photogaphy magazine is running a pretty cool contest called the “Digital Wizards Contest” with a $1,000 Grand Prize. The deadline for entries is March 31, 2007, so if you think you’ve “got the stuff,” click here to enter (or for more info).

• There an article in the Money section of today’s USA Today about the Creative Suite launch, and in the article yours truly is quoted a couple of times (here’s a link to the online version). Hey, I’m excited—it’s not every day you get quoted in USA Today.

OK, they’re going to close the cabin doors in about 6 minutes, so here’s the latest:

• Adobe officially announced CS3 (not just Photoshop, and the highly anticipated Photoshop Extended), I mean the whole Creative Suite 3. Check out Adobe’s info on their site.

• Our own Matt Klowkowski posted a number of new videos featuring Photoshop CS3 Extended at NAPP’s CS3 Learning Center. Click here to go there!

• Terry White has posted a great CS3 video podcast called “Introducing the Creative Suite 3″ and it showcases all the cool new CS3 stuff. Check it out here.

• More to come—they’re closing the doors.

Well, it’s 5:36 am and “The Photoshop Guys” (L to R: Matt, Me, and Dave) are at the airport for the first flight out to New York for Adobe’s big Launch Event this afternoon. More news to come, but they’re boarding—gotta fly!!!

I’m just so excited to announce that for the first time ever, the Photoshop World Conference and Expo is SOLD OUT! We have absolutely shattered our East Coast attendance record and that just shows you the incredible interest in Photoshop CS3, Adobe Lightroom (which both play starring roles at the conference), and the entire Creative Suite (this year we’ve got an entire conference track dedicated to training on the Creative Suite applications, and of course Adobe will be demoing all the new CS3 goodies in their both on the expo floor).

Another thing building buzz for the show are Adobe’s special interest events (added in Boston for the first time ever), which include a special plug-in Developer pavilion, Birds of a Feather meetings for Medical and Scientific Research Professionals, and a Developer’s Kitchen workshop featuring Adobe’s own Photoshop engineers. This brings a whole new dimension to Photoshop World.

TIP: Even though the conference is sold out in advance, we’re still allowing the public onto the Expo Floor for one-day only: Thursday, April 5th, so if you’d like to come and check out all the exhibits (and attend some cool show-floor training sessions), go to the Photoshop World Web site to sign up for your FREE Expo-only pass (if you wait until you get there, the Expo-only pass is $25.00, so you’re better off to sign up free in advance). Hope to see you all in Boston for this record-breaking, history-making event!!!!

I just got a chance to see Joe McNally’s photo feature in their special “2007 Masters Preview” April edition of Golf Digest, called “Inside & Outside The Gates of Augusta National” and it’s just absolutely fascinating. Joe just has a way of really capturing the essence of whatever he shoots, whether it’s people or places, and this article does both in an amazing way. The 12 page feature has just one large photo on each page with a caption, and what’s so captivating about the photos (and the story) is that it’s not the typical kind of photo you’d expect to see in a golf magazine. It’s much more of a photo documentary of Augusta, its history and its residents, and it’s just really refreshing to see it covered in this fashion. Congrats to Joe, and also to Golf Digest for bringing this type of feature, and this kind of photography, to such a great magazine. Pick it up on your local newsstand and see for yourself.