Why Photoshop for iPad Marks the End of the Desktop Computing Era [Video]

The real Photoshop for iPad exists. Adobe showed it yesterday and it looks like a solid digital darkroom. But, more importantly, it marks another step in the ongoing evolution that is changing the way humans interact with machines. One that, in fact, is putting back our human nature into computing. More »

Adobe demonstrates legitimate Photoshop capabilities on iPad, deems it but a concept (video)

So, here’s a thought. Why, if you were a dutiful Adobe employee, would you waste countless days and weeks creating what could very well be the next big iPad app, only to deem it a concept and never actually promise a real release? Exactly. During the 2011 edition of Photoshop World, a bigwig from the company took the stage in order to showcase what could soon be possible with Photoshop on-the-go, and if you’ve been wowed by the powers of Photoshop Express, you’ll be utterly floored by what Adobe has been able to do here. The wildest part, in our estimation, is the absence of stuttering when manipulating multiple images and applying filters, but then again, they may be working with a pixel-optimized set of shots (versus a full-size RAW, for example) in this particular demo. As we said, no one’s even confirming that this has any hope of breaching reality, but we’re going ahead and making the outlandish assumption that Adobe’s not just wasting our (and its own) time by showcasing this in public. Video’s below, bub.

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Video: Adobe Shows Photoshop Concept for iPad

You’d think that after all the bickering between Apple and Adobe about banning Flash from iOS, Adobe would never want to be seen touching an iPad in public. But alas, in the video above, Adobe demonstrates its flagship product, Photoshop, working on an iPad.

The Photoshop app is just a concept, so it’s unclear whether it will become a real product. But it’s refreshing to see how Photoshop might work on a tablet. The image takes over the screen, your fingers replace the mouse pointer, and all those ugly, squint-inducing tool boxes in the desktop version of Photoshop have been replaced with nice bubbly menu icons.

Let’s hope Photoshop eventually does land on tablets, including Android and the iPad. It would be a long-overdue makeover. Talk to any designer and they’ll agree that Photoshop is an atrociously unfriendly interface that has remained fundamentally unchanged for years. Designers and creative types would love Photoshop remade for tablets.

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This Video Reveals How NASA Photoshops Hubble’s Images [Video]

You all have seen the Hubble’s breathtaking space panoramas. They aren’t just simple photographs, but digital composites made of two or more greyscale images taken by different cameras onboard the space telescope. This video reveals exactly how they do it. More »

WrapUp: Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Filling, Playing Wii Games from an External Drive, and More

This article was written on April 19, 2010 by CyberNet.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you’ve got something we should include.

–News–

opera mini.jpgOpera Mini for iPhone Tops App Store Charts
Once Apple gave Opera Mini the stamp of approval it didn’t take long for the free mobile browser to top the App Store in all 22 worldwide locations. I was one of those people who jumped on the chance to download the browser, but didn’t find much that was better than the built-in Safari browser. The loading times of sites were on par with Safari despite all traffic being passed through and optimized by Opera. Still, it hit over 1 million downloads in its first day of availability, which is pretty impressive.


cs5 content aware.jpgPhotoshop CS5 Content Aware Filling
Adobe will be releasing Creative Suite 5 in the next month, and one of the newly added features to Photoshop CS5 will be content-aware filling. This is like a healing brush on steroids, and is meant to remove and/or patch objects in photos. The video demonstrations shown off by Adobe are nothing short of impressive, and it will be interesting to see how this plays out when put up against some of our own photos.


–News in Brief–

office 2010.jpgOffice 2010 Reaches RTM
Microsoft Office 2010 has been released to manufacturing, and will be available in retail stores this June.


chicago bulls.jpgGoogle Adjusts Search Recommendations
Recommendations shown on Google will now be tailored to the location that you’re searching from.


google clound print.jpgGoogle’s Cloud Approach to Printing
Google has released documentation that manufacturers can begin using to create “cloud aware” printers.


google servers.jpgServer Quantity Comparison of Major Companies
This is a breakdown on how many servers key companies have in relationship to the estimated number that Google has.


silverlight 4.jpgSilverlight 4 Released
The new version of Silverlight brings a few business-focused features, some of which include enterprise networking and printing.


gmail drag drop attachments.jpgDrag and Drop Attachments in Gmail
Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6+ users can now experience another benefit of having a HTML5-compatible browser: drag-and-drop attachments in Gmail.


evernote history.jpgEvernote Premium Provides Note History
Premium users of Evernote will be able to review wiki-style changes made to notes overtime thanks to a new history feature found in the web interface.


twitter users.jpgTwitter Surpasses 100M Registered Users
Twitter has announced that they currently have 105 million registered users, and are getting 300K new users every day.


teamviewer.jpgTeamViewer Goes Cross-Platform
TeamViewer crossed a big hurdle with the newly released Linux client, which means you can now share your desktop regardless of what platform you’re using.


ubuntu one.jpgUbuntu One Music Store Now Available
Using Rhythmbox you can gain access to the Ubuntu One music store where you can purchase and sync music to your portable device (including the iPhone).


house finale.jpgCanon 5D Mark II Used to Shoot House Season Finale
Director of the TV show House answers some questions on Twitter about shooting the entire finale using a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR camera.


google docs.jpgGoogle Docs Gets Improvements
Google Docs gets a better document and spreadsheet editor, realtime collaboration, and more.


–Tips, Tutorials, and Reviews–

wii cracked.jpgHow to Play Wii Games from an External Drive
This guide explains how you can use an SD card and an external hard drive as a way to backup all of your existing Wii games. Not only does this let you keep the actual discs safely tucked away, but it also means that you don’t have to go fishing for the discs when you want to play a game.


move windows.jpgFree App Move Windows Between Multiple Monitors
This program is something I’ve wanted for a little while now. In a nutshell it will let you move a window to another monitor in just a couple clicks. This is something that Ultramon has always done, but seeing that Ultramon isn’t free I’d much rather use an app like this. The only other thing that would make this better for me would be if it had assignable hotkeys so that switching was even faster!


–Tips in Brief–

mouse monitor.jpgKeep Your Mouse From Jumping Between Monitors
Dual Display Mouse Manager (DDMM) will prevent your mouse from unexpectedly jumping to another monitor when it gets close to the edge of the screen.  


dragoman.jpgBatch Convert Nearly Anything with This Mac App
Using a simple drag-and-drop operation you can convert images, music, documents, archives from one format to another.


syncless.jpgAnother Free File Sync Tool
This free file synchronization tool takes a slightly different approach to setting up jobs by using a tagging system to identify locations.


gigatweaker.jpgCustomize Windows 7 with GigaTweaker
GigaTweaker makes it easy to adjust certain aspects of Windows 7 that would normally require you to, for example, make registry changes.


–Downloads–

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Dodge sucks at Photoshop: the Verizon Droid with AT&T 3G

Dodge sucks at Photoshop: the Verizon Droid running on AT&T 3G

Ever wish you could get a Verizon-labeled phone running on AT&T, and do it with full bars and a 3G no less? Get yourself one of the Dodge’s new and free virtual product manuals, available now for iPhone and soon coming to BlackBerry and Android. They’re a continuation of the sort of thing Chrysler announced back at CES, just letting you view information about your vehicle and maybe some aftermarket parts too. They’re available now for the Durango and Charger, with coverage for the Avenger, Journey, and Grand Caravan coming before the end of the month. Full details about the apps in the PR below, but sadly no information on exactly where we should stick the SIM card in our Droid.

[Thanks, Joe]

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CyberNotes: Advanced Photo Effects

This article was written on February 26, 2008 by CyberNet.

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Time Saving Tuesday

One of the reasons Adobe Photoshop has become so popular is because of all the advanced photo affects that can be applied to images. Over the last few years I’ve seen a lot of free alternatives emerge onto the scene saving users hundreds of dollars, but many of them don’t have the effects and control that I’m looking for.

The tool that we found for you today is called PhotoFiltre, and it is completely free just like most of the software we write about. It’s far from becoming a Photoshop replacement, but I’ve found that it is extremely handy at applying effects and touching up the digital photos that you have lying around. Lets look at some of the things that it can do…

 photofiltre overview
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–Features–

  • There are over 100 filters available including ones for standard adjustments (brightness, saturation, etc…) and even artistic ones (watercolor, puzzle effect, etc…). We’ll get into these more in the next section of the article.
  • You can select portions of an image with an automatic shape (rectangle, ellipse, triangle, rhombus, rounded rectangle) or with the lasso, magic wand, and polygon tools.
  • Well-organized toolbars make it easy to switch between the most used tools.
  • PhotoMasque lets you create advanced effects of contour and transparency on your images by using preset masks. These masks are grayscale images, where white is the transparancy color, while opacity increases as the shades of gray become darker. Black means complete opacity. There are several basic masks included.
  • The Automatisation module lets you apply basic functions/corrections (conversion, image size, framing) to a group of images.
  • Advanced text effects are available including rotation, shading, and bevel.
  • Assemble and blend multiple images.
  • Automatic photo corrections that enhance your images so that they look the best.
  • Free plug-ins add even more functionality including red eye removal, animated GIF importing, page curl effect, gradients, screen capture, and much more.

–Effects–

One of my favorite things with the PhotoFiltre application is the wide array of special filters that’s available. I wanted demonstrate what some of the filters can do, so here are some examples using the image pictured in the screenshot above as the starting ground:

  • I cropped the image so that the mountains were removed, and then I applied the Lake reflection filter (in the Deform menu). It really does look like a reflection in a lake, doesn’t it?
    photofiltre lake reflection
  • This is the Puzzle effect (in the Stylize menu)… you could really create your own puzzle if you had a steady hand with the scissors. :)
    photofiltre puzzle
  • This is the Trapezoid/Perspective filter (in the Deform menu) which can be used to angle your photos:
    photofiltre perspective
  • Here I used the Lasso tool to select just the grass area, and then I applied the Fog filter (in the Visual effect menu) to the selected area.
    photofiltre fog
  • In a single click I was able to turn this wonderful afternoon photo into what appears to be a night shot. This was done using the Night effect filter (in the Color menu):
    photofiltre night

Those are just a handful of the filters available. Here’s a quick list of some of my other favorites that you might find useful:

  • Blurring (several different types of blurs)
  • Antialias
  • Dust reduction
  • Revive colors
  • Sunset effect
  • Colored pencil
  • Comic strip
  • Ripple
  • Glass
  • Mosiac
  • Frames
  • and dozens more…

–Overview–

PhotoFiltre has become a beloved application of mine over the last month simply because I do a lot of photo corrections and enhancements on a regular basis. If you want to edit your images this is a great solution, and once you throw a couple of the plug-ins into the app it will become a really powerful photo editor.

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81 Purposeful Pixelmutations [Photography]

Pixelation used to be the bane of digital photographers. But now, with seemingly endless megapixels sharpening our shots, the pixel can be used purposefully to make an entirely new statement (that has nothing to do with obscuring one’s junk). More »

Notion Ink Adam gets caught Photoshopping its bezel away

How big is the Notion Ink Adam‘s screen? Well, it depends on what time you looked at the company’s site today. If you were one of the unlucky folks who saw the image titled “preordernow.jpg,” the screen’s a tiny bit smaller and the bezel a tad larger than it is for all the fortunate peeps pre-ordering from the “preordernow1.jpg” pic that’s currently gracing the site. Now’s your chance, guys — go grab yourself the truly magical and revolutionary tablet whose specs change with the wave of a Photoshop airbrush.

[Thanks, Andrew]

Update: To be clear, we don’t know which of the two ‘shops is the real deal — technically, neither is, they’re both renders — but earlier prototypes have shown some pretty slinky bezels. It’ll be on Notion Ink to demonstrate just how slim the Adam’s screen surround is when it finally unveils the real deal.

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Verizon sucks at Photoshop: the Continuum definitely can’t do this, we checked

Notice something missing from that Continuum there on Big Red’s home page? That’s right: if this were a real phone, there’d be an arbitrary black bar across the screen somewhere around the young lady’s midsection, followed by a “ticker” at the bottom… but instead, just as with the iOS-powered Droid X, they’ve once again exceeded the bounds of reality with a little help from Adobe products. Don’t get us wrong, the phone Verizon’s got up on its home page is the Continuum Verizon probably should’ve launched… but then they would’ve had to answer the burning question of why they released a slightly sexier, slimmer version of the Fascinate. It’s alright, though, guys — we’ve got your back — just follow the break for the corrected version. You’re welcome to use it!

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