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Photoshop CS 4 Will Use Your Graphics Card to Run at Light Speed, Do Fancy 3D Tricks

from Gizmodo by matt buchanan - FULL ARTICLE

The next version of Photoshop (CS 4) will be juicing up performance by taking advantage of hardware it hasn’t tapped before: graphics cards and physics processors. How much faster is the new 64-bit, GPU-injected Photoshop? At a demo at Nvidia’s HQ, TG Daily watched "the presenter playing with a 2 GB, 442 megapixel image like it was a 5 megapixel image on an 8-core Skulltrail system. Changes made through image zoom and through a new rotate canvas tool were applied almost instantly."

3D effects are spiffier too, with direct 3D model manipulation and rendering, as well as a snappier 3D accelerated panorama. Overall, it sounds like it could be the most important Photoshop update in years when it drops in October. [TGDaily]

http://www.photoshop.com/express

If you have not checked out Photoshop express its worth a look…

2GB of free space and links to most all major online sharing services plus some of the best online editing tools available. It is a pretty impressive move by Adobe to overtake the online services marketplace.

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This article is well worth a read….

Outsourcing your Scaning Nightmare

It is outsourcing - but its about all that is left these days…….

I have recently been trying to find a podcast about photography that  is not just two people with cameras talking for an hour but one that  actually has some substance….

I think I finally found one that is pretty good… more intended for the intermediate to advanced shooter - but they hit on all sorts of items:

In the latest episode they talk about RAW - and the commentary by  Mikkel Aaland, author of Photoshop CS3 Raw: Get the Most Out of the  Raw Format with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Bridge, I found  pretty useful…

Might be worth a read or if you like podcasts - its worth a listen…

http://twipphoto.com/index.php/archives/229#more-229

I would love to hear some discussion about RAW workflow here since  the release of Lightroom and now the latest beta of Lightroom 2.0 -  if people are using it etc…