Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop - New iPad App

With Adobe Color Lava —a Photoshop Touch app for Adobe Photoshop CS5 software (version 12.0.4 or later required)— you can now use your iPad and your fingertips to mix colors and create custom swatches and five-swatch color themes. Immediately access those color creations within Photoshop CS5—all you need is a network connection between your iPad and your computer. Or use Adobe Color Lava on the go whenever inspiration strikes, and then save your colors on your iPad to bring into Photoshop CS5 when you're connected. You can also email your Adobe Color Lava creations to yourself and others.

 

•Dab, smudge, and swirl your way to creating unique individual color swatches and five-swatch color themes.
•Interact with Photoshop CS5 in real time. Simply tap a swatch on your iPad to make it the foreground color in your Photoshop CS5 Color panel—or create a color theme and see your colors instantly in the Color panel.
•Make fine adjustments to your color creations using Hue/Saturation sliders, and view HSB and RGB values.
•Mix colors even when you’re away from your computer. You can save them on your iPad to bring into Photoshop CS5 when you’re connected.
•Easily share your swatches and color themes by emailing them directly from Adobe Color Lava.

Take your creativity mobile with Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop CS5.

Requirements:
•You need Photoshop CS5 version 12.0.4 or later to connect this app with the desktop version of Photoshop
•Current Photoshop CS5 users must update their copies of Photoshop CS5 to version 12.0.4 or later to use this app with their copy of Photoshop CS5
•This app will not work with Photoshop CS4 or earlier

To update your copy of Photoshop CS5 to version 12.0.4 or later, do one of the following:
•Download the update from www.adobe.com.
•Select Check for Updates from the Help menu in Photoshop CS5.

This app is $2.99 in the Apple App Store and you can download it here

Adobe Demonstrates Photoshop For The iPad

Photoshop World is in full swing at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida and yesterday during their Keynote, Adobe demonstrated Photoshop for the iPad and it has layers, unlike Photoshop Elements for the iPad.

Layers are only found in professional applications and this demonstrates Adobe's commitment to this app and to the iPad, for photographers on the go.

There's no news yet on release dates or a full feature set but watch this space, as soon as we hear anything we'll let you know. We can't wait.

Kodak Launch New Film - Professional Portra 160

Today Kodak introduced the new Kodak professional Portra 160 film, featuring a significantly finer grain structure in a 160-speed colour negative film.  The new Kodak professional Portra 160 film incorporates Kodak's advanced cubic emulsions to achieve this finer grain. Like the new Kodak professional Portra 400 film, Kodak professional Portra 160 film also employs Kodak vision film technology and antenna dye sensitisation in the magenta emulsion layers. photographers can trust the new Kodak professional Portra 160 film to deliver exceptional skin tones, the hallmark of the Kodak professional Portra film family.  Kodak showcased the new film today at the annual WPPI trade show in Las Vegas.

“as film making technology evolves, we continue to seek ways to improve our films to better serve the professional film shooter,” said Dennis Olbrich, general manager, film, paper and output systems, and vice president, film, photofinishing and entertainment group, Kodak. “Kodak is leading the way, delivering innovative product improvements designed to optimise scanning and enlargement in today’s workflow.” 
 

With the new Kodak professional Portra 160 film, photographers looking for ultimate quality now have an unmatched portfolio from which to select, including the recently announced Kodak professional Portra 400 film and the award winning Kodak professional Ektar 100 film. together, this new family of Kodak colour negative films offers an extraordinary palette of colour, speed, latitude and unmatched fine grain for superior performance in every shooting situation.
 
“I found the versatility of the new Portra 160 film simply astounding. so many elements of it make my job easier. the latitude has freed me up to approach each shoot uniquely,” Ryan Muirhead, a professional photographer based in the United States.  “the new Portra 160 is also a dream to scan. Everything I love about photography takes place behind a camera; everything I hate about photography takes place behind a computer. With this new film, using the proper exposure, I often find myself cutting Photoshop out of my workflow. As a result, I spend more time shooting and less time editing - priceless.”
 
The new Kodak professional Portra 160 film will be available in 35 mm, 120/220, 4x5 and 8x10 sheet format, beginning march 2011. it replaces the existing Kodak professional Portra 160nc and 160vc film offerings on a stock turnover basis.

Topaz Adjust v3 released for Windows

Topaz Labs, Dallas, Texas, has released v3.0 for Windows as a free upgrade to the Photoshop plug-in Topaz Adjust.

It features a new user interface, including a customizable color scheme, shortcut keys, adjustable preset preview, as well as thumbnails of the presets.

Other new new features include a details processing mode separating exposure and details enhancement that can 'can greatly reduce noise amplification in certain images and provides more flexibility', says a company spokesman.

Processing larger files should be easier and swifter than before as v3 is said to be less RAM dependent than earlier offerings.

As Topaz Adjust v3 uses a different license key than version 2.0 you will have to email the company for your free license key, however to download the upgrade and obtain the license key please visit: http://www.topazlabs.com/updates/topazadjust.html

Topaz Adjust v3 for Mac will be available by the end of March.

My concise review of v2.6 for the UK's MacUser magazine, can be read here.

Kevin

Adobe add Photoshop CS4 update

Adobe has released an update to its Photoshop software, available immediately for existing Photoshop CS4 users. The Photoshop 11.0.1 update addresses key issues reported by customers that may impact performance. The update also includes the following enhancements: the ability to correctly recognise 3D textures edited by plug-ins; improved quality of Auto-Blend Layers (Stack Images); and fixes for issues that can be caused by corrupt fonts or when pasting formatted text.



The Photoshop 11.0.1 update is available as a free download for existing Photoshop CS4 customers at http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/ or through the Adobe updater via the application itself.