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» Monday Stuff

 Here are some quick monday updates because I don’t have a whole lot of time today, it’s basically the evening before one of my biggest tests (I’m lucky enough to have two of them this week).

• Adobe has released the ACE Recertification exams for most of the Adobe applications. Current ACE holders should have recieved and e-mail from Adobe about the recertification. You’ll have until the 30 April to recertify. The full test seems to be rolling out as well with a test prep. guide coming soon! Check out the ACE page.
   
• Adobe has also announced that they will discontinue the Adobe Stock Photos service because it apparently is not as big of a hit as they predicted.
   
• I want to give a big heads up to Corey Barker yet again for his wonderful class Photoshop Extended in Motion. It is just mind blowing stuff that is really cool to learn! Go and check out Corey’s stuff over at Planet Photoshop as well.

That rounds up my quick monday stuff and I hope some more will be coming tomorrow. Oh and by the way, if any of you use or have used the Manfrotto 055XB tripod and have any comments on it, I’d like to hear them because I’m in the market for that tripod with a good (in budget) ballhead as well. Any suggestions welcome (although exlude the BH-55, I don’t have that big of a budget).

» Monday Newsflash

Some cool things do happen on Mondays as well despite you think everyone is still left in their weekend mood. For me it is back to school tomorrow with a lot of school work, client work and project work to do on the same time however I have made it a new-years resolution to plan better this year, hope I continue with it as well otherwise it is only going to come down on myself. Anyway, over to the news

Sony announces A200 dSLR!

Today, Sony has announced their latest dSLR, the successor of the A100 is the brand new A200, featuring a 10.2 megapixel sensor, 2.7″ LCD screen and most notably an increased SteadyShot™ function that offers 2.5-3.5 steps anti-shake performance with all ? lenses. Sounds pretty cool really, price appears to be somewhere around $700-$900 kit-wise and they have continued support for all Sony and Minolta lenses Read more about it here.

ACE Boot Camp training course from Matt Kloskowski

Over at Kelby Training, Matt Kloskowski has just released a new cool training class that prepares you for the Adobe ACE  (Adobe Certified Expert) Exam. Matt has teached this is a pre-con class along with Dave Cross from time to time at Photoshop World and it is now available at Kelby Training in their subscription based online training service. Check it out!

 Lightroom tutorials in works!

I’m currently working hard on expanding the Lightroom tutorials booth with written text tutorials and recorded video tutorials. In this process I’d love to hear from you all what you want to see tutorials on as well so you get what you want So please leave a comment with what you want to see, also note I’m taking ideas on all the suite products so it doesn’t have to be Lightroom.

Photograph of the Year contest at Photography Corner

Photography Corner is still holding their Photograph of the Year contest and it is open to entrants until the 15th January! It’s just too cool to pass with over $20,000 in total prices and about $5,000 for the first price winner, prices ranking all the way down until the 10th place and that still is some pretty darn cool prizes! So go over to Photography Corner and check it out!

» Monday News Stuff

Starting this Monday news stuff, I feel like I need to address a question that I’ve gotten quite a bit recently and it is apart from the question if I am an ACE (Adobe Certified Expert) when the CS3 ACE tests will be out. The word from Adobe on that point, is that they will be out (with a prep-guide) sometime in November and then the current ACEs will have 90 days to take their exam to still be ACEs. Oh and on the other question, no I am not an ACE but I am planning on taking the exam when the CS3 one comes out!

 1TB Laptop Hard drives coming in foreseeable future?

According to an article I read over at the Swedish MacWorld site, with the help of the GMR technology (which is the technology that the Nobel Prize Winners in Physic are getting awarded for) will make it possibe to fit in 1TB space in laptop hard drives and up to 4TB into stationary hard drives. All this according to Hitachi as well. Pretty cool stuff, even cooler though is that there could be in store in as little as two years!

Adding Fireworks to the mix!

Right, from today and on, tutorials on Fireworks will also be appearing in the tutorials section right here on the site, booth geared to help you learn the features in Fireworks CS3, but also to convert from using previous ImageReady! Check it out as it comes up late today, early tomorrow, depending on how quick Revver accepts my video!

 Cool contest, prize is books and iPhone!

This contest just sounds amazing and it should be nothing short of amazing either as well! Check out Scott Kelby’s contest over at his blog right here where you each day now for ten days can win his iPhone book. As if that was not enough, on the tenth day you can win booth a signed copy of this iPhone book as well as an iPhone! So check it out here!