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» It’s “Finally Friday”

Today is “Finally Friday” and I really mean it, I’m so happy it is Friday again and weekend because I’ve been so very busy during the week I’ve hardly gotten time to be on the computer. Anyway this was always going to be the most busy because it is the end of the term and yeah it is always most busy then. So here are the weeks hottest stuff

I won the contest I was nominated in…

I gotto start with some more self centered stuff eh, that’s all because I’m just totally psyched about it! If you remember I posted a little while ago that I had been nominated for Photograph of the Month over at the Photography Corner website and I’m stunned that I won the voting and my “Summer Memories” photograph became the photograph of the month of December over there, meaning it has now won two awards!! The prize was a one year pro account to SmugMug where I will be setting up a site where you’ll be able to buy my photos from! Cool eh

Wacom Cintiq 12WX

Wacom has announced a brand new tablet in their Cintiq lineup, it is a smaller 12″ tablet (active screen size) that works just like a regular drawing tablet, only it has a screen built right in. It looks super cool and the resolution is 1280×800. You can read more about it here!

Adobe News!

• Adobe has released Camera Raw 4.3.1 that addresses some bugs in the 4.3 release. You can download it for free here!

• Adobe has also redesigned their entire company website over at Adobe.com to match the new creative suite! To me I think the design is well organized and it looks very stylish, so go and explore and enjoy the interactivity as well! By just taking a quick look at the source it appears that they have used a couple of their own suite programs (apart from the design side) such as Dreamweaver (I see presence of DW Templates) which is pretty cool in and of itself!

» Wacom Bamboo Tablet!

So I went out and got the Wacom Bamboo tablet today and I’m very happy with it. I’ve been missing a tablet since I got my Mac when my old one stopped working (the only one that Wacom makes that don’t support Macs) but now I’ve upgraded to the Bamboo which is perfect for my use!

I couldn’t be happier with it and the size of A6 does fit myself very well, since I don’t really need a larger one and I don’t have money for it either!
So just a quick update on the new tablet purchase!

» Wednesday News Updates

Photoshop Tip!

Some quick colour shortcuts; when you have a foreground and a background colour. Press the letter “X” on the keyboard to flip them around and press “D” to revert them to the default!

Pixelmator 1.0

Whilst the Mac edition of Photoshop Elements 6 will be released not until early 2008, Pixelmator a new image editor makes a perfect debut. Available for the Mac platform, for just $59 it is a very stylish program that has taken some of the praised Photoshop features it looks to be giving entry-level people an easy time! Check it out at the Pixelmator site!

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, for Windows only!

Adobe has released their Photoshop Elements, Version 6, so far for Windows only. Apparently Mac users will be getting their hands on a new Elements version, not until early 2008 and that’s because “Elements for the Mac is on a difference development schedule than on the PC” according to Adobe. Anyway, check out the PhotoshopElementsUser.com site for the new learning center they’ve put together to make your learning of Elements 6 quick and painful!

Check out Layers TV!!

If you haven’t already, to and check out Layers TV brought to you by the amazing Corey Barker and Rafael (”RC”) Concepcion. Today they’ve released their second show that is jam packed with a lot of great tutorials on the entire Creative Suite! So go and check it out right here!

That’s it for todays little news update! Now I’m just out to get the Wacom Bamboo tablet since I badly need a new tablet! I’ll write something up on how it works later!