Adobe Photoshop Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Preview, sips, and more: OS X image processing tools

by Erica Sadun (May 16th, 2013)

On a recent trip, I found I had failed to add copies of my auto-resizing drop tools to my travel MacBook Air. My droplets allow me to convert images to TUAW-standard sizes, namely 225 pixels for small images and 456 pixels for banner images. (See? Information you never thought you'd need to ...

Pixelmator and Acorn: economic, practical image editors

by Erica Sadun (May 14th, 2013)

Last week, after Adobe announced its move to a subscription-based cloud plan, our own Kelly Hodgkins asked me to look at software alternatives for some Creative Suite apps. We know that none of these apps provide a full replacement for Photoshop or Illustrator. What she asked me to do was to ...

Consumer alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud: practical software choices

by Erica Sadun (May 7th, 2013)

Yesterday, Adobe introduced Creative Cloud, an on-line subscription based suite with $49.99 monthly charges that moves into the Creative Suite subscription space first started back in 2011. Existing customers of CS 3 to CS 5.5 and academics will pay $29.99 per month. Both Adobe and Microsoft are ...

DevJuice: PaintCode offers new Photoshop import IAP

by Erica Sadun (Mar 15th, 2013)

See the bunny in the screenshot to the right? It started life as a Photoshop shape. As you see it there in the simulator, it's now a UIBezierPath. It got there courtesy of PaintCode. I first reviewed PaintCode last year. It offers a high-end resolution-independent design tool for transforming ...

Photoshop 1.0 source code now available from the Computer History Museum

by Mike Schramm (Feb 15th, 2013)

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. (home of Google, and just a few miles from Apple's HQ in Cupertino) has a new display up, featuring none other than the source code to Photoshop 1.0, the very first version of Adobe's powerhouse photo-editing software. The exhibit features ...

Photoshop CS6 to require 64-bit multi-core Mac

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 27th, 2012)

Adobe is following Apple's lead with OS X 10.7 Lion and ending support for 32-bit Macintosh systems. Starting with Adobe Photoshop CS6, Mac users must have a 64-bit, multi-core system with at least OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. If you have a Core 2 Duo or a Core iX system then you should be ready for ...

Adobe engineer explains delay in Adobe universal binaries

by Jan Kabili (Mar 23rd, 2006)

Adobe has taken some heat for delaying universal binary versions of Photoshop and other Creative Suite software until the next scheduled release of those apps. If you're interested in a view of this controversy from the trenches, take a look at this post by Photoshop engineer Scott Byer. Byer starts ...