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NIK Software creates bundle of Mac Plugins, drops price 70%

by Mel Martin (Mar 25th, 2013)

NIK has announced all 6 of its high-end photo editing tools for Mac and Windows are available as a US$150 bundle. The new bundle is a set of plugins that previously cost $750.00, and includes tools to help you create black-and-white photos, selective color adjustment, sharpening, and of ...

Daily Update for February 15, 2013

by Steven Sande (Feb 15th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS6 get Retina display support

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 11th, 2012)

Adobe has announced updates for Photoshop and Illustrator Creative Suite 6 that add much-awaited Retina display support to the popular graphics applications. Owners of the standalone versions and owners of the Creative Cloud versions are elligible for the Retina display updates. From an Adobe ...

Adobe turns 30 this week

by Mel Martin (Dec 4th, 2012)

The Life@Adobe blog reminds us that Adobe Systems turns 30 years old this week. Wow, that's gone by pretty fast. Founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, the company started when the pair left Xerox PARC to develop the PostScript page description language. Apple was an early fan ...

Photoshop Touch adds pressure-sensitive stylus support, iPad Mini optimization

by Mike Wehner (Nov 28th, 2012)

Creating works of art or editing existing pictures using Adobe's Photoshop Touch on the iPad can be a real treat. But up until now, some tablet art aficionados have lacked the all important pressure-sensitive stylus support to create natural pen and brush strokes. That all changes with version ...

Snapheal for OS X improves content-aware heal for the Photoshop-phobic

by Mel Martin (Oct 22nd, 2012)

Snapheal is a cool, inexpensive (US$7.99) photo editor for the Mac with one very high-end feature. It mimics the Photoshop content-aware fill feature that was introduced in Photoshop CS5. This little digital trick allows you to remove unwanted objects or people from an image. Using a series of ...

Google will not kill Snapseed or other Nik software

by Mel Martin (Sep 21st, 2012)

A lot of photographers and artists were worried about what would happen to some of their favorite products after Nik Software was purchased by Google earlier this month. Snapseed, HDR EFX Pro and Color EFX Pro, along with other Photoshop and Aperture plug-ins are extremely popular in the Mac ...

Adobe promises Retina support for Photoshop, other CS6 apps

by Michael Rose (Aug 30th, 2012)

The advent of Retina across Apple's iOS and Mac product lines has meant beautiful HiDPI displays for well-heeled owners -- and bountiful headaches for application developers who have to rework, revise and rebuild their products to take advantage of all those lovely little pixels. Key productivity ...

GIMP now (finally) available as a native Mac app

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2012)

This is something that's been a long time coming, and it's finally here. GIMP is an excellent Photoshop-esque open source photo editor. While it's been available on Mac for a long time, it has required the X11 Window environment, which itself needs a separate (and somewhat messy) installation. ...

Layover for iOS offers sophisticated layering, blending to images

by Mel Martin (Aug 15th, 2012)

Layover is a neat photo app for iPhone and iPad (US$0.99, universal) that sounds like it might be a travel app. It's not, yet "Layover" is a pretty good name for what it does. The app lets you blend up to 5 photos. Masks and careful editing help you create a new, compelling image. This is the ...

Inpaint Pro allows for easy photo retouching

by Mel Martin (Jul 16th, 2012)

About a year ago I took a look at Inpaint, an interesting Mac OS X app that is similar to the content aware fill feature of Photoshop, but a fraction of the cost. My only real gripe back then was that the app could not open raw files. In its latest incarnation, Inpaint Pro can now open raw ...

DevRocket is a Photoshop plugin for iOS developers

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2012)

This might be of limited use, given that most of our readers are, I'd guess, iPhone users rather than iPhone designers. But if you find yourself mocking up iOS apps in Photoshop often, then Dev Rocket might be just for you. It's a Photoshop plugin that makes it easy to layout and mock up iPhone ...

Adobe formally unveils CS6, Creative Cloud, launch event April 23

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 23rd, 2012)

Adobe has formally announced its upcoming Creative Cloud service, along with Adobe Creative Suite 6, and Adobe will stream a launch event at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET today, April 23. All products are available for preorder. Creative Cloud is US$49.99 per month; however, those who currently have ...

iPhone 4 Photoshop file available for app development

by Steven Sande (Apr 2nd, 2012)

Developers -- are you in need of a really high resolution mockup of the iPhone 4/4S Retina display GUI elements to help the design of your app? Geoff Teehan and his team created a Photoshop file (.PSD) to help you mock up those apps. According to Teehan, "The file is huge, both in file size ...

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 ...