At the Photoshop World Keynote in Las Vegas yesterday, the guest Adobe representatives actually spent the bulk of their time showing the crowd new, cool features of not Photoshop but the "complementary product" designed particularly for photographers, Adobe Lightroom. After NAPP President Scott Kelby entertained the crowd with a clever CSI send-up (featuring a nefarious act by our own Deke...

Gearing up for Photoshop World in Las Vegas next week. It's always interesting to watch thousands of photographers, graphic artists, designers, and other creative types come together all for the love of (or at least the preoccupation with) a single computer program. In my experience, it's a fun but frenzied week chock-full of informative classes, industry gossip, and catching up...

Audio podcasts are the perfect accompaniment to my long, once-a-week commute to O'Reilly HQ. If I can find shows that are relevant to work, even better, because I feel like I'm gearing my brain up for the workday rather than stressing about the traffic that's keeping me from the things I have to do when I get there. (And did...

I've been forced to think about my job in a new way since the Reuters image manipulation hullaballo broke. (I work for O'Reilly Media as a book editor in the Digital Media space.) The bulk of my work day is spent helping authors create books on how to use Photoshop and other digital imaging technology to express their creative vision...