Photoshop World is one of my favorite conferences of the year in terms of actually sitting down in sessions and learning something. In fact, there's learning to be had all over the Hynes Center next week, much of it brought to you by O'Reilly authors: Deke McClelland will be giving his orientation to Photoshop CS3 live and in color. This...

So CS3 is official, and the first thing anyone familiar with Photoshop is going to notice is that the interface has changed with this version. Our own Deke McClelland, of Photoshop One-on-One fame, has graciously stopped by with some interface wisdom to help you get your bearings. For the full Deke experience, be sure to pick up your copy of...

Stephen Johnson checked in to say he was back from Antarctica, I went looking online to see if any photos were posted yet. (I'm partial to penguins.) But I ended up engaged by this report from the trip's organizer Michael Reichmann about how various pieces of equipment fared under the extreme circumstances. I have a similar fascination with Derrick's anecdotes...

Sophie, a project to create multimedia books, is now available in Alpha release. Based on Squeak, Sophie is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sophie is not a tool to render traditional paper books to read on your PC. The Sophie project is aimed to go beyond print and utilize the interactive capabilities...

The next Maker Faire will be on May 19 and 20, 2007 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in Northern California, USA. Organized by the staff of Make and Craft magazines, Maker Faire is a newfangled fair that brings together science, art, craft and engineering in a fun, energized, and exciting public forum. The aim is to inspire people of...

Last night, four of our photographer-authors met at bay area bookstore Book Passage to discuss the joys and pains of the digital photographic experience. (Can't say enough what a cool bookstore that is!) A lively, engaged, and intelligent audience of close to 100 people (many more than the store expected, they kept adding chairs, but many were still standing wherever...

I'm a geek. So I spent the morning googling through YouTube to see what was new over at CES 2007. Along the way, I came across this video for the Quik Pod, which is a gadget that allows you to hold your digital camera at arms length and then trigger a snapshot. It's an almost 4-minute video that takes forever...

Despite all the cool features we're discovering in the Photoshop CS3 public beta, one of the most talked about items seems to be the replacement of the "feather" icon with a simple 2-letter "Ps" on a blue block. Because the public beta also gives us a glimpse of the "Br" icon that comes with Bridge CS3, we can extrapolate that...

If you do nothing else this weekend besides shopping and downloading the Photoshop CS3 public beta, I highly recommend watching at least the second entry ("The new interface") in Deke McClelland's video Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One Preview, which is available for free viewing for the time being from lynda.com (you'll see a link to Deke's video at the top of...

By now you've heard, Adobe has announced that a public beta version of Photoshop CS3, will be made available starting tomorrow to anyone with a valid CS2 serial number. This unprecedented release gives users (especially Intel-Mac users who will get to benefit from the Universal Binary-ness of CS3) a chance to see what's in store for Photoshop before the official...