From the Blog by John Nack: “Working on a commission from Adobe, Brazilian director Cisma* recently created “Le Sens Propre,” rather surreal story about “a dream-like voyage in the universe of a little girl.” Cisma & team used a RED camera followed by an exclusive Adobe CS4 Production Premium workflow (no non-Adobe products touched the film–no 3D software, etc.).”
I Find it amazing what the Creative Suite can offer, providing you have the skills…….
Adobe has released an update for Photoshop CS4 (Mac|Win). You can also get the update by choosing Help->Updates from within Photoshop. From the download page:
[On a related note, InDesign CS4 has also been updated (Mac|Win); see the download pages for details.]
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Shot with me brand new 5DII 
There are some plug-ins and presets that have been removed in Photoshop CS4. If you wish to use these plug-ins and presets still you can find them in your Goodies folder on your DVD install disc.
This download includes plug-ins for Photoshop CS4 English, Spanish and French versions. The following plug-ins and associated files are included in this package:
• Bigger Tiles
• Picture Package (ContactSheetII)
• ExtractPlus
• PatternMaker
• PhotomergeUI
• TWAIN
• Web Photo Gallery (WebContactSheetII) plus presets
• Textures for Texturizer
• script for Layer Comps to Web Photo Gallery
Click here for the download site
With regards to the installer problems with CS4, the responsible Adobe Team responded to the comments via John Nacks Blog. Here is a short piece of the statement:
“Notes from Adobe installer management
As I mentioned recently, I asked some of the Adobe staff responsible for designing, building, and managing the company’s installers to provide feedback on the concerns and criticisms we’ve heard regarding CS3 and CS4. In this post’s extended entry, first Barry Hills & then Eric Wilde from the Suite engineering group share their thoughts. –J.”
Read more here
Adobe has made available Creative Suite 4 themed wallpapers and screen savers and you can download them here.
Design across media with Adobe Creative Suite 4
Adobe has lifted the lid on Creative Suite 4, the latest version of its huge design and production suite. Of most interest to photographers will of course be Photoshop CS4, which brings some interface changes (tabbed windows) as well as 64-bit Windows support and OpenGL support to use graphics cards to speed up operations (and provide nifty zoom and rotation tools) and a new non-modal approach to adjustment layers. We’ve been using Photoshop CS4 in Beta form since May and will bring you more extensive coverage of all the new features once Photokina is behind us.
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 delivers tightly integrated software and services that measurably improve productivity and enable you to produce richly expressive work in print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile.
Cologne, Germany, September 23rd , 2008 － Pretec, creator of the highest capacity CompactFlash card in the world (48GB) and the fastest CF card in the world (333X) will demonstrate even higher capacities including a 64GB CF card, in the Leaf booth (West Hall 4.2, B009) and CFA (Hall 5.1, G-019) at Photokina 2008.
Continuing the revolution in the field of flash memory card speed and capacity, Pretec today releases 64GB and 100GB, 233X CF cards with access speed of up to 35MB/s, overtaking the Pretec 48GB CF card, the previous world’s record holder for highest capacity CF card; and super high speed 333X 32GB and 50GB CF cards capable of running up to 50 MB per second of Read/Write speed, the highest speed CF card in the world.
Photokina 2008: SanDisk has today introduced new Compact Flash cards which offer increased storage capacity and faster read/write speeds. The Extreme III CompactFlash card now comes in a 32GB version with a speed of 30MB/s, and the Extreme IV CompactFlash card now comes in a 16GB version with a speed of 45 MB/s. In addition, the rest of the Extreme IV range has been upgraded to a read/write speed of 45MB/s.
Photokina 2008: Lensbaby has introduced three new lenses for selective focusing, and has named them the Composer, the Muse and the Control Freak. The Muse and Control Freak replace the current Lensbaby Original, 2.0 and 3G lenses. The Composer is first of its kind and is based on a ball and socket assembly, offering greater precision and ease of use. All the lenses feature a new Optic Swap System allowing the user to choose from four interchangeable optics (double glass, single glass, plastic and Pinhole).
Adobe announced today that CS Next is coming soon.
What’s Next? John Loiacono highlighted three key concepts that characterize the new release.
Are you ready for something brilliant?
Be one of the first to see Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 in a special web broadcast on the 23rd of September, 2008.
Register now to receive instructions on viewing the broadcast. Information collected will be used for the sole purpose of sending you a reminder email prior to the event.
