LIghtroom 4 beta Now Available

Lightroom 4 beta builds on the vision of the very first Lightroom beta. From day 1, Lightroom was designed for photographers and by photographers to help them focus on what they love—the art and craft of photography. Lightroom provides photographers with an elegant and efficient way to work with their growing digital image collections, bring out the best in their images, and make an impact from raw capture to creative output, all while maintaining the highest possible quality each step of the way.

For the development of this latest release, we've focused on further maximizing image quality and expanding output options. New tools let you extract more detail from highlights and shadows, make a wider range of targeted adjustments, and easily share your images and video clips on social media and photo sharing sites.

New Features in Lightroom 4 Beta

• Highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.
• Photo book creation with easy-to-use elegant templates.
• Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras.
• White balance brush to refine and adjust white balance in specific areas of your images.
• Additional local editing controls let you adjust noise reduction and remove moiré in targeted areas of your images.
• Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips.
• Easy video publishing lets you edit and share video clips on Facebook and Flickr®.
• Soft proofing to preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.
• Email directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.

Download Lightroom 4 beta

Canon Introduces EOS-1DX

Canon Intorduces the Best of all of their Camera Technolgies. Full frame 18MP large photosite sensor with native ISO to 51,200. Dual Digic 5+ processors, 12-14 FPS Drive rate. Dual CF slots, New 61 point AF, 1080p video, Carbon Fiber 400,000 actuation shutter, Gigabit Ethernet... and on and on. Epic @ $6800USD.

Read More over at Gizmodo 

http://gizmodo.com/5850747/canon-1d-x-quite-possibly-the-most-epic-dslr-ever

Adobe Demos Unblur Feature For PhotoShop

Adobe "sneek" demoed at the company’s MAX 2011 event, drawing gasps of amazement from a crowd that witnessed a blurred photo, retouched and perfected in seconds. Advanced algorithms calculate the movements of the camera at the time the image was taken, enabling the user to ‘fix’ the image by unblurring it – saving what would ordinarily be a disappointing, bad image.

This might give some pause to the Lytro fans out there - I could see Adobe creating a selective focus tool out of this as well.

Steve Is Gone

Steve You Lived an Insanely Great Life.

Love him, despise him or envy him - Steve was a force of nature that cannot be duplicated. We have lost a man whose impact on modern life is felt by everyone on Earth. Today and in the future to come.

Condolences to his family. Regards to all that knew him.

Today, I'm iSad.

iPhone Photo App Beams Image Right to Photoshop

Developer Flying Car Inc. has created the iOS app, Acquire For Photoshop. This little gem allows you to capture an image in the iPhone and immediately edit in Photoshop. The image is beamed to your computer running Photoshop via WiFi, as long as both your iPhone and Computer are on the same WiFi network. Acquire For Photoshop supports multiple device capture, meaning you can have multiple iPhones capturing and sending to Photoshop at once.

Here's how it works: Once you have created the remote connection server in Photoshop (Edit Menu) leave Photoshop open and ready. On Acquire's main menu tap Take A Picture and then compose as normal on your iPhone. After you snap a picture decide if that's the one you want and tap Use. 8-10 seconds later the image will appear on your computer, in Photoshop. Slick.

Photoshop CS5 (v12.0.4) or later required. Currently $1.99 in the App Store.

 [iTunes Link]