Lightroom & Camera Raw Update

Now you can update your Lightroom to version 2.3 and Camera Raw to version 5.3.

Camera Raw 5 works only with Photoshop CS4. If you're using CS3 and earlier versions of Photoshop you can use free Adobe DNG Converter.

You can download updates here:

• Lightroom 2.3 Update Mac/Win
• Camera Raw 5.3 Update Mac/Win
• Adobe DNG Converter Mac/Win

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Update

Adobe just released new update to the last version of Photoshop.

Here's a quote from John Nack's Blog.

• A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed. 
• Pen barrel rotation with Wacom tablets now works correctly. 
• Photoshop now correctly recognizes 3D textures edited by a plug-in. 
• The quality of the results of Auto-Blend Layers (Stack Images) has been improved. 
• A problem that could result in a crash when pasting formatted text has been fixed. 
• A crash that could result from a corrupt font no longer occurs.

You can download it here: for Mac/for Win.

Camera Raw Update

Adobe has announced new Camera Raw 5.2

Also was updated the list of supported cameras. Here are the newest of them:

• Canon EOS 5D Mark II
  
• Canon PowerShot G10
• Panasonic DMC-G1
• Panasonic DMC-FX150
  
• Panasonic DMC-FZ28
  
• Panasonic DMC-LX3
• Leica D-LUX 4

New version of Camera Raw works with Photoshop CS4, Photoshop Elements 6 or 7, and Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 or 7.

Download this version of Camera Raw here: for Mac / for PC

Make your own panels in Photoshop CS4!

Adobe released a program called Adobe Configurator.

With it you can simply customize your Photoshop interface.

Adobe Configurator 1.0  at Adobe Labs

Adobe CS4 Trials

Now you can download trial versions of new Adobe CS4 products.

Just click here!

Bridge vs Lightroom

This Adobe products are very different, but...

At first, either of them have raw converters(Bridge has Camera Raw).
They have different cataloguers, but they have!
Lightroom has web site generator, but in new CS4 version of Bridge this function is included.

I know about some small good features, which has only Lightroom, but maybe Adobe will include them into next version of Bridge? Maybe... Since CS2 version Bridge becomes more identical with Lightroom. It's a bit strange :-)