The Adobe Photoshop Touch allows you to create images with simple finger gestures. Easily combine multiple photos into layered images, edit them, add professional effects, and easily share from your tablet. Currently, Photoshop Touch runs on the Android OS, but Adobe plans an iOS release soon so you can run it on the iPad 2.

It supports extracting a subject from its background, layers, filter effects, and social sharing. You can share your images to Facebook and view comments right within the app.

With Photoshop Touch, you can start to sketch an idea in the field, then sync your files with Adobe Creative Cloud so they’re available for further editing in Photoshop.

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In this video, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, Photoshop Senior Product Manager, shares a trick on what to do when Content-Aware Fill does not seem to be working for a photograph, especially in restoring old photographs. Hint: do it in small steps.

Thanks to Content-Aware Fill, restoration has never been easier. See how it can help quickly restore an old photograph that has tears and marks; quickly fixing what once took hours: http://www.adobe.com/go/hiddengems_ps.

Read more about this at: adobe.

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From Photoshop

In this video, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, Photoshop Senior Product Manager, shares a trick on how to train the spot healing brush to remove a drooping power line. Hint: use the Path Tool.

Everyone has heard of Content-Aware Fill, but did you know that it’s a new option for the Spot Healing Brush? Now, you can easily remove power lines and wires from an image; a trick not possible before: http://www.adobe.com/go/hiddengems_ps.

Read more about this at: adobe.

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From laptopmag

Imagine being able to change the point where you want to focus your lens after you’ve already taken the picture! This is exatly what a plenoptic lens placed between your camera’s lens and the sensor allows you to do. It captures the same image many times from multiple perspectives.

Read the article at: engadget.

This is simply too good to keep to ourselves. Adobe is making its Student and Teacher Editions available at up to 80% off regular price.

Terms and Conditions:
Free shipping offer is available only through the Adobe Education Store. Offer is available to customers in the U.S. and Canada. Offer begins August 3, 2010 at 5 PM Pacific time and ends October 31, 2010at 11:59 PM Pacific time. Free shipping offer only applies to the following methods of shipping: DHL Ground to Continental U.S., DHL Express to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, other U.S. territories, and DHL International to Canada. Free shipping offer may be used in conjunction with other offers. This offer is available to purchasers on the Adobe Store only, and is subject to change or withdrawal without notice. Void where prohibited by law. OEM, and volume licensing customers are not eligible for this offer.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 allows you to take an image and wrap it around a 3D object, just like that.

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Russell Brown has three videos to show how to do masking in Photoshop CS5. Well worth watching. I would not be surprised that, if after watching these videos, you hurry to order the new PS5.

Masking Basics:

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Here’s a a unique opportunity to meet with two of Adobe’s product managers (Tom Hogarty is the product manager for Photoshop Lightroom, Camera Raw, and DNG, and Bryan O’Neil Hughes is the product manager for Adobe Photoshop), provide feedback on the company’s imaging products, and perhaps win some prizes as well in a photowalk in New York city.

The photowalk starts at 10am promptly, departing from Foto Care Rentals’ location at 41 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010 and the circuit is Madison Square Park and the Flatiron district. The event will run until 2pm, and will include a free lunch. It is open to photographers of all levels.

Register and visit the event’s Meetup page.

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