I receive an email newsletter from thepluginsite.com .. and, as I mentioned before, "it doesn't butter my bread, but it doesn't irritate me either" (high praise, I know) ...

here is some of what they have to say today ...

The Adobe Camera RAW 3.5 update for Photoshop CS2 and Elements 3 - 5 (for Win/Mac) now supports the Kodak EasyShare P712, Nikon D2Xs, Panasonic DMC-FZ50 and DMC-L1 and Sony A100 cameras.

Adobe Camera RAW 3.5


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Beta 4 of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (for Win/Mac) offers improved workflow tools, a white balance selection option, a new tone curve adjustment feature, a reworked user interface with customizable controls and several other improvements.

Lightroom


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Version 5 of Adobe Photoshop Elements (for Windows) includes new flexible layout options, new photo animation features, built-in photo services, enhanced support for raw files, flipbook functions, online photo backup features and more. There are also new features for color adjustments, lens distortion correction, sharpening blurred edges and many more.

Photoshop Elements


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Corel acquired InterVideo, who acquired a majority interest in Ulead last year. Corel now has access to software like WinDVD, WinDVD Creator, Ulead Photo Impact, Ulead VideoStudio and Ulead DVD Movie Factory.

Corel Press Release


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Ulead announced PhotoImpact 12 (for Windows), which features an ExpressFix mode for adjusting color, exposure and focus with one-click presets and a SmartGuide panel. There is also a new white-balance tool, an enhanced Reduce Noise feature and raw file support for more camera models.

PhotoImpact


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Version XI of Paint Shop Pro (for Windows) has just been released. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI offers a fully-integrated photo organizer, a new Color Changer tool, enhanced crop, level and curve tools as well as new Time Machine, Depth of Field and Skin Smoothing, Film and Filter effects.

Paint Shop Pro


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*sigh* all of that looks really great & when PSP comes out as a freebie I'll be the first in line.

I got that.. there are other cool things in that newsletter eg.

* Photo to sketch (you can transform a photo into a drawing or painting..
* Sketch Master (kinda the same as photo to sketch)
* Autostitch (can take a whole lot of photos and turn it into a panorama)

microsoft has a program i just DL'd the freebie 2 month promo of that does alot of that, jackie...the tree in one of my latest posts was a product of one of it's filters...

damnit Jackie ... that's the decoder ring stuff .... I'm telling Harold

Yeah, I'll be getting PSP the same time I get UF ... :D

interesting....very interesting indeed...hmmm...how much does the usual photoshop cost...as you know i'm 16 and on Just a tiny winy budget. yeaaaaahhhhh you know where to answer...on my 6 jillionth thread. 0.o

if your still at school you can buy photoshop through adobe's educational discount program for $299 for the full version or for $100 more you can get the full premium creative suite with all of their production software.