Adobe Stock Photos, the royalty-free image service provided by Adobe, will discontinue service as of April 1.

On Feb. 4, CS2 and CS3 customers with Adobe Bridge-enabled applications received e-mail with information about the discontinuation. In a statement on its website, Adobe did not comment on the service's appearance in the upcoming versions of Adobe Creative Suite.

Adobe Stock Photos will be fully operational through March 3, after which it will disable the search feature. Customers may still purchase images through March 31, however, and customer support will be available until June 1. Adobe recommends uninstalling Adobe Stock Photos from the Creative Suite applications to ease...

YouSendIt has announced a new plug-in for Adobe's Photoshop. The YouSendIt plug-in allows designers to efficiently send files of any size directly from Photoshop. The plug-in is available for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 for Windows.
Eliminating the need for photographers and designers to struggle with FTP transfers, the plug-in lets the user burn a CD to mail to an overnight courier and eliminates e-mail bounce-backs from attachments that are larger than recipient networks usually allow.

Files sent through YouSendIt are secure and can be tracked with assured delivery and a receipt. The plug-in can be conveniently downloaded directly from the YouSendIt web site. Previously, YouSendIt released a direct-delivery plug-in for Apple Aperture. YouSendIt also offers beta versions of plug-ins that allow a user to send files directly from Microsoft Outlook and CorelDRAW.

Adobe Systems is offering an update to the free Photoshop Camera RAW plug-in. The Camera RAW 4.1 update incorporates features such as noise reduction, sharpening tools and RAW file support for 13 additional camera models and camera backs. The update also builds on the RAW file support integrated in the Photoshop products.

The Camera RAW 4.1 plug-in supports the same functionality for TIFF and JPEG files, and lets professionals import and manipulate RAW data. Additionally, the plug-in supports 13 digital cameras, including cameras from Canon, Fuji, Nikon, Olympus, Olympus, Sigma, Phase One H 20, H 25, H 30 and Phase One P 45. Camera RAW 4.1 also adds support to camera backs...

Adobe Systems Inc. recently announced several new digital camera software upgrades, including the release of its Creative Suite software and a new version of Adobe Photoshop CS.

The new release, dubbed CS2, is a major upgrade to the entire suite and includes new versions of InDesign, Illustrator, and GoLive, as well as two new products: Version Cue and Adobe Bridge. The Creative Suite Premium Edition includes Photoshop CS2, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, GoLive CS2, Version Cue CS2 and Acrobat 7.0.

Adobe also recently announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen will continue as CEO, and Stephen Elop, Macromedia's president and CEO, will become president of worldwide field operations for Adobe. According to Adobe, the purchase of Macromedia will provide customers...

Digital capture is becoming a reality for the professional photographer. Montizambert Photography Inc. built its dream studio and went fully digital last July, a move made possible by Foveon's next-generation digital capture workstation.

With workflow much more streamlined than with traditional film photography, we are finding that clients are embracing the technology with us. My partner/brother Mark and I are also reclaiming previously outsourced revenue streams since going digital. These include fees for digital manipulation, color correcting, retouching and CMYK conversions, plus immediate sales on people shots.

Since we began advertising our digital capture capabilities, numerous projects we've secured have been directly attributable to the quick turnaround and impressive session capabilities of our new Foveon digital...