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The update of Adobe Camera Raw 3.7 is available for download.

The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in became the latest must-have tool for professional photographers when it was released in February 2003. This powerful plug-in has been updated to support more cameras and include more features, and is available as part of Adobe Photoshop CS2. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 is now also available and is built upon the same powerful raw processing technology that is available in the camera raw plug-in.

That means that settings from Photoshop Camera RAW and lightroom are compatible. A modification made from Lightroom will be the same in Photoshop CS2. Great!

Downloads:

• Camera Raw 3.7 for Mac
• Camera Raw 3.7 and DNG Converter 3.7 for Mac
• Camera Raw 3.7 for Windows
• Camera Raw 3.7 and DNG Converter 3.7 for Windows

Adobe has just released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

You can buy it for a special introductory price (US$199 instead of US$299) from around the world (price is different for each region) until end of June.

Lightroom had been made by photographs for photographs. It changes the way you are processing your pictures. It is more intuitive and you will quickly have a great result.

I’m a click away to buy it… quick!

I have discovered a new great plugin for WordPress: Snap Preview Anywhere.

After following the easy setup wizard, you will have a small script to add to your template page before the head tag.

This plugin is displaying a window containing a preview of the linked page. It is fun and everybody is seeing the site he will navigate to.

It is now installed on this blog, try it and enjoy it!

Outbackphoto has just published an article with all the tools they have used in 2006: “Our most used new editing tools in 2006“.

They are talking about:

• LightZone 2.0
• Photomatix 2.3
• Akvis Enhancer
• Alien Skin Exposure

I highly recommend the reading of this article.

Adobe has recently released Photoshop CS3 Beta.

If you want to know great new features of this product, look at this video made by Macworld:

 From the Adobe web site:

The Photoshop CS3 beta is available in English only but to Photoshop CS2 users worldwide. It is available to licensed users of either the Photoshop CS2 (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard or Premium (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe Production Studio Standard and Premium (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe Video Bundle (full, upgrade, and education) or Adobe Web Bundle (full, upgrade, and education). You will need to provide your Photoshop CS2, Creative Suite, Production Studio or Bundle serial number in order to get a Photoshop CS3 beta serial number, enabling you to activate the Photoshop beta and use it beyond the two-day grace period..

So get your Photoshop CS2 serial number and create your Photoshop CS3 beta serial number !

Google Code Search goes live.

It will be a tool widely used by developers. People have already found funny things on it, like the algorithm of the Winzip serial.

Great job Google!

After being robbed recently, I thought of what I should have done to improve my “data” protection.

I have been lucky because no personal data has been robbed. Robbers only took some “materials” that will be replaced.

Nevertheless, I had some difficulties with these things. First I did not have all invoices. So I had to call a lot of shops to retrieve invoices copies or certificates.

So my advices are:

• Have all invoices stored in a safe place
• Make a copy of all invoices and store them in another place
• Put the serial number of everything with invoices
• Take pictures of these things and keep them with invoices

Of course you could do that electronically:

• Scan all your invoices
• Put digital photography with them (try to have the serial number on the pictures)
• Write serial numbers of them in a text file
• Backup these files to an external hard drive
• Backup these files on an protected web site

You should also follow the process with this kind of data:

• Any official paper (passport, property acts, …)
• Personal photographies
• etc…

Let’s hope these advices will help you in the future. I have started to write software to help me to ”industrialize” the process. I will post them on a page on this blog when they will be ready. I hope they will help someone in the future.