Adobe sneak peek: Major GPU acceleration for video
Adobe video specialist Dennis Radeke shares quite a few details about how Adobe is leveraging graphics processors (GPUs) to greatly accelerate common operations in Adobe video apps. Taking this together with After Effects & Premiere Pro going 64-bit, I think a lot of Adobe video customers will be very happy. Check out his post for more info. Inevitably this news will raise questions about what'll happen with Photoshop. I can't get into a lot of details, but here are a few point

Photoshop, you're a tough old bird
How do you change wings on a plane while it's still flying? We sometimes feel that way working on Photoshop. It's essential to keep improving the app, yet with such a rich feature set and so many things baked into customers' muscle memory, we have to be very wary of breaking workflows. It can be tougher than you'd think. Last week we were talking about adding a command to Photoshop's Fill dialog (savvy readers might be able to guess why), and we wanted to assign a unique keyboard shortcut to it. Having ghost-written a version of the Photoshop Power Shortcuts book, I like to thin

Lightroom tip: Quick batch resizing for print output
Why do I work at Adobe? Mainly so I can walk down the hall to browbeat people for tech support in person. ;-) 90-plus percent of the photos I share go only online, so when cropping I tend not to worry about standard print sizes. Just now, though, I wanted to upload a bunch of 4x6 shots for printing at my parents' Walmart. This, I figured, meant going through all the images one by one in Lightroom, checking to see if a crop had been applied, then applying a new 4x6 crop as needed. Not the end of the world (especially with virtual copies), but not good fun. Fortunately Lightroom PM Tom Hogarty sits down the hall from me, and he offered a better suggestion:

Animation: Visualizing the fall of empires
Here's a rather fascinating animated infographic from Pedro M. Cruz. Stick around for those late-20th-century fireworks: Here's some behind-the-scenes info on the project. [Via]

Adobe TV: Triptychs, HDR, fashion design, & more
You might find these recent video tutorials interesting: The Russell Brown Show - Painting Patterns In this Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended tutorial, Russell Brown shows you how to create a tiled pattern and apply it to an image so that you can paint with patterns. The Complete Picture with Julieanne Kost - Creating a Triptych In this Adobe Photoshop CS4 tutorial, Julieanne Kost shows you how to open 3 images at once in Photoshop and then easily arrange th