Adobe released a major update to Adobe Creative Cloud, the company's flagship offering for creatives. The update includes the next generation of 15 Adobe desktop applications - including Adobe Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Dreamweaver CC, Premiere Pro CC and more. Adobe Creative Cloud includes more than 30 tools and services that enable professional-grade content creation and delivery across print, web, mobile apps, video and photography. Creative files can be stored and shared, via Creative Cloud, on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android; and Behance, the online creative community, is now integrated with Creative Cloud, so customers can showcase work, get feedback on projects and gain global exposure. This major update to Creative Cloud is available now. Current members receive all of this innovation as part of their existing membership, at no extra cost. Special promotional pricing is available to existing customers who own CS3 or later. [source]

Alien Skin Software released Exposure 5, the new version of its flagship photography effects software. Exposure 5 enables digital photographers to achieve accurate film simulation, using a wide range of creative effects in a simple interface. Exposure 5 can be used as a plug-in with popular host software (incl. Photoshop or Aperture) or as a stand-alone program for Windows and Mac OS X systems. Exposure 5 brings all the creative tools of traditional film photography to the world of digital, such as the look of discontinued films, darkroom tricks, and trendy lo-fi camera quirks. Popular classic films like Kodachrome, Polaroid and even Panatomic-X are accurately simulated. The entire user interface has been redesigned with productivity in mind. Now available for $199 US, owners of any version of Exposure may upgrade for $99 US. Free upgrades will be automatically sent to everyone who purchased Exposure 4 directly from Alien Skin Software in March 2013 or later. [source]

Adobe announced the availability of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 for Mac OS and Windows. The product is available as an individual license or as part of Adobe Creative Cloud. Lightroom 5 adds powerful new editing tools to help photographers create better images faster. The Advanced Healing Brush enables to fix irregularly shaped imperfections such as dust spots, splotches, and other distractions with the precision and flexibility of a fine brush. The Upright tool analyzes each image to automatically straighten objects such as buildings and level horizons. Radial Gradients offer customers the control to make photo subjects stand out by applying off-center and multiple vignettes in a single image. Lightroom 5 also brings extended sharing and publishing capabilities. New video slideshows enable customers to combine still images, video clips and music in a creative HD slideshow that can be viewed on almost any device. Updates to the Book module bring the ability to create, personalize and print elegant photo books from a variety of tailored, easy-to-use templates, as well as create customer-specific templates. Standalone version is available at Adobe.com and participating retailers for $149 US or $79 US for upgrades. [source]

Adobe released an updated version of Photoshop CS6, version 13.0.5 for Mac OS X and v13.1.2 for Windows perpetual license customers. It contains fixes for issues with type layers, Flash extension panel, actions, improved Windows 8 tablet support and more. Choose Help > Update inside the application to apply new updates. The new version for Creative Cloud customers, Photoshop CC, will be released on June 17th and will include any fixes that aren't already in version 13.1.2 along along with all the new features. [source]

Adobe presented a behind-the-scenes look at cutting-edge design and interactive technologies at Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference. MAX Sneak Peeks offer a unique opportunity to see inside Adobe's engineering labs and to preview future applications and features during their early stage of development. The opening keynote introduced a hardware project named "Mighty" (and a related short ruler project named "Napoleon") which aims to marry traditional drawing tools with the mobility and flexibility of tablet devices. Other sneak peeks discussed Edge Code, adjusting lighting in After Effects and Photoshop, Perspective Warp in Photoshop, and more. [source]

At Adobe MAX, Adobe unveiled a significant update to Adobe Creative Cloud, the company's flagship offering for creatives. Available in June and packed with new features, Creative Cloud reimagines the creative process through a set of "CC" desktop applications and sophisticated cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities. Creative files can be stored, synced and shared, via Creative Cloud, on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android; and Behance, the world's leading online creative community. By signing up for Creative Cloud today, creatives will be set up to download and use these latest cloud-enabled innovations from Adobe, when they are available next month. This update to Creative Cloud includes the next generation of Adobe desktop applications - including Adobe Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Dreamweaver CC and Premiere Pro CC. Adobe's desktop tools, previously known as Creative Suite (CS), are now branded CC to reflect that they are an integral part of Creative Cloud and have been reinvented to support a more intuitive, connected way of creating. [source]

At Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference, Adobe announced Adobe Photoshop CC as part of a major update to Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe's desktop apps, including Photoshop, were previously known as Creative Suite (CS), and will now be branded CC to reflect that they are an integral part of Creative Cloud. Photoshop CC will be available exclusively to Creative Cloud members, in June. This update combines Photoshop standard and Photoshop Extended features to deliver greater accessibility to 3D tools and image analysis, while Creative Cloud integration offers flexible collaboration and sharing capabilities. Photoshop CC brings a wide range of new features and enhancements, including advanced deblurring and sharpening technologies (Camera Shake Reduction, Smart Sharpen), new photo-editing capabilities (Adobe Camera Raw 8), improvements to rounded rectangles, and more. Photoshop CC also includes all the Photoshop feature innovations delivered exclusively to Creative Cloud members over the last year, including: Smart Object support for Blur Gallery and Liquify effects, Conditional Actions, and CSS support for faster web design. More information is available on the Photoshop.com Blog. [source]

Fnord software released an updated version of its ProEXR and OpenEXR plug-ins for Adobe's Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro applications. The free OpenEXR is an open source EXR plug-in for After Effects, while the ProEXR edition enables to access all the capabilities of the OpenEXR format from within Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. Version 1.8 adds faster loading of EXR files with many channels, and a "year's worth of minor bug fixes, optimizations, and other improvements to all the plug-ins in ProEXR." [source]

Adobe Labs published a beta version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5, next generation of Adobe's photo manipulation and management application for Windows and Mac OS X. The new Lightroom features an enhanced Spot Removal tool; the ability to apply local adjustment attributes to a circular mask; tools designed to automatically level horizons, straighten buildings, and correct other askew lines; as well as Smart Preview functionality (more). Download the beta here (requires Adobe ID). [source]

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4 update includes, aside from fixes of known issues, an improved demosaic algorithm for better RAW file support on cameras with X-Trans sensors, including the Fujifilm X-Pro1; and additional camera support for 23 cameras including the Canon EOS 1D C, Nikon Coolpix A, and Samsung NX300. Downloads: Windows, Mac OS X. [source]