We check into Adobe Photoshop CS6

A new version of Adobe Photoshop will be released later this year. To prepare for this, Adobe recently released a beta version of Photoshop CS6, free to download! 

We've tried it out for a couple of days and so far found some things we like. Importing all previous setting is really smooth as always, and the interface can now be adjusted from light to dark to almost black. The new Crop tool borrows heavily from Adobe Lightroom and takes some getting used to, but the automatic selection of interpolation is nice.

Among the new features there is one seldom mentioned or noticed is one we really like; The ability to work with one file while saving another. This feature is a major leap forward in usability when working with large files on a daily basis, where saving times can grow to be a huge factor.

Read more about the release at engadget.com Free download of the Beta Version at Adobe Labs

Photoshop Touch for Ipad 2

What do you think about this app? Read about the release at Photoshop Insider or BestAppSite.

Retouch Production Case

If you want to know more about the retouch production in this picture, watch our case.

Unblurring in Future Photoshop

They seem to have found some good image processing stuff here, just listen to the crowd in this presentation from the Adobe MAX 2011 conference! The first crowd wow is at 1:19.

Gold Ingots Made in Mudbox

Gold is expensive, and quite hard to come by. And on top of that, even if you can get your hands on two fine bars, it's quite hard to photograph. CGI to the rescue! Gold bars are formed by pouring molten gold in a open cast, this process makes the bottom of the ingot organic in it's feel, and highly imperfect. Marcus got this little project on his desk, he used Mudbox to model the organic feel of the raw gold. He then imported the bars into Maya and designed a shader with a dark material and high reflection. A bump map made the rest. The Stamp on top is the ancient alchemy symbol for gold.  

Mats then used the render as a part of this ad made up from 6 individual images, 3 of which were video frames. The ad ran in several media, today 28:th of june in GP. 

The ad features Karlsborgs fortress in the middle of sweden, where the gold reserve was to be kept in times of war during the 19th century. 

Customer:  Karlsborg Turism