PSIG News: January 2002 e-News
January 7, 2002

January Meeting

The January meeting of the Photoshop SIG will be on Thursday, January 10 at the North Hunterdon High School/Polytech School. The meeting will run from 7p.m. until 8:45p.m. in room 125. There will be signs inside the high school pointing the way. The meeting will examine some advanced ways to color-correct and retouch photographs. Feel free to bring your digital pictures or scanned photos to use. We will also be looking at the Photoshop-related announcements from Macworld Expo, San Francisco. Plus, there will be a question-and-answer session, some tutorial movies, and a hands-on tutorial lesson.

New PSIG Website

The new PSIG website has been officially launched! Accessible from the MACNJ website home page or directly at http://www.macnj.org/pssig, the new version has sections with club news, a list of SIG links talked about at meetings, a member directory, and a section with archived tutorials. The site contains the latest meeting schedule and information as well as directions to the meeting location at the Polytech department of the North Hunterdon High School. I hope it will be a frequently-used source for Photoshop SIG members and MACNJ users alike, and I look forward to member feedback.

Tips and Tricks: Digital Picture Editing

If you have a digital image that is too dark, copy the Layer and change the new Layer's layer mode to Screen. If the image is too dark, change the Layer mode to Overlay.

Macworld News

An early announcement from Macworld is the unveiling of Apple's iPhoto. According to apple, "iPhoto lets you import your pictures from your digital camera, organize them, edit and improve them, and share them in a number of different ways. And once you see what iPhoto can do with digital pictures, you may never go back to using a film camera again.

"iPhoto also lets you easily organize your photographs into digital albums — birthday, vacation, wedding, whatever — for easy retrieval. (If you're familiar with iTunes, think playlists for pictures.) Sharing and enjoying them is a cinch, too: Push one button to watch them in a beautiful full-screen slide show, accompanied by your favorite music. Email them to friends. Print them on your ink-jet printer. Or order Kodak prints over the Internet."

iPhoto also offers advanced camera connectivity, and a unique feature that lets you create "custom coffee-table books" from your ink jet printer or by ordering a professionally-bound book.

Available as a free download, iPhoto requires OS X 10.1.2 For more information, visit http://www.apple.com/iphoto

Photoshop for OS X

Adobe has just announced the newest versions of GoLive (version 6.0) and LiveMotion (version 2.0) at Macworld San Francisco. While a new version of Photoshop has not been announced (yet), according to Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen “All of our key design products, like Illustrator, InDesign, LiveMotion and, of course, Photoshop are going to Mac OS X. Many of Adobe’s customers are waiting for Photoshop, which we intend to release in the second quarter of next (2002) year.” More information on this can be found at http://www.apple.com/creative