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The Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 update is now available for download courtesy Adobe. Mac users can download it from here and Window users should head over here.

Highlights of the update:

 A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed.

• Pen barrel rotation with Wacom tablets now works correctly.

• Photoshop now correctly recognizes 3D textures edited by a plug-in.

• The quality of the results of Auto-Blend Layers (Stack Images) has been improved.

• A problem that could result in a crash when pasting formatted text has been fixed.

• A crash that could result from a corrupt font no longer occurs.

Photoshop Product Manager John Nack admitted in his blog that Adobe is developing a Photoshop CS4 update. This doesn’t surprise us since a number of CS4 users reported problems with the software and the Photoshop update will "improve the situation." Those experiencing problems can contact Adam Jerugim by email to test  "a small pre-release program that we're opening to public volunteers."

Adobe has published Adobe Configurator 1.0 User Guide on its website. He guide gives step-by-step instructions on how to make us of the plug in and how to create Photoshop CS4 panels. You can download the 40 page PDF from here.

[Via Imaging Resource ]

Camera Raw 5.2 is now available courtesy Adobe. The latest version of the plug- in now includes RAW support for select new cameras including Canon EOS 5D Mark II.


The full list of newly-supported cameras:

    * Canon EOS 5D Mark II
    * Canon PowerShot G10
    * Panasonic DMC-G1
    * Panasonic DMC-FX150
    * Panasonic DMC-FZ28
    * Panasonic DMC LX3
    * Leica D-LUX 4


You can download it from here:

    * Camera Raw 5.2 for Mac
    * Camera Raw 5.2 for Windows

The  Adobe Configurator for Photoshop CS4 is now available for download. For the uninitiated, the Configurator is an open-source Adobe AIR-based application, which  makes it to snap together one’s own Photoshop panels (a.k.a. palettes). For more information go here.

The Adobe Pixel Bender plug-in is now available as a free download. According to Adobe, the plug-in provides “automatic runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware" to run Photoshop filters faster.

Says Adobe:

"Pixel Bender is best suited for the kind of algorithms in which processing of any pixel has minimum dependence on the values of other pixels. For example, you can efficiently write a kernel to manipulate brightness of the image because brightness of each pixel can be changed independently. You would not want to use Pixel Bender to compute a histogram, because a histogram requires the values of all the pixels in an image."