“Full icon set replacement for Creative Studio 3 based on CS3 retail product box design. What’s missing is document icon for Contribute CS3 and few more small CS3 apps. I’ll do second part as soon as Adobe releases more CS3 apps to public.”

“It’s been just over 12 months since I posted our original Guide to CSS Support in Email and quite a bit has changed since. Sadly, the most significant of these changes was in the wrong direction, with Microsoft’s recent decision to use the Word rendering engine instead of Internet Explorer in Outlook 2007. We’ve written plenty about it already including an explanation of the reasoning behind it. More on its impact on CSS support later. It hasn’t all been doom and gloom though, a number of vendors have maintained or improved their support for CSS, especially in the web-based email environment.”

“Have you ever tried an application that looked great at first, but once you started using it, it just didn’t feel right? The UI was slick and the feature list looked perfect, but the workflow just wasn’t there? I see this all the time, and quite often it’s due to developers not using their own applications. They built something they thought would sell instead of something they needed, so they don’t see their software the way an end user would. They don’t notice the hundreds of little things that would make their applications easier to use, nor do they notice all the minor bugs that customers consider too small to report.”

“Freeverse today announced an update to Lineform, the drawing and illustration program for Mac OS X. A Universal application, Lineform is designed for artists looking for a more manageable and less costly modern alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Lineform is the recipient of a 2006 Apple Design Award.”

“Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company’s chief executive said Tuesday.”

“Bill’s quick exit from the set of The Daily Show aside, he has not been doing Vista or Microsoft any favors with his recent performance. Contrast this with his alter-ego, Mr. Jobs, who even in the face of controversy surrounding the Apple options backdating scandal can get up on stage and wow his employees, his customers and the technology community at-large. Steve is a rock star. Bill looks as if he’s been living under a rock.”

“Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, currently in beta, is Adobe’s newest tool for importing, managing, developing, and printing digital images. On January 19 I spoke with Mark Hamburg, Adobe Fellow, former Photoshop architect, and founder of the Lightroom project. Mark has been working on digital imaging at Adobe Systems Incorporated since 1990 and is currently driving the development of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.” (Thanks Daring Fireball!)

“Adobe Systems Incorporated will introduce a beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 software, the next release of the world standard in digital imaging, on Friday, December 15th. Adobe is delivering a widely available Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple’s new Intel-based systems. The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as well as for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista computers. The final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3 is planned for Spring 2007.”

“O’Reilly Media’s Inside Aperture site draws upon community expertise to provide you with tips and real-life experiences from professional shooters who use Apple’s premier photo management application to organize, edit, and output their images. This site features weblogs, articles, podcasts, and tutorials–all focused to help you improve your digital photography workflow.”

“Photoshop has so many different work areas and tools that it can confuse digital photographers. Here’s how to set up your workflow so you’re efficient, not intimidated.”

“Lightroom is Adobe’s breakthrough photo management application. Currently in public beta, Lightroom is designed specifically for serious photographers who want to quickly organize, process, and output their images in a powerful, friendly environment… Here at Inside Lightroom you’ll learn how to quickly master this application with the help of downloadable tutorials, podcasts, and weblog posts. Soon you’ll find that you’re focusing more on taking pictures rather than endlessly wrangling with them on your computer.”

“Adobe Systems France announced at Adobe Live that the development of GoLive and FreeHand will be phased out. Adobe representative Robert Raiola stated that Dreamweaver will get a new interface and replace GoLive as the Web development application in the Creative Suite 3 package, due out in spring 2007.” (UPDATE from MacNN: “German Mac site Macnews.de says that Freehand will remain a standalone product and that the company has scheduled a maintenance release of the product for later this year.”)

“It’s amazing as to the amount of time and effort that people put into making plug-ins, filters, actions, brushes and such and then make them available to whomever wants them at no cost. All of the following are the ‘best of the best’ and each one has received the highest rating from Adobe, and they are all free. I do not think that there are many items out there, that you have to pay for, that are better than the following…”

“Signwave Tracing Paper creates a PICT file on your Desktop with a time/coordinate plot of your mouse cursor’s movement. Leave it running for the duration of your working day to see exactly how much you move your move, and where it goes. Ideal for making unique personal desktop pictures!”

“Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. It’s so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo’s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and effortless, it will change your life–without changing the way you work.”