Adobe System unveiled Adobe Creative Suite yesterday. The CS4 boasts a complete new media capability which includes web, mobile, interactive, film as well as video production

The Adobe CS4 is the company’s largest software release. The package includes Creative Suite 4 Design editors, Creative Suite 4 Web editions, Creative Suite 4 production premium, Creative Suite 4 Master Collection. The most edgy in this release is the CS4 Master edition which the company boasted as “virtually all of Adobe’s new design and development applications, technologies and services in a single box.”

Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer at Adobe stressed CS4’s superb capabilities. According to the president, CS4 “delivers powerful cross-media technologies that have the ability to elevate products, brands and ideas above the clutter.”

One of the features of CS4 is the simplification of workflow. It now permits users to switch between mediums without needing to close a project.

Creative Suite 4 has an upgrade set of tools and design capability in 3D rendering. So don’t be surprised if you will see more functions in the IU of the software compared to CS3. CS4 now permits artists to a more flexible and creative set of functions. They can now paint composite and animate 3D models.

The Adobe Creative Suite 4 will be released in October 2008. The basic price for the CS4 is around $1,699. Adobe plans to offer a lower upgrade price to customers who currently own CS3 and below.

Source: CRN

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Panasonic unleashed the world’s smallest and lightest digital interchangeable lens camera. The mouthful title actually means that the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G1 is a hybrid between digital single lens reflex cameras and traditional point-and-shoot digital cameras.

The LUMIX DMC-G1 employs the unique Micro Four Thirds system that eliminates the internal mirror structure of the camera therefore making it lightweight and more compact without losing superb image capturing capability.

The 12.1-MP camera can render images of up to 1.44 million pixels.

Aside from being the first of its kind, the camera also showcases other amazing features. It has a Live MOS Sensor which allows it to capture images in superb brilliance and clarity.

It also has an HDMI output and Venus Engine HD system, a technology that reduces noise in pictures while allowing customization of R, G and B colors of images.

It has the Supersonic Wave Filter Dust Reduction System that prevents dust accumulation in the image sensor, thereby protecting one of the most delicate parts of the camera.

The only sad news is that you will have to wait until October if you want to grab this camera.

Source: MarketWatch

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Google’s Picasa 3 transcended private beta stage with a special update that enables it to perform facial recognition. Now in public beta, Picasa 3 also employs a new tool called “name tags.”

“Name tags” is a special tool on Picasa that is based on a 2006 technology that the big G got from biometric specialist Neven Vision.

Product Manager at Google Mike Horowitz explained that name tags “gives you the power to quickly label and organize your photos based on who’s in each picture.”

The new Picasa 3 features astounding capability such as the “clustering.” True to the term, the features allow users to virtually cluster or group together pictures without the need to put tags to individual photos. This can be done by simply identifying a few photos. After this, Picasa Web Albums will be able to identify the other photos based solely on the similarities of facial features of the subjects.

Horowitz also stressed that Picasa 3 desktop photo organizing software is is designed to work more seamlessly with Web Albums. “New controls in Picasa 3 make it much easier to quickly upload photos, and we’ve added a new ’sync to Web’ feature that automatically updates online albums when you add or edit photos on your computer,” he added.

The big G’s Picasa 3 also boasts friendly features like new image editing tools, movie making, photo watermarking, printing captions and photo imports from webcam captures and screen grabs.

Source: BetaNews

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Nikon unveiled a new digital SLR camera that is said to be the first digital single-lens reflex camera that can be used to shoot high-definition video clips.

The new camera, labeled as Nikon D90 sports 12.3-megapixel lens that has the Nikon’s Expeed, an image processing technology that enhances the captured digital images.

The new camera carries the D-movie function, a video recording mode that allows users to created HD movie clips with sound from the D90. Nikon D90 can capture videos with 1280-by-720, 320-by-216 or 640-by-424 resolutions. It can record videos with speed of 24 fps. Any compatible lens can be used in video mode.

The D90 also sports the face detection technology. There is also a Live View mode for seeing images without the need to peek through the viewfinder. It also has an 11-point digital autofocus system.

This high-tech camera will go on sale this September. The standard package will cost $1,000. Upgraded version that carries the AF-S DX Zoom- Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-/56G ED VR lens will cost an increase of $300.

Source: MacWorld

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