I know many of you have grown fond of Donnie and his shenanigans. So, today we have the fifth installment of “You Suck at Photoshop.” Don’t you dare use that magic wand tool or I’ll gank that juice box and fruit roll up.

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Strap on your stupid., people. This week we learn about paths and masks. I once made a path, but now I have unfulfilled dreams, too. The description for this video is classic.

Does anyone know how to cancel an eBay auction?

I’ve somehow learned more about Photoshop from watching these videos than anything else. Absolutely hilarious.

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You Suck at Photoshop #3 [via BB]

We’ve been talking quite a bit about this new MacBook Air, or whatever Steve’s going to call it (I like MacBook Shuffle™), and we’ve seen many mock-ups, but this is my favorite so far. I have a feeling that if we do see a teeny-tiny MacBook, it’ll definitely look something like this, borrowing design cues from the latest iMacs.

Now we know this is a Photoshop job, mostly because the next post done is a For Dummy’s book on getting stuff posted on TechCrunch. Well, we hope this is close enough for ya, Web Squirrel! Feel free to link to your favorite fakes of the new MacBook, or create your own. We’ll see who gets close enough, and we’ll get then an internship with Ives. (Not really.)

Welcome to Macworld 2008 [WebSquirrel]

Hate opening Photoshop, that resource hog, just to resize an image? Me, too! That’s why I use Picnik, an online photo editor that uses the magic of Web 2.0 to—get this—edit photos. It can grab photos from your Flickr, Facebook, Picassa, Photobucket and Webshots account, or edit photos you have on your computer. There’s a premium version, too, that, for $25 a year, gets you access to a bunch more photo filters and effects. I personally don’t use the premium, but that’s only because I rarely do anything beyond cropping, resizing, etc.

Better still, the Picnik team seems to be a fun bunch. The site is peppered with little witticisms and whatnot that make you realize the people behind the curtain aren’t total jerks. I appreciate that.

Picnik

Don’t get mad or anything, but technology may have killed photography. No, not photography in the “pose drunk for Facebook” sense (that’s not likely to go away any time soon), but in the “Robert Capa/I’m showing you the truth/it’s an art form” sense. That’s what Newsweek says this week, lamenting the influx of reality-altering software like Photoshop and the proliferation of cheap, garbage cameras on cellphones. Photography used to be an art, accessible only to those who could afford pricey cameras and who understood how to compose a photography. Then companies like Kodak brought it to the masses, ruining rich kids’ fun. It’s a damn shame.

So go ahead, enjoy your 12-megapixel SLR. Just know that you’re killing snooty artistic types with every skin tone adjustment you make in Photoshop.

Is Photography Dead? [Newsweek]

And you thought this whole Web 2.0 thing was a fad. Adobe’s CEO said yesterday that, in five to 10 years, all of its applications, including Photoshop, will be available to use online. Not only that, but that by the time that happens, Adobe said it will have completely shifted its resources from developing desktop applications like we see now to online-only apps. No more multi-gig installs at least.

For my needs, a lot of these Web 2.0 apps serve me perfectly. On a daily basis I use Meebo, Google Docs and Picnik. It makes posting from one of the school’s computer labs, where apps like Photoshop aren’t installed from some reason, so much easier.

EDIT: This seems like a no-brainer for software developers. By shifting their products to be exclusively Online they’ll be able to more effectively restrict piracy and better monetize their content. – Blake

Adobe sees full shift to Web [Reuters]

Want to get your hands on Photoshop-killer, Pixelmator? Of course you do, you Mac OS X fanboy.

I hear there are a few torrents on public trackers somewhere. Don’t know where though. Absolutely no idea. Enjoy.

Official Site

Something different than the standard Photoshop layout! Crazy!

On one of the underground torrent sites I visit daily, I came across a new Mac App that had been downloaded a bunch of times. It’s called Pixelmator and it’s an upcoming competitor that’s going to blow Adobe Photoshop out of the water. Right now it’s in closed beta, so this leaked version is still experimental.
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Bug brace menaces Adobe Photoshop [The Register]

Just a few weeks after its New York event, Adobe has finally started shipping Photoshop CS3. The suite’s new mascot is unofficially called Creep-o the Clown, but that shouldn’t deter you from enjoying all the new Universal Binary goodness. Yes, if you haven’t already heard, all CS3 products for the Mac now natively support Intel processors. No more running like molasses!

Other CS3 products shipping include InDesign, Illustrator and Flash. Unless you, um, find these fine applications online, expect to pay around $1,200 for the standard Create Suite. Photoshop alone will set you back $650.

Adobe Creative Suite [Adobe via MacDailyNews]

Adobe will host a lavish New York City event tomorrow to announce that they’re announcing the pricing and availability of Adobe CS3, which includes a version of PhotoShop that natively runs on Intel-based Macs. (If you haven’t had the pleasure of using PhotoShop on an Intel Mac consider yourself lucky.) Too bad Amazon just leaked all of the pertinent info. The top of the line packages—Creative Suite CS3 Master Collection, which seemingly includes everything Adobe has ever released—will retail for a cool $2,499; plain jane PhotoShop CS3 will retail for $649. Depending on what suite you’re waiting for, look for either a April 20 or July 1 ship date.

More, official details are just a day away.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Pricing and Upgrades [Mac Rumors]

HP Photosmart R837 [Laptop]

Mac Pros ready to roll, Apple is suddenly in shape to re-position itself as the go-to platform for graphics pros worldwide. In the dark days of the platform, this was one of the major markets that kept Apple afloat, and everything indicates it will do nicely again in this segment.

Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 launch confirmed for March 27 [Apple Insider]

This one made me laugh. Worth 1000 is holding an a Photoshop contest to create Apple’s next product. Lots of funny stuff here, like the Mac-Chine, an Apple branded washing-machine. And the iDied Apple casket, complete with DVR playback of lifetime highlights.

My favorite though is the iSuppository above. Not the best Photoshopping of the bunch, but its “deeper experience” tag-line is comedy gold.

There are a bunch of other quality designs on the contest page, so check them out. It’s an acceptable Sunday morning diversion I’m sure.

Apple’s Next Product Contest [Worth 1000]