The O'Reilly Network has taken the wraps off of Inside Adobe Lightroom, a new site featuring articles, a blog and a podcast covering Adobe's professional photo management app. Tips on color correction, adding music to slideshows, how to migrate images from iPhoto  and more are all on the menu, so swing by and find out how much you really didn't know about Lightroom.

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We're a little late on this one, but it appears that the Adobe Lightroom podcast has released its 4th episode (iTMS link). As John Nack summarizes on his blog, this one was recorded at the Greg Gorman digital photography workshop in CA. George and his guests (Martin Evening, Peter Carides and Bryan O'Neil Hughes) discuss digital photography workflows, fashion photography, Lightroom features and archiving strategies.

Check it out in the iTMS podcast directory or grab it at Adobe's RSS feed here.

Photoshop World 2006 in Miami is rocking on as we speak. You can hear the full keynote on the March 22 episode of the Inside Mac Radio podcast [iTMS link] complete with:

• goofy skits by The Photoshop Guys,
• an overview of what's happening at Adobe by Adobe Marketing VP Deb Whitman,
• a sneak peak of as-yet-unreleased Build 3 of the Adobe Lightroom public beta by Adobe Evangelist Julianne Kost,
  
• a demo of new image forensics technology from Adobe Labs,
• announcement of 24 nominees to the 2006 Photoshop Hall of Fame (winners to be announced at Photoshop World Las Vegas in September), and
• presentation of the 6th Annual Photoshop World Guru Awards (including Best of Show winner Eduardo Rizzo).

You might gather from the keynote that Photoshop World is not your typical tech conference. It could be the most fun a Photoshop geek can have away from the computer screen. Check out photos from the conference here and here.

I was pleasantly surprised today as I went through my podcast playlist in iTunes to find the first two episodes of a new audio podcast about the Adobe Lightroom beta [iTMS link]. The podcast features members of Adobe's Lightroom development team chatting with some of the photographers who offered input into the Shadowland project, which was the development precursor to Lightroom.

Episode 1 features photographer and Photoshop guru Jeff Schewe talking with three key members of the Adobe Lightroom team--product manager George Jardine, lead engineer and "founder of the Lightroom team" Mark Hamburg, and engineer Kevin Tieskoetter. This episode focuses on printing and color management in Lightroom, with some other juicy tidbits (like Jardine's view of the ideal marriage--oh, George) thrown in for good measure.

This podcast is very enlightening on several levels:

• First, it offers fascinating insight into the Lightroom development process and the thinking of the Adobe team.
• Second, it brings home how very receptive the Lightroom team has been to the input and practical viewpoints of its audience, insofar as they are represented by Schewe, Bruce Fraser and other professional photographers.
• Third, I was struck by how transparent the development of this product has been, particularly as compared to the hush-hush nature of prerelease programs for other Adobe software (which shall rename nameless to protect the innocent).

There is lots of eye-opening information about Lightroom in Episode 1. Highlights follow after the jump.

Episode 21 of Photoshop TV has landed, and in addition to the usual roundup of handy tips and tricks is a special guest: Eddie Tap, who demonstrates some new greyscale conversion techniques. Further, if you'd like to play along with a restoration tutorial from Scott, you can grab a copy of the image he uses from their site. Neat.

Photoshop Product Manager John Nack spoke about Flash and Photoshop, Adobe/Macromedia integration, and more in an podcast interview with Inside Mac Radio's Scott Sheppard. The interview took place this week at Flash Forward 2006, which was the first Flash conference since the Adobe-Macromedia merger.

You can hear the full interview on the March 2, 2006 episode of Inside Mac Radio [ iTunes Music Store link ]

Here are key excerpts from the Nash interview:

On his own Flash background:

"It's really funny. Flash is really the reason I came to Adobe. I was working for an agency out in New York called agency.com. We were doing Web sites in Flash for Nike, and Gucci, and all these big companies. And I really wanted to build a new experience there and solve some of the problems I was having. So Adobe said, hey we're making a Flash animation tool. Do you want to come work on that. So I said sure. And they were just about to ship their first version. So I came out and joined the Live Motion team in 2000. And worked hard, got a bunch of cool things going. But ultimately we didn't get enough things right fast enough to really make it take off, and the project got canceled. So about four years ago I left that and came over to Photoshop. Well then you can imagine last April I just about dropped my cereal on the floor. I was like, what Adobe and Macromedia are getting together. Totally unbelievable. I couldn't be more excited because a lot of the pain points, the things that just waste people's time and keep them from doing cool stuff, we can now finally fix. And that's really exciting."

On potential integration of Photoshop and Flash:

"Mike Downey, the Flash product manager, put up a survey a week or two on his blog and said, what's the top thing you want to integrate. And I think the top thing was Photoshop and Flash. But of course a lot of folks are using Illustrator, Fireworks, and they want those to integrate as well. Same with After Effects."

"There are just a lot of really obvious basic things we can make work right--bringing in a layered PSD file, bringing in a layered Illustrator file--things that are not creative tasks, but things that just should work better. And it's really great that we can get the teams together and give them access to each others' code and a lot of knowledge, and make that stuff work. . ."

lynda.com was one of the first training outfits. It's still on the cutting edge with its new video podcast. Each episode offers free clips from the huge collection of video tutorials in the lynda.com movie library, which is otherwise available only by subscription.

There are four episodes available so far. Episode two is of particular interest to Photoshop users. It features a lesson by lynda.com training director Michael Ninness on Photoshop CS2 and Flash 8 integration. Here's a link to the lynda.com Video Training podcast in iTunes.

Training podcasts are popping up everywhere. Here's one worth checking out. Trainer extraordinaire Terry White recently started the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast. Terry is one of those people who can make even the most difficult subject seem easy and fun. He plans to offer tutorials on all the Creative Suite products, including Photoshop.

In the latest episode, Terry shows how to take a bitmap logo that was made in Photoshop and turn it into a vector graphic using Illustrator CS2's automated tracing feature Live Trace.

This post can also be found under the title: "I'm really behind on my Photoshop TV episodes."

While my podcast listening habits are certainly not newsworthy, I figured I could make a slight exception this time around since I finally caught up with the January 30th episode of Photoshop TV, in which the venerable hosts Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski give a shout out to TUPW. Yep, that's right: celebrity has graced our humble work with kind words.

So thanks guys! Keep up the great work and we'll be sure to keep watching. Even if I personally might occasionally take a little while to catch up with things.

On their latest episode, the Photoshop TV guys gave an answer to a viewer-submitted question that I thought was worth posting. The question dealt with the state of Apple's new Intel-based Macs and the fact that any software that isn't specifically compiled to run on them, including the Creative Suite, has to run in an emulation environment, which can deal a blow to the application's overall speed and your productivity.

It was the opinion of the Photoshop TV guys that Adobe might not offer any kind of update/upgrade of CS or CS2 until Adobe releases a truly new version - CS3 - for which there is no present ETA. I honestly hope this is not the case, and that they take some sort of route like Apple has with their pro apps in offering a $50 Intel-based upgrade, as long as you turn in your discs.

What do you TUPW readers think of this? Are you Mac-using readers already cancelling your iMac Dual Core and MacBook Pro orders until this all gets settled? Sound off.

The 13th episode of Photoshop TV is out (iTMS link), and it covers quite a bit of ground including: the vanishing point filter, the pen tool and paths, the recently released Intel Macs (which I helped cover quite a bit over on tuaw.com), a tutorial on matte effects and yet more give-aways.

Woops, I got so caught up with covering the keynote and events of Macworld 06 over at TUAW that I missed the release of Photoshop TV's 12th episode. I just caught it now so I haven't even viewed it yet, but from the summary on their site, it sounds like they spent a lot of time covering Adobe's new beta baby, Lightroom. Never fear, however, as all their regular features will reclaim their place in next week's episode.

As always, PSTV is available via the iTMS podcast directory or right from their site.

For their first show of 2006, Matt and Scott cover tips on masks, using the Mosaic filter to create that pixelation fade effect, the Preset Manager and more. As usual, the episode is available (free) from the iTMS or you can watch it directly from the Photoshop TV site.

If you already subscribe to the podcast one way or another then this is old news to you, but I just noticed that episode 10 of Photoshop TV (iTMS link) is in the wild. I haven't gone through it yet, but the Photoshop Support blog says they cover a tip for batch-applying metadata in Bridge, hue/saturation techniques for removing color casts, using swatches across all of CS2 as well as tutorials on the Extract and Liquify tools. They also note that you don't have to use iTunes to view the podcast, as you can simply play it right from their site.