This is the final post on The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog. It's also a new beginning for Photoshop Online, which I'll be hosting as an independent video podcast at http://photoshoponline.tv . Join me there in a couple of days (once the little elves get the domain names resolved) for a feast of Photoshop tips and techniques. In the meantime, you can watch as I get the site up and running at its temporary URL http://kabili.libsyn.com. The RSS feed for Photoshop Online will be http://kabili.libsyn.com/rss .

And don't forget to catch David and my posts on all things Apple over at our sister site The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

Now that you Windows users have heard that there's a beta of Adobe Lightroom for you (a free download from Adobe), you're probably hungry for some Windows specific training. As usual, NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) is right on it. They've updated their Lightroom training page with some new videos that show the Windows version of Lightroom, including Matt Kloskowski's Intro to the Develop Module, Secrets of the Tone Curve, and Magic of Split-Toning. Mac users will benefit from these videos too, because Lightroom's settings are similar across the platforms.

And if you want to see what other users are saying about the Windows beta or post your own impressions, join in on Adobe's Lightroom Beta Windows discussion board.

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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If you're a digital photographer who wants to learn Photoshop from the master, check out a new online training course, Photoshop for Digital Photographers with Scott Kelby of Photoshop TV fame. This 21-day course offers a different 5 minute training video each day. Scott will take you through a digital photographer's workflow from beginning to end. He provides the lesson, a downloadable file you can use to follow along with the instruction, a PDF that outlines each lesson, and access to an online forum on which you can converse with other students in the course. You can replay any of the videos at no extra charge for 60 days. The course covers Photoshop's most powerful features for digital photographers, including Camera Raw adjustments, color to black and white conversions , color correction using curves, sharpening, and more.

I haven't listened to these tutorials, but I have seen Scott teach. I can tell you that he is a straight shooting instructor who understands what his audience needs to know and gets right to the heart of the matter. At the $69.99 price point ($39.99 for members of National Association of Photoshop Professionals) this sounds like a good buy for digital photographers who want to spend a minimum amount of time learning to improve their photographs in Photoshop.

The Creative Suite conference is coming up at the Chicago City Center May 18-20. The conference offers sessions on all the Adobe Creative Suite apps. All the usual suspects will be there, including Michael Ninness of lynda.com, Ben Willmore, and David Blatner on Photoshop-related topics. Mordy Golding, who is speaking at the conference, has posted a coupon code on his  Real World Illustrator blog that will get you a deal on the registration fee.

If you live in Seattle or can spare a week to travel there, you're a lucky Photoshopper. Respected naturalist photographer Art Wolfe is opening a digital photography center in Seattle that will offer Photoshop classes, as well as guest speakers and field photography workshops. The current curriculum includes intensive one-week classes in: Digital Darkroom Basics, Digital Darkroom - Start to Finish, Intermediate Digital Darkroom, and The Creative Process.

The Art Wolfe Digital Photography Center will open in May, with a promised 12 state-of-the-art student workstations. Class schedules, descriptions, pricing, and enrollment are available here.

I just got my hands on Scott Kelby's brand new The Photoshop Channels Book, and I predict it's going to be another hit. Kelby tackles an area of Photoshop that users often avoid (channels that is) because they think it's just too hard. He manages to sweep all the scary stuff away with his sense of humor, and to make channels understandable if not downright fun.

There's plenty of material here for the novice user (like the lesson on Understanding Masks, in which you'll use a plain old paper stencil to understand the concept of masks). At the same time there are lessons for more advanced users (like the tutorial on Blending Channels to get the perfect image from multiple exposures). Kelby once again does the thing he does so well–offer readers a buffet of step-by-step lessons containing easy to digest chunks of information, washed down with practical examples.

You remember Kelby. He's the guy who's President of The National Association of Photoshop Professionals, star of Photoshop TV, the top-selling computer book author in the U.S. for the second year in a row, publisher of Photoshop User magazine and Layers magazine, and on top of it all a brand new Dad. Slow down Scott so we can say congrats!