Photoshop

Fourmatch is a rather expensive ($890) plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS5 which allows you to authenticate images and see if they are original or not. Watch the video to see how the app does it.

TUAW reports that the GIMP team now provides an official DMG installer. To install Gimp on your Mac you no longer need X11. Just download it, open the downloaded DMG and drag "GIMP.app" into your "Applications" folder.

According to Apple patent news site Patently Apple, a recently published patent indicates that Apple is planning to develop both a desktop and mobile graphics application for the professional market. The patent is said to indicate that such an application would allow users to work with both bitmap and vector imagery, and would support both mouse and touch gestures. While it's a long road from a patent to a shipped product, Apple could probably do a pretty good job of re-inventing graphics applications, given its long track record in that area. It wouldn't be that hard to toss in page-layout and website creation tools and bingo — say hello to a creative suite Apple-style. And if those apps could read and write Adobe application file formats... let's just say things would get very interesting in the suite space.

The Cintiq 24HD touch offers creative professionals the most natural and complete tool for design, video, art and animation. The integration of multi-touch capabilities directly on the Cintiq screen, along with Wacom's most advanced pen technology, give you a truly "hands-on" creative experience as you work digitally.

Arriving two years after CS5, and a year after CS5.5, CS6 is now available for pre-order, with Adobe promising delivery "within 30 days." Adobe's subscription-based Creative Cloud takes a central role in the massive release, which includes 14 CS6 applications and four Creative Suites. The all-you-can download plan is yours for $49.99 per month, which is the cost if you sign up for an annual contract (it's $74.99 per month for month-to-month membership).

I don't know about you but those increasingly seductive "sneak peeks" of Photoshop CS6, topped by the truly epic Content Aware Move, have made the last few months increasingly hard to get through. Sure, CS5.1 (or 12, using the pre-Suite numbering schema), was not without its charms but most of us chose to pass and wait for the CS6 Suite version.

After being available for months for Android, Adobe has finally released the iPad version of Photoshop Touch in the