Photoshop

*UPDATE* - I hear you guys! I wish Adobe included this feature in every program they make, but unfortunately, they don't; however, they DO include it in After Effects, Lightroom, Premiere Pro and Soundbooth (all CS3 versions). So, if you use any of these programs, make sure you take advantage of this great feature.
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John Nack, Adobe's vocal Photoshop guru, has spilled the beans on Adobe's new Photoshop branding efforts with the announcement of their new logo and tag line.

Before everyone gets their hair up, you should note that they did NOT announce that they're changing the Photoshop icon, they're simply tying all their Photoshop products together for marketing purposes.

If you don't have a tripod and you're shooting hend-held in low light conditions you will probably end up with blurred images. Usually these images are blurred towards a specific direction. Because of the tiny shakes of your hand, you are basically applying a motion blur to your images.

You can help the situation with Photoshop's built-in Smart Sharpen filter. Just select the motion blur option in the drop down menu within the filter window.

I'm talking about the area around your images in Photoshop.

Sometimes you may want to check your image against different colors, especially black. You can quickly toggle between grey, black and a custom color by simply CTRL-Clicking the grey area. Alternatively you can of course right click if you have a mouse with at least two buttons.

If you want create a quick Andy Warhol style pop art painting out of your favorite photo follow these 8 quick steps.

1. Crop your image to square.

2. Apply an Auto Contrast.

3. Increase the saturation.

Scan lines — see example above — is a quick effect that will make your most boring images look trendy and cool. It is a pixel perfect effect, so it is mainly recommended for screen use.

Basically, what you do is create a mesh of horizontal lines on a layer above your image that hides every second row of pixels. Here is the step by step tutorial and some extra ideas.

Jim from Creative Guy pointed out the great site from Adobe presenting a free Video workshop about Adobe CS3. Have fun learning!

Looks sweet. I live the non-destructing editing using the new smart filters in Photoshop. Can't beat a live blur. Also, live color looks interesting in Illustrator. What do you think?

Here is a great tutorial for all the Harry Potter fans out there from abduzeedo.

First of all here is the end result of this tutorial:

The release of CS3 must be near as even Apple posted a CS3 page.