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From Adobe’s press release:

First Major Release since April 2010 Packed with New Features and Huge Performance Enhancements

SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 22, 2012 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 beta, a preview of what’s to come in the next release of the industry standard in digital imaging, is available as a free download from Adobe Labs. Customers can download the beta, try out the experience and provide feedback to the product team. Packed with groundbreaking new innovations, features and incredible performance enhancements, Photoshop CS6 beta is available for the Mac OS and Microsoft® Windows® platforms. The final release is expected in the first half of 2012.

“Photoshop CS6 will be a milestone release that pushes the boundaries of imaging innovation with incredible speed and performance,” said Winston Hendrickson, vice president products, Creative Media Solutions, Adobe. “We couldn’t wait to share this beta of Photoshop CS6 with our customers and are looking forward to hearing from them and seeing the ways they are incorporating the beta into their daily creative workflows.”

New Features in Photoshop CS6 Beta

Photoshop CS6 beta demonstrates Adobe’s focus on huge performance enhancements, imaging magic and creativity tools that offer customers a new experience in digital imaging. Key features include new additions to the Content-Aware tools: Content- Aware Patch allows greater control by letting users select and duplicate an area of an image to fill in or “patch” another, and Content-Aware Move lets users select and magically move an object to a new place in the image.

Customers will experience incredible performance, powered by the new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine*, enabling near-instant results from popular editing tools including Liquify, Puppet Warp, Transform and Lighting Effects; and a refined, modern interface featuring dark UI options to make images pop. New and re-engineered design tools make creating designs faster and more efficient. Vector layers allow users to apply dashed lines and gradient strokes, searchable layers quickly zero in on any layer, and new type styles let designers swiftly apply type treatments to their designs.

In addition, the Photoshop CS6 beta offers all the features of Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, such as new 3D editing features and quantitative imaging analysis capabilities. These features will be included in the shipping version of Photoshop CS6 Extended when it becomes available.

Pricing and Availability

The Photoshop CS6 beta is available immediately as a free download in English and Japanese. At installation, users will be required to provide an Adobe ID to complete a one-time login and online product activation. For information on how to install Photoshop CS6 beta, visit www.adobe.com/go/photoshopcs6. Customers can submit feedback via the Photoshop CS6 beta forum.

Users can also connect with the Photoshop team via the community-powered site; on Facebook; YouTube; Photoshop.com blog; or via Twitter.

Download the PANTONE 18-2120 Honeysuckle press release here.

Fashion
Honeysuckle always works with the standard basics of black, navy, charcoal or light to mid gray. But using complementary bronze greens like Willow PANTONE 16-0632 and/or Tapenade PANTONE 18-0840 adds a new sophistication to the combination that showcases the energy of Honeysuckle. The green tones can be really interesting in accessories for Honeysuckle tights and top. Another great and unique combination is Honeysuckle with a pinkish brown like Apricot Brandy PANTONE 17-1540. Think of a warm cashmere turtleneck in Apricot Brandy with a matching skirt and shoes to blend and flatter the legs. A Honeysuckle cashmere scarf and belt create a luscious combination. And to blend all the colors, try a big and bold patterned bag with every color mentioned above.

Home Interiors
Honeysuckle is upbeat and dynamic when used on large areas like the entry area of a house or an apartment. It is an appetite and conversation stimulant when used on the dining room walls. In the kitchen, it adds a fun touch on the table in placemats and other linens (patterned or solid), colored glassware, candles and small appliances. Honeysuckle is a great color to cover up shabby kitchen cabinets, or, if that’s too much of a color statement for you, try repainting knobs and drawer pulls. But be warned – once you try this arresting shade, it can become addictive.

Packaging
Honeysuckle is an excellent packaging color for products that speak to something active or festive, or are suggestive of sweet tastes and scents. It’s an especially good shade for delicious food or drink packaging. The name Honeysuckle is evocative of these perceptions. The closest match to Honeysuckle PANTONE 18-2120 TPX in the PANTONE PLUS SERIES is 205 U, p. 45 (choose uncoated – coated is much more vibrant). One of the best combinations for Honeysuckle in the PLUS SERIES in the context of deliciousness is a grape shade 2573, p.76. Grape should be used in lesser amounts than Honeysuckle with the smallest component in a rich chocolate shade like 483, p.32.

PANTONE Color of the Year 2011 can be found in the following PANTONE Color Systems:

iPhone is becoming very handy as it comes to applications. You name it and the application for that purpose is available. If you are a graphic designer you can use this gadget for many purposes as lots of graphic designing applications are available too and that’s what i tried to sort out today.

Below is the list of 25 useful iPhone apps for graphic designers.

1. Color Expert

Color Expert is an application guide that includes tools to facilitate the color settings, the process of capture, and a combination of several colors. In addition, this application will also allow you to add color to your wishes.

2. My Pantone iPhone Apps

My Pantone  iPhone Apps are applications that are specifically used to create several color combinations that exist so as to produce a unique color for your liking. This application is used if you do not find the colors found on your iPhone. Existing navigation on this application will allow you to do the color mixing of several kinds of colors available.

3. Cliqcliq

CliqCliq is an application that you can use to set some color features that exist, such as changing colors, and create a combination of several colors into one color.This application will greatly help your application work with CSS, HTML, Flex, Flash, and others. Colors resulting from this application you can convert it into several color formats, such as RGB and CMYK.

4. Camera Bags

Camera Bags serves to set the color produced from the iphone camera. There are several kinds of colors you can choose and then shared to multiple other devices, eg PC, Mac, or online store. In addition, you can also print the image directly with pitchbridge technology.

5. Color Guides

Color guide is one of the color management application that uses with the code.Several kinds of color code that is often used in these applications is RGB and HEX.This application is very suitable to be used as a reference for those who work as a designer.

6. Layers

Layers is a graphics application on the iPhone that can be used to produce unique images by using some existing tools, such as smudge tool, brushes, paint, erase, and several other applications. Such applications are also found on several image processing program such as Photoshop, Image editing, and Image Ready.

7. Loupe

Loupe is one iPhone application that is used to enlarge object pictures you take. Use of this application is usually done if the object is not very clear.

8. Color Toy

There are many iPhone applications on the Internet, one of which is the Color Toy. If you are a graphics designer, interior deisgn, or flash animator, ColorToy can help you find the type of color that is suitable and ideal for your project. The application is very simple and flexible, allowing you to produce and mix a variety of interesting color combinations.

9. Ruler Plus

Ruler Plus is an application that is widely used by designers to measure the object with the iPhone how to put it on the media to be measured. With this application, the measurement object can be known directly.

10. Quick Office

Mobiles Quickoffice is an application that functions to help your office work when you are outside. In this application is generally similar to existing Office applications on a PC or Mac. Some features that can be used with this application including MobileMe, Dropbox, Google Docs, and Box.net. Some advantages of this application that is able to transfer files via Wi-Fi technology.

11. Photo Bucket

Photobucket is an online photo storage application. Currently this application can enjoy through on your iphone. Image and photos you can upload directly from digital cameras or computers. Some features that are often used in this application include a photo library, and your browser’s online photo. And more interestingly, this application you can get for free.

12. Omni Focus

Omnifocus useful to manage multiple plans that you should do every day. Some of the features contained in this application of which is to manage incoming mail, project designers would you do, the discussion about the project with your colleagues, and schedule your other activities. This application will help you when you’re on outdoor. Although this application paid, but it will really help you that have high mobility as a graphics designer.

13. Work Timer

Are you as designers? Working as a web designer with too many clients is often difficult to organize, scheduling, and equally impractical. However, you still need to keep track of how much time you will from some spend working on each project, the which is the WorkTimer comes in.  Can you handling your entire project? By simply pressing the screen, you cans keep a log of how many hours you’ve spent working – one less thing to clutter your mind and distract your creative genius!

14. Zeptopad

Zeptopad is an application that can be used directly. If you’re a graphics designer, and suddenly found the idea, you can pour directly inspired by the fingers on the iPhone screen. Images produced by this application is  vector format.

15. Cooliris

Cooliris is an application that contains multimedia content, such as photo sharing, video, news, and some streaming-based applications. The advantage of this application is the speed of which browser you used when you surf the web to find pictures and video.

16. Evernote

This application serves to create a simple note about your activities outside, for example, to record important things, remember things when you are on the road, and everything you think is important enough to be immortalized. This application has been synchronized with other devices, such as Mac and PC with Windows based. Some features available in this application include writing text, photos, audio notes, mark notes for quick access. You can get this application for free.

17. Fonts Previews

Font previews an application that allows a designer to see some type fonts found in some device with iOS 3.2 based  , for example iPad, iOS 4 on the iPhone, and iPod touch.

18.Brushes

Brushes is a graphics design application that is very simple. You can draw an object through a menu of available brushes. Simple addition, this application is also capable of producing images with a unique vector format. Equipped with some image processing tools will make you like a professional designer.

19. Color Splash

Color Splash is an application that can be used to produce a unique image effects, interesting, and real. Typically these applications will result in a combination and mix of very different colors, such as black and white images are combined with bright-colored pictures, so that would lead to artistic impression.

20. Font Shuffle

Fonts Shuffle is an application that must be owned by those who work as graphic design. With this application you can find various kinds and types of fonts that you want to use, ranging from the size of fonts, symbol fonts, and font editing. There are many options available. Some versions of this application you can get for free.

21. Pixelpipe

Pixelpipe is one iPhone application that can be used for photo sharing to multiple social networking sites, and micro-blogging service. This application has been supporting more than one hundred social networking sites. You can get this application for free.

22. What the Fonts

What the font is an application that is widely used in design magazines, newspapers, and several other advertising media. Existing features can you integrate into some other devices that already support this application.

23. HTML Cheat Sheet

HTML Cheat Sheet widely used by designers based HTML source code. With this application you can optimize the function of each source code available on a design, be it graphic design, web design, and some HTML-based blogging application.

24.Dexigner

Dexigner is a special application from the iPhone which serves to show news and topics around the design. An interesting display is suitable for you to try this application.

25. Analytics

Analytics is an application used by web designers and graphic designers who build a website. Where in this application, you can know about  popularity of your web on search engine. Some view of these applications include direct traffics, referring site, and search engines.

In case you’ve been waiting by your computer for Pantone‘s fall fashion colour prediction palette, here it is. The company says: “This season’s offerings include innovative takes on fundamental basics, as well as transporting, lively colours that conjure images of travel and adventure.”

Continues Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Colour Institute: “Mindful of consumers’ need for practicality, plus their desire for newness, designers offer many options for women to extend and embellish their wardrobes this fall.”

For more information, and how you can download the Fall 2010 Fashion Colour Library for free, click here.

From the report:

Inspired by the ongoing phenomena of film animation, vivid colours are often juxtaposed in inventive ways, creating arresting and extraordinary colour combinations.

Exotic Purple Orchid, a purple leaning to fuchsia, is an unexpected choice for fall, imbuing a bit of magic and vibrancy to the season. Elegant Chocolate Truffle, evocative of delicious treats, is a rich brown with piquant plum undertones, that pairs tastefully with Purple Orchid. Not your mother’s avocado green, Woodbine takes last season’s neutral greens to a whole new level, and when mixed with Purple Orchid and Chocolate Truffle, results in a stunning combination.

Lagoon, this season’s turquoise – Pantone’s 2010 color of the year – is guaranteed to add a tropical splash. A great color for fall and winter escapes, Lagoon is a popular hue, especially in accessories, pairing dynamically with all shades of red. Lipstick Red, a deeper, more dramatic sensual red, makes its imprint on fall, particularly in cosmetics.

Reminiscent of a radiant sunset on a brisk autumn evening, Golden Glow, an earthy, deepened shade of yellow, creates a retro look with Purple Orchid or Woodbine. A softer, more inviting orange with a hint of pink undertone, Living Coral is the perfect complement to Lagoon, whether heading for a tropical destination or just fantasizing about it. Crisp Endive, a revitalizing yellow-green, adds freshness to this season’s top ten, and will enliven any wardrobe. Add it to Lagoon, Chocolate Truffle and Purple Orchid for an invigorating fall look.

Oyster Gray, a classic neutral that grounds the palette, is a lighter take on the traditional fall gray, as designers heed consumers’ concern about the economy and deliver investment pieces that carry through to spring 2011. Rose Dust, a flattering beige, offers an ethereal, romantic, wispy option to span the seasons.

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Pantone, a well-known provider of professional colour standards for the graphics and design industry, has announced its prediction for what will be the colour of the year in 2010: Pantone 15-5519. Otherwise known as Turquoise, Pantone says the inviting, luminous hue combines the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, containing both warm and cool undertones.

“In many cultures, Turquoise occupies a very special position in the world of colour,” says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director, Pantone Colour Institute. “It is believed to be a protective talisman, a colour of deep compassion and healing, and a colour of faith and truth, inspired by water and sky. Through years of colour word-association studies, we also find that Turquoise represents an escape to many – taking them on a tropical paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.”

This time last year, Pantone predicted the colour of 2009 was to be Mimosa, a warm yellow. The year before saw Blue Iris as its choice, a deep blue with tones of purple. 2007′s colour was Chilli Pepper, a spicy red.

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