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Lightroom 2.6, Photoshop Camera Raw 5.6 are currently available at Adobe.com. Originally posted as release candidates for community testing on Adobe Labs, these final versions include raw file support for 20 new popular camera models, including the Canon EOS 7D and Nikon D3s.
The updates also provide a fix for an issue affecting PowerPC customers using the final Lightroom 2.5 and Camera Raw 5.5 updates on... 
Author: David Peters
Anyone who plans on spending any length of time wandering the halls of Photoshop should consider learning how Photoshop layer sets work.
Layers are crucial to the entire mechanism of Photoshop design and enhancement.
The Photoshop “Layers” palette maintains a precise history of all your keystrokes… so you don’t have to remember anything.
Layers can be likened to... 
Author: Nicholas Normandy
As a freelance digital photographer I know that sometimes a picture can sell better with filters or effects. It depends on what your taking pictures of, but sometimes a digital picture can look rather bland and totally lacking originality without effects. A digital picture has to be easily noticed by buyers and sometimes a digital camera cannot do this alone. The solution that a... 