This hilarious informercial parody of Adobe Photoshop beauty retouching makes light of the standards of beauty in our society in this very clever video by Jesse Rosten introducing a new make-up line Fotoshop by Adobé. It’s a perfect send-off of all those late-night infomercials where the befores and afters seem to be nothing more than photoshopped versions of the same photos.

Then again, all I can say is, if only…

Website design has never been easier than with Muse, new software currently in beta from Adobe.

Muse (code name) promises to let users ‘create websites as easily as you can create layouts for print’. You can design and publish HTML websites without writing code or working within restrictive templates, with functionality similar to InDesign.

Features will include drag and drop customizable widgets like navigation menus; embedded HTML code snippets from sources including Google Maps, YouTube and Facebook; and the ability to create Adobe-hosted trial sites for testing and review purposes.

Download the beta version of Adobe Muse.

Apple has added NEX RAW support to Aperture 3 and iPhoto 09 in the latest Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update v3.3 which adds support for:

Sony Alpha NEX-3
Sony NEX-5 camera
Sony Alpha DSLR-A390
Olympus E-PL1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G10
Canon PowerShot SX1 IS
Samsung NX10

Apple users can also find this update by running Software Update or at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1072

Adobe evangelist Russell Brown has brought out a lot of cool scripts – but none as sweet as his new Dr. Brown’s Process 1-2-3. Available as a free download as part of Dr. Brown’s Services 1.9.2 that can be found here.

Consider it an update of his very useful Image Processor on STEROIDS!

Dr. Brown’s Process 1-2-3 allows you to save up to three sets of images out of Bridge as PSDs, TIFFs or JPEGs selecting color spaces for each and in any compression settings independently for each set of images. You can also run a batch action at the end of the process if for instance you wish to change from 16bit to 8bit after the converting to the final color space.

Here’s where it comes in handy. My working layered files are full-Rez 16bit ProPhoto PSDs generally from a Leaf Aptus 75S. So I need to downrez and convert the color profile before delivering the files to my clients and my photo agency. But the file specs are different for each.

When submitting to magazines, I submit 8bit Tiffs in Colormatch RGB – 18 inches (5400 pixels) in the longest dimension – and I use Lossless LZW compression to make upload quicker.

My stock agency requests uncompressed 8bit Tiffs in Adobe 98 – no larger than 80mb (which translates to roughly 6000 pixels in the longest dimension when shooting 4×3 format.)

Before now it was a pain to downrez two sets of files at different resolutions, different color spaces and different resolutions. Dr Brown’s Process 1-2-3 makes it easy. I save both as presets that save the files in subfolders marked “Corbis” and “Magazine” in the same folder as the layered full-rez 16bit files.