February 24, 2009

Photoshop CS4 update now available

Adobe has released an update for Photoshop CS4 (Mac|Win). You can also get the update by choosing Help->Updates from within Photoshop. From the download page:

• A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed.
• Pen barrel rotation with Wacom tablets now works correctly.
• Photoshop now correctly recognizes 3D textures edited by a plug-in.
• The quality of the results of Auto-Blend Layers (Stack Images) has been improved.
• A problem that could result in a crash when pasting formatted text has been fixed.
• A crash that could result from a corrupt font no longer occurs.

I’m sorry that these problems got past us in testing, and the team thanks everyone who helped bang on the fixes before the update was released.

[On a related note, InDesign CS4 has also been updated (Mac|Win); see the download pages for details.]

Tuesday Illustrations: Pea Pea Dancing & more

• Kid bits:
  • Conduct Happiness’s Pea Pea Dance and other drawings are ruthlessly cute.
  • Kid Kong: Fun illustrations on these baby blocks make your child seem like “a vengeful god” wreaking havoc on unlucky citizens. [Via]
  • Someday I’d love to have my son do a portrait like this of me (sans goatee, etc.).
  • Joey Ellis made a set of nifty Letter Monsters to help his son learn the alphabet. [Via]
• I love Johnny Beerens’s water storage tank embellishments.
• The Smoking Gun’s Mug Shot Metamorphosis shows the evolution of a tattooed face. [Via]
• Obama sushi. Really.