"Project: Photoshop and Lightroom reaffirms Adobe's commitment to photography and photographic education," said Julieanne Kost, senior evangelist at Adobe. "This program enables students and educators to experience the Lightroom beta first hand, get in-depth training on Photoshop as well as serve as a conduit from which they can freely share their work, ideas and tips through a dynamic online community."

There will be a two-day seminar at each venue with world-renowned documentary photographer and four-time Picture of the Year Award winner Colin Finlay taking participants under his wing. He will share some tidbits of his career as a photographer, while Julianne Kost will take the wheel on the second day, briefing students on how to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Lightroom beta. A selected group of students will be chosen to join Finlay in a workshop assignment. Students will place images from this assignment into a portfolio which will be uploaded to the Web site for sharing with the extended community.

Adobe Lightroom, available in public beta for both Windows® and Macintosh platforms.

Schedule:

Sept. 5-6, Lansing Community College, Lansing, Mich.
Sept. 7-8, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas Sept. 11-12, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, Calif.
Sept. 13-14, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Calif.
Sept. 15-16, Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Sept. 18-19, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, Calif.
Sept. 20-21, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif.
Sept. 26-27, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.
Sept. 28-29, Syracuse University, The Newhouse School of Communications, Syracuse, N.Y.
Oct. 5-6, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Ill.
Oct. 9-10, Antonelli Institute, near Philadelphia, Pa.
Oct 11-12, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.
Oct. 16-17, Art Institute of Colorado, Denver, Colo.
Oct. 18-19, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah Oct 23-24, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, N.Y.
Oct. 27, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York City, N.Y.
Oct. 28, Parsons - The New School for Design, New York City, N.Y.
Nov. 6-7, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga.
Nov 15-16, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Fl.
Nov. 27-28, New England School of Photography, Boston, Mass.
Nov. 29-30, Hallmark Institute of Photography, Turner's Falls, Mass.
Dec 4 - 5, Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle, Wash.
Dec 7 - 8, School of Visual Arts, New York City, New York

You are one of those types who pay close attention to details, keep a visual reservoir of those in your digital camera, and feel the need to absolutely share those valuable pictures to other people. As such, you have been on the lookout for the release of the Adobe Lightroom, which actually allows you to do just that. The said program boasts of easy file transfer from digital camera to pc, picture editing, and easy picture uploading, all on a user-friendly interface and more.

But don't you wait no more. The Adobe Lightroom Beta is available for downloading on the Adobe website, both for Mac and Windows users. Thus, you can enjoy all the perks of the Adobe Lightroom for free. Now, don't you waste time dilly-dallying, as this opportunity will expire on January 30, 2007.

If I am to make a list of the things I love the most, these two will definitely make the top ten - Summer and Anime. First, who hates summer?! No homeworks to tackle, no class bully to avoid, and no worries of staying up late because you have to wake up early tomorrow for class; the only downside is, boredom. On the other hand, who doesn't love Animes?! Don't go telling me it's kid stuff, I used to handle a column space and most of the quotes I used were from animes, like Kira Yamato's (Google him) "If we don't do anything just because we think it won't do something, then we just did worse than nothing". The downside, you can only enjoy them so much.

So what can we do with these downsides? Well, try to find a way to hit 'em two birds with one stone; use the spare time (spare equates boring) to learn something that can expand your love for animes, like this neat trick using Adobe Photoshop (provided by the good people over at TutorialDash). What we have here is a set of steps to make a real thing appear it's taken right from the frames of an anime episode. Talk about doing things in reverse right? (Anime creators stive hard to make their work realistic, and here we are trying to make real things look, well, anime-istic.)

The steps await after the jump!