Bryan Hughes, Photoshop Product Manager, has recently posted Photoshop CS4 Features Tour, in which he walks through new top features of this release.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 will be officially launched on 23rd September.

I can’t tell you anything other than Adobe CS4 will be the largest product launch in Adobe’s history. You can signup to watch a special web broadcast and be among the first to see what’s on offer.

• Website: Adobe CS4 Web Broadcast

Blow Up 2 is a Photoshop plug-in that produces enlargements sharper than any other software, including Photoshop! Blow Up uses an innovative algorithm that temporarily converts pixels to a vector representation which results in perfectly smooth, crisp edges. Simulated texture and film grain keep photos looking natural even in extreme enlargements. Blow Up can even clean up JPEG compression artifacts when a client insists on using a low quality source image from the Web.

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Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 7 features a new Scene Cleaner to create the ideal photo by letting you simply brush away unwanted subjects, such as tourists in your vacation shots. The new Smart Brush helps you to apply effects to a specific area of a photo with a single stroke, making it a snap to improve lighting and add rich textures with access to more than fifty sophisticated effects. Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 customers – in the US only – will have the option to sign-up for one year of membership on Photoshop.com…

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