Lightroom 3 is Adobe’s newest update to their amazing photo-developing application. Its tools and features can help you ensure your photos are at their best, whether you start with great pictures or even ones with numerous problems. While Adobe makes both Lightroom 3 and Photoshop, they are very different applications for different purposes. Photoshop is a tool for doing work on images individually. It’s also great for creating images from scratch. Lightroom 3 is not.

Today, Adobe officially announced Creative Suite 4, better known as CS4. Part of that is the almighty Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended, both complete with a laundry list of new features and updates.

CS4 has been highly anticipated by many, myself included. I’ve been waiting for the next update to finally lay down the cash and own a piece of the monster that is Photoshop. Let’s see if my wait was worth it.

Feature list after the break.

Avenza Systems, a popular mapping plug-in developer for Photoshop, has announced the updated version of the well received Geographic Imager plug-in. This plug-in allows Photoshop users with the necessary tools to edit and work with maps and satellite images. It provides users with the ability to import GeoTIFF images, automatically tile and mosaic images spatially, more »