Smart Object Support for Blur Gallery and Liquify Watch as Photoshop Senior Product Manager, Zorana Gee, introduces how you can now create photographic blurs and reshape images and video nondestructively with new Smart Object support for Blur Gallery and Liquify. These features are available now, exclusively to Creative Cloud members.

The Gradient Map Adjustment layer has over 35 new presets to emulate traditional darkroom techniques for toning and split-toning photographs. Learn how to load and apply gradient maps to a single image as well as how to download and use Julieanne’s template to quickly see what each preset would look like on your own photograph through the magic of Smart Objects. The files she references can be found here. http://adobe.ly/OBIOdz

In this episode, join Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost as she shows off some of the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, part of the new Adobe Creative Cloud. See the blazingly fast performance of the new Mercury Graphics Engine. Learn about the new improved processing and enhanced controls in Adobe Camera Raw 7, the new photographic blur effects, how to straighten objects using the new Adaptive Wide Angle, and more. Explore many of the timesaving and user-inspired enhancements including new type styles, re-engineered Shape layers, and the all-new Crop tool. Also explore the intuitive video editing capabilities of Photoshop CS6 and 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS6 Extended.

Quickly create photographic blur effects using a simple new interface with on-image controls. Create tilt-shift effects, blur everything and then sharpen one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points. The Mercury Graphics Engine delivers immediate results.

Learn from Russell Brown and his team of experts about using your tablet device in photographic imaging. This will be a limited class, so be sure to sign up early.

Members of the Peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academy in Redwood City, Ca, collaborated with representatives from the NOH8 Campaign to create a song and video which promotes the campaign’s “anti-hate” message. The NOH8 Campaign is a photographic silent protest against the ruling of California’s Proposition 8. In the brainstorming process of the project, the members of the Peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academy decided to address all forms of hate including race, gender, religion and so forth. By expressing their own opinions on the subject matter, along with visual images that support their lyrics, the artists hope that the song and video will raise awareness of these issues and encourage their peers to be more understanding, tolerant and accepting of each others’ differences. The project was proposed and managed by Diego Petterson from the “Somewhere2turn” community outreach project. Diamante Machuca-Horton and Richard Kaho wrote and performed the song. Their good friend and fellow Peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academy member, P.J. Poloai, edited the video sequence.