Adobe makes Photoshop and Lightroom available for $9.99 a month

For a limited time, anyone can subscribe to a version of  Adobe's Creative Cloud that includes Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, Behance Membership with ProSite and 20GB of cloud storage for $9.99. Announced at Photoshop world in Las Vegas yesterday. Consumers asked and Adobe listened, since a number of users just need Photoshop and maybe Lightroom, why should they pay for all the other stuff. Hit jump for the full details of the deal.

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Reduce App makes editing photos on an iOS a breeze

Photographers with iOS 6-enabled iPads or iPhones now have an awesome $1.99 photo resizing tool called Reduce App. As the iPad and iPad mini continue to transcend content consumption and start becoming content creation devices, the need for smart and usefull tools like Reduce App make it possible to edit images easily for sharing. Hit jump for more detailsMade by Tobias Wiedenmann, Reduce can quickly do the following.

- Resize to a given pixel size

- Limit the output to a given file size by auto-detecting the needed jpeg compression

- Resharpen the image to avoid softness from the resizing process

- Possibility to remove EXIF info (useful if you want to hide GPS information)

- Add a black or white border to seperate the image from the background

- Watermark or label your pictures by adding a text in one of it's corners.

Review: Apple Aperture

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

We’ve been testing Apple’s Aperture 3 photo management software for a little over a month and as we integrated it into our day-to-day photography workflow, we realized that it is a well-rounded and thoughtful application that’s designed to appeal to novices as well as professionals, which if you think about it is a daunting task.

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