Video: Adobe's 'Dream On' advertisement for 25 years of Photoshop

One of the most powerful and disruptive digital creative tools of all time turned 25 years old last week. Here's the ad celebrating Photoshop's 25th featuring a sampling of how the scope and reach of this application has exploded through the years and how its permeated the world around us.

Adobe Photoshop turns 25

Adobe Photoshop turns 25 today. The iconic image editing program revolutionized everything from image editing, magazine layouts, video and film and remains the leading image editing applications for professionals and novices alike. Hit jump for information on how Photoshop affects the world we live in as well as what's in store to celebrate this momentous occasion.

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Adobe is bringing Photoshop to Chromebooks for education

Looks like Adobe is open to throwing Google's Chromebooks a bone. Reports that Photoshop will be made available for Chromebooks geared towards education.

As part of Adobe's Creative Cloud software, which will soon be available for Chromebooks for education users who have a paid creative cloud membership.

The initial version of Photoshop will be a "streaming" version of Photoshop. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and whether it will entice more users to consider Chromebooks as a substitute personal computing platform.

Source: The Verge

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.