Spirit of Blue helps Revere PD

This just in from Spirit of Blue: "Events in the Boston area in April underscore the importance and critical role that this type of software can play. Just days after the bombing, law enforcement had tens of thousands of hours of cell phone and CCTV footage to comb through. Without a tool like Amped FIVE Professional, that footage could have been rendered unusable. As we know now, law enforcement’s ability to enhance and analyze that footage brought about the crucial break in identifying the suspects in the case,” commented Todd Parola, who serves the Spirit of Blue as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. “The Revere community in particular has made significant investments in their surveillance capability and Amped FIVE Professional will allow them to unlock the full value of the data they are now able to collect."

The Spirit of Blue Foundation helps LE agencies through grants of product. Check out their site to see if there's a grant that will help your agency.

Creative Cloud for Government

I asked a few questions of my friends at Adobe about how the Creative Cloud scheme will be implemented for government accounts. As most folks know, governments don't usually do month-to-month recurring payments, they usually pay in blocks with a purchase order - to an authorized reseller.

With that in mind, here's the response that I received:

• We will be updating our Government Price List in July and you will be able to purchase through authorized resellers, at that time. If [your agency] chooses to enter into an ETLA (Enterprise Term License Agreement), then yes, one, annual payment would be allowed, along with annual “true ups”.
• Log in’s and further details, specific to Government End Users will be addressed at 2 separate webinars.

So, there you have it. Jump in an register for the webinars and ask your questions there.

Enjoy.

Moving files backwards from Photoshop CC

This just in from David Cross, "Here’s one of the concerns many people have with Adobe Creative Cloud: if down the road I stop my cloud membership, can I open my files in older versions of the software. Of course there is no way to absolutely guarantee that it will work, although historically – in Photoshop at least – you can open psd files in an older version. If your psd file contains features that are not supported by the older version, the file still opens but those features cannot be edited."

So, if you decide to go down the subscription path, but later can't afford the payments, you can still work with the old versions of Photoshop that you "own."

Enjoy.

Reaction to CC is mixed

As you can see from this video, not everyone is reacting kindly to the news about CC.

Say goodbye to Photoshop Extended

With the birth of Photoshop CC comes the death of the Photoshop Extended product. All Photoshop CC customers will get all the cool features and product updates. Can I get an amen? Finally, no more trying to explain to folks who can't get the measurement tool to work ... you bought the wrong version. This makes perfect sense to me, and I am glad they finally pulled the plug on the 2 Photoshops concept.