CS5.org revealed recently some video showing a selection of features that are being developed by ‘Photoshop Labs’, including Painter-style brushes, a new warp tool and more.  Read more…

GIMP version 2.7.0 has been released. Among the new features is the capability to read JPEG2000 files (.jp2).
GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Primarily, GIMP is used as a tool for photo manipulations, such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.  Read more…

AbsolutVision was recently mentioned on a article about Free stock photo and vector art resources in MacWorld magazine:

(…) Another stock agency, AbsolutVision, also offers a free stock photo weekly for its registered users. AbsolutVision’s claim to fame is that all their images are in the JPEG 2000 format, which offers higher compression rates with no loss in quality, alpha-channel, and 16-bit color support.  Read more…