Chicago-based Pixel Genius which is well known for creating Photoshop plug-ins has launched an incredible blog called PhotoshopNews.

Jason Kottke reports that Adobe announced a major upgrade to its CreativeSuite software package at the Adobe Ideas Conference.

One word – Woohooo!

Via Sree Sreenivasan

“NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary source and printed rarities in the collection of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera and more.”

Free for student/non-commercial use. Cough up the moolah if you are planning on using it on a product for sale, on your website or for even a non-profit organization.

“… as the physical rights holder of this material most of which is in the public domain for copyright purposes, the Library charges a usage fee if images are to be used in any nonprofit or commercial publication, broadcast, web site, exhibition, promotional material, etc. The usage fee is not a copyright fee.”

Please read the licensing agreement before downloading anything.

Just read this on Jason Kottke‘s site – Flickr, the popular online image sharing and social network company, has been acquired by Yahoo!

Via Robert Scoble

Sending images across to your friends and family have always been a major pain in the you-know-where. I use YouSendIt to send large files, zipped or unzipped to my clients. Even today, as I attempted to use that service, my machine choked and I had to split the delivery into seven separate packages. Not fun.

Well, just as I was lamenting about this to a colleague at work, I saw Robert Scoble's short post about PhotoLeap.

I have yet to try this service – there are options for free, plus and pro – but from a cursory look I think it holds a lot of promise for both PC and Macintosh users.

It just may make my life easier when clients come-a-calling for me to ship them images and neither my ISP nor theirs will cooperate. Try it out and let me know what you think.