For all you Photoshop nuts who just love our Advanced Photoshop eMag editions, the latest Volume 2 is now available to buy at the official Imagine website – www.imagineshop.co.uk/emags.phpThis includes content from issues 32 to 47 of Advanced Photoshop all on one interactive disc. That adds up to over 1,200 pages of professional tutorials, interviews and features. There’s also 50 royalty-free images and 20 free textures absolutely free. All this for just £19.99; what a bargain!

Hi gallery gang, just a quick notice.When uploading images to your galleries, mind not to activate the Over 18 image notification. Some of you may mistake this as image permission use.This should only be activated in cases where your image may contain erotic or violent elements or scenarios, which is fine within reason and context. We don’t want to stifle expression after all!However, if you are activating this option for any other purpose, then you may deter people from viewing particularly pleasant and suitable images and ultimately limit your views and votes.So be sure to use this option appropriately, so you don’t miss out.Keep up the good work!

For all of you that may have missed the CS4 broadcast yesterday and fear being left in the dark, then no need to worry. After its launch, the official Adobe site is now shining light on just what this new innovative package has to offer. For full details, visit www.adobe.com.

Today records further advantages developments in the creative software industry with the official launch of Adobe Creative Suite 4.You too can experience all this creative software has to offer by registering for the hosted web broadcast this morning from 10am.To do so, visit the link below:www.adobe.com/go/somethingbrilliant

Hi all you creative gallery goers,Could you all do your best to check out the thread on the chat forum (http://advancedphotoshop.co.uk/forum) posted by our favourite contributing journalist, Mr Nick Spence, and have your say.The thread can be found in Chat Lounge titled:The future of Photoshop - what would you like to see?Here, you can tell Nick and the AP forum family just what advancements you’d make in Photoshop if you had a chance.So don’t waste a good opportunity and tell it like it is! Who knows, Adobe might be listening!

Well, Julie will by now be sunning herself in the US of A while I’m left here to hold the fort.Sympathy emails are welcome and much appreciated.But seriously, keep your eyes peeled this week for my own updates and be sure to check out the D3 post on our Photoshop Daily news section.

Well, today is my last day at the office for two whole weeks! Finally, my summer holiday has rolled around and after the disappointment of the British ’summer’ this year, I can’t wait to get some sun.Tomorrow I will be heading for some gambling/shopping/site-seeing (did I ever mention my slight poker addiction?!?) in Las Vegas, and next week I’ll be making the drive across to California and setting up in LA for another week.  To say I can’t wait is a bit of an understatement! I’m really looking forward to Disneyland (it is the ‘happiest place on Earth’ after all), Universal Studios, Hollywood. I wonder if Advanced Photoshop needs an American branch?Of course, I’ll be on holiday, but try and stop me taking a million photos of things that could work in digital projects – it’s never far from my mind. I just hope my cameras are up to the challenge – I have a fantastic little Olympus compact and a Kodak prosumer. I must get a DSLR at some point, but I’m sure that I’m going to be pushing excess baggage anyway!  Adam will be looking after everything in the Advanced Photoshop world for the next two weeks and working on our exciting fiftieth issue! See you when I get back!

We are coming up to our 50th issue here at Advanced Photoshop magazine and we are running a number of special features. I am writing to invite you to take part in a ‘just-for-fun’ feature that we are doing called ‘50 covers by 50 artists’ (working title!) where I am asking artists to provide us with an image that they think would work as an Advanced Photoshop cover. We will then be mocking each of those images up into an Advanced Photoshop cover and printing them all inside the magazine. Now, while we have a great number of artists on board already, I’d love to see some work from our readers featured, too.If you would like to contribute to this, then all you have to do is fill in the information below and provide me with an image that you would like to see mocked up into a cover.Name:Location:Occupation:Website:Name of image provided:Why this image would make a good cover (50 words):Images should be 300dpi, CMYK, TIFF or PSD and a minimum size of 15 x 15cm. If you want to upload to our FTP, then please email me for details.You can see our latest cover at www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk for an idea of layout. Email your contributions to julie.easton@imagine-publishing.co.uk with the Subject line as ‘AP 50 cover entry’.The best covers will then be printed in issue 50.Julie 

New issue hits the shelves tomorrow! All the latest and greatest techniques including: The rules of fantasy art; Using photo references in digital paintings; Master the Calculations function; Challenging and inspiring Masterclasses, including: Create an urban photomontage; Add a silver effect to monochrome images; Have fun with stock images; Interview with Marko Djurdjevic; Build a home studio, whatever your budget; Free CD with brushes, vector graphics and more

As I mentioned before, Rosie from Photoshop Creative has been in Las Vegas for Photoshop World. You can read her latest updates on the blog at http://blog.photoshopcreative.co.uk. Check it out!