Adobe announced at its annual MAX conference that it will no longer be releasing new versions of its software under the Creative Suite banner. Instead, all future updates and features will be delivered via Creative Cloud. In other words, those who buy Creative Suite 6 will only get just that while all new features to Photoshop and the like will only be available via Creative Cloud.

The move to Creative Cloud, which is a subscription service, has upset some members of the Adobe user community. The complaints were excellently captured in a new video released by our favorite Taiwanese animators at NMA:

Adobe says that it’s moving to a subscription-only model because it will allow them to deliver updates to users at a faster rate:

“We launched Creative Cloud a year ago and it has been a runaway success,” said David Wadhwani, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Media, Adobe. “By focusing our energy — and our talented engineers — on Creative Cloud, we’re able to put innovation in our members’ hands at a much faster pace.”

To convince current CS6 users to move to Creative Cloud, Adobe is offering discounts on the subscription service for a limited time. You can check out all the different Creative Cloud plans here.

To celebrate Photoshop reaching 5 million Facebook fans, Adobe has put together a short video that compiles all the work that went into making Photoshop CS6. Some of the stats – like Photoshop’s 4.5 million lines of code – are rather impressive. Other stats – like the number of beer cases consumed during production – show that Adobe must be a fun to place to work at.

Looking beyond the numbers, the video gives a small glimpse at how software like Photoshop is made. It’s not open source so its users can’t directly influence its development, but the team does take ideas and suggestions from users to make Photoshop the best it can be.

If the above video has coerced you into wanting to enshrine a physical copy of Photoshop CS6 in your closet; you have until April 30 to do so. After that, the software will leave for the Cloud and digital orders only. You could set up a computer running Photoshop CS6 in your makeshift closet shrine, but it just wouldn’t have the same effect.

Adobe announced that Photoshop Touch is now available on the iPhone (4S and 5 only) and Android (4.0 and up only) smartphones. The app costs $4.99, and features a new UI that’s built specifically for smartphones. That being said, it features almost all of the same features and toolsets from the tablet app:

Much like the tablet version, Photoshop Touch on the phone has core Photoshop features like layers, advanced selections tools, adjustments and filters. We also packed in features exclusive to Photoshop Touch, like Scribble Selection for high-precision selections using only your finger, and Camera Fill for real-time creative blending of your camera feed with layers. This app features the same creative filters as the tablet version, like Color Drops and Acrylic Paint, and also a new Ripple filter.

Photoshop Touch also takes advantage of Adobe’s Creative Cloud to allow creators to share projects across different devices:

With Photoshop Touch and the Adobe Creative Cloud, I can start a project on my phone, continue it on my tablet, and polish it off at my desk in Photoshop CS6. Photoshop Touch will automatically keep my projects in sync on each device, at the full resolution and with all the layers intact. This capability is available to every customer with a free Creative Cloud account. There is no paid subscription requirement for syncing.

You can grab Photoshop Touch right now on the Apple App Store and Google Play. It may just be what you need to touch up that Instagram photo with some extra filters before you upload it.

Check out the video for “You Can’t Be My Girl” below:

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Just another example of how the internet has changed U.S. politics, I guess.

First their submission, “Little Face Paul”:

“Lazy Eye Ryan”:

No title, courtesy photo:

“Elton Ryan”:

No words. Have fun sleeping tonight. Courtesy user eylyana:

“All lip Ryan”:

There’s plenty more where those came from, as the thread is over 2000 comments long. I truly hope this becomes a series – ObamaShop, RomneyShop, and BidenShop. Only in America, folks.

Some competitions (most notably swimming and gymnastics) have been plagued by an empty seat issue, one that is clearly visible to everyone watching coverage around the globe.

Well, some creative redditors decided to fix the problem after the fact. Thanks to a post in the subreddit r/photoshopbattles, many of those empty seats have officially been filled – by some fo your favorite characters from the internet and beyond. Little by little, they added famous people to the seats, eventually producing this amazing gif. See how many characters you can spot:

Despite the empty seats, 2.1 million spectators have attended the first three days of the Games. Olympics organizers say that around 90% of ticket holders have shown up since Friday.

Then what’s with the empty seats?

Apparently, a combination of issues. Whether it be dignitaries that didn’t show up, unsold tickets allocated to different countries, or foreign ticket agencies holding tickets back in order to sell them for a huge profit later – hundreds of thousands of tickets remain unaccounted for.

Good thing, otherwise I don’t think Sad Keanu would have been able to attend.

[h/t @mattpicasso]

You won’t be disappointed by the exchanges, no matter how misguided they are.

It’s clear the rush to be first in the world of news trumps accuracy, and because each station’s screw-up was so noticeable, it became something of a talking point, at least where CNN is involved. While a slanted report that goes against the Obama administration is to be expected for Fox News, the fact that CNN was so thoroughly mistaken is a major talking point, perhaps all the way to the halls of CNN itself.

While Fox News is also to blame here, the fallout is being coined as CNN gives Obama his “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment, something that was immortalized by yfrog.com users. So much so, in fact, it lead to the creation of a mock-up of the famous image, but instead of Truman holding up the newspaper, which leads this article, the image has been doctored to feature Obama, an iPad, and CNN’s unfortunate blunder of a headline:

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A modern-day “Dewey Beats Truman’ http://t.co/sT2qRIwy

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RT @AmandaBeadle: CNN’s “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment (via @EliClifton) http://t.co/EDjRgfGU

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And the iconic photo[shop] to match? http://t.co/oOMRwmO8 MT @dgardner: CNN just delivered the Twitter generation’s “Dewey Defeats Truman.”

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DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN

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Everyone, please. Until Obama holds up an iPad with a CNN screenshot on it, this isn’t Dewey Defeats Truman. It’s just an epic screwup.

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Killjoy.

The cloud is the future and Adobe obviously wants Creative Cloud to be one of the best when the future arrives. To that end, they have begun an initiative to keep Creative Cloud subscribers on top of the latest and greatest software innovations beginning with Photoshop Lightroom.

Adobe announced today that Photoshop Lightroom 4 is now available to all Creative Cloud subscribers. Lightroom is described as “the essential digital photography workflow solution helping amateur and professional photographers quickly import, manage, enhance and showcase images.” Lightroom seems especially well-suited to cloud storage as professional photography is one of the more storage intensive hobbies/professions around.

“The addition of Lightroom to Creative Cloud delivers on our promise to bring the best in Adobe innovation to Creative Cloud members,” said Winston Hendrickson, vice president products, Creative Media Solutions, Adobe. “Over the next few months we’ll continue to add new products and services, keeping Creative Cloud members up to date with the latest advancements in Adobe software and services.”

If the allure of Lightroom and promise of more Adobe software has made you itching to get a Creative Cloud subscription, you should be made aware of its limitations. Users pay $49.99 a month to get access to every software application within CS6. That’s great, but users are also limited to only 20 GB of space on said cloud where multiple video and photo projects will take up that space pretty quickly. You can grab a Creative Cloud membership for only $29.99 a month if you can prove that you’re a student or teacher.

If the Creative Cloud just doesn’t interest you in the least, you can get Lightroom 4 for $149 or $79 for the upgrade. If you’re only going to use Lightroom, that’s a pretty good deal. If you want to use the other applications in CS6, Creative Cloud may be the most cost effective option even if I think the $49.99 price tag is a little steep.

With the launch of Adobe CS6, the company also announced that Creative Cloud would be launching this Friday. It allows anybody to have access to all of the tools contained in CS6 for a small fee of $49.99 a month. These new people who jump in at this point might have no formal training or experience with the new tools in Photoshop CS6. The video below is for them, but you creative types might want to watch it as well. You might just a learn a few tricks.

The video tutorial comes from Adobe Senior Digital Evangelist Julieanne Kost. She shows off all the new features that come with Photoshop CS6 Extended including the new Mercury Graphics Engine and Adobe Camera Raw 7. She will also discuss the photographic blur effects, Adaptive Wide Angle, new Shape layers, and the new and improved Crop tool.

Unfortunately, the above video was meant to cover Photoshop’s new video editing features as well, but Kost ran out of time. She instead pointed us to a video she had previously created that goes over the video editing tools in Photoshop CS6. It’s not as in-depth as the above video, but it should give you some ideas as to how the new feature works.

As we reported last month, Adobe CS6 launches with new versions of Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash Professional and other software including Encore and Fireworks. As always, the software is available in four suite versions – Design Standard, Design Web and Premium, Production Premium and Master Collection.

As was announced alongside CS6, Adobe will also be launching the Creative Cloud on Friday. The new option allows users to download and install all the programs that are in the Master Collection. Users can then store and share their content across desktops, mobile devices and the cloud. It’s the version of CS6 that’s targeted towards those who want to publish content to the Web. It’s available at a subscription pricing of $49.99 a month.

“We announced Creative Cloud and CS6 two weeks ago and these releases have caught the imagination of creatives everywhere,” said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Digital Media Business, Adobe. “Today we’re shipping CS6 and look forward to the beginning of an exciting new era as we introduce Creative Cloud later this week.”

According to Adobe, those who buy CS6 can look forward to these new features:

New levels of performance with tools that take advantage of Adobe Mercury Graphics functionality, allowing users to go from ideas to finished work faster than ever before.

Enhanced user interfaces that vastly simplify workflows, so users can focus on their content and achieve results quicker.

New capabilities that streamline the creation of responsive content, ensuring website and apps look great across virtually all screen sizes and form factors.

Remarkable new science, integrated into imaging and video apps, makes previously impossible tasks suddenly possible.

The four versions of Adobe CS6 are now available at Adobe Authorized Resellers, the Adobe Store in North America and Adobe Direct Sales. The prices are as follows: $2,599 for CS6 Master Collection, $1,899 for CS6 Production Premium, $1,899 for CS6 Design and Web Premium, and $1,299 for CS6 Design Standard. For more information on the individual versions and the software contained therein, check out the official product page.

If you have been a CS user since at least CS3, Adobe is also offering a special discounted price on a full Creative Cloud membership. Normally $49.99 a month, a one year contract for existing customers will only be $29.99 a month for the first year.

Adobe seems to be offering a little something for everyone with the newest release. I’m tempted to sign up for the Creative Cloud if only to have access to After Effects and Premiere Pro at a price that’s way cheaper than what the Master Collection costs.

Are you planning on picking up CS6? Or are you going for the Creative Cloud? Let us know in the comments.