It’s “Lots of Quick News” (and it’s “Big Adobe Event” Tuesday)

Adobe’s online Creative Cloud event is today! It’s the one where they’re unveiling what’s next in the Creative Cloud is today, and I’m part of the presentation (I’ll be talking a little about the cloud itself, but then later on I’m doing a segment called “Hidden Gems” where I’ll be showing some new stuff and some little-known existing features in Photoshop.When: TODAY, December 11th, 2012 Time: 10:00 PST (1:00 pm New York Time) Where: Here’s the link.  My new book is already sold out But if you didn’t get your order in yesterday, you can still order the Print edition from Amazon.com and they’ll deliver it as soon as the next batch hits their warehouse — here’s the link just in case.If you can’t wait ’till then, it’s available right now from Apple’s iBook Store (for IOS) — here’s the linkSubmit your images for our “Blind Critiques” episode of “The Grid” If you’d like to have your photography considered for TOMORROW”s blind critiques (we show your images but don’t mention your name on the air), just leave us a link to your images AT THIS ADDRESS: http://kelbytv.com/thegrid/critique/We’ll pick 20 or so photographer’s work to go over on the show (not based on who posted first — we choose based on showing variety and images we think can help our viewers), and the live show is broadcast TOMORROW at 4:00 pm ET at http://www.kelbytv.com/thegrid  — see you on “The Grid”Catch Matt Kloskowski on “The Hallmark Channel’s: Home & Family” That’s right, our own homegrown Mattski is going to be a guest Wednesday on broadcast TV on the Hallmark Channel’s show, “Home & Family.” They’ll be talking about photography and Photoshop and what Matt uses to make his hair so shiny, so make sure you tune in. Here’s the details:When: Wednesday at 9:00 am ET Where: The Hallmark Channel (check your local cable guide) When Again: It’s possible it’s not at 9:00 am everywhere, so again, check your cable guide.Want more megapixels? Be careful what you wish for.  I was reminded this week how large the file sizes are for images I shoot with my Nikon D800. I grabbed a hard drive to copy around 1,000 images I took in Cuba, and I was shocked to see that it wouldn’t fit on the drive because it was a whopping 43 Gigbytes!!! I looked at what the Raw files were from my Nikon D3s, and for around 1,000 Raw files it was 1/3 the size (around 15GB) and for the same number of JPEGs from a similar camera it around 6GB. I’ll shoot more than 1,000 photos at any given football game in just three hours (glad I’m shooting JPEG).Anyway, I added a chart below with the specs. Eyeopening. (And yes, I know it’s just simple math, and that hard drive space has never been cheaper, but until you actually try and copy that many GB and your hard drive says “Not enough room” and you think, “Nah, it can’t be” you found out, “Oh, it be.”).You will get a kick out of this video! I know I’m probably the 15,000th person to share this very cute Jimmy Fallon/Mariah Carey rendition of Mariah’s “All I want for Christmas is You” Christmas song, but Kalebra and I just watched it a few mornings ago and it really got us in the Christmas Spirit (and I’ve been singing it ever since).Hope it makes your Holiday, and your Tuesday a little brighter. :-)Gotta run! Hope to see you all today at the Adobe event (it’s free!). Cheers, -Scott 
Article by Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider. Read entire story here.