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X-Rite just announced two free March webinars for both professional and serious amateur photographers. The webinars will help photographers gain confidence and learn easy and powerful ways to enhance their color workflow.

"The month of March brings photographers some exciting and creative new X-Rite Photo webinars," said Mark Rezzonico, vice president, X-Rite Photo Marketing. "From exploring both basic and advanced image editing techniques to participating in a rare opportunity to learn how to improve their digital workflow from photographer and gifted educator Katrin Eismann, there is something for everyone in X-Rite’s monthly webinar series."

March Webinar Schedule:

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT and 1:00 PM EDT
Image Edits and Enhancements in Lightroom 4

Adobe's new Lightroom 4 offers new options for editing and output that make this a must-have upgrade for Lightroom users. In this free webinar sponsored by X-Rite, Joe Brady will explore both basic and advanced image editing techniques. During this session, he'll focus on the new editing capabilities offered in this upgrade - in future sessions, Joe will explore the new modules and Lightroom file organization.Read more

Adobe Creative Suite users who haven't yet upgraded to the latest version of design software, now is the time. The company just announced a special promotion giving Creative Suite users on older versions of the software the opportunity to upgrade from their individual or suite product to the latest version – including Creative Suite 5.5, Photoshop CS5 or Illustrator CS5 – with a 20 percent discount.

The offer runs through December 31, 2011 and will be honored by all Adobe Resellers and adobe.com for customers with a valid license to one of the following CS2, CS3 or CS4 products:

• Design Premium; Design Standard; Web Premium; Web Standard; Production Premium; or Master Collection
• Production Studio Premium or Standard; Design Bundle, Web Bundle; Video Bundle; or Macromedia Studio 8
• Adobe After Effects; Adobe Flash Professional; Adobe Illustrator; Adobe Audition; Adobe Dreamweaver; Adobe Fireworks; Adobe InDesign; Adobe Photoshop; Adobe Photoshop Extended; Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe's Photoshop is the software choice of many web designers, photographers and artists all over the world, and now with the release of the new Photoshop CS5 and CS5 Extended, even more professionals are sure to make it their go-to software choice.

More than 30 features and enhancements have been added, including automatic image straightening, rule-of-thirds crop tool, color picker, the ability to save 16-bit images as JPEGs, as well as HDR functionality, automatic lens correction, and a new Camera RAW 6 plug in.

But that's not all; the company released a video previewing a new feature called "Content-Aware Fill" which allows you to easily fill in areas based on the surrounding regions. It is completely automated, completing a task that would normally take a few hours, in just a few seconds! You have to see it to appreciate it. Check it out: