Our friend Mark Galer has written an extensive article on the features of Photoshop CS3, from a photographer's point of view. The article also includes lots of screenshots of CS3 in action. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Janita of Seishido, the brush angel with a heart of gold, has just shipped us her latest preview package of free brushes and textures for your downloading pleasure. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Kirsty sends this in: "It's new brush set time! I think this new set might be quite useful to some of you: Frames and Borders." (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Total Training has released Total Training For Photoshop Elements 5, a new 6 hour DVD video series designed to help users master the extensive, sometimes hidden capabilities of Photoshop Elements 5. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Matt Kloskowski (of PhotoshopTV and Killer Tips fame) has posted a very interesting list of predictions for 2007, all of which involve the digital imaging industry. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Today marks my last day as editor of SearchDay, but don't worry—the newsletter will continue to arrive in your inbox every day.

One of the more potentially advantageous yet wholly underused areas for optimization is in image search engines. Yet while site owners and merchants are more often seeing their images show up in the regular search results, few have come to understand the benefits of image search optimization.

Scared of contextual search advertising? Not sure how to explain a lower click through rate to your boss? Never fear: A panel of experts offered insights on this close cousin of sponsored search listings.

Yahoo, Google, Nokia, and JumpTap offered a fascinating glimpse of developments at the major mobile search engines recently, revealing an inside view of how mobile search operates, how it is evolving, and where it's going.

Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Website Optimizer: Better Then You Think? - Will DMOZ Be Back? - Google AdSense: No Images To Be Lined Up With AdSense Ads - Pandia's Christmas Wish List To Google and more.

With the explosive popularity of video content on the web, savvy search marketers can be among the first to catch a prime trend this coming year by optimizing video content to outperform in search engines.

At Search Engine Strategies Chicago's keynote interview on December 5, conference chair Danny Sullivan asked online industry gadfly Jason Calacanis a series of questions, some provocative. Would Calacanis bite?

CSS, Ajax and Web 2.0—more than mere buzz words, these are advancing technologies that bring vast improvement in the design and usability of web sites. What about search engines? Do these new technologies help search visibility or hurt it?

Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.

Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Search Marketing Jobs Slow Down? - Making the Most Out of AdCenter - Google Says Internal Duplication Is Ok - Blogrolls and Ordinary Link Exchanging, and more.

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I guess it is time for me to provide my summary of 2006. ?The 5 second version is, I had a fantastic year. ?Read on if you'd like more details...

My 2006 began on a mountain top outside of Aukland New Zealand. ?Not a bad way to usher in the year. ?From there I went to Australia for the month of January. ?Although I missed what has been called one of the best LotuSpheres ever, I really can't complain. ?I got to visit friends in Sydney, go to the Daintree Rainforest north of Cairns, snorkel at the Great Barrier Reef, travel the Great Ocean Road, see the Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island, helicopter over the 12 (11 now!) Apostles, see the nightly Blue Penguin Parade on Phillip Island, and spend several days watching the Australian Open Tennis Championships. ?Then, it was back to work...

In February, after about a year and half working for IBM Software Group Headquarters in the Business Partner program, I happily returned to the Lotus software division. ?For most of the year I worked on Marketing Intelligence, studying Microsoft, Google, and a slew of trendy Web 2.0, Office 2.0, and Enterprise 2.0 companies. ?In 2006 Lotus shipped Lotus Notes clients on Linux and Macintosh, added new connections from your mail file to SAP, adding blogging and RSS to Domino, revealed the new Sametime 7.5 real-time collaboration platform, delivered WebSphere Portal 6, and obviously much more. ?As we all know, 2006 was also the year where Lotus "brought back the yellow", and as we returned to our roots, and the emphasis on Workplace diminished. ?I finished off the year moving into a new position on the Lotus Strategy team.

As for entertainment in 2006, some highlights were seeing some of my favourite performers such as Vinx and the Great Big Sea, having an amazing time at Cirque du Soliel's Corteo, and making it through the controversial Body Worlds exhibition.

Travel-wise, in addition to Australia I had international trips to Aruba, Curacao, and Paris, and several smaller trips to a variety of places in the USA and Canada.

In 2006 my grandmother turned an incredible 96 (I love you Bubby), my sister got married (to an amazing guy, who even uses Notes and Sametime, he's a keeper!), my brother's wife performed again at the Kennedy Center Opera House this time in Madama Butterfly, and several of my family members got well deserved promotions. ?That said, there are also those with various degrees of problems and illnesses, and my love and best wishes go out to all of them.

At age 35 I think I'm still holding my own on the field playing Ultimate Frisbee, and as I mentioned a few weeks ago, I'm starting to play golf. ?I continue to learn about photography, and managed to snap a few shots that I was pretty happy with. :-)

While 2006 was the "Year of ?You" with sites like MySpace, FaceBook, and YouTube taking over the internet, honestly my "computer-life" did not change all that much. ?I do have accounts on LinkedIn and Xing but they don't do a lot for me. ? I share my photos and videos via my Flickr, and YouTube pages. ?I signed up to both Google's Orkut and Microsoft's Wallop social networking sites, but have used neither of them since. ?Shame on me, I don't have a MySpace page! ?I also don't often use del.icio.us or Digg, nor Skype. ?I did join the ranks of BlackBerry Pearl owners, and have a PlayStation 3 at home. ?I've logged onto SecondLife, but have yet to spend a lot of time in there yet. ?I'll be blogging about SecondLife more in 2007, as you've hopefully seen this is a space the IBM is very involved with.

As for this web site, I have no idea if I am reading these correctly, but looking at the statistics via both DominoBlog's built in tools and Google Analytics, this site seems to have had over half a million direct page hits, almost 2.5 million RSS hits, and around 1/4 of a million unique visitors. ?Technorati lists me in the top 25,000. ?As Ed says in his year end review, I guess out of ~55 million blogs that is not so bad. ?The top 10 countries where readers comes from are: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, India, Australia, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden. ?I need to meet some of these visitors, there are a lot of places listed there I'd like to visit. ?But aren't 78.432% of all statistics wrong (or is it 87.243%?) anyway, so who knows! ?Bottom line is I enjoy doing this, and I am glad you all enjoy reading it.

I want to thank you all very much. ?Anyone that says blogging has nothing to do with their ego is lying. ?Of course I sincerely enjoy helping everyone learn about Notes (and other topics), but this site benefits me as well. ?I am amazed at how many people contact me about helping them and their company, about wanting to meet me during my travels, and even complimenting me on my photos. ?"Community" is incredibly important, and I don't think there are many as strong as the Lotus one. ?You'll be hearing a lot about the importance of community coming from Lotus in 2007.

Which takes me to next year. ?Obviously work wise the highlight will be Lotus Notes 8, but there are also going to be many other exciting things coming out of Lotus. ?The year should kick off with an amazing Lotusphere, and I hope to see many of you there. ?On the personal side, I have a trip to Costa Rica planned for February, I hope to break 100 110 in golf (is that a reasonable goal in my first year? ?UPDATE: After today at the driving range, I think I should try for 110 first! ), and am thinking about maybe having Lasik Eye Surgery. ?Oh yeah, meeting the girl of my dreams would be nice as well! ?:-) ?

Thanks for reading, I hope I did not bore you. ?Take care, happy holidays, and my best wishes to you, your families, and your companies for a healthy and happy 2007.

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