Sounds like an interesting opportunity to nerd out (in the best sense) in October 4-5:

Adobe Developers Live brings together Adobe developers and experience builders with diverse backgrounds and a singular purpose – to create incredible end-to-end experiences. This two-day conference will feature important developer updates, technical sessions and community networking opportunities. 

There’s also a planned hackathon:

Hackathon brings Adobe developers from across the global Adobe Experience Cloud community with Adobe engineering teams to connect, collaborate, contribute, and create solutions using the latest Experience Cloud products and tooling.

After a good run of 5+ years, Flash panel extensions will soon be retired from Photoshop CC & other Adobe apps. They’re being replaced by HTML extensions, and many developers I know are working to port their Flash/Flex-based work over to HTML.

Change brings opportunity, so if you’re a developer who likes doing this kind of work, you’re welcome to list your name & contact info here so that other developers (e.g. those who don’t have the same skills & who might want to hire someone for the job) can get in touch with you.

Cameron McEfee has released a public alpha of GuideGuide 3 for Photoshop. It’s now built in HTML5 instead of Flash/Flex & lets you save presets & more.

GuideGuide 3’s major new feature is GuideGuide Notation (GGN), a language that makes it possible for you to “write” a grid… [It] allows you to create any combination of guides you can think up. Sidebars, baselines, golden ratio, you name it. If you can think of it, GuideGuide can create it.

[Via Pierre Courtejoie]

Hmm—this looks pretty interesting:

WebZap is a web developer panel extension for Adobe Photoshop that is designed to help streamline the design processes undertaken by website user interface designers during the mock up and wire framing phases of web site development.

The PixelDropr extension panel for Photoshop (CS5 & above) looks interesting:

Whether it’s icons, buttons, ui kits or photos, Pixel Dropr lets you create your own 30 piece collections of the pixels you need and allows you to instantly drop them into any PS document while you work.

[Via]

Check out this promising marketplace browser from design exchange Creative Market:

• Find the perfect design assets without ever leaving Photoshop… Once you find the perfect asset for your project, it’ll auto-install in a single click. No more unzipping downloaded files, manually installing content, or restarting Photoshop.
• Free goods each week: Pop open the extension each week to grab new free graphics, templates, fonts, brushes, add-ons and more.
• All of your Creative Market purchases and saved collections are available inside of Photoshop.

Harald Heim’s FilterHub looks like a cool way to run filters (enabling multi-layer application of filters, creation of Smart Objects, and more).

According to the product page, the panel lets you:

• Run filters fast and conveniently (e.g. with a double click) without navigating the Filter menu
• Apply the last effect of any filter (not just the last used one) without displaying its dialog
• Paint or erase filter effects with the brush tool
• Favorites list for quickly running your preferred filters and plugins
• Display either all filters, only third party plugins or filters that match a search string
• Run multiple filters (from the favorites list) with one click
• Apply a filter on multiple layers in one pass
• Even better: Run multiple filters on multiple layers with a single operation
• Apply all filters to smart objects, even those filters that normally do not support it.
• If a filter does not support an image mode, the image is converted to a supported mode.
• Before running a filter it can automatically create a duplicated layer, a merged copy of all layers (stamped layer), a smart object or flatten the image.
• Visit the homepage of a selected filter (only in Photoshop CS5/CS6)

The panel costs $39.95, or $24.95 for students.

[Via]

The extensibility team writes,

Adobe is creating a brand new Adobe Exchange, which will enable developers, trainers, and community experts to promote, distribute, monetize and track their CS6 solutions. These products will be made visible to potential CS6 customers within the “Adobe Exchange” panel in most CS6 applications.

They’re looking for launch partners, so check out their full post for more details.

The team has also created a new Adobe Exchange Packager that encapsulates content for distribution via this new channel.  You can get it by signing up for the Exchange prerelease program.

Adobe is launching a new Adobe Exchange shortly, and

We are actively seeking launch partners for this program and are taking applications now for partners who would like to be added into our beta program.  Launch partners that commit to providing distributable CS6 content in the next 8 to 10 weeks will receive valuable benefits as charter members of the new Adobe Exchange.

You can also sign up for the prerelease program.

It’s a free stock photography-browsing panel:

With the iStockphoto Plug-in for Adobe® Creative Suite®, you can browse, download and edit photos and illustrations without ever leaving Photoshop®, Illustrator® or InDesign®. Crop them, resize them and make them your own, directly from the Creative Suite.

[Via Lucas Bombardier]

Check out the latest enhancements in Anastasiy Safari’s color-picking panels for Photoshop. (Bonus: You get to feel like you’re tripping your face off in a Russian disco!)

MAX-attending developers, this session sounds worthwhile:

How to Develop and Monetize Your Creative Suite Extensions

Learn how to use Adobe Creative Suite Extension Builder to develop, debug, and deploy extensions that use Flex and Adobe AIR frameworks to extend the functionality of the Creative Suite applications. Find out how to interact with XMP metadata, connect your extensions with data and web services back ends, and port your extensions into multiple Creative Suite applications. Finally, get a peek into what Adobe is doing to help you monetize your extensions and plug-ins.

Okay, my Suite-enhancing geeks, this one’s for you: The CS Developer Tour is coming to Singapore, New York, LA, and Munich this fall, aimed at helping system integrators, developers, and Adobe Solution Partners get busy extending the Creative Suite. Highlights, according to the site:

• Extensibility – Efficiently develop and deploy extensions that work across Adobe Creative Suite products
• Enterprise – Unlock new market opportunities and see how Adobe Creative Suite products can be seamlessly embedded into Enterprise environments
• CS next – Detailed insight into Adobe’s next major Creative Suite release, early guidance on porting requirements, along with sneak peeks of upcoming features and APIs.

Follow the link above for details & registration info.

A trial version of the Creative Suite Extension Builder is now available for download.  The team has posted a brief FAQ, but the main thing is that you’ll need a copy of Flash Builder (trial mode’s okay) plus at least one CS application installed.

Here’s a demo showing how to create your first extension in under 5 minutes:

Check out the developer center for demos, info on selling your extensions, and more.  The team also has a YouTube channel, a blog, and a user-to-user forum.

Check out Anastasiy Safari’s new MixColors panel for Photoshop:

It provides an engine for fast and correct color mixing, like oils, acrylics or watercolor. It keeps color history, allowing you to keep a number of swatches (like it’s on real-world palette). In “Mix eyedropper mode” the colors you pick with Photoshop eyedropper are mixed to the current color with one click. It also can be “attached” to my MagicPicker so the two panels act as one, plus more features.(As usual, CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 are supported).

The panel is on sale for $14.

I’m pleased to see that developer Anastasiy Safari has enhanced his popular MagicPicker panel for Photoshop.  Of the improvements he writes,

1) Switchable Color Schemes: Mono, Complement, Triad, Tetrad, Analogic. Accented Analogic with easy switching – artist may now choose a color for his work that depends on the main color and quickly switch them – and it’s all inside MagicPicker UI.

2) Attach other panels to MagicPicker and use them together in Compact Mode. It’s very useful in Compact Mode where you have a small portion of the panel visible and it expands very fast to the full state when mouse is over it.

I also improved speed and fixed issues with keyboard focus on Photoshop CS5 and CS5.1. And the panel is now astonishingly faster.

Developer Anastasiy Safari’s DiskFonts panel has gotten a major update to version 1.2. He writes:

Now one can organize fonts with favorites and bookmark paths with fonts for later use, right inside Photoshop and other CS3, 4, and 5 apps. There are so many new features and improvements, so I’ll just mention some highlights:

• Drag and drop of stylized text directly into document
• iPhone/iPod/Android support (you can view the fonts from your computer on these mobile devices)
• Fast font rendering with Pixel Bender.

The panel costs $29.

• The DiskFonts panel for CS5 offers a simple way to type in some text, then see it previewed in all the fonts on disk (not just those installed) on your system.  Running in Photoshop, Illustrator, and five other apps, it’s $29 from Anastasiy Safari (whom you may remember from his very handy MagicPicker panel).
• Max Penson & Tal Ninio have started PSKiss.com, a site where they’ll offer simple scripts and tools for complicated Photoshop tasks.  First up is PS Kiss Clarté, a script that produces a similar effect to Camera Raw’s clarity control.  According to Max, “It also has negative clarity and a spacial algorithm to calculate the correct filter size according to the size of the image.”