(UPDATE 2: Contest has officially ended, but please feel free to continue sending me great ideas, I’d love to hear from you. – rc )

(UPDATE: to use the contest feature, just leave a comment with your answers on this post – rc )

Tom Hogarty and John Nack have posted on their respective blog spaces some updates that are happening to Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. Camera Raw will be going to version 4.3.1, while Lightroom will be going to version 1.3.1. Both versions will deal with some problems in reading images coming out of D100 space, as well as some performance/bug fixes.

To get more information, peep John Nack’s Blog and Tom Hogarty’s Lightroom Jounal.

Also, check out Matt’s Lightroom Killer Tips for some ideas on how to incorporate both Lightroom AND Photoshop into your design. More and more, I’m appreciating how well these two programs work with one another, and I dig going the Lightroom Killer Tips site because it also gives me a quick dose of Matt.

Being Random: With all of the talk about Big Spoons, Lightroom, and Flash goodness, we haven’t really shown a lot of love to InDesign. I was sitting around making some handouts and placing graphics, and I have to say – I really don’t miss Quark all that much anymore. That also got me thinking about Anne-Marie Concepción. Now, I wasn’t thinking about her because she’s my sister.. or even related to me for that matter (though I did send her an e-mail once …and that’s BEFORE I became the head janitor around these parts).

I was thinking about Anne-Marie because her site at Seneca Design has tons of neat stuff about InDesign. If you didn’t know that – consider yourself Knowed (That’s probably a word somewhere.. though my editor’s going to have my head for it)

Finally.. my call to action. I want to hear from you! I’ve gotten a lot of emails from readers talking about all sorts of cool ideas for Layers TV – so I’m conducting a mini survey. Send me an e-mail and answer me these 4 questions:

1. Where in the Creative Suite do you fit (What programs are you using most)
2. If you had time, what program would you invest a little more time learning on.
3. On the Layers Magazine website, you would like to see more of.. (You name it – we’ll listen to it)
4. One website that you check every day would be … (and it doesn’t have to be -this- one, or even related to graphic arts)

Let’s give you something for your trouble. The 50th person that answers all 4 questions will get a copy of Scott Kelby’s Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers.

Have a great weekend everyone.. and I’ll see you on Monday.