Enlarge ImageCommand Z: Adobe is undoing a tweak to Lightroom, after customers complained. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Responding to customer outrage, Adobe Systems has decided to undo a significant change it made less than two weeks ago to its widely used Lightroom software for cataloging and editing photos. With a new version of the software, …
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DxO Labs rated the new iPhone 6S camera the same as last year’s iPhones while new Android-powered devices top the list. DxOMark The camera in Apple’s new iPhone 6S ranked 10th place in the DxOMark Mobile test, merely matching the photo and video quality of last year’s iPhones. The DxO Labs tests, which measure factors including exposure, color, autofocus performance, …
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Enlarge ImageAdobe Lightroom lets people edit and catalog photos. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Adobe Systems has apologized for releasing a bug-plagued update to its Lightroom software but still faces customer wrath over changes to the program for editing and cataloging photos. The new Lightroom, version 2015.10 for Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscribers, or version 6.2 for those buying a perpetual license …
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Enlarge ImageAt Adobe’s Max conference, “Parks and Recreation” actor Nick Offerman holds a 3D-printed model of his head reconstructed from a photo. Adobe Systems / photo by Elizabeth Lippman Photoshop experts have long been able to whisk tourists away from their pictures by combining multiple shots. Now Adobe Systems has packaged that technique called monument mode into a prototype app …
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Enlarge ImageAdobe’s Project Comet is geared for people designing app user interfaces. Adobe Systems It’s a measure of Photoshop’s flexibility that a program originally for editing photos now is used for designing Web pages and mobile apps. But Adobe Systems on Monday revealed plans for a new tool called Project Comet that it thinks will be better. The software, due …
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Enlarge ImageNexus 6P is Google’s new flagship smartphone. CNET Google will use software to compensate for the most significant feature left out of its upcoming flagship Nexus smartphone. When the Mountain View, California, Internet giant unveiled the Nexus 6P on Tuesday, it almost immediately highlighted the improved camera, a move designed to help broaden the smartphone’s appeal beyond its techie …
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Enlarge ImageThe Nexus 5X and 6P come with a premium camera. Google For years, Google’s Nexus-branded gadgets have appealed chiefly to a limited audience of techies, but powerful cameras in the upcoming Nexus 5X and 6P smartphones could change that. Ever since the Nexus One arrived in 2010 , Google has used the line to showcase the abilities of the …
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Enlarge ImageThe Amazon Fire TV can pull in Internet video compressed with HEVC/H.265 technology, but Amazon is also backing development of a competing technology. Nate Ralph/CNET A hurdle standing in the way of streaming high-quality video to your TV and devices just got a little bit lower. That’s because an industry group called HEVC Advance that was seeking to profit …
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Enlarge ImageApple’s iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus arrive this week. James Martin/CNET Each year, Apple’s iPhones get better, and each year, I find it harder to resolve my Apple-vs-Google smartphone dilemma. Despite the appeal of the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus arriving this week, though, it looks like Google will win out for another year. Switching back to …
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Apple wants customers of its new Apple TV to be able to run a wealth of apps on the device, but it has apparently closed the door to one large class of software. Apple TV, which Chief Executive Tim Cook announced Wednesday, is a $149 or $199 device that streams Internet video to TVs and lets people play games. Its …
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