A new Photoshop feature lets you quadruple the number of pixels in a photo using artificial intelligence technology. The new ability, called Super Resolution, will also soon be built into Adobe’s Lightroom software for editing and catalog in photos, Adobe said Wednesday. With the feature, Adobe closely examines the details of a photo and then …
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Adobe on Wednesday released Photoshop for Apple’s M1-based Macs, a key software package for the new family of computers, and it runs 50% faster than on Intel-powered equivalent laptops. “Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5x the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems,” Photoshop Product Manager Pam Clark said in a blog …
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As a professional photographer, I was intrigued when Apple ditched Intel’s chips and instead started using its own M1 silicon in the MacBook lineup. The performance boosts Apple promised were appealing — as was the supposed battery life improvement — but I was nervous about having to run my professional software on a platform that wasn’t yet properly supported by …
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Last July, Adobe brought several PDF-handling tools to the web, for example to convert Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files into Adobe’s widely used document format. Now the company has added some more new abilities and launched its Acrobat web site to house all the tools. Among the new tools are options to password protect a PDF, split a single …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Most PC makers show up for CES with a concept device or two. Asus, on the other hand, arrives with laptops that are beyond what others are doing — and they’re ready to ship. The ZenBook Duo is a perfect example. …
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It’s been a year since Adobe previewed Illustrator on the iPad and a few months since its huge (for Adobe, at least) beta test cycle. Now it’s ready to roll, and while it has some holes in its feature set and can’t match the desktop version’s power, it’s probably one of Adobe’s most “finished” version 1.0 mobile apps. It’s priced …
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Since 2018, Google has let you type doc.new, slide.new and sheet.new into your browser address bar to fire up a blank document for G Suite’s Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets. Now there’s a new option using the same approach from Adobe: PDF.new. Adobe invented the Portable Document Format standard, which is now widely used for digital documents like …
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Adobe has had mobile apps like Photoshop Express and Lightroom for a long time. They give you the chance to touch up photos before sharing them with your friends, but require a certain amount of skill to get decent results. Now, with Photoshop Camera, Adobe has its sights set squarely on the social sharing market. Yes, these lenses look a …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference that kicked off online on Monday, Apple announced Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud support for its first Arm chip and first Arm-based Macs, which it calls Apple silicon. The chips mark a move away from the …
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Photoshop on iPad will probably be great when it grows up, but at least it’s moved on from toddlerhood. Adobe obviously spent a long time laying the groundwork for this generation of its mobile apps, but after its official launch it still had that inevitable minimum viable product feel (a personal pet peeve). With its first major feature update since it …
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