The Mac App Store has received significant criticism, but Apple’s efforts to improve it apparently have paid off, as Adobe started using the store to sell its Lightroom software for the first time on Thursday. The photo-editing and cataloging software, geared for photo enthusiasts and pros who want something richer than Google Photos or Apple …
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Fresco is Adobe’s new name for its forthcoming iPad drawing app that builds in the physics of ink, paper and paint. The app, which Adobe debuted in October as a research effort called Project Gemini, is due to arrive later this year. There are lots of apps for drawing, sketching and painting on iPads, Android and Windows tablets. Among them …
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Adobe released a slew of Lightroom updates last week. But one thing didn’t change: the awkward split between two versions of the photo editing and cataloging software. Lightroom got its start in 2006 on MacOS and later Windows, storing the photo library right there on your personal computer. But modernizing for smartphones, tablets and cloud computing put Adobe in a pickle. It …
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Adobe’s Lightroom has a new texture-editing tool for photographers trying to get people’s skin to look just right, a rare change to the software’s core tools for fiddling with photos. The texture slider either smooths or amplifies medium-scale details. Moving the slider one way lets you smooth skin without making it look unnaturally plasticky, Adobe said. In my tests, I …
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Adobe is seeing how photographers respond to the removal of a $10 monthly subscription that combines Photoshop and Lightroom, and the answer when it comes to some shutterbugs is — not well. The subscription, introduced in 2013, combines Adobe’s two main photography software packages and 20GB of cloud storage that can be used to sync photos shot with mobile devices. …
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Creative software company Adobe and luxury stationary maker Moleskine have teamed up to launch an analog-to-digital drawing notebook aimed at creatives and designers. The clumsily named notebook is called the “Moleskine Paper Tablet – Creative Cloud Connected,” and it enables illustrators to sketch on paper while their images are simultaneously converted to digital images. Though it’s a niche device, this …
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Last October, I did a camera comparison between a then-new iPhone XS and the Galaxy Note 9. As part of it, I wanted to take long-exposure photos of a car’s taillights streaking through the night. I put the Note 9’s camera into Pro Mode, lowered the shutter speed and took a few snaps. Even after tweaking the ISO and exposure …
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Adobe on Friday pushed out an update to Adobe Premiere Pro CC via its Creative Cloud app to fix the glitch in the previous version that seemed to kill the speakers on late-model MacBook Pros. The message was posted to the Adobe Community thread tracking the situation: UPDATE: Adobe had a small number of user reports about an issue in …
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After training an AI system on a billion photos, Adobe has reworked a fundamental part of digital photography for a 30 percent increase in image quality in its Lightroom software. The improvement comes in new Lightroom releases Tuesday with an option called “enhance details” that can break past ordinary image-quality limits in areas with lots of fine details. It’ll take …
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Lenovo’s Yoga A940 all-in-one offers a novel take on Microsoft’s Surface Studio, known for its big, pressure-sensitive touchscreen display that’s ideal for design work. Lenovo’s isn’t quite as professionally oriented, but neither is its price: It’s expected to ship in March starting at $2,200, whereas the Studio starts at $3,500. The 27-inch display can be configured with either a 4K or …
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