Tag Archives: adobe-creative-cloud

Lightroom photo editing gets more competition from Darkroom, Luminar

Two software tools, Bergen’s Darkroom and Skylum’s Luminar, just got a bit better at challenging Adobe’s dominant Lightroom software for editing and cataloging photos. Darkroom, an iOS app, now has a version just for iPads for a better look at the photos you’re editing, more room for catalog operations and support for external keyboards to …

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Lightroom supports photos from iPhone XS, Pixel 3, Galaxy Note 9

Adobe released updates for its Lightroom software Tuesday to support the latest phones from Apple, Google and Samsung, and to try to address a little of customers’ never-ending desire for better performance. Lightroom CC and its cousin, Lightroom Classic CC, now are tuned to properly handle the color and correct lens problems of Apple’s iPhone XS, XS Max and XR; …

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Parrot Anafi drone update adds new HDR, hyperlapse camera skills

Parrot launched its latest camera drone, the compact, lightweight Anafi, back in June, but since then it’s updated it with new features and improvements to keep its fans happy — and potentially woo buyers away from that other drone maker. Another big update arrives today with tweaks to the drone’s HDR, hyperlapse and dolly zoom.  It can now capture HDR …

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Adobe Photoshop for iPad, Project Gemini and lots, lots more

At its annual Adobe Max conference, Adobe let loose with its new Creative Cloud cross-platform apps, highlighted by a preview of the long, long-awaited Photoshop for iPad.  It also previewed Project Gemini, which spins off the brushes and brush engine from Photoshop into a drawing and painting app and Project Aero, the AR-creation app that briefly debuted onstage during Apple …

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Adobe Project Rush aims to address social media pros’ video woes

With Project Rush, Adobe intends to provide social media professionals a video-editing tool that’s both powerful and easy to use — on any device. The company delivered a peek at the product this week, and is accepting applications for beta testers (Android will be in beta later than iOS), but it’s not slated to officially launch until later this year, …

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WWDC 2018: Start time, live blog, how to livestream, what to expect

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: WWDC 2018: Best new iOS 12 features and more 5:43 As WWDC 2018 approached, Apple released the last version of iOS 11 recently, 11.4, with important updates such as Messages in iCloud and AirPlay 2 for multiroom, stereo audio with HomePods. We speculated as …

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Adobe’s XD design tool is now free

Adobe Systems’ XD, a relatively new tool for designing the look and structure of apps and websites, no longer has a price tag — with one caveat.   For years, designers used other Adobe software, most notably Photoshop, to mock up websites and apps. But in many ways, Photoshop isn’t great for the job. So Adobe released XD — short …

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Adobe Lightroom profiles add big new color

Adobe’s Lightroom has beefed up an obscure photo-editing feature to give you a significant new way to give pictures the tonal and color styling you want. Lightroom — a software favorite among enthusiasts and pros willing to pay $10 a month for it and Photoshop — has long had a tool called profiles to try to match the look a …

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Photoshop’s Select Subject gives you a head start on masks

The latest Adobe Photoshop update rolling out today delivers the Select Subject tool promised last fall, a one-click selection tool that chooses what it thinks is the subject of a photo and automatically selects it. As a way of getting you about 90 percent of the way for a subset of your images, it’s great. Of course, it’s probably going …

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Adobe Lightroom CC faces an uphill climb

For years I’ve been urging Adobe to rebuild its Lightroom image editing software on top of a more robust database than its years-old problem child that randomly corrupts itself and doesn’t speak network, among other things. From now on, I’ll be careful what I wish for.  At this year’s Adobe Max conference, along with feature and performance updates to the …

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