This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now that MacOS Catalina has released (here’s how to install it), you can officially use your iPad as a second screen to your Mac. Before Apple Sidecar was an iPad feature, it was best known as a delicious cocktail. But we’ll …
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Photoshop detector: Adobe demos tool that identifies picture editing
Adobe demoed several early-stage product features at its Max 2019 conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday. At the R&D showcase called Sneaks, Adobe employees showed off new features that users of Photoshop and Illustrator could take advantage of someday. One called About Face uses machine learning to determine if a face in a photo has been manipulated in Photoshop. It looks …
Read More »Microsoft Surface Pro X review: Sleek, but software hasn’t caught up yet
The Surface Pro X falls into a very small, very exclusive category of PC products. It’s one of only a handful of new releases every year that prompt colleagues to proactively email me, asking where, when and how to get one. It’s easy to see why it’s got some serious buzz. The standard Surface Pro 7 is the dictionary definition of a …
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Launching in January 2020 for $1,999 (directly converted, £1,545 and AU$2,895), Dell will be offering its own pro monitor with a calibrator built-in. Its UltraSharp 27 UP2720Q 4K display joins HP and Eizo by integrating a pop up colorimeter — when it’s built into a monitor you can usually schedule routine, automated calibrations. Perhaps more notably, it also supports Portrait …
Read More »Photoshop for iPad is here, Adobe Illustrator is coming next
A year ago at its annual Adobe Max conference for Creative Cloud users, the company previewed its long-awaited version of Photoshop on iPad. Now it’s ready to ship, joining Aero, the AR-creation app for iOS and iPad OS that Apple demoed onstage at last year’s WWDC. Adobe also previewed its next big mobile releases: Photoshop Camera, which seems to compete with apps …
Read More »Figma design tool gets internet
Figma, an online service that lets designers and design teams work together on projects such as mobile apps, is now letting people share their work publicly for others to scrutinize and modify. The idea behind the Figma Community site is to let people connect to and learn from one another while showing off their own work. Giving work away for …
Read More »Inside Pixel 4’s camera: Google improves portrait mode with help from Italian art
Over the last three years, Google’s Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for photographic strength. With the Pixel 4 and 4 XL, the company is flexing new camera hardware and software muscles. The new flagship Android smartphone, which the search giant unveiled Tuesday, gets a second 12-megapixel camera, a key component in an overhauled portrait mode that focuses your …
Read More »MacOS Catalina review: Mac goes pro, makes iPad a partner
If you’ve been a fan of the Mac during the past decade, you’ve probably felt like a kid who had been an only child until their parents surprised everyone by having a baby late in life. But, this wasn’t just any new baby. The little wunderkind went on to become a straight-A student, a sports star and a decent human …
Read More »Here’s why Microsoft wanted a custom chip for the Surface Pro X’s brains
We knew we’d get a bunch of new laptops at Microsoft’s Surface event on Tuesday. What we didn’t know is we’d also get a new Microsoft processor, a Qualcomm-derived chip called the SQ1. That chip in the new Surface Pro X carries a message from Microsoft: It’s time for laptops to get phone-like all-day battery life, but not if that …
Read More »Adobe Fresco drawing and painting app is out on iPad, coming soon to Surface
Adobe’s new painting and drawing app, Fresco, is out for iPads and will come soon to the Microsoft Surface. While there are similar apps available, the Photoshop maker says it’s designed Fresco to have a natural feel and be easy for anyone to pick up. Now playing: Watch this: Adobe announces Fresco for Surface Pro 3:30 Working on it initially …
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