Changing cinematic 16:9 video content to 1:1 for Instagram and vertical 9:16 for Facebook is one of the most tedious tasks you can perform. Adobe Premiere Pro CC’s new Auto Reframe tool is intended to relieve you of that tedium. Auto Reframe reformats video clips and sequences, keeping the main subject or action in frame …
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LinkedIn wants to help you tout your skills. On Tuesday, the resume-sharing site said it’s introducing LinkedIn Skills Assessments, a tool that validates members’ proficiency for potential employers. Enlarge Image Congratulations. You have mad skills. LinkedIn LinkedIn Skills Assessments requires members to take tests in skills that are associated with their profiles. Skills could include proficiency with a program, such …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Without the software that powers them, iPhones and Android phones would be high-priced pieces of glass, metal and plastic. So let’s see how the new mobile OSes from Apple and Google compare, now that iOS 13.1 is already here and Android 10 — previously …
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I’m writing this story using Logitech’s new MX Master 3mouse ($100, £100, AU$150) and new flagship low-profile keyboard, MX Keys($100, £100, AU$200). I can’t say they’re making my writing any better, but the experience of writing is slightly more pleasurable. Note that CNET may get a share of the revenue if you buy anything featured on our site. Pre-order MX …
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After a long two years, Wacom has updated its MobileStudio Pro 16 Windows tablet (the company calls it a “pen computer”) bumping the processor up a couple generations from dual core to quad core (Core i7-8559U) and the graphics processor up a generation to an Nvidia Quadro P1000. It’s now a lot faster, its USB-C connections have bulked up to …
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Adobe’s Lightroom, long dogged by complaints it’s grown sluggish at editing and organizing photos, got a performance boost Tuesday by tapping into the processing power of the graphics chip in Windows and Mac computers. The August release of Lightroom Classic should speed up editing and make the software more responsive in general, said Josh Haftel, principal product manager at Adobe, …
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Adobe Fresco makes me wish I had talent. The company’s iPad Pro app for painting and sketching also makes me wish the Apple Pencil had a softer nib, but hey, one dream at a time. Now playing: Watch this: Adobe announces Fresco for Surface Pro 3:30 There are a lot of painting apps littering the App store, most of which …
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Over the past year or so we’ve seen a flurry of creative-focused laptops launched with “Pantone Validated” screens. Asus‘ ZenBook Pro and more recently Acer’s Concept D lines, for instance. But much of the marketing seemed to imply that a color-credible Pantone sticker meant a laptop had a general-purpose color-accurate display. How did this come about? The number of people who care …
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I never thought I’d see the day: Until today you had to spring for a pricey Nvidia Quadro workstation graphics card to properly view your shiny ray-traced renders or accurately grade HDR video in professional applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Premiere. Now that 30-bit support comes down to more affordable GeForce and Titan cards. And not just the RTX models — “across …
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Adobe’s research team has created an experimental display prototype that blends digital and physical worlds, the company said in a Friday blog post. The project, called Project Glasswing, features a transparent display that lets users tweak a screen’s opacity to reveal objects on the other side. They can also interact with or reposition images and videos on the screen, which …
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