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Fake Facebook accounts are already reportedly offering Libra cryptocurrency

Facebook is already struggling with multiple fake accounts on its own social media platforms that are offering its newly announced cryptocurrency, Libra, The Washington Post reported Monday. Libra isn’t set to launch until the first half of next year, but around a dozen accounts, groups and pages are already on Facebook and Instagram, the report …

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Wacom Cintiq 22 lets you sketch big at a (relatively) small price

Wacom’s less-expensive line of pen displays just got bigger — literally — with the new 22-inch model, the Cintiq 22. It joins the Cintiq 16, which debuted at CES 2019 as part of Wacom’s push to attract new artists in need of its pressure-sensitive prowess but who don’t have the bucks for its traditionally expensive professional graphics tablets to attach …

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Whatever you do tonight, don’t shoot bad fireworks photos

Tonight millions of people will stare into the night sky as it’s lit up by colorful bursts of fire. Fireworks are a staple of celebrating America’s independence, and capturing photos of those fireworks has become part of the experience. The Fourth of July provides an annual chance to test our phone photography skills. (Not to mention, take advantage of July …

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Loupedeck+ Lightroom console now works with Photoshop raw photo editor, too

Loupedeck+, a hardware console for editing photos in Lightroom, now works with Photoshop’s Adobe Camera Raw tool, too. The new Photoshop integration, which Loupedeck announced Wednesday, could help photo editors get more use out of the $249 USB accessory. The Loupedeck+ console comes with dedicated knobs for controlling things like exposure, vignetting, contrast and noise reduction. For example, there are …

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Adobe endorses Apple Mac App Store with Lightroom release

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 Photos, costs the same as …

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Adobe’s Fresco drawing app for iPad builds AI physics into its brushes

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 AI can spot facial manipulations in Photoshop

In a world filled with manipulated photos, deepfakes and even totally fake human faces, Adobe says it’s working on an artificial intelligence tool to spot fake images. Citing “the ethical implications” of Photoshop, Adobe partnered with researchers from the University of California at Berkeley to work on the issue. Photoshop’s Face Aware Liquify feature is being used to change people’s …

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Adobe to test Sidecar iPad support for Lightroom on Mac

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Want to a new way to retouch photos on your Mac? Adobe‘s Lightroom will test Sidecar, a technology coming to Apple’s new MacOS Catalina that lets you use an iPad as a second display for your Mac or as an Apple Pencil-equipped tablet for controlling your …

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Apple’s new iPad tech lets you leave your Lightroom laptop at home

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The mobile version of Lightroom is going to get a big step closer to its PC-based big brother with Apple’s decision to let iPhones and iPads connect to storage systems like flash memory cards and external drives. Lightroom, Adobe’s photo editing and cataloging …

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Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000 will bring a new level of power to thin laptops

The next time — or the first time — you go shopping for a laptop with at least an Intel Core i7 H-class processor, 16GB or more RAM, 512GB or larger SSD and an Nvidia RTX GPU, it may bear an “RTX Studio” sticker as part of a new program Nvidia announced at Computex 2019. But that high-powered laptop, such …

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