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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 …

Next up in Spotify‘s podcasting binge: A program that makes mixing and mastering a podcast easier than putting together a Powerpoint presentation.  Soundtrap for Storytellers, launching today globaly, is an online program meant to make podcasting accessible for anyone who believes they everything it takes to be a top podcaster except any sort of audio-engineering skills. One of its slickest tricks …

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 …

When Apple’s iPhone was released in 2007, Erin Lauridsen was frustrated. As someone who’s blind, she was worried mobile phone tech would leave people with disabilities behind.  Thankfully, with the iPhone 3GS two years later, it offered VoiceOver, a screen reading technology that’s part of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. Ten years later, Lauridsen uses her iPhone XR, along with free or low-cost …

Have you ever opened the Facebook app only to keep seeing an annoying friends’ posts keep showing up first, and wonder why? There hasn’t been an easy way to figure it out, until now.  Recently, Facebook announced the expansion of its “Why am I seeing this ad?” feature to include posts from your friends. Previously, Facebook only detailed why you …

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. …

So you’ve got your hands on a new Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus ($190 at Walmart), Google Pixel 3 ($250 at Amazon) or Huawei P30 Pro ($575 at Amazon), and you’ve got the keys to the incredible Aston Martin DBS Superleggera. Of course you have, you lucky bastard. To document this wonderful event, you’re going to need to take some truly …

Someday you may be able to make a 3D scan of your body using your phone, then get the virtual you to try on new clothes and walk around your living room wearing them. That concept is the guiding star for Adobe’s early work to meld augmented reality and shopping. To help kick off its Adobe Summit conference, the software …

Nvidia’s new Creator Ready driver track finally acknowledges the hordes of GeForce owners who use its less expensive gaming-optimized consumer cards with professional applications. It’s mostly about “cadence”: Creator Ready is a slower, more stable driver update track than its Game Ready drivers, which update every time a popular new game comes out. It also sounds like Nvidia is placing …

Periscopes? RYYB sensors? There’s enough new camera tech packed into the Huawei P30 Pro that you might be baffled by the new terminology. Mostly all you need to know is that the flagship smartphone’s camera is versatile, outdoing competitors in some key areas like zoom and nighttime shots. But Huawei’s technology could well spread farther across the industry, so it’s …