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Despite glitches, Amazon Prime Day 2018 manages another record

Amazon botched Monday’s kickoff of its fourth annual Prime Day sale, with a broken website and app redirecting customers to pictures of dogs on its error pages. For many shoppers, the problems persisted for hours. But the screw-up didn’t change the final outcome: a third Prime Day in a row that broke all previous Amazon …

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Loupedeck upgrades its Lightroom photo editing console

Loupedeck, an editing console geared specifically for photographers who spend a lot of time editing photos in Adobe Systems‘ Lightroom, just got a hardware and software update in a refresh called the Loupedeck+. And the price got an upgrade, too. The original Loupedeck debuted in 2017 for $300, though you could find it for $210 this year. The Loupedeck+ debuts …

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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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Adobe Scan can now turn business cards into contacts

Yes, it’s a feature that the app should have had when it launched a year ago, but now Adobe Scan can convert those quaint bits of stiff paper rectangles into usable contact information. Adobe’s mobile app for converting paper documents into searchable PDF files — still free with Adobe registration — has improved auto adjustment capabilities for cleaning up documents under …

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Apple’s WWDC 2018 highlights little things adding up, especially in iOS 12

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. If you were looking to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference for big game-changing leaps or new hardware, you might have walked away a little disappointed. Monday’s keynote, it turns out, was about the little things.  That’s not to say the changes were insignificant. Indeed, …

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Apple’s new ARKit has multi

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is getting more serious about augmented reality. The company on Monday announced a new version of ARKit, Apple’s set of tools that let developers create augmented reality apps for iPhones and iPads. The updated version will have multi-user functions, so more than …

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Now you can stick other people’s Instagram posts in your Stories

If you find a pet selfie or food pic while swiping through your Instagram feed, now you can add it to your own Instagram story (and even Facebook) with a few taps.  Instagram said on Thursday it’s offering the new feature, which turns other people’s posts into a sort of sticker that you can add your own text to before sharing …

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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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$5 a year for Photoshop? Yes, as Adobe slashes education pricing

You may think of Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects as expensive professional tools for photographers and video editors, but Adobe Systems wants them to be what your kid sees when flipping open the laptop lid at school. Adobe will offer K-12 schools its full suite of Creative Cloud software for $5 per student per year, starting May 15, it …

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Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements $80 today only at B&H

Adobe’s entry-level photo-and-video editing duo, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2018, offers all the basics you need, and for the next 14 or so hours you can get the downloadable version (Mac or Windows) from B&H Photo at almost half off; I’ve only seen the price there, with most retailers offering it for the normal $150.   Don’t confuse it …

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