Adobe Lightroom’s new profiles feature puts photo editing presets on steroids — and now you can build your own profiles, too. Profiles now use technology called a 3D lookup table (LUT) that mathematically transforms colors and tones in precise ways. They’ve long been used in cinema to give movies a certain mood or look — …
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You’ve likely seen artificial intelligence technology spread into apps, devices and services, doing things like recognizing your friends’ faces in photos and endowing smart speakers with human-sounding voices. Well, good news: The processor industry has noticed, too. That means we’ll see a slew of new chips that should speed up AI tasks not just on your phone or laptop but …
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President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered an evaluation of the US Postal Service’s finances, after weeks of accusing Amazon of not paying its fair share of postage. In an executive order, Trump created a task force, chaired by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, to evaluate the Postal Service’s finances and operations. The order directs the task force to issue a report …
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Adobe’s Lightroom has beefed up an obscure photo-editing feature to give you a significant new way to give pictures the tonal and color styling you want. Lightroom — a software favorite among enthusiasts and pros willing to pay $10 a month for it and Photoshop — has long had a tool called profiles to try to match the look a …
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Tara Miller sees the world through the diameter of a straw, but that doesn’t stop her from capturing the exact moment when a new bride throws her bouquet into the wedding crowd. Miller is a legally blind commercial photographer in Winnipeg, Manitoba. You might think photography relies on seeing the moment, but Miller uses hearing and instinct. If shooting baseball, “I …
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Now playing: Watch this: Android P developer preview now available 1:34 Google wants your photo files to be smaller with its upcoming Android P software, and it’ll get you there taking the same approach Apple did in 2017. The next version of Google’s software for powering smartphones and tablets will support a photo compression technology called the High Efficiency Image …
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PicMonkey, an online photo editor, has taken the web technology plunge — and not a moment too soon. PicMonkey for years used Adobe Systems’ Flash Player plugin for web browsers. But browser makers have been banishing plugins because of problems with security, performance and battery life and because the web itself has embraced many of Flash’s features, like advanced graphics, …
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Google is firming up a tool that should help programmers bridge the divide between Android phones and iPhones. It’s hard to write software that matches the appearance of both Apple’s iOS software and Google’s Android operating system, which is one reason developers often hire separate teams to create two versions of the same product. Google, though, is finishing up a …
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The latest Adobe Photoshop update rolling out today delivers the Select Subject tool promised last fall, a one-click selection tool that chooses what it thinks is the subject of a photo and automatically selects it. As a way of getting you about 90 percent of the way for a subset of your images, it’s great. Of course, it’s probably going …
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A phone these days is a lot of things: a tiny TV, a game console, a home for your Animoji farm. Despite years of retailer effort, though, it hasn’t functioned all that well as a storefront to sell you actual goods. The big kickoff to the holiday shopping season shows that may finally be changing. US sales on phones this …
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