DJI’s latest drone — the Air 2S — might just be the best drone for landscape lovers. It’s compact, it’s lightweight, it’s got surprisingly good battery life, it’s packed with intelligent flight modes and its upgraded 1-inch sensor captures superb imagery. The Air 2S is basically an upgraded version of the Air 2 that DJI …
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Adobe bundles mobile Photoshop, Illustrator, Spark and Fresco for $15 a month
Adobe has a new way to sell you Photoshop for iPhones and iPads plus three other mobile apps. For a monthly cost of $15, the new Design Mobile Bundle that Adobe announced Tuesday combines the image editing app with Illustrator for design tasks, Fresco for drawing and Spark for short punchy videos. Years ago, Adobe cemented its dominance by bundling …
Read More »Adobe Photoshop uses AI to quadruple your photo’s size
A new Photoshop feature lets you quadruple the number of pixels in a photo using artificial intelligence technology. The new ability, called Super Resolution, will also soon be built into Adobe’s Lightroom software for editing and catalog in photos, Adobe said Wednesday. With the feature, Adobe closely examines the details of a photo and then predicts how to expand it …
Read More »Photoshop on Apple M1 MacBook 50% faster than on Intel models, Adobe says
Adobe on Wednesday released Photoshop for Apple’s M1-based Macs, a key software package for the new family of computers, and it runs 50% faster than on Intel-powered equivalent laptops. “Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5x the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems,” Photoshop Product Manager Pam Clark said in a blog …
Read More »A pro photographer tests Apple’s M1 MacBook
As a professional photographer, I was intrigued when Apple ditched Intel’s chips and instead started using its own M1 silicon in the MacBook lineup. The performance boosts Apple promised were appealing — as was the supposed battery life improvement — but I was nervous about having to run my professional software on a platform that wasn’t yet properly supported by …
Read More »Adobe offers new free online tools for handling PDF files
Last July, Adobe brought several PDF-handling tools to the web, for example to convert Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files into Adobe’s widely used document format. Now the company has added some more new abilities and launched its Acrobat web site to house all the tools. Among the new tools are options to password protect a PDF, split a single …
Read More »Asus ZenBook Duo 14 UX482 review: A dual
What I like most about the ZenBook Duo 14 is that you really can’t tell from the outside of the laptop what you’ll see when you lift the lid. Despite opening and closing it countless times at this point, I still get a kick out of seeing its secondary 12.6-inch touchscreen rise from above the keyboard to meet the bottom …
Read More »Firefox 85 hammers the final nail into the Adobe Flash coffin
With Mozilla’s release of Firefox 85 on Tuesday, Adobe’s once ubiquitous Flash technology is really gone for good. The software had been widely used to expand gaming, video and animation on the web, though Adobe stopped supporting it at the end of 2020. Firefox was the last major browser to support Flash. Apple, whose late boss Steve Jobs helped sink Flash …
Read More »Galaxy S21’s camera features are good, but are they enough?
This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S21 line is here, with the S21 Ultra packing all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a top-end phone. And while it has multiple cameras, and a variety of photography features, most of the headline features, including …
Read More »Samsung S21 Ultra uses pixel binning to make your photos better
Megapixels used to be so much simpler: A bigger number meant your camera could capture more photo detail as long as the scene had enough light. But a technology called pixel binning now sweeping across flagship smartphones is changing the old photography rules for the better. In short, pixel binning gives you a camera that offers lots of detail when …
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