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Here’s How Adobe’s Camera App for Serious Photographers Is Different

Adobe is working on a camera app designed to take your smartphone photography to the next level. Within the next year or two, the company plans to release an app that marries the computing smarts of modern phones with the creative controls that serious photographers often desire, said Marc Levoy, who joined Adobe two years …

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AI Arrives for Serious Photo Editing, Not Just Smartphone Snapshots

Software maker Skylum released on Thursday a new version of its Luminar Neo photo editing tool that uses artificial intelligence to handle what used to be mundane but time-consuming tasks. Luminar Neo can automatically remove power lines in backgrounds or erase dark blotches caused by dust on your camera’s image sensor. It can also create a depth map that lets …

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The Leica M11 is the most beautiful camera I will never buy

The Leica M11 is the iconic photography company’s latest full-frame digital rangefinder camera, packing a 60-megapixel image sensor into an all-metal body, along with a range of refinements over the previous M10. It also will also cost an eye-watering but Leica-typical $8,995 (without a lens) when it goes on sale later this month, yet it shuns features like image stabilization, …

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Lightroom on Apple’s M1 Max Mac: Holy mackerel, this is fast

I didn’t really need to upgrade to an M1 Max-powered MacBook Pro. After spending hours using Adobe’s Lightroom photo editing and cataloging software, boy, am I glad I did.  The speed of the new MacBook Pro knocked my socks off. The battery life was similarly impressive. And it’s great having an SD card reader back for importing photos and videos …

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Take your best ever landscape photos on your phone: Top tips and tricks for better shots

Recent phones like the iPhone 13 Pro, Google Pixel 6 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra have incredible cameras that can snag the sort of stunning photographs you’d normally expect to see coming from pro-level DSLRs with sky-high prices attached. Even older or more affordable phones like the iPhone 11, OnePlus 9 or Pixel 5 can take stunning shots that’ll impress …

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Black Friday 2021 Adobe Creative Cloud deal gets you up to 40% off now through Nov. 26

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Adobe’s deals on its Creative Cloud All Apps plan is a regular event — so much so, that if you need to subscribe and have the luxury of waiting it’s worth delaying to get the discount off the first year.  This time around, now through …

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DJI Mavic 3 review: Great image quality and battery life help justify $2,199 price tag

The Mavic 3 packs a whole suite of upgrades over its predecessor allowing it to shoot better video, take better pictures and stay in the air for longer. Every piece has been updated and it feels like a real step forward over the previous Mavic 2 Pro. Its starting price of $2,199 (£1,879) for the base model, (or $2,999, £2,549 …

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Lightroom masking arrives, bringing a major upgrade to photo editing

Adobe released an enormously important feature for its Lightroom photo editing software on Tuesday, a masking tool that uses AI to select elements in a scene for much more sophisticated changes to color, tone and exposure. The first version of Lightroom permitted changes only to the entire photo, but in 2008 Adobe added an ability to make local adjustments that affected …

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M1 Pro and M1 Max: Here’s how Apple is kicking Intel out of the Mac computer

Apple on Monday revealed its M1 Pro and M1 Max processors, giving us a look at its highest-end chips so far and the brains inside its redesigned MacBook Pro, which comes in 14-inch and 16-inch models. The chips present a new threat to Intel’s decades of PC processor dominance, thanks to more computing cores compared to older M1 chips. Apple debuted …

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Adobe Lightroom is getting more powerful with AI

Adobe will add a new selection tool to its Lightroom software in October to help photo editors get the look they want with less manual labor. The feature, powered by artificial intelligence technology, lets photographers spotlight photo subjects like people, buildings and animals with a single click so they can fine tune color, lighting, tonality and other characteristics. The technique …

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