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Nvidia releases Creator Ready drivers, because creatives use GeForce, too

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 …

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Spectre app for iPhone uses AI to create better long

Last October, I did a camera comparison between a then-new iPhone XS and the Galaxy Note 9. As part of it, I wanted to take long-exposure photos of a car’s taillights streaking through the night. I put the Note 9’s camera into Pro Mode, lowered the shutter speed and took a few snaps. Even after tweaking the ISO and exposure …

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New iPad Pro: 5 reasons not to upgrade

Any time a new gadget comes out like the new iPad Pro, it’s exciting. But let’s take a step back and analyze what we saw beyond the slick hardware and snazzy demos. Here’s why you should maybe hold off on getting the new iPad Pro. (There are plenty of reasons to upgrade, of course, but we’ll double back here and …

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Apple new iPad Pro unlocks new app capabilities

Apple‘s newest iPad Pros unlock more capabilities for the apps on the tablets, the company touted at its “There’s more in the making” event Tuesday in Brooklyn, New York, as it introduced new iPads and Macs. Among the apps discussed:  Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is coming to the iPad for the first time, with flashy visuals such as sunlight piercing through a window and atmospheric …

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Adobe Photoshop for iPad, Project Gemini and lots, lots more

At its annual Adobe Max conference, Adobe let loose with its new Creative Cloud cross-platform apps, highlighted by a preview of the long, long-awaited Photoshop for iPad.  It also previewed Project Gemini, which spins off the brushes and brush engine from Photoshop into a drawing and painting app and Project Aero, the AR-creation app that briefly debuted onstage during Apple …

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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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Adobe Lightroom CC faces an uphill climb

For years I’ve been urging Adobe to rebuild its Lightroom image editing software on top of a more robust database than its years-old problem child that randomly corrupts itself and doesn’t speak network, among other things. From now on, I’ll be careful what I wish for.  At this year’s Adobe Max conference, along with feature and performance updates to the …

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How the iPad could improve at WWDC

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. It’s 2017. It feels like it’s been years since I dreamed of the iPad as a true laptop replacement. (Actually, it’s been five years.) I’ve come to accept that that day may never come. Instead, the iPad’s destiny might be to ride alongside …

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