A huge Adobe Max conference is on the way. It doesn’t seem as if the company has cut back at all. This year’s show has 56 hours of live broadcast, 275 sessions and is free to everyone. As a result, says the company, they have over 200,000 registrants in the weeks before the conference. We believe it, there are millions … Read more
Adobe demonstrated Photoshop Camera at Adobe Max last year in Los Angeles, which seems like about 4 years ago. And, at the time, it seemed like Photoshop Camera was just another cute little phone app like all the other apps we had to have, played with a while, and then abandoned for the next shiny thing. And, actually, it is … Read more
From the very beginning, Adobe Premiere has been a tool for single project work, which makes sense given its origins as a desktop product and its role in democratizing video editing for everyone. It has been used to make movies and TV shows, but they’ve had to work around the single project structure of Premiere. Everything starts in the Productions … Read more
CorelDraw has been steadily improving and growing its own distinct user base, gaining strength from its solid footing in the Windows world and its availability with a perpetual license. It goes without saying that CorelDraw is all the more attractive to some users because of the wealth of tools in the box. In addition to the CorelDraw design tool, which … Read more
Adobe’s 3D and Immersive (3D&I) group has announced the addition of Oculus Medium to an emerging portfolio that includes Dimension, Substance, and Aero, tools that complement Adobe’s flagship products Photoshop and After Effects. Facebook’s Oculus Medium was introduced to the world along with the Oculus controllers in 2016. It differs from other 3D paint tools like Facebook’s Quill and Google’s … Read more
When it all comes together: HP has been working on the challenge of real-world 3D capture for some time. At Adobe Max, the company was able to show off the process from capture to print. That Dalek sitting next to the Z4 Workstation is HP’s new Captis device. (Source JPR) It's no secret that Adobe is growing its 3D … Read more
This material was a 2018 winner of the Insanity Award given by Allegorithmic to developers who push the software to extremes. Game developers can use textures to add detail to primitive shapes—sometimes to the point of crazy. This kind of work can make sense in the game world where polygons are expensive. (Source: Adobe Substance, material by Jonathan Benainous) … Read more
Adobe at IBC focused on the capabilities of content-aware fill quite a bit—not that the technology is new, but that it can do so much. This demonstration showed that it’s possible to remove the orange ball from all video frames of the game. It works, but it makes people look pretty excited about nothing. (Source: JPR) At IBC 2019, … Read more
Uh, oh there’s no one here! Walking into Siggraph that first day, full of excitement and expectation, we were horrified to find the halls quiet, the tiny exhibition area dark, and the nearby area for R&D exhibits relatively quiet. What the hell, is Siggraph dying? School bell’s ringing and the crowds stream into the halls of Siggraph. These aren’t faces … Read more
Deep fakes have got the world creeped out. Photo manipulation techniques joined with AI are enabling people to create very convincing, very fake images and videos. The authenticity of audio is also up for grabs, and in fact in this paper, “Text Based Editing on Talking Head Videos,” researchers demonstrate a technique for editing a speaker in a video by … Read more
It’s been a while, but the cover for our New Year’s issue was created using Dimension, Adobe’s tool which enables users to combine 3D models with 2D backgrounds to create a new artwork. We didn’t do anything really special, put paper bag on the foreground, created a texture for with Adobe’s Capture app, added the JPR logo as a decal … Read more
The Academy Awards have been announced and now the jockeying for position has begun, but all the deciding has been done for Academy’s Science and Technical Awards and the usual suspects welcome a new entrant to the ranks. Maxon’s Cinema 4D has been recognized for the first time by the Academy. Per-Anders will be awarded an Academy of Motion Picture … Read more
