AI takes flight in Photoshop
New release features Firefly generative AI model integration.
Adobe expands Substance 3D
Substance 3D Modeler interprets spatial input from the physical world, enabling users to sculpt a model intuitively. (Source: Adobe) Adobe was busy recently, announcing several updates to various products. Many of those pertain to the company’s Substance 3D offering. These include a 3D Materials SDK that allows developers to write their own plug-ins and use the Substance 3D Material and … Read more
Adobe Express for everybody else
Adobe has introduced a new collection of cloud-based tools to enable anyone to create a quick multimedia something. Adobe suggests banners, flyers, logos, etc. In other words, prepare to see more plain old posts gussied up with baked content in your feeds. Anyone can do it: Adobe Creative Cloud makes the job of content creation easier. (Source: JPR) Adobe packaged … Read more
After a great 2020, Adobe says stars aligned for 2021
Adobe’s first quarter ended March 5, 2021, and the company says it is seeing plenty of more growth throughout the year. In fact, after the company’s cheerful assessment of the quarter, it also raised its expectations for 2021. Adobe’s Digital Media segment saw revenue of $2.86 billion, 32% year over year growth. Creative revenue grew to $2.3 billion, for a … Read more
Adobe admits challenges in changing economy due to pandemic
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 Photoshop Camera
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
Corel picks up the AI brush for Painter products
The Painter family of products has its origins in MetaCreations, a digital arts development powerhouse in Santa Barbara. They were early pioneers in computer graphics software for artists and the work they did lives on at Daz3D, Poser, and most vibrantly at Corel in Painter. The implosion of MetaCreations as a company at the turn of the century is a … Read more
Deep faking and getting real
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
Adobe is thinking about your future
Just a whole lot of stuff going on at Adobe Max 2018. (Source: JPR) This year’s Adobe Max, the company's user conference featured familiar tools in new packages. Last year, Adobe introduced a cloud- based version of Lightroom. At that time, we were pretty sure it was a harbinger of the future and this year, Adobe confirmed it with the … Read more