Sad when photography becomes a quasi-political topic. Is Photoshop installed on your computer? Well those days are soon gone. Adobe will no longer be developing its Creative Suite range of software, leaving its subscription and cloud-based Creative Cloud as the only way of accessing the latest version of Photoshop. Epic #fail, Adobe. Quite understandably, photographers […]
Been there, done that? You wanted to order Adobe Creative Cloud but decided against it when you saw the price. Didn’t you feel like you were getting ripped off plain and simple. At $49.99 a month you get an ongoing membership that lets you download and install any of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 desktop […]
Google didn’t invent the smartphone, that was actually Palm (R.I.P.), but Google does everything to give market leader Apple a really tough time with the ascent of Android. Google likes to take on competitors on many fronts — maybe, or hopefully, even Adobe. The Mountain View company announced that they’re improving their RAW conversion services. […]
By SAM FISCHER More and more smartphones today are coming out with cameras that are incredibly functional. A dedicated camera still will outdo smartphone cameras in most aspects. But even a consummate photographer like myself isn’t ashamed to take a quick smartphone photo anymore. Camera features to look for when selecting a phone: Camera resolution […]
The writing is on the wall. Moore’s law. Everything tech gets better and faster. Desktops become a thing of the past as notebooks and tablets offer incomparable convenience and ease of use. Now Apple declares the end of the PC, with the iPad Pro being a replacement for a notebook or desktop for many people. […]
A lot has been said about Apple pulling the plug on Aperture. Not only Aperture, iPhoto is a goner, too! Loyal Aperture users are considering the transition to Lightroom, giving in to monopolist Adobe that’ll rule the digital imaging processing world. Not that Apple drops digital imaging altogether. The upcoming Photos app will replace and […]
By IMPROMPTU IMPRESSION We photographers like to talk gear and in a way we are all geeks. The late great Ansel Adams even made a name out of how to best utilize gear in the form of the fabled Zone System. But there is another side to us photographers too, very much out of geek’s […]
This one’s really cool: an Adobe charm offensive. After all the negative press Adobe recently got for its Cloud(y) future, here’s some splendid creativity in action. It’s part of Adobe’s Creative Days — well they better try to appease photographers! And this is one smart prank, Adobe:
So you don’t want to cough up the exorbitant amount of dollars, euros or whatever for your own copy of monopolistic Photoshop (read our piece on the Photoshop money trap). However expensive, Photoshop’s my one and main photo editing software. But there are other classics and useful softwares that shouldn’t be ignored. Some of them […]
