Adobe previewed its generative video tools earlier this year, but details were relatively scarce. Today, Adobe shared much more information, including actual videos created in its Adobe Firefly Video Model.
Earlier this summer, Adobe made some sweeping changes to Adobe Stock, primarily aimed at protecting real artists from AI-generated harm on the platform. PetaPixel got a preview of some other new features, which have now arrived to Stock.
Timeline-based non-linear video editor Adobe Premiere Pro's lineage goes back to the original Premiere editor launched in 1991. Over that time, a lot has changed, not only about video capture and editing but also about what a "video editor" does. Premiere Pro is changing with the times in some significant ways.
With great technology comes great power. And apparently, so too comes significant price hikes. The price of some of Canva's subscriptions is slated to increase by around 300%.
Last year, artist and activist Stuart Semple took aim at Adobe with Abode, a Kickstarter campaign to create a new suite of Adobe-like creative apps with a lifetime license and no subscriptions. More than a year later, there is no software in sight.
Last week, Blackmagic announced DaVinci Resolve 19, an upgrade to the popular video editing software that added over 100 new features. It's just the latest example of how the editor has become so reliable and feature-complete that it can't be ignored, even by direct competitors.
Adobe, OpenAI, and Microsoft have backed a bill in California that requires tech companies to clearly label AI-generated content.
Although Adobe routinely releases new artificial intelligence features in its software, the company's research division is always working hard on technological breakthroughs, long before related features make it into consumer-facing software. Adobe Research's latest creation is Magic Fixup, which automates complex image editing tasks.
Frame.io Version 4 now allows photographers to send photos directly from a compatible camera to Adobe Lightroom, the software of choice for many working pros.
This week, PetaPixel published a podcast where the entire premise was simply posing questions provided by photographers to Adobe. But just the act of publicizing those answers immediately turned some viewers off, showing a huge number need to see action, not words -- if anything at all will work at this point.
Over the past few weeks, we've compiled the questions you want Adobe to answer related to its push into AI, recent controversies, and the state of photography in general. We had a chance to sit down with Maria Yap, Adobe's Vice President of Digital Imaging, to give the company a chance to respond.
According to an unredacted Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against Adobe, one company executive said that the early termination fees were "a bit like heroin for Adobe" and that removing them would be a "big business hit."
Since Adobe released its text-to-image generative AI tool, Firefly, last year, the company had to grapple with diverse new challenges. Adobe Stock, perhaps as much as any of Adobe's platforms, had to adapt quickly.
Martin Lindner is a German photographer and Adobe Lightroom Ambassador known for capturing captivating images with unique perspectives in urban environments. Lindner’s use of shapes, patterns, symmetry, and leading lines create images that ask his viewers to use their imaginations to decipher the story being told in the frame.
Adobe has released a new Photoshop update, adding new selection and adjustment brushes, leveling up Firefly's text-to-image from beta to public release, and improving Photoshop's type tool.
As with any laptop review at PetaPixel, we run through various benchmarks to gauge overall performance. The Razer Blade 16 (2024) and Lightroom Classic proved to be something of a mystery in the process, yielding unsatisfactory results that required further investigation.
Serif Affinity, recently acquired by Canva, is giving away access to its entire suite of creative apps for six months. While free trials for software like this isn't unusual, the length of this one means photographers will be able to give the Adobe alternative a solid try without feeling rushed.
In an interview with The Verge, Canva's CEO Melanie Perkins says that the design world needs more alternatives to Adobe, which is part of why her company purchased Serif Affinity earlier this year.
Adobe has had a rough go of it lately and as a result, more photographers have been asking what legitimate options exist that can replace Photoshop and Lightroom. I've been testing a few and while they're all capable performance-wise, I'm left feeling spoiled by Adobe's absurdly fast support for new camera RAW profiles.
While Adobe has emphatically responded to the backlash surrounding its terms of use, and done so in a reasonably effective way, that hasn't stopped some other companies from taking swings at Adobe.
Less than two weeks after significant outrage concerning Adobe's Terms of Use, fueled in part by poor communication, a lack of trust, and good old-fashioned misinformation, Adobe has delivered its promised revised Terms of Use, complete with new explainer text and assurances.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Adobe in the United States District Court, Northern District of California, alleging that the software company obscures fees and makes it illegally tricky for users to cancel software subscriptions.
During Monday's Cannes Lions International Festival for Creativity, Adobe and TikTok announced a new collaboration that would integrate the social media app's commercial music library into Adobe Express.
After breaking $5 billion in revenue in a single quarter for the first time last year, Adobe has followed up with two straight quarters of record revenue and achieved most recently $5.31 billion in Q2.
When Adobe launched its Firefly generative AI, it noted that using it would have limits determined by what it calls Generative Credits. Those limitations will soon include all Firefly-powered tools in Photoshop and Lightroom, too.
Adobe's employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the "evil" company customers think it is.
Adobe is having a hard time getting out of its own way. Last week, the company pushed an update to its terms of service that was widely viewed as an over-reach. The company plans to change them again, but is it too late? The PetaPixel Podcast team discusses.
At Tuesday's Design Made Easy event, Adobe gave its Adobe Express platform a professional polish.
The confusion and anger surrounding an Adobe Terms of Use update last week caused Adobe to revisit its language and communications at large. Beyond a blog post late last week, Adobe today published another blog post, announcing plans for direct communications with customers and an updated Terms of Use.
Another week, another public relations nightmare for Adobe. While not every controversy is Adobe's fault, each is understandable in the larger context: Adobe lost people's trust a while ago, and everything it does is under a microscope.