Pixelmator Pro version 3.3, codenamed Mosaic, is now available and includes an all-new Remove Color adjustment to make it easy to remove color from images and video quickly. The latest release also includes powerful Clarity, Selective Clarity, and Texture adjustments for enhancing fine details in photos.
Thanks to a partnership with Parallels, Microsoft will officially support running Windows 11 on M1 and M2 Macs in a virtual environment.
Apple is reportedly actively developing Macs that have touch-friendly screens. The computers, which could be ready as soon as 2025, would signal a major shift in how Apple has traditionally viewed its devices.
Pixelmator Pro has added an AI-powered Deband feature to its Apple Mac image editing app that gets rid of color banding.
Pixelmator Pro version 3.2, codenamed Lumiere, adds the ability to edit videos. This also opens the door for editors to create moving designs and export animated image formats which brings it even further in line with Adobe Photoshop.
MacOS Ventura and iPadOS 16.1 updates are finally here, and both are focused on multitasking and productivity.
LaCie has announced two new mobile hard drives, the LaCie Mobile Drive and LaCie Mobile Drive Secure that provide up to 5TB of portable capacity and universal support for PC, Mac, and iPad.
Apple warned of serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads, and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices.
Peakto is an artificial intelligence-powered (AI) Mac software that promises to provide photographers with a complete view of all their photos as well as a centralized and automated search across a host of previously incompatible editing platforms.
For big-time creatives with a similarly-sized budget, the pinnacle in mobile, off-grid living has arrived: the Living Vehicle Creative Studio.
Pixelmator Pro has announced version 2.4, codenamed Odessa, which brings a redesigned Layers sidebar along with color adjustments and effects layers, over 200 new vector shapes, and optimization for M1 Ultra.
Sabrent turned heads when it announced a Thunderbolt 3 Docking station that came packed with 16TB of NVMe M.2 SSD storage along with multiple other ports in a compact package. After testing and teardown, I'm pleased to report it's a pretty awesome and value-rich total package, but I wish it was better able to sink heat.
While OWC has made enclosures that could pair with Mac mini's for a long time, the OWC miniStack STX is the first that brings a Thunderbolt hub into the mix, making it an ideal storage and working drive solution for creatives.
I would describe Apple's Studio Display can be best summarized as a great-looking monitor that doesn't specialize in any one thing but manages to hit high notes in many areas instead. It's pretty bright and has accurate, consistent colors. But the display market is competitive, and many will be questioning its value proposition.
Ever since Apple moved to the M1 chip, we’ve consistently lauded the performance improvements we’ve seen. It feels like with each iteration we say “most powerful” or “surprising” in some way, but those are still perhaps the best words to underscore just how impressive the M1 Ultra in the new Mac Studio is. Because it is impressive.
While the M1 Ultra is the last M1 chip Apple is making, it certainly isn't going to be the company's last ever. A new report alleges multiple new chips in the pipeline as well as a refresh of the Pro Display XDR.
Sabrent has announced the DS-SKRT-D16TB Thunderbolt 3 Dual NVMe SSD Docking Station that promises to turn any Mac or PC into a powerhouse workstation thanks to tons of fast SSD storage and a wealth of ports.
Mixing photography with digital backgrounds is becoming easier and more approachable. In this in-depth and over one hour video, Serge Ramelli breaks down how to use the free Unreal Engine to build a background from scratch and use it to create new composite photographic images.
Apple has released iOS 15.2, and at least one photo-centric child protection feature is included: nudity detection for photos sent in texts. Other safety features are still on hold.
Astropad has announced version 5.1 of Luna Display which adds a PC-to-Mac mode that allows for up to 5K resolution Mac computers to be used as a second display for PCs.
ACDSee has launched Photo Studio for Mac 8, what it describes as a powerful digital asset management tool for Mac computers and has been designed to run natively on Apple Silicon.
Astropad has announced Luna Display 5.0 which adds support for PCs and allows the use of an iPad as a wireless display with windows devices.
Mobile photo editing app developer LateNiteSoft -- known for the mobile app Camera+ 2 -- has launched the Camera+ Studio application for Apple computers.
Serif has released its latest 1.10 update to its image editor suite, Affinity Photo, alongside Affinity Designer and Publisher, which claims to bring "superpowered performance" with a completely re-engineered architecture.
The Razer Blade 14 released just a few short weeks ago is aimed squarely at gamers. The headline on the Razer website is "the world's most powerful 14-inch gaming laptop." But don't be fooled by the glowing green logo and the RGB-backlit keyboard: with its AMD CPU, NVIDIA GPU, and color-accurate QHD display, the Blade 14 is an ideal choice for photo and video editors who are looking for a PC that's portable and powerful.
Announced today at the WWDC 2021, Apple has added "Live Text" to photos with the forthcoming iOS 15. This feature will enable Apple devices to recognize text and numbers within an image and let users copy that text from the image and paste it into other apps like Mail or Messages.
With the latest iOS 14 comes some great features, and one of my favorites is the new shortcut app. If you don't know what a shortcut app is, it allows you to perform complicated tasks automatically, some without any interaction whatsoever.
As part of its May 2021 release of Photoshop on Desktop -- version 22.4 -- Adobe made a significant change to how the "Save As" command works. Rather than continuing to act as it has across applications on all computers for decades, Adobe altered the basic functionality and has left users baffled.
The M1 Chip successor from Apple, which is currently being called M2, is looking more likely to arrive in MacBook computers by the end of the year. A new report states that the processor has already gone into mass production and could start shipping as early as July.
If you're among the list of creative professionals who recently moved to the new Apple M1 Macs, you might have discovered that the latest version of Photoshop is missing something you're used to seeing.