Adobe Photoshop now runs natively on M1 Macs

Posted on by Nadeem Sarwar

Adobe released an optimized version of Lightroom in December that ran natively on the M1 Macs, and Windows on ARM machines too. Back then, Adobe also started beta testing M1-optimized builds of some of its more popular offerings such as Photoshop. Well, the product is finally ready for prime time. Adobe has released a new version of Photoshop that runs natively on the new MacBooks powered by the in-house M1 silicon.

Preset Syncing and Invite to Edit Cloud Documents tools are yet to be ported for M1 Macs

Following internal testing, Adobe claims ‘a wide range of features’ offer an average speed boost of 1.5X with the new and optimized version of Photoshop. The company even mentions in its blog post that some tasks are substantially faster compared to what you get on the Rosetta 2 emulated version or the x86-optimized build of the app. Specifically, tasks such as opening/closing files, applying filters, Content-Aware Fill, and subject selection will run noticeably faster on the M1 Macs.

However, there are a few Photoshop features that are yet to be optimized for taking full advantage of the M1 chip, and they will be released later this year. Notable features that are yet to be ported for the ARM-based M1 ecosystem are Preset Syncing and Invite to Edit Cloud Documents. Adobe advises users to revert back to the non-optimized version of Photoshop to use them with the Rosetta 2 emulation layer, in case those features are an integral part of their workflow.

Adobe Photoshop for iPad gets new tools too

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Cloud Documents Version History

Additionally, Adobe has also added two notable features to the Photoshop app for iPad – Cloud Documents Version History and Offline Cloud Documents Editing. The first one allows users to revert back to versions of a document as old as 60 days. Users can also choose to save older versions, rename them or even put them on the bookmark list. The latter allows users to download their cloud-based documents and store them locally for offline editing.

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Offline Cloud Documents Editing
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Adobe Photoshop can now be used to identify fake photos

Posted on by Prakhar Khanna

As a part of its Content Authenticity Initiative, Adobe started working to cut down on the number of altered images that circulate online. In August, the company stated that upcoming technology would use metadata tagging and cryptography to help the public properly attribute and verify the authenticity of content including images and videos. Now, it has unveiled a new attribution tool for Photoshop that will help users understand the authenticity of images.

The new feature allows users to add their name, location, and edit history to photos, among other tags. Adobe says it will create a “tamper-evident” paper trail for an image that will allow users to identify authentic versus deepfake images. It would also enable them to see how these images were created. Moreover, images exported to Behance will show the same information, including the app used. You can use Adobe’s new website (verify.contentauthenticity.org), and see the original stock photo versus the final composite image in split-screen.

Using the attribution tool, Photoshop will be able to automatically tag it with the original photographer’s credit, the creator who produced the composite. Plus, it will show the exact editing activities used. However, if you don’t want your creation to be traced back, you can turn off the feature altogether. As of now, the tool only works with images. However, Adobe and its partners plan to eventually expand it for other types of media, including videos.

The new Adobe Photoshop feature is still in the testing phase. As Engadget notes, the tool would require wide adoption by publishers, artists, and even rivals to Photoshop before it could become useful. It will be available to select customers in Photoshop and Behance via a beta release in the coming weeks. The company is calling it a “huge leap forward” for the technology. 

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Adobe Photoshop could soon include the tool we need to spot fake photos online

Posted on by Prakhar Khanna

Adobe started working to cut down on the number of altered images that circulate online with its Content Authenticity Initiative last year. The company stated that upcoming technology would use metadata tagging and cryptography to help the public properly attribute and verify the authenticity of content including images and videos.

Now, Adobe says that it will start shipping a preview version of Photoshop that includes the technology later this year. Further, it plans to integrate the software with Behance, which is a social media network for creative professionals.

Adobe Photoshop will add tags to images users create. These tags will provide insights about their origins and tell you who the original photographer of an image was, alongside its place and time of click. These details will be cryptographically signed to vouch for their authenticity.

According to Wired, the initiative could one day help the likes of Twitter and Facebook strengthen the automated systems they already use to flag misleading images. However, Engadget points out that the system will only be as effective as the number of companies and organizations that adopt it.

To bolster the fight against all the misleading images shared online software developers, camera manufacturers, social media networks and media outlets will need to adopt the standard. 

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Adobe’s Photoshop app for iPad adds two extremely useful features

Posted on by Nadeem Sarwar

Adobe’s Photoshop app for iPad has introduced two new features that creative users and professionals will find extremely useful. The first one is the Refine Edge Brush that offers extremely precise image selection capabilities and finer controls for objects with complex edges, especially where one needs to handle fur and hair on canvas.

“This is required to achieve realistic, professional quality selections of objects with a mix of sharp and soft edges. Some examples include, lots of flyaway hair or removing subjects from complex backgrounds and many more everyday selection scenarios,” Adobe describes the Refine Edge Brush tool.

The other new addition to the Photoshop app for iPad is the Rotate Canvas tool, which offers more control over rotating the canvas via fluid gestures. For example, users can rotate and zoom in/out simultaneously using two fingers, reset the zoom levels with pinch gestures, and snap at 90-degree angle variables.

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Adobe Photoshop gets a slew of new features on desktop and iPad

Posted on by Prakhar Khanna

Adobe Photoshop’s desktop and iPad users are receiving a bunch of new features with the latest update. As for the desktop users, the Select Subject feature with portrait mode is vastly improved. It is now content-aware and applies new custom algorithms if it detects a person is in the scene.

Further, improvements are coming to Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). It includes more intuitive image adjustments and batch processing. Navigation controls are now stacked vertically for easy discovery. Moreover, sliders are now made to look more like how they are in Lightroom. New crop tool improvements have been introduced as well.

Adobe Photoshop is also getting Adobe Fonts feature. It will seamlessly download fonts when a file using Adobe Fonts is opened. The patterns can also be rotated, and Match Fonts is also getting an improved experience with support for more fonts, vertical text, and multiple-line detection. The Adobe Capture mobile-only feature is now available on desktop as well.

As for the iPad users, Photoshop is now receiving better integration of Lightroom including the ability to move an image from Lightroom to Photoshop and back. The company is making available all the tools in Photoshop when editing a photo from Lightroom.

Source: Adobe

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We are getting more Black Friday deals on Amazon

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We have a new list of deals you can find on Amazon this very moment. They include iPhones, AirPods, MacBooks and more

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