Adobe Blog

Honestly, the best thing out there for color correction right now (to me) is Adobe's Camera Raw feature. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/10/14/the-adobe-adaptive-profil… The AI denoise is fantastic, too: https://gregbenzphotography.com/lightroom-acr/acr-17-ai-adobe-adaptive…

It's an image generation model behind a service called Firefly. https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/03/21/responsible-innovation-ag… The creator compensation thing is probably speculative although they do have business reasons to follow through, like not alienating their entire customer base.

Sketch... competes with Figma. They're UI/UX tools. What makes Figma great was their collaboration first element, which they will be keeping. Adobe was going down the web path as well https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/10/26/creative-cloud-canvas-spa…

Interesting. I saw the Beeline Reader before and their method is different in a way that doesn't negatively impact my reading. Their grayscale palette is actually fun and unobtrusive enough that I forget it exists after a while. Also, their text is left-aligned. If you're up for more experiments, try a line highlighter that follows a cursor, like so: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/05/06/hacking-readability-for-d…

Adobe's "Press Release" [1]: > Better with Blender, together: Adobe partners with Blender on development fund and new plugins > [...] > First, I am thrilled to announce that we’re joining the Blender Development Fund to help ensure the longevity and success of this dynamic open-source community. Additionally, we are going to help creators work with the best of Adobe right in Blender by launching two new plugins — Substance 3D [2] in Blender and Mixamo Auto-Control Rig Plugin [3] for Blender (both now available, in beta). -- All in all, these plugins sound like marketplaces for Shaders and Animation Curves, respectively -- [1] https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/07/20/blender-development-fund-… [2] https://www.substance3d.com/ [3] https://www.mixamo.com/

I'm a front-end developer who studied graphic design. A very important part of UX is app flow and navigating users through your interface in a seamless, graceful way. When I was studying UI/UX something that helped me a lot was reading Google Material guidelines. Even if you're not using a Material UI library (like @angular/material), the guideline thoroughly explains what a good UI/UX should feel like, look like, and work. Some links: - https://material.io/design/ - https://www.usability.gov/about-us/index.html (this is more for government websites, but still a good source of information) - https://medium.com/@fluidui (FluidUI is an online tool for creating user stories and design prototypes, in their Medium blog they have a vast list of resources and detailed information. - https://theblog.adobe.com/4-golden-rules-ui-design/ (very good read) Hope this helps. Cheers.

This feels particularly egregious because of our unspoken assumption that Adobe, of all companies, should have "excellence in design" somewhere on its list of core guiding principles (I know, I know, hear me out). It feels like there should be someone internally at some point who says "hold on, this really goes against who we are as a company, what happened here". It's instructive to look at how a company presents itself to the public, so I went looking at what Adobe says about itself, and what is the first instance I can find of a principle or value that this bad UX violates. Google result: > Adobe: Creative, marketing and document management solutions > Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. We help our customers create, deliver and optimize content and applications. About page: >Changing the world through personalized digital experiences. >Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises, and nonprofit organizations — customers choose Adobe products to ideate, collaborate, be more productive, drive business growth, and build remarkable experiences. >Creative Cloud >Industry-leading photography, design, illustration, and video apps that professionals rely on to do their best work. Company values: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/03/07/evolving-adobes-values-cu… >Creativity is not only what we enable for the world but it’s…

The PDF specification is wild. My current favourite trivia is that it supports all of Photoshop's layer blend modes for rendering overlapping elements.[1] My second-favourite is that it supports appended content that modifies earlier content, so one should always look for forensic evidence in all distinct versions represented in a given file.[2] It's also a fun example of the futility of DRM. The spec includes password-based encryption, and allows for different "owner" and "user" passwords. There's a bitfield with options for things like "prevent printing", "prevent copying text", and so forth,[3] but because reading the document necessarily involves decrypting it, one can use the "user" password to open an encrypted PDF in a non-compliant tool,[4] then save the unencrypted version to get an editable equivalent. [1] "More than just transparency" section of https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/01/31/20-years-of-transparency-… [2] https://blog.didierstevens.com/2008/05/07/solving-a-little-pdf-puzzle/ [3] Page 61 of https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000… [4] For example, a script that uses the pypdf library.

I guess you missed the recent fiasco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxg5LzFw-_g&t=33s https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms…

Yes. For example, Lightroom and Camera Raw support HDR editing and export from RAW images, and Adobe published a good rundown on the feature when they introduced it. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/10/10/hdr-explained Greg Benz Photography maintains a list of software here: https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr-display-photo-software/ I'm not sure what FOSS options there are; it's difficult to search for given that "HDR" can mean three or four different things in common usage.

I would interpret it that they're getting the same push from Wall Street and the same investor-hype-driven product leadership as every other tech firm, but this time they have the good fortune to specialize in one of the few verticals (image editing) where generative AI currently has superhuman performance. This is a testable claim: where were Adobe in previous hype cycles? Googles "Adobe Blockchain"...looks like they were all about blockchains in 2018 [0], then NFTs and "more sustainable blockchains" in 2022 [1]. [0] https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2018/09/27/blockchain-and-the-digita… [1] https://www.ledgerinsights.com/adobe-moves-to-sustainable-blockchains/

This is not true - they do not train on customer data - they have clarified this here: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms…

Adobe's PR re: the response to these changes https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms…

Adobe have released a statement on the topic: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms… Interestingly the problematic language was already in the terms prior to this update.

Adobe post info here: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms… Including a diff of what actually changed in the TOS.

Adobe response: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606768 Previous: Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40591860 - (86 comments)

Makes me wonder if section 4.2 (the part you quote) was part of the update or if it has been there for before? Adobe's official communication [1,2] does not seem to indicate 4.2 changed with this update? [1] The popup in OP only mentions sections 2.2, 4.1, 5.2 and 14.1 [2] https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms…

It is trained on Adobe Stock and supplemented with openly licensed and public domain content. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/03/21/responsible-innovation-ag…

Their blog about their methodology[1] implies to me it's an in-house solution. They also talk at length about maintaining provenance, ethics, and transparency. I found it a much more informative read than the product announcement. [1] https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/03/21/responsible-innovation-ag…

I have absolutely terrible news for you: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/02/08/adobe-microsoft-bring-ind…

I remember learning PostScript (~1993?) by reading the Red Book, and thinking how awesome it was that this company Adobe, which I'd never heard of, had created a new programming language just to solve once and for all the problem of specifying vector graphics to a printer, and had written such a nice book to help others use the language. It was magical to be able to write a text file in emacs, send it to the printer, and have cool images come out. Good old days. btw PDF started as Project Camelot at Adobe in ~1990, as a way to capture the results of executing a PostScript program [1]. I'm curious if there is still that kind of foundational innovation happening at Adobe, and if not, why it died? [1] https://blog.adobe.com/en/2018/06/14/evolution-digital-document-celebr…

90% of texts are read within 3 seconds of arriving on your phone, with a 98% open rate altogether: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2015/07/27/marketing-with-98-percent… So yes, I do.

You can restrict some activities, but not all. In particular you can't restrict using code as an AI training set. To be fair the law isn't totally clear here though. For example see https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2020/02/27/copyrights-in-the-era-of-… Several cases – most notably the litigation surrounding Google Books – suggest that using copyrighted works for the non-expressive purpose of training AI models amounts to fair use. So Copilot itself is not infringing when it trains these models. Individual people using Copilot are probably safe as well since small accidental copyright infringements are usually okay, but perhaps some cases it would run into trouble. You can tell Copilot is using code under fair use, not according to a license, because almost all licenses require you to maintain the license and attribution and Copilot doesn't do that.

Reflow is offered by Adobe: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2020/09/23/adobe-unveils-ambitious-m… Unfortunately you have to send the file to their servers, which is probably a no-go for many.

Isn't this what Adobe is trying to do? [1] It was posted on HN a few times but never started a discussion that I saw. Personally, I'm scared of it although I can't put my finger on why. 1. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2019/11/04/content-authenticity-init…

One of those happy moments where science fiction becomes real: https://blog.adobe.com/hlx_ea7b90bf2b9492a9fdfdcbe74b3197ca1225aed0.jp…

That's an interesting article, and relevant in the sense that the "magic kernel" can be used for purposes of super-resolution, but Adobe is using a fairly different approach. Instead of using analytically-derived functions Adobe is using a deep learning model trained on a large dataset of Low resolution-High resolution image pairs. The details are propietary, obviously, but it's likely similar to various deep learning superresolution algorithms in the academic literature. (Some more info here https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/03/10/from-the-acr-team-super-r…

A few examples in the blog post stood out to me - both refine ambigous letters to clear ones, which demonstrates concerns other folks were talking about in this thread. In this one, i's are nearly illegible, but are corrected. It appears to be correct here, but could be wrong. https://blog.adobe.com/hlx_fa6ee5a67d3f2e5b1945745176e6b955efc20a47.jp… This one's weirder. In the original, I can't read many of the letters. It looks like G[EL]NE[XR]A[IL]DI[ER][XK][IT]OR - lots of guesses. The enhanced version is GENERALDIREKTOR (I think). At any rate, it's much more confident in the spelling than I am, as a human. https://blog.adobe.com/hlx_a337d462293b51f4d91182cbbebf68cf4fd7613e.jp…

I suggest to read the Adobe blogpost at https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/03/10/from-the-acr-team-super-r… instead. It has sample images side-by-side with bicubic upsampling. Even better comparisons are in the blog post for a competing product: https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2019/12/17/all-about-the-new-ml-super-… (likely the same algorithm, but using a different training set, so results will be different from what Adobes product does). It has comparisons with nearest neighbor, bilinear and Lanczos filters and uses a slider to make it easier to see the difference. Papers on this task: https://paperswithcode.com/task/image-super-resolution

Um....not really. It’s barely a shell of what it was. Flash is no longer supported by browsers. Air is not supported by Adobe. Canvas and Web Gl maybe. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2019/05/30/the-future-of-adobe-air.h… https://www.computerworld.com/article/3403345/where-do-browsers-stand-…