When you buy a new computer for digital creative work, what specs are most important? I’m pleased that my article “How to Buy a Computer for Creative Work” is the cover story for the February 2025 issue of CreativePro Magazine. Learn how the type of creative work you do affects how you want to balance and budget for memory, storage, processors, and other components.
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My friends at CreativePro Magazine asked me to summarize the major Adobe Creative Cloud upgrades announced at the Adobe MAX conference in October 2023. You’ll find my annual analysis in the article What’s New in Creative Cloud 2024/Magic in the Machine, published in the November 2023 issue.
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With the September 2023 release of Apple macOS 14 Sonoma, you’re probably wondering if your Adobe software will work in this major annual upgrade to macOS. There isn’t a single “yes” or “no” answer for all Adobe applications; some apps might be OK while others have issues, so this article breaks out compatibility info by application. Also, we don’t usually know everything about compatibility on the first day a new major version of macOS becomes available; that information emerges over time as Apple, Adobe, and other software developers test with the initial 14.0 public release and produce updates with fixes. I’ll update this article as new information comes out.
For more details, or if you have questions about Adobe Creative Suite (CS) software, read on…
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You might already be using Apple iPad apps for creative and production work—but maybe that’s as far as you go. When you turn to your computer to use desktop applications, your iPad becomes a silent black rectangle on your desk. It doesn’t have to! You can put it to work as a valuable studio sidekick, from being a control surface for desktop apps to automating lights and cameras for live video. I’ll show you how in my article in the September 2023 issue of CreativePro Magazine. For links and details, read on…
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