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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My friends at CreativePro Magazine (formerly InDesign Magazine) asked me to comment on the major Adobe Creative Cloud announcements and software upgrades at the Adobe MAX conference in October 2021. I wrote up my thoughts in the article Adobe MAX 2021: Larger Forces at Work for the December 2021 issue. Some new features can seem puzzling…why is it a priority to create a web browser version of Photoshop, over other potential new features? After summarizing upgrades to individual applications, I talk about some of the higher-level goals at Adobe that make it easier to understand those changes across the entire Creative Cloud suite.
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You can merge multiple images into a panorama in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw (which comes with Photoshop), and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. But don’t assume they create panoramas the same way. In fact they work differently, but those differences give you more ways to resolve potential panorama issues.
How do you choose which method to use? I answer that question in an article for CreativePro.com, which you can read at the following link:
Creating a Panorama: Photoshop, Camera Raw, or Lightroom?
The Adobe Digital Negative (DNG) format started out as an open file format for saving raw image data from the sensor in a digital camera. While DNG hasn’t exactly become a household name, I recently began to notice that DNG has come into wider use behind the scenes in several Adobe and non-Adobe photo workflows, and not just for camera raw files. What makes this possible is the inherent versatility that Adobe built into the DNG format. Are you already using DNG without even knowing it?
Read my full article for CreativePro.com at the following link:
The Unexpected Rebirth of Adobe DNG
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