Adobe Max 2019: all the top announcements – The Verge

Adobe deals with ‘painful’ early reviews of Photoshop for iPad

2019-11-08T14:12:42-05:00

At the kickoff keynote for Adobe Max, the company's massive annual creativity conference, 15,000 designers and creatives cheered as Photoshop on the iPad was unveiled onstage. The long-anticipated app had been teased since last year's conference, and the air in the Los Angeles Convention Center was filled with excitement as attendees finally got to try it out in between workshop sessions and panels hosted by inspirational speakers. But online was a different story, as negative reviews poured in on Twitter and YouTube, confirming early reports that the app was missing key features and felt unfinished.

On YouTube, the first search results for …

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Adobe is building live-streaming into Creative Cloud apps

2019-11-07T12:13:22-05:00

Adobe is developing live-streaming features that are built directly into its Creative Cloud apps, the company announced at its annual Adobe Max creativity conference. A beta version of the feature is currently available to a whitelisted group of users on Adobe Fresco. The feature gives users the option to go live and share a link for anyone online to watch and comment on their streams.

Chief product officer Scott Belsky compared the experience to Twitch but with an educational component that could filter videos for users who want to learn how to use specific tools.

"When you see a live stream of someone in our products, you want to know wh …

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Adobe previews an AI feature that can tell when an image has been manipulated

2019-11-06T15:07:45-05:00

Adobe is previewing a bunch of experimental features that could one day come to its apps, including several that use AI to manipulate images and audio.

The features were revealed during Adobe's Sneaks event last night at the company's annual Max creativity conference, and this year, the features made heavy use of the Adobe's Sensei AI platform. Sneaks is where apps like Adobe Fresco and features like content-aware fill were first previewed, so there's a good chance that some of these tools may appear in a Creative Cloud app near you in the future.

Comedian John Mulaney hosted the event this year and served as a guinea pig for Adobe's resea …

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Adobe’s latest experiment tracks your body to create super quick animations

2019-11-05T09:00:00-05:00

Adobe is previewing an R&D feature for After Effects that can automatically track human movements and apply them to animations. The body tracker detects human body movement in source videos to generate track points for 18 joints across the arms, torso, and legs, which can then be transferred to the character that's being animated. Similar to how Adobe's Character Animator can track facial expressions, the feature could be a quick way to create 2D body animations.

The feature can also create a contour mask around the body, which can be used in a variety of ways, like video color grading and highlighting the foreground. It can also be used to …

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Photoshop adds an extremely helpful AI subject selection tool

2019-11-04T09:00:00-05:00

Adobe is updating Photoshop CC today with a handful of new features, the highlight of which is an exceptionally handy new subject selection tool. The new tool, which now takes the top spot under the Magic Wand tool, lets you drag a box around an object, and Photoshop will automatically create a selection around the borders of the object it thinks you're highlighting. That could be as simple as a box or as complicated as a fluffy dog.

If you've ever spent time carefully mousing around the edges of an object or person you need to edit in a photo, you'll know why this new tool will be such a huge help. It can be a time-consuming process, espec …

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Adobe’s AI-powered video framing tool is available now in Premiere Pro

2019-11-04T09:00:00-05:00

Adobe's new Auto Reframe feature, which uses artificial intelligence to automate the process of editing and cropping video for various social platforms, is now available in Premiere Pro, the company announced today as part of its slew of product releases at the annual Adobe Max conference.

Adobe first detailed Autoframe earlier this year, and it works by analyzing individual frames and ensuring that a square or 16:9 crop doesn't cut off the action or result in an awkward framing job.

Premiere users can make use of Auto Reframe by first designating how much motion is in the video they're editing. From there, the software will generate motio …

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Adobe is launching a free AI-powered Photoshop Camera app

2019-11-04T09:00:00-05:00

Adobe is launching a free AI-powered Photoshop Camera app, available now to a select group of users as a limited preview for iOS and Android devices. The camera uses Adobe's artificial intelligence platform, Sensei, to recognize the subject in photos - whether it's a selfie, landscape, or food - and automatically suggest which image filters to apply. Filters can be used on the screen in real time, or applied to images taken from the camera roll. The app will feature filters from select artists, and users in the limited preview will be able to create their own.

Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis told The Verge that while powerful apps like Photoshop a …

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Adobe Aero turns Photoshop layers into interactive AR experiences

2019-11-04T09:00:00-05:00

Adobe is releasing its augmented reality app Aero today at its annual Max conference. The free iOS app lets designers build AR experiences without coding knowledge. Instead, the app makes use of Adobe programs, letting users import 3D files from Dimension and 2D layers from Photoshop and Illustrator to create interactive experiences.

Aero is meant to be intuitive for designers without 3D design experience, letting users build AR scenes inside the app with step-by-step instructions. The app can also be used with third-party software like Maya and C4D. Users can place scalable objects into scenes viewed through their phone or tablet cameras, …

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Adobe’s Fresco drawing app arrives on Windows

2019-11-04T09:00:00-05:00

Adobe Fresco - the company's drawing and painting app that had originally launched earlier this year on the iPad - is coming to Windows, the company announced today alongside a slew of other news. Like the iPad version, the Windows version of Fresco is free for Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers or $9.99 / month for non-subscribers.

According to Adobe, the first version of Fresco for Windows is meant for pen devices, like the Microsoft Surface Pro or the Wacom MobileStudio Pro.

The Windows version of Fresco, like the iPad one, will take advantage of the newly expanded cloud document feature that Adobe is also announcing today. With it, custo …

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Adobe XD does collaborative editing now, just like Figma

2019-11-04T09:00:00-05:00

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Adobe XD, the design prototyping software, is introducing a coediting feature in beta today that lets users work with other designers in real time. Coediting allows users to work in the same document in Creative Cloud, so team members can collaborate on projects without doubling up on files.

Users will be able to see when other teammates are working on the document, and see what artboards and objects they're currently editing. It's basically like Google Docs for user experience design, and also happens to be the same core feature that Adobe XD competitor Figma is known for, with its Multiplayer editing.

Users can choose to opt in to the fe …

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