Adobe has had a rough go of it lately and as a result, more photographers have been asking what legitimate options exist that can replace Photoshop and Lightroom. I've been testing a few and while they're all capable performance-wise, I'm left feeling spoiled by Adobe's absurdly fast support for new camera RAW profiles.
While Adobe has emphatically responded to the backlash surrounding its terms of use, and done so in a reasonably effective way, that hasn't stopped some other companies from taking swings at Adobe.
Less than two weeks after significant outrage concerning Adobe's Terms of Use, fueled in part by poor communication, a lack of trust, and good old-fashioned misinformation, Adobe has delivered its promised revised Terms of Use, complete with new explainer text and assurances.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Adobe in the United States District Court, Northern District of California, alleging that the software company obscures fees and makes it illegally tricky for users to cancel software subscriptions.
During Monday's Cannes Lions International Festival for Creativity, Adobe and TikTok announced a new collaboration that would integrate the social media app's commercial music library into Adobe Express.
After breaking $5 billion in revenue in a single quarter for the first time last year, Adobe has followed up with two straight quarters of record revenue and achieved most recently $5.31 billion in Q2.
When Adobe launched its Firefly generative AI, it noted that using it would have limits determined by what it calls Generative Credits. Those limitations will soon include all Firefly-powered tools in Photoshop and Lightroom, too.
Adobe's employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the "evil" company customers think it is.
Adobe is having a hard time getting out of its own way. Last week, the company pushed an update to its terms of service that was widely viewed as an over-reach. The company plans to change them again, but is it too late? The PetaPixel Podcast team discusses.
At Tuesday's Design Made Easy event, Adobe gave its Adobe Express platform a professional polish.
The confusion and anger surrounding an Adobe Terms of Use update last week caused Adobe to revisit its language and communications at large. Beyond a blog post late last week, Adobe today published another blog post, announcing plans for direct communications with customers and an updated Terms of Use.
Another week, another public relations nightmare for Adobe. While not every controversy is Adobe's fault, each is understandable in the larger context: Adobe lost people's trust a while ago, and everything it does is under a microscope.
Adobe released a new blog post explaining its changes in its Terms of Use, when Adobe applications may access a user's content, and whether a user's content will be used to train Adobe's artificial intelligence (AI) models and services.
Adobe, no stranger to controversy, finds itself in hot water yet again. People have taken note of updated terms of use for using Adobe software and are outraged, fearing that Adobe has complete access to a user's content.
Continuing its push for commercial and enterprise customers, Adobe has announced Express for Enterprise, promising to deliver automated content creation, AI tools, and ease of use.
For over a decade, Tiffany Nguyen has been traveling the world documenting the landscape, adventure, and culture in some of the most photogenic places. With Adobe’s recent announcement of a number of impressive new Lightroom Firefly-powered features, Lightroom Ambassador Nguyen revisited some of her favorite photos to give them a modern, Firefly-assisted, makeover.
Over a decade ago, Lytro launched with a curious idea: what if a photo didn't have to stay the same after it was taken? What if perspective had control that could be played with again and again?
Adobe is bringing even more Firefly-powered artificial intelligence (AI) tools to Adobe Lightroom, including Generative Remove and AI-powered Lens Blur. Not to be lost in the shuffle, the company is also expanding tethering support in Lightroom to Sony cameras.
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) published a scathing rebuke of Adobe in an open letter, calling the company's latest round of ads a "shocking dismissal of photography and the photographers who have dedicated their lives to creating it."
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has been in charge of Adobe for nearly two decades and in that time has rarely done interviews. However, he has been making the rounds lately to pump up AI's tires, including an interview published this week with The Verge's Nilay Patel for the publication's Decoder podcast. There, Narayen said some interesting, if not disconcerting, things.
There has been a decades-long relationship between photographers and Adobe. However, the company's recent public discourse and marketing have made some photographers feel uneasy and, in some cases, furious.
Generative AI is changing how people create and business is done, which has far-reaching impacts. Photography is no stranger to technological revolutions and has thus far always survived. However, the coming storm of AI feels different to many, including Adobe, a company that has been involved with digital imaging since its earliest days.
Adobe has previewed a new generative AI upscaler called VideoGigaGAN that is capable of upscaling low-resolution and blurry videos up to eight times.
At its MAX event in London, Adobe unveiled an all-new beta version of Photoshop built on the advancements made in the Adobe Firefly Image 3 Foundation Model, also revealed today.
At its MAX event in London, Adobe announced a huge update to its artificial intelligence system Firefly. Version 3 of the platform is significantly improved over previous iterations and promises to be able to make photorealistic images with greater variety.
Adobe has announced its new Adobe Express mobile app is available now to all users.
Retouch4me has released an update for its free Adobe Photoshop panel that allows users to edit their images through a single interface with the plugin(s) installed locally or through the cloud, extending its original functionality.
Adobe has previewed generative AI video tools that promise to redefine video creation and production workflows. The tools, designed for Adobe Premiere Pro, enable users to add or remove objects in a scene and will live alongside Adobe's Firefly generative AI models.
It used to be that if your digital image was too small for a particular application, you had no real options. You were stuck at the original resolution, or at least something close to it. Upscaling technology has changed the game, but not all apps are made equal.
Tech and software companies working on developing generative artificial intelligence platforms -- and really, who isn't doing that these days -- are in dire need of content to help train their AI models. Adobe is reportedly buying videos to help develop its text-to-video platform now.