Adobe this week is offering first-time subscribers of the Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan a 40 percent discount on the service. With this sale, you’ll pay $35.99 per month for the plan, down from $59.99 per month, and this price will last through your first year. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Adobe. When you click…
Apple’s New AI Tool Can Bring Images to Life with Your Descriptions
Apple has made another addition to its growing AI repertoire with the creation of a tool that leverages large language models (LLMs) to animate static images based on a user’s text prompts. MacRumors image made with DALL·E Apple describes the innovation in a new research paper titled “Keyframer: Empowering Animation Design Using Large Language Models.”…
Adobe Introduces New AI Features in Photoshop and Illustrator
Adobe today updated its Illustrator and Photoshop Creative Cloud apps, introducing a range of new features that streamline productivity. Many of the additions take advantage of generative AI and machine learning to save creators time. Photoshop has a new Selection Brush Tool for selecting areas by brushing over them without having to use the Quick Mask mode….
Instagram Launches ‘Edits’ App to Compete with CapCut
Instagram has unveiled a new video editing app called Edits, which aims to fill the void left by CapCut’s removal from U.S. app stores following federal restrictions on ByteDance-owned applications. The announcement came from head Adam Mosseri, explaining that Edits as a “full suite of creative tools” for mobile video creators. According to Mosseri, Edits is…
Apple Purchases Photo Editing App Developer Pixelmator
Apple has reached an agreement to acquire Pixelmator, the company behind popular photo and image editing apps Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval, according to an announcement made by the Pixelmator team on Friday. Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, Pixelmator has developed a suite of well-regarded creative tools that compete…
Samsung Developing Exclusive Display Technology for Apple’s Foldable iPhone
The iPhone Fold is rumored use a new thinner display panel in its construction, that supplier Samsung hasn’t used in its own devices. The display of the iPhone Fold is its most important component, and requires more care than usual for manufacturing a smartphone. However, it seems that this display could be very different from the usual…
Eddy Cue Foresees AI Possibly Replacing the iPhone in the Future
During court testimony over Apple’s search deal with Google, Apple executive Eddy Cue threw in a curveball, basically saying we shouldn’t assume there will be an iPhone 30 someday. One strongly possible outcome of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google is that it may be forced to stop paying Apple to be the default search engine on iOS….
Apple’s Foldable iPhone Tech Could Revolutionize the Industry
Apple’s upcoming foldable iPhone will feature a new type of display panel developed by Samsung that has never been used in a foldable product, claims a source with links to Apple’s supply chain. According to the account yeux1122 on the Korean Naver blog, the foldable iPhone will use a custom display process for which Apple will…
Google Maps Can Scan iPhone Screenshots for Locations
Google Maps has gained the optional ability to scan screenshots in your iPhone’s photos and save any found locations to a dedicated list. Powered by the company’s Gemini AI, the new feature lets Google Maps search for any screenshots in your photos, such as social media posts, news articles, and travel blogs, and capture them…
Paste Plain Text on macOS Without the Formatting Fuss
If you’re a Mac user with a Windows PC background, you’ll probably know how to use the typical copy and paste commands in macOS. But there’s a handy clipboard trick that’s worth keeping in mind. In Windows, the Copy and Paste key combinations are Control-C and Control-V, respectively. On the Mac, it’s very similar – all you do…