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Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2023 promise “faster, easier photo and video editing” with AI updates

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Adobe has today announced their newest versions of Photoshop Elements 2023 and Premiere Elements 2023 with a bunch of new features to help make the photo and video editing process simpler and easier. The new versions include Adobe Sensei AI-powered features with step-by-step guided edits to help both beginner and advanced users. Elements 2023 also connects with new web and mobile companion apps for editing on the go.

Among the highlighted new AI features in Photoshop Elements 2023 is Moving Elements that you can add to photos, letting you create Cinemagraphs without having to shoot any actual video footage and it’ll export them straight out to social-ready formats. Premiere Elements 2023 also sees a hundred new audio tracks with 50% faster launch times and 70% faster launch times on M1-powered Macs.

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Premiere Pro listens to user base and releases new update for 2x rendering and workflow speeds

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“We’re focusing on stability, performance, and top usability of requested features,” says Francis Crossman from Adobe. A move away from flashy new features and a step toward making the programme more solid appears to be the direction that Adobe is taking Premiere Pro at the moment. DIYP wanted to find out more.

Playback performance, rendering performance, effects, graphics and titling features have been vastly improved and updated. New effects within titles will let you easily and quickly review text, export it and correct it. You also have new masking capabilities which open up a whole new world of cool text effects.

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You’ve already got it and you don’t know it! Streamline your creative team work in Premiere Pro with Frame.io

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Adobe acquired the online collaborative platform Frame.io late last year and brought it into its Creative Cloud suite. But what is Frame.io and how can it help creative teams work better together? DIYP spoke to Michael Cioni from Adobe about the acquisition to find out more.

Frame.io is an interactive online platform that allows teams to connect their video with all of their collaborators. Editors, content creators and clients. Wherever they are in the world they can easily and fully interact in the full creative process.

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Creator economy grew 119% in two years, Adobe report claims

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Adobe has published a report about “The Future of Creativity”. The brand behind Photoshop and Lightroom discovered that more than 165 million creators joined the global creator economy in the last two years.

The study finds that the Creator Economy –the economy empowering people who are monetizing their content, goods and services online by leveraging their own creativity, talents and passions –grew by more than 165 million creators over the past two years to 303 million creators globally. Additionally, the study finds that the Creator Economy continues to grow and is reshaping every aspect of culture and society, from the future of work to social causes to mental health.

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Adobe draws on Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers to create this long form content creation guide

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Adobe has released a new guide, titled *deep breath* Adobe Premiere Pro Best Practices and Workflow Guide for Long Form and Episodic Post Production. And, yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like. The company says they’ve drawn on insights from longtime Creative Cloud users as well as early testers such as David Fincher, Kick Baxter, The Coen Brothers and the American Cinema Editors (ACE) in order to create it.

The guide has been in the making for three years and dives deep into many areas of post-production, with an obvious heavy lean towards Premiere Pro, covering topics such as working with remote and cloud-based workflows to multi-camera editing and a ton of stuff in between.

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Adobe Lightroom for desktop and mobile finally gets video editing features

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Now, I know, you just read the title and thought “Woah!” but before you get too excited, we’re not talking editing features like Premiere Pro or Rush here. We’re talking about a similar type of editing capability to those which you get with still images in Lightroom. Except, you can also trim the in and out points of the video, too, to make those short social media clips.

But yes, Adobe has today announced that Lightroom for both desktop and mobile now has video editing capabilities. Given what I said above, this basically means you get access to presets and slider adjustments along with many of the AI-powered features as well as trimming. Lightroom also sees some other new features, including a Preset Amount slider to dial things back a bit, Adaptive Presets and more.

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Adobe adds Content-Aware Fill, background removal and portrait selection features to Photoshop for iPad

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Adobe has announced a new update for Photoshop on the iPad that brings with it some significant features. It now has Content-Aware Fill, Remove Background, as well as Select Subject designed specifically for people and tricky hair selections. There’s also a new font browser, along with Auto-tone, colour and contrast features.

Photoshop for the iPad was initially launched in 2019, and Adobe says they’ve been working hard to add more of the desktop features we know and love to the mobile version ever since. Obviously, this takes some time to adjust the application from a mouse-based UI to a finger-based touchscreen one and this year they’ve been focusing on adding as many one-tap features to the arsenal as possible.

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Adobe After Effects is now (finally) native to Apple M1 and Photoshop gets Panasonic GH6 support

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If you’re an Apple Silicon user that uses Adobe After Effects, you’ve probably Googled “when the hell will After Effects get M1 support?” at least a handful of times over the last couple of years. Even before writing this post, I did a quick search and found a bunch of Reddit and social media posts complaining about its absence. A beta version was released last October, but as with all betas, you can’t rely on it for actual production work for paying clients.

Well, today, you can finally relax and celebrate as Adobe has announced that Adobe After Effects for Apple M1 is now out of beta and has been officially released. It boasts up to 2x faster performance on M1 and 3x M1 Ultra systems compared to previous generation macs. Sensei machine learning features like Roto Brush 2 are also much faster as is ProRes decoding and rendering.

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Canon and Adobe cease sales in Russia as a response to its attack on Ukraine

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As a response to its attack on Ukraine, the USA, the EU, and the UK have imposed sanctions on Russia. Lots of companies and businesses have joined this, Adobe and Canon being among them.

Adobe has recently stopped all new sales in Russia, disabling anyone based in this country to buy any of the company’s software. This was followed by Canon’s decision to stop delivering all of its products to this country, too.

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This Ultimate Guide to Lightroom’s Smart Previews helps you edit on the road without external storage

If you edit on a laptop, particularly if you’re regularly travelling and using an external hard drive to store your images, you’ll know what a pain it can sometimes be to carry those external drives around with you, let alone hook them up on a whim – like, when you’re travelling on a plane or a train, for example. But without connecting them, you can’t edit your images. Lightroom simply won’t let you. Or will it?

In this video, Anthony Morganti gives us the solution with his “Ultimate Guide” to using Smart Previews within Lightroom. Smart Previews essentially allow you to keep editing your images even when the device on which the original image files are contained is not connected to your computer. Very handy if you’re often travelling and don’t always have the ability to plug in your external storage.

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