Now that Pixelmator Photo was released for the iPhone, Andrew wanted to explain the differences between all three of the company’s apps.
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How to Use the New 'Pixelmator Photo' App on iPhone
Pixelmator Photo was released for the iPhone on Thursday, and due to the smaller screen the UI is different than on the iPad.
'Pixelmator Photo' Launches for iPhone With 50% Off Introductory Deal
Previously only available for iPad, Pixelmator has released the Pixelmator Photo app on iPhone. It features over 30 desktop-class color adjustments, support for over 600 RAW image formats, including Apple ProRAW, deep integration with the Photos app and iCloud Photos, tools powered by groundbreaking machine learning technologies, and much more. It even includes the company’s ML Super Resolution tool, a way to scale up your images using AI. So far I haven’t seen any actions for Pixelmator Photo within Shortcuts. The price says that the deal is US$3.99, but it downloaded for free on my iPhone because I already had Pixelmator.
Photoshop for iPad Gets New Tools: Smudge and Sponge
Adobe announced the addition of two new tools coming to its iPad app: Smudge and Sponge. These assist artists in more creative ventures.
Adobe's Latest Subscription App Offers Easy Drag-And-Drop Creativity
On Monday Adobe announced its latest subscription app called Creative Cloud Express. It takes aim at competitors such as Canva.
A Collection of Concept Art From Apple TV+ Show 'Foundation'
Kotaku has put together a collection of concept art from the science fiction show Foundation on Apple TV+.
That comes across pretty quickly watching the show, but it’ll be even clearer here as we take a look at a variety of artists’ contributions to the series, from Paul Chadeisson’s trademark ship designs, to the costume design of WETA’s Adam Middleton.
This isn’t a collection of everything from everyone who worked on the show, but it does give us a cross-section of pieces, covering characters, environments, and weapon and ship designs, all of which I think look cool as hell.
Adobe's Behance Platform Adds Support for NFT Art
Behance, a portfolio platform for graphic designers, will let creators connect their crypto wallet to showcase NFT art.
The company is working to include blockchains like Polygon, Solana, Flow and Tezos. It is also partnering with NFT marketplaces like OpenSea, SuperRare, KnownOrigin, and Rarible to display provenance data from the Content Authenticity Initiative — which is now built into a number of Creative Cloud tools — visible on their sites, in addition to Behance.
Update to Pixelmator Pro for Mac Rewrites PSD Engine
Pixelmator Pro version 2.1.3 has been released, and it includes new features regarding how Adobe Photoshop files (PSD) are handled.
'Monodraw' is a Multi-Purpose Mac ASCII Editor
Monodraw is an editor for Mac that lets you design ASCII art and create diagrams, mind maps, banners, and more. From the website: “Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art (like diagrams, layouts, flow charts) and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more. Because it’s all just text, it can be easily embedded almost anywhere. Of course, exporting as images is also supported (PNG and SVG).” You can download a free trial or buy a license for US$$9.99.
App Review: Adobe’s Photoshop Express is a Good, General-Purpose Editor
Andrew reviewed Adobe Photoshop Express and believes it gives users a nice balance between editing tools and photo filters.
Adobe Launches New Fonts Recommendations Feature
On Tuesday Adobe launched a new feature called Adobe Fonts Recommendations. It helps users receive the right fonts for their projects.
Adobe Spark Launches Collaboration Feature ‘Shared Templates’
On Monday Adobe announced a new collaboration feature for its Spark app called Shared Templates across the web, iOS, and Android.
Adobe Announces a Mobile Bundle for iPad Apps
Adobe announced on Tuesday its Adobe Design Mobile Bundle as a subscription plan. It will cost US$14.99/month or US$149.99/year.
The Design Mobile Bundle includes Photoshop on the iPad, Illustrator on the iPad, and Fresco on the iPad and the iPhone, as well as Adobe Spark, the Creative Cloud Mobile app, and the benefits of Creative Cloud services, including 100GB of cloud storage, Adobe Fonts, Adobe Portfolio and Behance.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite Adds iPad App, M1 Support
Graphics suite CorelDRAW has added support for M1 Macs and created a brand-new iPad app. Built to take advantage of the power of Apple silicon, the team’s testing showed dramatic performance boosts on these new systems. When comparing a variety of common tasks on a MacBook Air 2019 (Intel chip) vs a Macbook Air 2020 with M1, across the board, most scenarios showed a minimum 2x speed improvement on the M1 system. Some tests were dramatically higher, including an image resampling scenario that produced speed results more than 20x faster.
Affinity Apps Updated With RAW Engine, Contour Tool, More
Serif has updated its line of Affinity apps to version 1.9. on Thursday. New features include a contour tool, a RAW engine, GPU acceleration, and plenty of other goodies.
A key feature which sets Affinity Photo apart from the competition is its non-destructive workflow, and that has been taken to another level again with the ability to add liquify adjustments as live, maskable layers. On top of that there are substantial improvements to its RAW engine, new linked layer functionality, path text, as well as a whole new mode to control the stacking of astrography images for stunning results.
Additionally, all Affinity apps are currently available with 50% discount as an initiative to support the creative community during COVID-19, from affinity.serif.com.
Pixelmator Pro 2.0 is Available One Day Early
Pixelmator Pro 2.0 is available to download on Wednesday, one day earlier than initially planned. It fully supports M1 Macs.
Pixelmator Pro 2.0 Coming With M1 Mac Support and Redesign
The Pixelmator Team announced on Friday that Pixelmator Pro will be available on Thursday, November 19, with M1 and macOS Big Sur support.
iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro Device Frames Now Available
You can now download iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro device frames from Apple’s design resources website.
Pixelmator Photo 1.4 Brings ML Super Resolution to iPad
The Pixelmator Photo 1.4 update brings ML Super Resolution to the iPad. This is the feature introduced on macOS that lets you upscale images using machine learning. “Today’s update also adds a very awesome comparison slider, letting you quickly compare your edited image with the original in a split-screen view. And it works all around the app, so when using the Repair tool, you can turn on and move the comparison slider to see just the changes made with that tool. When the Color Adjustments tool selected, you’ll see just the color changes, and so on. Super useful.” Finally, the company has raised the app’s price to US$7.99, up from US$4.99.
Adobe Spark Adds Animations for Web Tools, New Asset Management
Adobe Spark introduced a couple of new updates. First, Animations is coming to Spark web tools, previously only available in the iOS and Android apps. It also gains new asset management features to its integration with Creative Cloud Libraries.
The trick to capturing attention on social media (and keeping it) is to add sensory, evocative triggers to your content, in the first two seconds that your viewer scrolls past your post. Second best to being able to scratch and sniff pixels, motion is one of those triggers that has the power to capture attention and make your audience feel something. When you evoke emotion in your audience, you’re that much closer to getting them to pay attention, swipe up, buy, or take some other desired action.
Pixelmator Pro on Sale After Reaching 10,000 Five Star Reviews
Pixelmator Pro reached a milestone on Tuesday: It has gained over 10,000 five star reviews in the Mac App Store. To celebrate, the team is offering Pixelmator Pro at 30% off for the next several weeks.
So, after all the hard work that has gone into making Pixelmator Pro the app we knew it could be, this moment is extra sweet. And, of course, we have no plans to stop, another major updates is currently in beta and we’re already working on something extra special for Pixelmator Pro 2.0, which is also be a free update. You’ll love it, we promise.
Adobe Fresco 1.9 Update Brings Clipping Masks and Brush Management
Adobe announced updates to its Fresco drawing app on Thursday, bringing features like Clipping Masks, Brushes Management, and Brush Stamp Preview.
Photoshop on iPad Updated With Refine Edge Brush, Rotate Canvas
Adobe updated Photoshop for iPad recently and added two features: Refine Edge Brush and the ability to rotate the canvas.
Behind the Design of ‘Sky: Children of the Light’ Game
“Sky: Children of the Light” is an iOS game with some beautiful visuals. Apple shared the story behind the design in its latest developer update.
Early on, it was clear that Sky would be an ambitious title for Chen and the creative team. This would be their first game for a mobile device, the first that relied on touch instead of console controllers, and their first attempt at an online multiplayer experience — one that celebrated connection over conflict. The team ultimately worked for seven years before bringing Sky to life, with more than 70 people contributing to the game over its creative development.