To cut a long story short, Adobe refused my request, at the time saying, “it was too complicated a program for consumers”.
We’ve Come A Long, Long Way. Make Use of It. RTFM. Here’s Why.
Take the humble action camera. Released in 2006, it was one of the few products that was a breath of fresh in a somewhat stagnant marketplace. Look at what it can do now.
Adobe Launches Firefly AI Assistant Public Beta
"Today, we're taking the first step in bringing that vision to life with the public beta of Firefly AI Assistant,"
Creative Content / Australian Videocamera Latest Podcast Now Live
News from NAB, RØDE, DJI, GoPro Blackmagic Design, Maxon, Sennheiser and more
Adobe launches “Turntable” in Illustrator
With Turntable, you can instantly generate multi-angle views from any vector illustration
Adobe Launches QuickCut for Firefly Video Editor
Quick Cut lets creators upload their own b-roll or generate new footage
New: Apple Creator Studio
Unlike Adobe, you apparently will still be able to outright purchase any single app.
Best Of 2025 … MY Take… And a Little Different From The Norm
I have never done this before, but I thought it might be fun to go through all of my reviews of the last 12 months and see which ones really caught my eye, were groundbreaking, best of breed or just downright “cannot do without”.
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Express and Adobe Acrobat now in ChatGPT
Accessing Adobe’s apps in ChatGPT is as simple as typing the name of the app followed by an instruction
Nano Banana Pro now in Adobe Firefly
Adobe has announced that it is a launch partner for Google’s newest image model, Gemini 3 (Nano Banana Pro
Adobe News
Adobe has released a swag of announcements primarily around its advancement in the incorporation of AI across it apps and programs.
Adobe Premiere Pro on an iPhone?
Adobe has announced that the company is bringing its Adobe Premiere video editor to mobile in a new iPhone app
Major Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects Updates
Premiere Pro is about to get a major boost with new motion capabilities, massive updates for audio editing and timeline playback, and a bunch of additional improvements
Using Video Plugins – an Introduction
Essentially a plugin is like an app that integrates with a host – such as Adobe Premiere Pro – to perform a specific function or set of functions that either the host cannot do, or to further enhance something the host can do.
List of Adobe Stories
This is a list of current stories that relate to Adobe either by major context or the company (or its products) are mentioned
Powerful new Photoshop innovations
These new innovations are available across Photoshop on desktop, web and mobile
Adobe Firefly adds new video capabilities
Adobe is updating its AI offering at a huge rate of knots
Adobe After Effects? Nah. Wozzit it do anyway…?
But when it came to getting a review a copy of After Effects, Adobe answer at the time and for several years to come mirrored that of Lotus’ almost word for word.
New Adobe Firefly Mobile App Has Expanded AI Models
Adobe has released a major expansion of Adobe Firefly bringing Firefly image and video generation to phones. Firefly’s new iOS and Android app
New Adobe Express for ads
Adobe has today introduced Adobe Express for ads, a solution the company says that makes it faster and easier for smaller businesses to create high-performing ads for top social channels in Adobe Express.
Adobe Photoshop for Android available
Using Adobe's AI Firefly technology, the app is free to download during the beta period on Google Play and designed for everything from quick edits to complex digital art
Adobe Delivers New Creative Cloud Innovations and Firefly App
At its MAX London creativity conference, Adobe unveiled over one hundred all-new innovations across its Creative Cloud apps.
Adobe Premiere Pro Empowers Video Pros to Generate, Edit and Search Footage
Generative Extend and Media Intelligence, some of the creative community’s most sought-after video capabilities, are now generally available
Photoshop on an iPhone? Yes (and Android soon …)
Photoshop’s iconic image editing and design capabilities, including tools such as layering, masking and the popular Firefly-powered Generative Fill, are now more accessible and intuitive than ever with free and premium offerings and a mobile-friendly design for artists and designers who increasingly do their creative work on the go.
Adobe Delivers New Firefly App
Today Adobe released the new Firefly application. The company says it is the most comprehensive destination to generate images, vectors and now videos with the Firefly Video Model in public beta. The Firefly app is the all-in-one professional destination that inspires users to seamlessly ideate and create production quality work...
Photoshop unlocks creative collaboration with Live Co-Editing
Now, multiple creators can simultaneously access and edit documents from different computers — unlocking shared creativity and collaboration. This game-changing advancement, informed by community input, accelerates content creation, streamlines communication and improves creative collaboration for creators, teams and educators. Multiple designers can simultaneously work on a Photoshop document, splitting tasks...
Lightroom named 2024 Mac App of the Year
Every year, Apple honours the best apps and games through the App Store Awards. The awards are a recognition of exceptional user experience, design, and innovation from developers across the world for building apps that fuel creativity and deliver remarkable experiences that inspire their audiences.
DaVinci Resolve: Basics That Trip People Answered. A Video Tutorial
In this latest video, after finding out from a mini survey of new DaVinci Resolve users, I have put together a tutorial covering the 6 things users seem to have issues with, especially those migrating from another video editing package.
Adobe Express for Education Brings AI Designed to Be Safe for the Classroom
Adobe Express for Education is designed to be classroom safe with responsible generative AI that’s collaborative, easy and improves student engagement and communication.
Adobe Express Updates Deliver More Value for ‘Solopreneurs’ and SMBs
Adobe announced new innovations in Adobe Express, the quick and easy create-anything app, making it even simpler for solopreneurs and smaller organisations to grow their businesses with impactful content – without breaking the bank.
IBC 2024: Adobe introduces upgrades for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects makes it easier for motion designers and video editors to animate and blend 3D objects seamlessly with real-world footage and 2D elements.
Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 2025
Adobe has announced Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2025
Adobe MAX releases lots of new info
The company announced over 100 new features across the board that says it will offer users "unprecedented power to create, collaborate and conceptualize ideas while empowering them to work more productively" and Adobe Firefly is the central catalyst to this.
Video: New version of Boris Continuum 2025
Well, there is a new version of Continuum out in time for the New Year and not surprisingly, it is dubbed Boris Continuum 2025. Boris has released a video describing its functionality.
Adobe Unveils Firefly-Powered Generative Remove in Lightroom
Adobe has unveiled Generative Remove in Adobe Lightroom, bringing the magic of Adobe Firefly directly into everyday photo editing workflows across Lightroom mobile, web and desktop surfaces. Generative Remove is Lightroom’s most powerful remove tool yet, giving everyone the power to remove unwanted objects from any photo non-destructively in a...
Adobe Advancing trust and transparency online with TikTok
Today, TikTok announced that it is joining the Adobe-founded Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). Beginning today, the company will begin labeling AI-generated content uploaded to its platform with Content Credentials, with additional support for Content Credentials coming in the future. TikTok is the first social media...
All-New Adobe Express Mobile App with Firefly AI
Today, Adobe announced that the all-new Adobe Express mobile app is available to all users, bringing features powered by Adobe Firefly generative AI directly into the hands of millions of content creators wherever they are. Adobe Express is the all-in-one AI content creation app that makes it fast and easy...
Adobe Previews ‘Breakthrough’ AI Innovations Within Premiere Pro
Adobe previewed breakthrough generative AI innovations within Adobe Premiere Pro that will reimagine video creation and production workflows, delivering new creative possibilities that every pro editor needs to keep up with the high-speed pace of video production. New generative AI tools coming to Premiere Pro this year enable users to...
Adobe Introduces Next Generation of Frame.io
Today, Adobe introduced the all-new Frame.io V4, a flexible, fast and intuitive creative collaboration platform that streamlines and simplifies workflows across content creation and production. As teams and organisations race to meet the accelerating demand for video content, creatives and stakeholders at all stages of development are slowed down by...
New Structure Reference capabilities in Adobe Firefly
Structure Reference enables users to easily apply the structure of an existing image to newly generated images. You can now use an existing image as a structural reference template and generate multiple image variations with the same layout. With this, we’ve eliminated the trial and error process of having to...
New Adobe Express Mobile – With Added Firefly
Adobe has released the new Adobe Express mobile app for Android and iOS in beta with groundbreaking Adobe Firefly generative AI and new mobile editing capabilities that make it even faster to turn creative ideas into standout content on-the-go. Adobe Express is powered by decades of Adobe’s world-class imaging, video...
New Adobe Illustrator Tools
Recently Adobe announced the latest release of Adobe Illustrator with new innovative features based on popular user requests. Introducing the Dimension tool The Dimension tool quickly became a user favorite when we launched it in beta in December as it streamlined the manual process of labeling the dimensions of product designs. Now generally available,...
Adobe previews new generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio
New experimental work from Adobe Research is set to change how people create and edit custom audio and music. An early-stage generative AI music generation and editing tool, Project Music GenAI Control allows creators to generate music from text prompts, and then have fine-grained control to edit that audio for...
Adobe Brings Conversational AI with the New AI Assistant in Reader and Acrobat
Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) introduced AI Assistant in beta, a new generative AI-powered conversational engine in Reader and Acrobat. Deeply integrated into Reader and Acrobat workflows, AI Assistant instantly generates summaries and insights from long documents, answers questions and formats information for sharing in emails, reports and presentations. AI Assistant is bringing...
Adobe and TikTok Get Together
Adobe and TikTok have announced first-of-its-kind integration with TikTok’s Creative Assistant, they say makes creating and optimising stand-out video content for the platform "quicker, easier and more effective than ever before". TikTok’s Creative Assistant is now available as an add-on in Adobe Express,, providing a seamless TikTok content journey from...
Adobe Announces Premiere Pro “Innovations” for Audio
Available today in beta, Premiere Pro’s new innovations include interactive fade handles on clips in the timeline so editors can simply click and drag to create a variety of custom audio fades.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024 & Premiere Elements 2024 Announced
Adobe has announced the availability of Photoshop Elements 2024 and Premiere Elements 2024. This latest release includes new AI-powered features and a new editing experience with a fresh look, so it’s easier than ever to go from quick fixes to total transformations. Learn as you go with step-by-step Guided Edits and...
Adobe MAX Updates – New Generative AI Innovations for Photo, Video, Audio and 3D
Today at Adobe MAX – the world’s largest creativity conference –Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) unveiled Project Stardust, a powerful new object-aware editing engine that uses generative AI to revolutionise image editing, and its latest collection of early-stage innovations, highlighting exciting new uses of generative AI and 3D technologies across multiple creative domains,...
Adobe MAX 2023 – Live streamed from Los Angeles.
This time last year I was kicking up my heels in Sydney, and taking in all that the annual Adobe MAX knees-up has to offer. This year sadly, I am instead recuperating at home from a long awaited surgery to fix a snout that was clobbered by a hockey stick...
Adobe Express and Photoshop Now on Google Chromebook Plus Devices
Adobe has told us that they are bringing Adobe Photoshop on the web to new Google Chromebook Plus devices – and therefore expanding availability of its popular all-in-one creativity app Adobe Express to all Chromebooks, including Chromebook Plus devices. They continue ... These powerful creative tools include Adobe Firefly-powered generative...
Photoshop on the Web
Adobe has released Photoshop on the web as part of all Photoshop plans, complete with newly released Adobe Firefly generative AI features including Generative Fill and Generative Expand. This is a major milestone since we introduced Photoshop on the web as a beta experience, where we started with an early...
Adobe Unleashes New AI Era – Creativity for All
Today, Adobe announced the commercial release of Firefly, its family of creative generative AI models, with native integration across Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Express and Adobe Experience Cloud – unleashing a new era of AI-enhanced creativity for millions of customers across the globe. The commercial release includes a new Firefly...
All-New Adobe Express with Firefly Brings Generative AI to Creators
Today, Adobe showcased the all-new Adobe Express, announcing the general availability for desktop web. The latest version of the AI-first, all-in-one content creation app with Firefly beta generative AI capabilities is revolutionising creative expression, making it fast, easy and fun for users of all skill levels to design and share...
Free HeliumX Lite After Effects Plugin
While we are speaking of new products there is a new image generation plugin for Adobe After Effects also on offer. HeliumX AI, going by the way website, looks absolutely amazing in what it is potentially capable of. There is a free HeliumX Lite plugin too. See all the details...
Adobe Firefly Now Powers Generative AI Capabilities in Adobe Illustrator
Today, at MAX London, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) unveiled Generative Recolour (beta), the first integration of Adobe Firefly in Adobe Illustrator, enabling designers to quickly experiment with colours using simple text prompts. The new release advances Adobe’s vision of empowering creators of every skill level with Firefly as a creative co-pilot, bringing their visions to...
Generative AI as a Creative Co-Pilot in Photoshop
Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) unveiled Generative Fill in Photoshop, bringing Adobe Firefly generative AI capabilities directly into design workflows. The new Firefly-powered Generative Fill is the world’s first co-pilot in creative and design workflows, giving users a magical new way to work by easily adding, extending or removing content from images non-destructively in seconds using...
Introducing Vector Recolouring with Adobe Firefly
Last month, Adobe unveiled Adobe Firefly – its new family of creative generative AI models, initially focused on images and text effects – along with a beta, inviting the creative community to test and provide feedback. It believe that ethically developed and deployed generative AI can help increase creative confidence...
Adobe adds major extensions to Firefly technoogy to Creative Cloud
Today Adobe announced its plans to expand Adobe Firefly, its family of creative generative AI models, to its Creative Cloud video and audio applications, empowering creators to produce and dramatically enhance video and audio content while streamlining workflows. Adobe also unveiled new Al innovations in the Lightroom ecosystem - Lightroom,...
MAJOR Adobe Updates from NAB
Adobe Brings Major New Innovations to Video Tools Adobe Premiere Pro debuts dozens of new features including AI-powered Text-Based Editing, making editing video as easy as copying and pasting text, and Automatic Tone Mapping to achieve consistent colours and contrast when mixing footage from different cameras Significant GPU acceleration and...
Video Overview: Loupedeck CT and SideshowFX Profile Packs
Moira Rae tells us all about the Loupedeck CT, and how in conjunction with Profile Packs from Canadian company SideshowFX, in can both speed up and make more convenient your workflow in video editing, motion graphics, audio editing, 3D and even Office 365 programs from Microsoft. PS; SideshowFX has just...
Adobe Firefly. More AI.
Overnight at the annual US Adobe Summit, Adobe released a bunch of announcements, not the least being it has released a new set of AI tools flagshipped by 'Firefly'. Here's the press release: Today, Adobe introduced Adobe Firefly, a new family of creative generative AI models, first focused on the...
Avatar: The Way of the Water. How to make an Avatar film.
I have dealt with Borisfx since w-a-y back in the late 90s. I first came across their products at a trade show in Sydney’s Darling Harbour where I had also been asked to speak about the then, new, Maxon Cinema 4D modelling and motion graphics 3D program. For those not...
Adobe Lightroom Brings Professional Photo Editing to Samsung Galaxy S23 Series
Adobe has announced that Samsung Galaxy S23 series smartphones globally will use Adobe Lightroom as the exclusive default photo editor for RAW photos taken with the Expert RAW app. The Expert RAW app, available exclusively on Samsung Galaxy, enables DSLR-style image shooting and editing in RAW and JPEG. Once downloaded,...
Adobe Premiere Pro? Subscription? No Thanks. But take a second for a bit of lateral thinking here…
Although probably impossible to prove, it is more than likely the most popular and widely used NLE is Adobe Premiere Pro. If you look through the various forums on video editing programs however, any number of people will tell you that they will not use it as they do not want...
Basic After Effects. A Tutorial
Many people seem to think After Effects is either some sort of voodoo, or siomply too difficult for mere mortals to comprehend. This tutorial will get you into the basics and then you’ll be able to see the possibilities it offers for your filmmaking.
Tutorial: Inception still image using Photoshop
Whilst this tutorial creates the imkage of the horizon moving away and above you, it is also a technique that can be used for a backdrop insde a space station for example, where the floor is at 90 degrees to the horizontal due to centrifugal force. The technique was also...
Adobe Express
Adobe Express enables drag-and-drop content creation, empowering every user to express their creativity with just a few clicks. Coming from the undisputed leader in creativity, Adobe Express offers thousands of high-quality templates, 20,000 premium Adobe fonts and 175 million licensed Adobe Stock images. Adobe Express leverages Adobe Sensei, Adobe’s powerful AI/ML...
Photoshop Tutorial: Basic Masking
Masking is one the skills that are essential in both video and still imagery. If it all escapes you, watch this video to get a decent start and understanding.
Adobe Unveils Powerful New Collaboration and AI Capabilities in Photoshop
Adobe has announced at Adobe MAX new innovations in Photoshop that make the world’s most advanced image editing application even smarter, more collaborative and easier to use across surfaces. Share for Review (beta) enables users to conveniently collaborate on projects without leaving Photoshop, and new features make editing images in a browser far...