@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe unveils Project Music GenAI Control, a platform that can generate audio from text descriptions or a reference melody and let users customize the results (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/adobe-reveals-a-genai-tool-for-music/<…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAdobe unveils Project Music GenAI Control, a platform that can generate audio from text descriptions or a reference melody and let users customize the results (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/adobe-reveals-a-genai-tool-for-music/<…
@nelson@tech.lgbtAdobe Acrobat just spammed my desktop with an ad. So now I'll never see a notification from Adobe again.
@poppastring@dotnet.social"Adobe’s impressive AI upscaling project makes blurry videos look HD"
Honestly, this was the kind of value I was looking for all along.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24138979/adobe-videogigagan-ai-video-upsc…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKI Update kompakt: OpenAI, Amazon & Anthropic, Adobe, Grok & Intel AI
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.<…
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@macandi@social.heise.de
@alsutton@snapp.socialIt appears we have reached a point where, if you're sent a #PDF to fill in by some organization, your choices are;
* A "Free Trial" from Adobe, which, after 7 days, will mean you'll get hooked into a subscription which isn't value for money for forms.
* One of a sea of cheap PDF editors from companies you've not heard of.
* Print it out, fill it in, scan it.<…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deAdobe Firefly V3: Generative Bild-KI in Photoshop
Adobe hat den KI-Bildgenerator Firefly Image 3 vorgestellt und in Photoshop integriert. Er erstellt Bildmotive unter anderem auf Grundlage von Referenzbildern.
ht…
@jae@mastodon.me.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialCanva acquires the Affinity creative suite, popular with Mac users; COO Cliff Obrecht says the cash-and-stock deal is valued at "several hundred million pounds" (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@askesis@qoto.org@… @… @… como usar Adobe sem pagar?
@ideimos@masto.esPrimer cuelgue en Libre Office al abrir Adobe Photoshop. ¿Causalidad? No lo creo. Eso sí, me ha recuperado hasta la última coma del documento. 👌🏼
@simoncox@seocommunity.socialVery disappointed that Serif sold out to Canva - can’t blame them as financially will have been a great move.
I’m now worried that Canva will turn Affinity suite into a subscription service to compete with Adobe.
Affinity Designer was a breath of fresh air after Adobe aquired and killed off some of my fave software back in the day, Freehand, Fireworks and GoLive.
I use Affinity suite daily for work and hobbies and really don’t want to move to a subscription model. 🤞
@fooflington@infosec.exchangeNew and "interesting" (if you like that sort of thing) bit of phishing/spam today.
In a lot of ways a very obvious bit of spam in the form of an Adobe Docusign email from a .fi address (Subject: F i n a l C o p y A g r e e m e n t S B A 59. 23. 2024 Fri, Feb 9, 2024) and all the trappings of "urgent thing do now don't ignore" but what caught my eye was the link which was a "real" adobe.com link:
#infosec #phishing #adobe
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe adds AI tools to Photoshop powered by its new Firefly Image 3 model, including Reference Image to inspire the AI's output, available in beta on desktop (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/2413801
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzOne wonders why *anyone* would care what Adobe thinks about this stuff (esp given that they sell web platforms to gov'ts). https://itp.nz/techblog/fwdfniddqqvq1t741vjc8282tlkwmk
@marix1@mastodon.socialhttps://docs.strapi.io/dev-docs/intro
Nice system for doing headless web content management.
Simple integration to the usual single page application frameworks.
For those enterprises or use cases where is no budget or strategic need for systems like Adobe Experience Manager or…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAdobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/adobes-genstudio-brings…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe launches AI Assistant in Acrobat in beta, to summarize PDFs, answer and recommend questions, and more, letting paying users "easily chat with documents" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/20/2407721
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@bunnyhero@mstdn.cacursed phrase: "brand-safe generative AI" 🤮
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/adobes-genstudio-brings-brand-safe-generative-ai-to-marketers/
@ideimos@masto.esCon Cider, cada vez que abría Photoshop, se me corrompía el interfaz. Muchas casualidades ya que a pesar de usar otros programas mucho mšs demandantes (de Adobe o no), es siempre abrir Photoshop lo que provoca “cosas”.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt sure is great that we didn't pass any, you know, privacy laws in the United States with how software and the Internet was going in the last 25 years.
Really good idea just to wait and see, and not do anything.
Super awesome stuff. https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1
@jgkoomey@mastodon.energyHow about no, Adobe? Doing this by default is really really dumb. Let people opt in if they want to experiment with this. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/generative-ai.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe announces Custom Models, to let businesses customize Firefly models, and Firefly Services, a set of 20 generative and creative APIs, tools, and services (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/adob…
@andycarolan@social.lolIt's time again for me to ask if anyone knows of any long term projects or roles in illustration and design!
I have over 16 years experience in working within remote/distributed teams and agencies and am efficient in using Adobe CC, Figma, Webflow, Miro. I've done everything from icon and logo/brand design, editorial, interactive brochures and forms, character design.
@StephenRees@mas.toFlickr offered a free trial of an Adobe photography plan. In order to get it you have to give Adobe credit card details. I looked at it once it was installed and there was nothing there that I didn't have already provided by Apple in their Photos app which comes free with the MacBook.
So then I tried to cancel the "free" trial but Adobe's pop ups and offers covered up the parts of the screen needed for the *4 step* cancellation process.
Now sorted but a lesson …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAdobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/adobes-genstudio-brings…
@timbray@cosocial.caMy reading of this is that for this (truly horrible) attack to get you, you'd need to run an app in which it's embedded for an extended period of time on your computer. So the bad guys could hack me if I downloaded an app from a sketchy source (unlikely) or they managed to hack any one of Adobe or Mozilla or Microsoft Office or Chrome or Safari or Apple Music or Emacs or YouTube or or or … (less unlikely).
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaAdobe Magneto: una pericolosa RCE minaccia i siti di e-commerce
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-abeb8345-1980f85b9b37b28d
Adobe Magneto: una pericolosa RCE minaccia i siti di e-commerce Gli specialisti di Sansec hanno avvertito
@SketchnotesAG@norden.socialZum 4. Mal eine Stunde mit dem #Adobe-Kundendienst telefoniert. Jedes Mal wird der „Fall“ automatisch erledigt ohne erledigt zu sein.
Zuerst war es ein bisschen Kulanz von Adobe, jetzt fühle ich mich langsam betrogen im juristischen Sinne. Und nun: Wieder bis Montag warten …
@sketchnotesAG@norden.socialZum 4. Mal eine Stunde mit dem #Adobe-Kundendienst telefoniert. Jedes Mal wird der „Fall“ automatisch erledigt ohne erledigt zu sein.
Zuerst war es ein bisschen Kulanz von Adobe, jetzt fühle ich mich langsam betrogen im juristischen Sinne. Und nun: Wieder bis Montag warten …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe adds a "structure reference" feature to Firefly AI, letting users upload an image to guide the model about the "arrangement" of the image (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/adobe-intro
@kennysmith@mstdn.socialIt seems none of the companies rushing to fill this space have any scruples … bringing once again to mind questions about the quality of the coding.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/adobe-s-a…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deAdobe Frame.io V4: Videos online bewerten
Adobe hat Frame.io V4 vorgestellt, eine Plattform, um Videos und Bilder dynamisch zu gruppieren und online auszutauschen und zu kommentieren.
https://www.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialDo those a-holes at Adobe actually think I'm going to pay 4x what I pay for my monthly mobile phone usage for *Acrobat*? <mad laughter ensues>
Here I was, printing out a .pdf and they literally broke my workflow, sending me to their stupid website. I used to love that company. Now I don't even use PS.
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialI found this nugget in a HTML file from 2001, a time when PDF was a new-fangled format that web browsers might not be expected to cope with:
<p>Notes for this week's session are available in <a
href="meth9.pdf">Adobe pdf format</a>. Save these to disc as
Internet Explorer may have difficulties displaying them on-line. …
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toWell, yet another productive day. I launched Adobe Photoshop.
And that's about it.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKI-Update kompakt: KI in ePA, EU-Wahl, Groks Fake News, Adobe Firefly
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on the failed Adobe deal, competing with Adobe, the new multi-edit tool, building tools, AI, AGI, Dev Mode, the web, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24102160/figma-ce
@adrianco@mastodon.socialLinkedIn spam/phishing profile. This account has messaged me twice and it’s an established account but the person doesn’t exist (claim to be a researcher at Adobe but they aren’t in the org chart). The text looks generated, profile doesn’t make much sense, claims to be in San Jose, but is looking for admin work in the UK. https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDocuments: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe W3C – the standards body of surveillance capitalism – on privacy.
If you had any “privacy principles” to speak of, what would Adobe, Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Bloomberg, Google, Huawei, IAB, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, Bilibili, SoftBank, Tencent, Yahoo!, Zoom, etc., be doing on your members list?
#privacyWashing
@lukem@hachyderm.ioWhat good is iPhone shooting RAW / DNG / HEIC photos if I'm unable to process them with any software I currently own I don't want to touch Adobe Lightroom?
😞
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/adobes-genstudio-brings…
@ideimos@masto.esOk, it seems you MUST have Adobe Creative Cloud app open before you start #PremierePro
@timbray@cosocial.caMy reading of this is that for this (truly horrible) attack to get you, you'd need to run an app in which it's embedded for an extended period of time on your computer. So the bad guys could hack me if I downloaded an app from a sketchy source (unlikely) or they managed to hack any one of Adobe or Mozilla or Microsoft Office or Chrome or Safari or Apple Music or Emacs or YouTube or or or … (less unlikely).
@jonippolito@digipres.clubSo Adobe claimed its AI was only sourced from images it had rights to, bu in fact it's relied for 5% of its training data on Midjourney, a site with no such ethical claims. But don't be distracted by the scandal that so-called ethical AI is still relying on uncompensated human creativity to source their data.
The trend with more worrisome consequences is that AI companies are increasingly relying on *non-human* creativity to source their data.
@marix1@mastodon.socialhttps://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:7c6985be-ddbd-4127-b0e4-c0224b95ddfd
1 Bit LLM with the potential to be more efficient if there will be specialized hardware.
@nelson@tech.lgbtFigured out three different reasons passkeys weren't working for me, did my best to work around them. Now I can log in to Adobe, it just takes 7 dialog boxes to make it work. https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2024/03/23/passkeys-try-two/
@jvschrag@hachyderm.ioToday I was looking for an image of a person being carried on a sedan chair, to illustrate an article I'm writing. When I did a search on on Adobe Stock for "sedan chair", it showed me dozens of pictures of people picking up garbage, and a few pictures of kittens, and nothing else. I found this completely baffling.
Next I went to search the Wikimedia Commons. And it was there I was reminded that another word for "sedan chair" is "litter".
@sketchnotesAG@norden.socialZum 4. Mal eine Stunde mit dem #Adobe-Kundendienst telefoniert. Jedes Mal wird der „Fall“ automatisch erledigt ohne erledigt zu sein.
Zuerst war es ein bisschen Kulanz von Adobe, jetzt fühle ich mich langsam betrogen im juristischen Sinne. Und nun: Wieder bis Montag warten …
@felwert@mstdn.socialStrange, recently liquid mode in Adobe reader for Android is broken for me. Even for simple files, it first appears to do something, only to then tell me that liquid mode is not available for that file. Has anyone experienced something similar?
@kcarruthers@mastodon.social🙄 Clearview AI is still collecting photos of Australians for its facial recognition database: Clearview AI said it can't stop using Australians' data for its facial recognition software because it can't tell who's Australian.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/0…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDocuments: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@tante@tldr.nettime.org @jgkoomey@mastodon.energyIt can be disabled, fortunately: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/disable-generative-ai.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on managing the company after the failed sale to Adobe, maintaining culture, using the $1B breakup fee, expansion plans, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/16/24075126/figma-ceo…
@ideimos@masto.esWhat's up with the fonts on Adobe Creative Cloud? Just opened a #premierePro project I was working on yesterday, and some title fonts have been replaced for no reason.
@amster@mastodon.socialOh thank goodness, there's a volume auto-match in Audition. It's called "Match Loudness" now (not match volume). You can set the target LUFS.
In this case, it's loud. -6 LUFS.
#GameDev #Soundtracks
@MidniteLibrary@glammr.usAnyone know what's up with the digital versions of manga from DMP available through Overdrive? They look terrible. This is from Tezuka's Barbara.
Image 1: downloaded .acsm file in Adobe Digital Edition
Image 2: "Read now in browser" version. (Yes, the colours have been inverted for some reason.)
Image 3: .acsm file
Image 4: "Read now in browser"
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social"E-Mail: Wir kriegen einfach nicht genug davon", so lautet der Titel einer Untersuchung von Adobe. Die E-Mail durchdringt wie eine Sucht absolut alle Lebensbereiche. Die Befragten nutzen diese Art der Kommunikation nicht nur etwa sechs Stunden täglich im Büro, sondern sie checken den Posteingang auch daheim vor dem Fernseher, im Bett, im Badezimmer und am Steuer ihres Autos. Haviest Users sind die sogenannten Millenials, so
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Adobe's careful adoption of AI, pushed by Dall-E and Midjourney, as it tries to differentiate its tools by emphasizing brand safety and IP protections (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialDelighted to inform you that after
- wanting to buy a Léo Malet novel
- deciding to bypass Amazon
- impulse buying it off some random site
- finding it DRM-infested & I couldn't put it on my Kindle
- absolutely refusing to set up an Adobe ID (ick!)
- d/ling all sorts of stuff off github etc that didn't work any more (DMCA)
- realising that d/ling the Adobe version & passing it through this website:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Figma CEO Dylan Field on managing the company after the failed sale to Adobe, maintaining culture, using the $1B breakup fee, expansion plans, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/16/24075126/figma-ceo…
@kennysmith@mstdn.socialWhen a platform or software company — or most any company not in the vacation industry, really — uses the word “experience,” be wary.
From: @…
https://infosec.e…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @SketchnotesAG@norden.socialHänge mal wieder in einer nervig-klöternden Warteschleife (#Adobe ...) und möchte mal erwähnen, dass ich neulich bei #Apple zw. verschiedenen Stilen oder STILLE wählen konnte. #Vorbildlich
@assbach@wandzeitung.xyzOha, Illustrator jetzt auch.
@anders@mastodon.cyborch.com @Techmeme@techhub.socialDocuments: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaFinally started work on the new #Pathfinder Second Edition character sheet. I'm trying to keep the same feel as the one I made for first edition, but since they are significantly different so will be the layout. The goal is to keep the first page very dense info-wise while still keeping it readable. #ttrpgs
@lukem@hachyderm.ioWhat good is iPhone shooting RAW / DNG / HEIC photos if I'm unable to process them with any software I currently own I don't want to touch Adobe Lightroom?
😞
@jbwharris@mstdn.caFebruary could use some jams, here are some just for you. Featuring Sleater-Kinney, The Beaches, Underworld and more!
🍎 https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/jaybeedub-mixtape/pl.u-dkelCypyBM
🎧
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euFirst paid commission on Affinity Publisher 2 completed 🙂 It's the Bulgarian translation by Sony Boghosyan of "movimento" by Portuguese poet João Luís Barreto Guimarães.
At this point, I am mostly happy with Affinity suite's capabilities compared to Adobe's InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. It get's the job done. And it doesn't cost me an arm and a leg. After all, that's what Microsoft 365's job is 🍺
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe updates Frame.io, adding new workflow and tagging capabilities for project management, in beta for Free and Pro customers on the web, iOS, and iPadOS (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/9/24125318/ad…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Adobe's very cautious gambit to add AI to Creative Cloud, pushed by Dall-E and Midjourney, and questions over whether creatives will embrace the tools (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.pageSemantic In-Domain Product Identification for Search Queries
Sanat Sharma, Jayant Kumar, Twisha Naik, Zhaoyu Lu, Arvind Srikantan, Tracy Holloway King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09091
@ideimos@masto.es@… You described Adobe with atomic precision.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe used images created by tools like Midjourney and uploaded to its stock marketplace by users, to train Firefly; Adobe says ~5% of images were AI-generated (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe used images created by tools like Midjourney and uploaded to its stock marketplace by users, to train Firefly; Adobe says ~5% of images were AI-generated (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@bunnyhero@mstdn.caone upside of adobe using javascript to generate much of the UI in illustrator is that it makes it easier to modify 😈
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn interview with Adobe executives about training Firefly on content licensed specifically for AI training, the decision not to scrape the internet, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/2
@grumpybozo@toad.socialToday’s #SpammerDuJour is none other than #Microsoft themselves. Spamming via #Marketo (a.k.a.#Adobe)(!!!) to my…
@jason@teh.entar.netLong story about Scratch and a vast empty field full of tiny bears
My son and I do some simple game projects in Scratch. Scratch is cool. But the situation has a problem: the Boy likes to show the stuff we make to his friends at school. They have Chromebooks provided by the school. Chromebooks come with Chrome installed, and the kids can't install stuff, so Chrome is the only available browser. Chrome has a bug: one webpage can have at most about 500 distinct images. Google is aware of this bug and has been for a long time - they don't seem to have any intent to fix it. So, if you start using sprites with animations, for an RPG, say, you will quickly blow out this 500-image limit. One mob might easily have 30 or 40 frames.
So I had an idea.
The scratch screen is 480x360. What if I "blew up" a spritesheet so that each 16x16 image had a 480-pixel transparent pad between it and its left and right neighbors, and a 360-pixel transparent pad between it and its up and down neighbors? Then I could just load one image - the exploded spritesheet - and when I drew it I would set the offset so that the one image I wanted was at the screen coordinates I wanted. Because of the pads, all of the other images would necessarily be off the screen.
So I wrote a C program to call ImageMagick programs to explode the spritesheet, and that worked fine. The exploded spritesheet is about 9000 x 6000 pixels, but it's only 90k. But then I tried to upload it and hit Scratch's image size limit, enforced on upload, which is like 900x700.
But (the forums said) you could defeat that by making an svg! You can tell it the svg size is whatever pixels, it's stroked. Sure, it's 900 x 700 with a lot of tiny little bears in different poses, each smaller than a pixel.
Unfortunately automated png-to-svg conversion is not something current technology has really solved, or at least not adobe's online converter. It turned all of my bears into little brown smears.
My next plan is to bypass Scratch's image upload size limiter by exporting my scratch program, unzipping it, inserting the image directly in there, rezipping it, and reuploading. I have had some luck with this sort of thing before. But I am about out of energy for this project for today so I thought instead I would write about it on here.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.18B, vs. $5.14B est., Digital Media revenue up 12% YoY to $3.82B, and Q2 revenue guidance below est.; ADBE drops 10% (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/adobe-adbe-q1-earnings-report-2024.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNielsen and Adobe Analytics: Super Bowl 2024 averaged 123.4M viewers across CBS and streaming services, making the game the most-watched telecast ever (Selome Hailu/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/super-bowl-2024-ratings-viewers-1235907666/…
@ideimos@masto.esPues se terminó el Adobe turco.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI, Google, Meta, TikTok, X, and others sign a voluntary accord at the Munich Security Conference to fight AI-generated deepfakes designed to mislead voters (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-generate
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI, Google, Meta, TikTok, X, and others sign a voluntary accord at the Munich Security Conference to fight AI-generated deepfakes designed to mislead voters (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-generate
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle joins the C2PA steering committee to develop a standard to label AI content via metadata alongside Adobe, the BBC, Microsoft, Sony, and others (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/business/media/google-ai.html
