A new family of creative generative AI suite

AI is pushing hard and Adobe is obviously not going to be left behind, and today, it has unveiled Firefly, a new family of creative generative AI tools focused on the generation of images and text effects.

You need to spend more money

Designers using Adobe's expensive Creative Cloud tools will have to fork out more cash if they depend on Pantone Color books.

Shares plummet 

The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street have rubbished Adobe's plans to buy online collaboration tool Figma for $20 billion.

Pioneer of desktop publishing and inventor of PDF

Charles 'Chuck' Geschke, the co-founder of Adobe, who was the pioneer of “What you see is what you get" (or WYSIWYG) desktop publishing has died. He was 81.

 AI photo enhancement 

Among Adobe's latest software updates via the Creative Cloud is a new feature in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) called "Super Resolution" which is rather good. 

Last one before retirement

Adobe has released the final scheduled update to its Flash Player plugin, weeks before Flash's official retirement.

No point waiting for Christmas

Microsoft has released a Windows update that removes Adobe's Flash Player before it reaches end of support on December 31, 2020.

Execution date set

Three years ago, long after the rise (and fall) of Flash, Adobe announced that its once-ubiquitous multimedia platform was finally going away. But Adobe never provided a specific date for when Flash would reach its end-of-life. Now it seems that its time on death row will be over on December 31, 2020.

Could this lead to Linux on the desktop?

3D software makers' move to subscription models is pushing people to use open-source software because users are fed up with the price and neurotic terms and conditions.

As if their lives were not bad enough

Adobe is shutting down service for users in Venezuela in order to comply with a US executive order issued in August that prohibits trade with the country.