Adobe has publicly released Artificial Intelligence features in their software for years, from the Sensei product announced in 2016 to the release of Firefly in 2023. Prior to these major initiatives, Adobe experimented with AI from the very early days, and pioneered...
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Empowering Adobe Extensibility: From Abandonment to Life
We at Silicon Publishing recently attended the Adobe Developer and Partner Days 2023. We saw the extensibility features now available across the spectrum of Adobe creative software products, from Photoshop to Premiere. The clear focus was on their current shiny silver...
A History of Adobe MAX
As I enjoy the 2022 Adobe MAX Conference, it strikes me how much it’s changed over the years. Here’s a brief history of what it has been, and what it has become, since it was first called “Adobe MAX," with some highlights of the more remarkable MAX moments. Macromedia...
How Creative Automation is Changing Design and Content – For the Better
Creative automation isn't just for self-service in consumer goods, or mechanical pickers in warehouses, or even sophisticated decision-making robots hard at work on product assembly lines. Robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are now accelerating...
Updating to the Latest Adobe Creative Cloud while Maintaining Earlier Versions
How do I keep previous versions of an Adobe CC application as I install the new one? What is the trick? On install, uncheck "Remove old versions". That's it! And you'll keep your older versions of InDesign (or Photoshop, or whatever). You can also enable auto-update...
Adobe MAX 2019 and the new Silicon Designer
The new Silicon Designer is scheduled for release in January of 2020. We are very happy with the state of the product and its direction. Silicon Publishing people are fresh from the Adobe MAX conference, where David Blatner showed Designer in one of his InDesign...
Photoshop as a Service
Adobe Desktop Technologies Ascend to the Cloud Adobe Photoshop is the premiere desktop tool for editing images. It offers the most powerful algorithms for image processing available anywhere, and is loved by creative people around the world. Not only is it ubiquitous...
How to Try Adobe InDesign Server
As leading resellers of the product, we are asked time and time again to help people to try Adobe InDesign Server, and how to install the trial or licensed versions of the product. We have distilled simple instructions here for trying the latest version, and...
The Fall and Rise of SVG
SVG certainly crashed and burned before it rose like a phoenix from the ashes... Sometime in 1998, a former co-worker who had gone to work at Adobe came by my office at Bertlesmann to inform me of a brand new technology that she knew would excite me: PGML, or...
Adobe Stock: the History
With the CC2015 launch, Adobe finally announced the inevitable, which many of us expected from the moment they acquired Fotolia, and some of us imagined much earlier: Adobe Stock. This has been a very long time in coming, and it completes an initiative from many years...