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Affinity Photo, a brand new image editor for the Mac, splashes onto the beta scene

Feb10
by on February 10, 2015 at 12:48 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Serif, a UK-based graphic art and design software company, has just dropped a new photo editing app for the Mac to compete with Adobe Photoshop. Affinity Photo, released today as a public beta, joins sister app Affinity Designer, a vector art and design tool. The new photo app touts pro-level raster tools like  CMYK (four-color separation), LAB color, Raw processing, 16-bits-per-channel editing, ICC color profiling, Adobe Photoshop (PSD) format and 64-bit plug-ins. It provides Frequency Separation editing, live blend modes, and inpainting (like Photoshop’s content aware fill feature) wrapped in an elegant, uncluttered interface. The software is months away from a formal launch, but…

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Boston Dynamics shows off new robot dog, dooms us all by kicking it

Feb09
by on February 9, 2015 at 10:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Google-owned Boston Dynamics has been making incredible robots long before it was purchased by Google. Today it showed off its latest amazing robot, Spot a smaller, more agile version of its WildCat robot. Then, they decided to kick it therefore dooming us all when robots become sentient. Seriously, doesn’t this guy know that robots will be able to search YouTube in the future? Maybe the robots will just go after this guy and leave the rest of us robot-loving humans alone. While I’m concerned about a robot uprising, Spot is incredibly impressive and maybe a little bit terrifying. The 160…

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Imgur adds features for everyone as it phases out Pro subscription

Feb09
by on February 9, 2015 at 9:35 pm
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Imgur recently introduced a GIF-making tool to bring more users to its site, and now the image host is providing all its users with some neat extra functionality. http://i.imgur.com/BddZqB1.webm In commemoration of Imgur’s sixth anniversary, the service is today incorporating Pro features – previously$2.99 per month – free for all its users, relying instead on ad support. Everyone on Imgur now gets access to an unlimited number of image uploads, multiple thumbnail size sharing options,  image analytics and referral data, image management and editing tools and the ability to interact with the community through commenting, voting and sharing. Pro subscribers will be refunded…

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Skype for Android now supports offline photo sharing

Feb09
by on February 9, 2015 at 8:34 pm
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If your main form of communication with a friend is via Skype, it’s been frustrating for Android users to send photos while that friend is offline. Well beginning today, you can send as many photos as you like and know that they will receive them when they sign on via the mobile app. The latest version of Skype for Android not only handles offline photo sharing, but it also features picture in picture view for phones. Now you can leave Skype for other applications and still see the person you’re chatting with. This feature appeared on Android tablets in December…

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