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I was reading today on Ars Technica, about the Blackmagic external GPU available in the Apple Store. It seems like a good way for me to be able to boost the performance of my MacBook Pro 13” (late 2017, no touchbar, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, i5 2.3GHz, 16Gb RAM). I got the smaller form factor for work/travel, but with the built-in Intel Iris graphics it’s hardly robust for things like Photoshop 3D or Premiere Pro.It seems like the external GPU would be a great way to give my work MacBook the juice to be able to run those heftier applications when I’m back in my office, without having to jump onto another machine. I wonder if anyone has had experience with this, and whether in particular this would be an acceptable setup for Photoshop and Premiere Pro. It sounds like this is exactly its purpose, but I didn’t see any Adobe apps mentioned int he article nor on Apple’s store site.Blackmagic external GPU review: A very Apple graphics solution | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/20

We were sad to see the official announcement, last week, that Adobe Muse has ceased development.Let’s be honest. This Adobe decision is going to create a hardship for Muse designers, who do not code. There’s been a great deal of anxiety already expressed about this Adobe announcement. Many users of Muse create great websites for clients. Those Muse designers are justified in feeling abandoned by Adobe.Adobe will continue to support its very designer-friendly app, for web/mobile projects, into May 2019, but after that, it’s pretty much entering the history books of Adobe web/mobile EOL (end of life) apps.It is our hope that over the next 14 months, before Muse support closes, Adobe will provide a solution, which allows Muse users to cleanly migrate their projects to another Adobe app.Your Muse app won’t stop working, but will it be useful? What happens is that browser apps are improved and computers and mobile devices get OS (operating system) updates. Older Internet creation apps are t

Can one use a copy of CS5 in preparation for an associate within the adobe fields go id, ai, ps, dw, and fl? Or is the content not relevant to test prep?Thanks.

It seems to me that older people who started using computers a long time ago (desktops and then laptops) sometimes have a better understanding of some of the 'functions' available to share info with others via screen shots and where info is located about system specs and stuff like that.I feel kinda bad for new people who can't find that info as readily as we older people can. Even win 10 makes it a little more difficult than earlier O.S. to find basic info about their computers.In a way, things are getting 'dummied down' to make things easier for users, but along the way it has also made it harder to get specific info.With the CC stuff I am not sure how many users opt in to get stuff like photoshop AND premiere pro, and other apps. ( used to be called applications or 'programs' ).So, with PC clones, for example, using the "Prt Sc." (print screen) key is an age old method of putting full screen into clipboard, but a lot of younger people don't know that. Then if you go to photoshop and

Hi other ACP's,My 2010 MacPro seems to have given up. This happened about 10 months ago and I managed to get it restarted after a few days and a number of tricks. (repair place and Apple said it could not be fixed then!...)Now it is happening again, and this time all the other tricks are not working. I believe it is the power supply so I ordered a power supply and will try getting it restarted when that arrives.MY Question:However, Does anyone here have a new MacBook Pro 15 with 32 GB of RAM? I am considering replacing the MacPro with a laptop if it has enough power and ram to work PS and LR and more drawing and painting applications. From the activity monitor I seem to use a lot of ram and scratch disk space.- I do not do any 3 D work, and only dabble with video. I do run a lot external drives so of course I will need a lot of adapter cables for  USB and Firewire.Anyone with any thoughts or experience?

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This is deaf awareness week. Adobe should be involve the celebrated with other deaf designer, filmmakers, and artist. Share their works too.

     These trees line the avenue where I live. Just about every yard has one. They're beautiful and very fragrant almost a sweet perfume aroma. My neighbor said she thought it was a wisteria but I've seen and smelled a wisteria it was more willowy and it's fragrance was different than this. My guess is it's a lilac of some sort but then again everythings a lilac to me as I'm just guessing. I can tell you this, the bloom only lasts a couple of weeks or so and then the rest of the spring and summer it devotes to proliferant large seed pod production . Can you tell what it is? Thanks; you wonderful botanist.

Is better to talk to a person or do you prefer Alexa?Some of Marriott’s hotel brands are getting amazon’s Alexa in the guest rooms. Some people have privacy concerns. While other people have adopted Alexa and made her part of their family. So talking to her on vacation might be like feeling at home?Examples of Alexa’s hospitality uses include ordering room service or asking the device what the swimming pool hours are, today. However, some hotel brands require the human touch. They want you to talk to the Guest Service Representatives (GSRs) and other hotel staff. Some of those hotels don’t even have automated phone answering directories. They want people to answer the phone, after a specific number of rings, and talk to you.What do you think? Is an Alexa or a Siri a better friend of yours than your hotel’s staff?https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/convenient-or-creepy-thousands-of-hotels-will-soon-have-amazon-s-alexa-by-your-bedside-1258980419939As a creative professional, you c

When working mobile ie iPad iPhone, why are adobe so far behind, you can get apps like procreate and affinity, and do a lot more than the apps on the cloud, or I’m I missing something.

This is really funny have a bit of fun hahaha https://www.facebook.com/Postprodfixer/videos/1605036316267721/UzpfSTcxMzU3ODI3NTQ0Mjc2NjoxMzUyMTU2Njk0OTE4MjUx/?comment…

so when this thing runs over a couple of school kids, I wonder what the cover up story will beThe NSW government is going to trial autonomous buses in Coffs Harbour and Armidale assuming it gets reported

The title says it all. Why is concept art only created using raster graphics? Like, I have never really seen one creating concept art in Illustrator (i.e. using vector graphics) rather than Photoshop.

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I'm wondering if anyone here uses Neobarok?https://neobarok.com/ It's a  3D sculpting  app a bit like  Z-Brush, but where Z-Brush cost nearly as much as my first house (only a slight exaggeration), Neobarok is free.  I installed it yesterday, and I've been sort  of stumbling along with it.  That is to say I am creating content, and don't seem to have much control over it.  Well, almost no control at all. The guide is none too flash, and I am not finding much information on how to use  it.I've just done this with  it, and found I was doing a lot better than yesterday.   I also discovered that Lazy Nezumi Pro works with it (you have the hook the window) which is  a boon  because those  pipes were all over the place without LNPIt has a test feature that lets you play with the app, and it also shows the various render possibilities, but I have not worked out how to do that with a new model.  It looks pretty flash th

I read a bit about downloading stuff from internet (basically mp4 stuff from youtube ) and got VLC thinking it was pretty good program and one thing it could do was help me download stuff from youtube. I didn't try youtube download yet. I just tried vimeo and it didn't work. I could get the vimeo stuff into my cache ( win 10) as an mp4 but couldn't get the option to 'save as', so I failed in my attempt.It's a pro vimeo account I guess, so maybe there is something going on I have no clue about ??

When we had a rain cover put over our back porch, we created the problem of the smoke from our BBQ not being able to riseSolution is a Lasko 2265QM 20 inch fan, which comes with a wall mount

...thus making it the biggest and most profitable corporation in the entire universe. Google and facebook eat dust - well, facebook is doomed anyway. Microsoft is a kitchen-table operation by comparison. They could buy the world's big banks for breakfast and several medium-sized countries for lunch. Well, figuratively speaking. But in fact, that's eight times Norway's national budget - and we got oil, remember?Makes you think, doesn't it?

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I found this really good and concise explanation of color basics re: basics.  It was some guy in Los Angeles, who won't mind me sharing this.I just copied pasted stuff to notepad and won't edit the thing ...you'll get the idea the way it is...It's pretty cool way of just explaining and might help eliminate some confusion, like my own, for example.=========begin paste=====The Mini Monitor isn't just a TB to HDMI adapter, like the adapters your can buy for $7 off Amazon. It converts a computer data signal to a TV signal. Fundamentally different types of signals. This is why you can't just plug a TV directly into your HDMI port in your computer. It would show up as second computer monitor, extending your desktop, displaying a computer signal. TV video signals can be progressive, interlaced, different frame rates, and adhere to standard formats like ATSC, PAL, etc., encoded in Y'CbCr. Computer video signals are different beasts entirely, and computer monitors that are color-accurate a

Adobe, would you do a contest on revamping your website? How about redecorating the interior of your corporate offices? How about a contest on best new software -- is that next?  A successful graphic design involves solving problems, and creating solutions.  Its not a pretty picture to enhance your web pages...For the recent Bauhaus contest that was just announced, the prizes are really nice, but only a couple designers will win.... meanwhile ALL of these other designers, many of whom are hopeful emerging students, will be spending a lot of valuable time doing Adobe's marketing work for free... and without the appropriate information to really do a good job. I wish Adobe would respect graphic designers more, and "hire" an amazing team of designers rather than entice students or newbies to enter their contest.  Maybe they can be asked to show their work, in order to be considered for the team.... but a contest?  It really is a slap in the face every time I see a cont

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Cavemen have probably been doing this forever, but I finally figured it out.I use a d800 and HDMI out to Ninja ( 1080p 24fps, DNxHD). Normally I sync sound with slate and little recording gadget ( TASCAM).On one shoot I had a little shotgun rode on hot shoe of camera plugged into mic of camera, as a sort of 'backup'.The man helping me on job (turning TASCAM on and off for takes) did something weird at one point and a few sound takes were no good after that.Luckily I had the stupid little rode on top of camera and talent was close, so I used THAT sound. BUT discovered it was out of sync 3 frames. I had the slate to use and figure that out.The sound gets recorded faster than video stream data can be compressed, so it's out 3 frames....sound coming first.In editor, unlinking sound, and moving sound forward with mouse really was hard, cause it's not accurate and it's a hit and miss sorta operation.I just realized a few minutes ago (cause I'm gonna go out with camera soon and shoot with tha

Just changed my broadband provider to a relatively new service in Ireland, pretty impressive speeds