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  • The Apple Pro Display XDR brings 6K to the Mac for $4999

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    vukasika said:
    $5000 Display LMAO!!!!
    I have a $5000 Eizo on my desk right now. Pros will invest this much in an essential piece of equipment.

    Now, my Eizo has a built-in color calibration device set to fine-tune the factory calibration every 80 hours or so, which this doesn't have (unless I've missed something)...but It looks like an amazing tool that I'd love to put on my desk next to a next generation Eizo.
    StrangeDaysdysamoriaCarnagewatto_cobra

  • macOS 10.15's Music app should retain core iTunes features

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    cornchip said:
    mike1 said:
    mr. h said:

    and syncing with iPhones, iPads, and iPods.
    Not good! Synching of iPhones is where all the bloat started to happen in iTunes. Why should a music app be in charge of synching things with an iPhone or iPad that contains music, movies, photos, loads of other miscellaneous data, and apps? It makes no sense! Apple should have a dedicated iOS <-> macOS sync. app, or use a Music app for synching music, a Videos app (that doesn't currently exist) for synching video files, Photos for synching photos, and the App Store for synching and managing apps.
    I don't disagree with separate piece of software for syncing. Just need it to work on Windows too. I do not want cloud backup to be the only option.
    This has to be the crux of the matter for Apple. Didn't they at one time have an app called Sync or iSync or something? I seem to remember syncing an old Zire21 using that App. It was in the earlier days of my using Apple products and I recall being a little confused at why they didn't just use that app to do all the syncing. Reminded me of their ImageCapture app. Not fancy, just did it's job. 
    I remember iSync. It was great. It was the glue necessary to make your Mac the hub of your digital life back in the era before Apple made every product in your life. It was forgotten once Apple’s own mobile gadgets took over the world. And, of course, we have the Cloud now, where most syncing happens. 
    litoloop

  • No, Adobe did not cancel its popular $10 Creative Cloud Photography plan

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    Are there any professional photo editors here? Graphic artists? Not necessarily photographers, but people who manipulate images for a living. Things like removing backgrounds, creating composites, retouching models, adding people and things to scenes -- in other words, lots of masking, cutting, pasting, reshaping, resizing, etc.

    If you're in that group, have you used Pixelmator or Affinity Photo? Are they viable substitutes for Photoshop? I constantly hear or read that they do "almost everything Photoshop does, but at a much better price." It's the "almost" that makes me nervous. What do I lose if I move away from Photoshop? I'm also concerned about the QUALITY of the tools. When I switched to Photoshop in the mid-nineties I was amazed by how much better the colour conversions and anti-aliasing were than the app I'd been using before. The difference wasn't in the feature set, but how the results of certain features looked much better in Photoshop. Do Photo or Pixelmator hold up for real work?

    The only way to tell is to complete every project at least twice -- once in Photoshop, then again in the substitute candidate -- and compare the results. That's time consuming (and boring) so I hope someone will have already made some assessments and can offer an opinion. I'd like to get off the Adobe Express, but I'm afraid I'll regret it and wind up paying even MORE to get back on.
    I fit the demographic you are inquiring about. I’m a photo retoucher and graphic designer. I do this work full time and run my own business. 

    I haven’t really given the PS alternatives much consideration outside of iOS, where “real” photoshop isn’t yet available. 

    What I have done is begin using Capture One Pro for RAW conversion. So much faster. Both in processing as I actively work and setting up and executing batch workflows. I used to use ACR for all my RAW conversion work and loved how I could embed the RAW image with its ACR conversion as a Smart Object in Photoshop and go back and edit the ACR setting as I work, but in light of Capture One Pro’s better performance and often superior results, I’ve dropped ACR for client work. Capture One Pro does a better job faster. 

    I want to believe Lightroom will get better, that is where my personal photography lives, but for client work, I’m on to bigger & better solutions. 
    firelock

  • 2019 iMac performance ranges from 5% to 66% increase over previous models

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    lkrupp said:
    The usual naysayers have been bitching about the cooling systems in these new iMacs, saying they will cause outrageous throttling and therefore be useless. All I can say is that the fans in my Late 2013 iMax 14,2 with the i7 Haswell CPU have never rose above the minimum speed in the 5 years I’ve owned it. The Intel Power Gadget app always shows the CPU running at max speed. The machine never feels warm at all. Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t the CPUs in the iMacs in the laptop class and therefore more easily dealt with from a thermal viewpoint?
    I can’t answer the laptop versus desktop CPU question, but I can attest to my top-spec 2017 spinning up the fans under heavy load. I do lots of high resolution photo retouching and composition, RAW processing, etc. I don’t measure the frequency of the processor, but I will say that the iMac stays responsive during heavy loads with the fans spun up. The CPU seems to be operating efficiently under heavy load.
    watto_cobra

  • Netflix will not offer programming on Apple TV service

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    shrave10 said:
    In that case, I guess I will have to drop Netflix when Apple TV streaming package is released.
    I dropped Netflix streaming this month after realizing I haven't watched anything there that wasn't available elsewhere in a LONG time. I'm starting to think that the iTunes Store strategy of buying TV per season is more cost-effective for my family. I watch an hour or two of TV a week. My partner watches less. Our child isn't even a year old, so she does't watch anything yet. For our very occasional TV viewing, Netflix is overkill.

    I've been much happier with Hulu, great for watching SNL at a reasonable hour the next day (and getting the benefit of seeing if the episode was well-received). Not to say the Hulu subscription is off the chopping block...but I haven't dropped that axe yet.

    We are an Apple Music home, hopefully a bundle including music & video will be available at a reasonable price.
    watto_cobra