Creators

Could be a helpful way to for creators to more easily reply to comments from their audience. The test is small right now and available only on the mobile app, according to a post about the test.

You can now upload YouTube Shorts that can be as much as three minutes long.

They won’t immediately show up as Shorts, though, according to YouTube’s Rene Ritchie — the full rollout for that across YouTube will take a bit.

After joking about “AI” being a drinking game trigger at MAX, Adobe’s chief product officer Scott Belsky said the company is moving away from the “prompt era” of the tech — which “cheapened and undermined the craft of creative professionals” by generating anything from text descriptions.

Instead, the new “control era” aims to improve creative workflows with AI in more specific ways within Creative Cloud apps.

Adobe has added a bunch of new AI “quick actions” that automatically apply effects for retouching backgrounds, teeth, eyes, skin, and more.

Lightroom’s mobile apps also now have the “Generative Remove” feature that was introduced to the desktop editor in May — making it easier to delete annoying objects from your images on the go.

Teased during the demo for Project Concept, Adobe says V4 of its Firefly Image Model will allow users to highlight areas of a generated image to adjust without making it again from scratch— for example, adding a guitar to a specific surface.

V3 has only just rolled out to Creative Cloud apps but this latest update will be available soon according to Adobe.

Dubbed “Project Concept,” this in-development planning app allows multiple creatives to hash out ideas in real time by mind-mapping inspirational images — just like Figma’s mood board tools.

Project Concept also includes a built-in generative AI “remix” feature that blends together aspects from multiple reference images. It’s not available yet, but Adobe says we’ll know more “in the near future.”

Some audience pictures snapped by Adobe Principal Director Terry White at today’s Max event started appearing in Frame.io in real-time as he was taking them, without needing to connect the camera to a computer.

And because his account was synced with Lightroom, they appeared there too — meaning there’s basically no delay for photographers to get their snaps ready for editing.

Adobe design evangelist Michael Fugoso was so excited to demo Project Neo — an Illustrator-like app for 3D design that was teased last year — that it felt like Bill and Ted had taken to the stage.

Project Neo is available as a free beta right now but we’ll hear more about general availability in the coming months.

While campaigning for the US Senate in 2021, Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance filmed a Facebook Live using his smartphone’s selfie camera, which mirrored the image, and therefore his campaign signs.

That can be fixed, but Vance’s idea — rotating the phone — is not it. (I recommend waiting a moment to turn on the volume, unless you’re a fan of TikTok’s text-to-speech voices.)

The company says that Canva Teams users will still be able to add up to four users to the account for free, after previously planning to move existing subscribers to a pricing model that charges an additional fee per user.

It’s also introducing a “Pricing Promise” to help win back some of the faith it lost when some users were faced with massive price increases.

We might not hear from them for a while if Milton knocks out power and communicates like Hurricane Helene did. “Life-threatening” hurricane-force winds and flash floods are on the way, the National Hurricane Center warns.

Wanting to put its internals on display, YouTube’s Phone Repair Guru stripped an iPhone 16 Pro’s back panel down to the glass using a surprisingly complicated process. Gallium was even used to remove a thin layer of aluminum as the two metals react to create a soft alloy. The results look great, but maybe don’t try this mod at home.

If you thought standard-issue ad tech was a little weird and creepy, get ready for the future: platforms letting marketers use all their data to make an infinite number of AI-generated ads specifically targeted to individual viewers. Digiday reports on TikTok’s Smart+, which competes with similar offerings from Meta and Google:

Marketers can let TikTok’s AI handle the heavy lifting — building and delivering ads to drive conversions, leads, or app downloads. […] The pitch is all about simplicity and speed — no more weeks of guesswork and endless A/B testing, according to Adolfo Fernandez, TikTok’s director, global head of product strategy and operations, commerce.

Super normal, everyone! No potential issues here!

If you’re a Framework laptop user with access to a 3D printer you’ve now got an important question to ask yourself. Do you prioritize being able to accessorize your machine with Lego using this 3D-printed adapter with studs and tubes that fits into the Framework’s expansion card port? Or is adding another USB-C or HDMI port a higher priority? Decisions, decisions...

Substack has long positioned itself as a safe haven for independent writers — including, at times, publications that contain Nazi and other extremist content.

The newsletter platform is now looking to be somewhere fans can go to financially support their favorite content creators, not just writers, because income from other social platforms can be unreliable. Where have I heard that before?

Colin of the This Does Not Compute YouTube channel says what started as a Macintosh SE/30 motherboard repair turned into spending “over a year and about a thousand bucks” building this franken-Mac, instead.

He used some original parts; but it’s otherwise assembled from new old-stock chips, a custom motherboard, and solid polymer caps that will “never leak like electrolytic ones tend to.” The end result? A functional, RGB-laden, translucent SE/30.

After a bug “incorrectly flagged” some channels for spam and removed them, YouTube started working on getting the channels back. That’s done, the Team YouTube X account posted — now it’s just working to get the last few videos reinstated.

State Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that TikTok has violated the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act by not giving parents control of their kids’ privacy and account settings, writes Reuters. TikTok denied the allegations in a statement to The Texas Tribune.

TikTok A federal judge blocked part of the act requiring large social networks to stop harmful content from reaching minors just prior to the law taking effect on September 1st.