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Adobe Premiere Pro users will be happy to hear there’s an iPhone app launching later this month, which the company is promising will be closer to the capabilities of its desktop app than the cut-down Premiere Rush app.

The company will also be hoping to attract those who are newer to video editing on iPhone, in order to create a potential new market for the desktop app …

For photography enthusiasts, the prosumer camera app market has had no shortage of great options, with longtime favorites like Halide from Lux leading the pack. Now, Adobe has decided to enter the picture (get it?) with a free experimental app from the same team behind the original Google Pixel camera.

Adobe Firefly, the popular AI app for generating both images and video, is now available as an iPhone app. It follows the release of a Vision Pro app back in February.

The app has the same capabilities as the the web tool, but in a form optimized for mobile use. The app doesn’t limit you to using Adobe’s own image-generation models – you can also choose between a selection of third-party ones by Google, OpenAI, and others …

Adobe is giving its Creative Cloud All Apps plan a new name – Creative Cloud Pro – and a hefty bump in pricing. The annual plan will increase to $799.99 while the monthly cost now breaks $100.

The company says users will get some new capabilities in return for the price bump, including unlimited access to some of the AI tools …

Photoshop is launching on iPhone today, a big move for Adobe as it seeks to offer its powerful photo editing suite in a mobile-friendly form. Here are the details.

Adobe and Box on Tuesday announced a new partnership that will integrate services from both companies. Starting today, Box users will have access to the Adobe Express image editor directly from the cloud platform, so that they can create and edit visual content without the need to open another website or app.

Adobe this week announced a series of new features coming to Adobe Express, a platform aimed at mainstream users who need to create web pages and graphics. Among the new features, the platform now integrates better with Creative Cloud apps and provides new tools for text and shapes.

A new bill in California, dubbed “Click to Cancel,” has been signed into law. It requires companies to make it as quick and easy to cancel subscriptions as it was to subscribe in the first place.

Thanks to FTC interest, with Adobe being specifically called out on this, the provision may also become federal law …

An Adobe exec is quoted as describing its hidden pricing strategy as being “a bit like heroin.” The remark was revealed when the government released its unredacted complaint, which accuses the company of deliberately making it hard to cancel a Creative Cloud subscription.

The exec acknowledged customer anger at the way the company made its contractual terms hard to understand, but said that improving this would result in “taking a big business hit” …

Adobe has been adding a lot of AI-based features to its apps, and there are more to come. Today, the company announced updates to two of its most popular pieces of software, Illustrator and Photoshop, with new ways to create and edit using artificial intelligence.

Adobe is the latest target of the US Department of Justice’s recent wave of high-profile lawsuits. The company’s subscription cancellation practices are the specific target of the DOJ, which the government says is tantamount to ‘trapping’ users in subscriptions and has resulted in a formal lawsuit.

A change to Adobe terms set the internet alight yesterday, after a number of pro users of the company’s apps reacted with anger and confusion to the scary-looking wording.

The company initially issued a rather dismissive statement that its terms have been in place for years and it was merely clarifying them, but subsequently wrote a blog post which tackled the issue in more detail …

Adobe is bringing its Firefly AI features to Lightroom users today across iPhone, iPad, Mac (web, Android, and PC too). New capabilities for the app include Generative Remove, Lens Blur, and more alongside a fresh “mobile editing experience.” Here are all the details.

Adobe on Thursday officially launched its new Adobe Express app with Firefly AI for iOS and Android. This version of the app has been available to beta testers for some time, and can now be downloaded by anyone. Read on as we detail everything that’s new with the Adobe Express update.

A test of using Lightroom on Vision Pro found that the controls were easy and intuitive, but it did require a somewhat slower pace than working on a Mac.

Also, being based on the iPad app, the Vision Pro version of Lightroom doesn’t support all the features of the Mac app – and has one rather odd omission …

Adobe has announced that its popular generative AI app Firefly is coming to Vision Pro. The company says the experience is “purpose-built for visionOS” and will help users “bring their creative visions to life.” While the app usually costs generative credits, Adobe is making it free to use the text to image AI on Vision Pro until March.

The FTC is investigating Adobe, after widespread consumer complaints that the company makes it too hard to cancel app subscriptions.

Adobe was one of the earliest software companies to switch from a one-off purchase model to recurring subscriptions, but consumers have long complained that it’s easier to start a subscription than it is to end one …

Adobe MAX 2023 kicks off today and brings some major enhancements to Firefly, Adobe’s AI tool for content generation.

Adobe’s Firefly Generative AI has been in beta testing this year and now the advanced features have launched for all Creative Cloud users. Along with the big update comes some price bumps for its subscriptions. Here are all the details.