Adobe takes on Canva with Creative Cloud Express app

Adobe rebrands its Spark multimedia creation platform into a new Creative Cloud Express app. This freemium app works on the web and mobile, taking on the likes of Canva to let anyone have access to create visual content for things like social media posts, flyers, stories, banners, and more.

The free version can access thousands of templates, fonts, design assets, and some royalty-free photos. There are also basic editing tools and photo effects available, along with 2GB of cloud storage.

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Adobe Premiere Pro now runs natively on M1 Macs

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Adobe has just announced that Premiere Pro will natively support M1 Macs. These include the 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, 24-inch iMac, and Mac mini. According to Adobe, Creative Cloud apps like Premiere Pro will run over 80% faster on Apple's M1 Macs when compared to identically configured Intel-based Macs. The video editing app also gets a new Speech to Text feature with an integrated and automated workflow for creating captions and transcriptions.

The company plans to bring native support for the Apple M1 chip to its After Effects app, which will arrive with a public beta later in the year. Other Adobe apps that already run natively on the M1 Macs include Illustrator, InDesign, and Lightroom Classic.

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Adobe reminds users it'll pull Photoshop Sketch and Illustrator Draw from app stores next month

In case you missed Adobe's announcement, the company wants to remind mobile users that its Photoshop Sketch and Illustrator Draw apps are going away. Both apps will no longer be available for download starting July 19. The company then plans to stop supporting the apps for existing users on January 10, 2022. You can still use the apps until then, but Adobe will no longer add any new features or updates once they are discontinued.

Instead, Adobe wants its users to move to its Fresco app. All projects created on the two apps can be automatically migrated to Fresco after signing into the app with your Adobe ID email address.

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Adobe releases Premiere Pro beta for Apple Silicon

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Adobe Premiere Pro users who want Apple M1 Macs will get their hands on an optimized version of the app. Adobe released an in-development version of Premiere Pro for Apple's new chip architecture. Since it's in beta, you won't have access to all the features yet, but it has all of the app's core editing and workflow functions.

Adobe prioritized features like support for frequently used codecs, including H.264, HEVC, and ProRes. And if there are features you want access to, you can use the Intel version of the app through Rosetta 2 emulation.

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