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Press Release from Skylum: Aurora HDR 2019

HDR Photography Takes a Quantum Leap Forward with Skylum’s Aurora HDR 2019 and New Patent-Pending AI Technology

Enhancements to Apple’s reigning Mac App of the Year delivers an HDR photo editor that blends power and intelligent tech with intuition and seamless workflow

Bellevue, WA – October 4, 2018 — Skylum Software is now shipping Aurora HDR 2019, its fourth generation, high dynamic range editor, whose predecessor is the current Mac App of the Year. Skylum’s goal is to give photographers a powerful tool to create vivid, captivating, and true-to-life high dynamic range images. Skylum’s AI Lab analyzed thousands of images from professional photographers to create a custom algorithm that would deliver optimal results automatically, drastically reducing editing time. In addition to landscape photographers, real estate, architecture, environmental portrait, food and street photographers will all benefit fromAurora HDR 2019.

“Aurora uses its Quantum HDR Engine with AI technology to analyze and extrapolate the best details from each bracketed image to create a single file that renders more details in the shadows, highlights and midrange than ever possible before,” explains Alex Tsepko, CEO of Skylum Software. “Leveraging advances in RAW file technology, photographers who create single exposures can also recover hidden details from their photos using Aurora HDR.”

HDR Smart Structure is a new feature that lets users add contrast, depth, and definition to areas in an image using a single intelligent slider. And, it does this without creating unwanted halos, noise, color spotting or artifacts most noticeable in areas of sky, clouds, and smooth surfaces.

Aurora HDR 2019 also incorporates LUT mapping, an industry standard in photography, cinema, and television to help photographers jumpstart their creative color process by allowing them to apply color grading and film stock simulations.

Aurora HDR Looks is another new feature that allows photographers to use their own combination of filters and LUTs to quickly fix or adjust their images. It also enables quick edits and batch processing of images shot under similar lighting conditions. Skylum partnered with top pros to create signature Aurora HDR Looks to inspire professionals and help new users easily achieve finished images.

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Affinity Photo for iPad updated

The iPad App of the Year is now better than ever

When we launched Affinity Photo for iPad last year we broke new ground in being the first to bring a desktop-class professional photo editing tool to iPad. It’s been quite a ride for us so far – announcing the launch on-stage at WWDC, being named as Apple’s App of the Year, and just this week reaching a quarter of a million users worldwide!

As we’ve talked to our users, witnessed the incredible work they create and understood more about their workflows, it’s inspired us to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on a mobile device.

And today, we’re thrilled to announce we’ve launched another big update to the app (to version 1.6.9), which introduces:

  • Massively-expanded support for touch gesture control
  • Refined UI and much improved brush management
  • A new Export persona, allowing instant export of multiple slices and layers
  • Many performance and other improvements

If you already own the app, you can download the updated version free of charge from the App Store now. Because we have made various changes to the UI and gestures we’d definitely recommend you check out our all-new set of tutorials which you can find here.

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Proton Beta Program: A press release from ProtonVPN

The ProtonVPN Beta Program gives you early access to new VPN features and updates that our team is working on.

All users can enable the Beta Program for our Windows, macOS, or Android VPN app.

As a community supported VPN service, we are here to serve you and we take your feedback very seriously. That’s why we always strive to let the community participate in product development and decide how ProtonVPN should evolve. Whether it’s letting you choose where to put new VPN servers or inviting you to help improve new apps, we take your feedback seriously.

We have already implemented our Android Beta Program for ProtonVPN. Today, we are expanding the ProtonVPN Beta Program to also include our macOS and Windows clients. The Beta Program gives you early access to new servers, UI updates, stability improvements, and more. Whenever our developers release new versions of these applications to our team for internal testing, you will receive updates at the exact same time. We are doing this so we can get your feedback about new features and product changes earlier, and take your input into account for the public releases.

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Manage Multiple iOS Devices Easily With Bushel.com

For some people IT is a task and not a career, bushel lets anyone easily manage Apple devices in a workplace. iPhones, iPads, iPod touches even Macs. Bushel lets you easily set up and protect Apple devices that you distribute to your team or even devices your team already has.

it’s a cloud-based mobile device management or MDM system. With Bushel managing your workplaces devices you can easily provide and manage access to company email accounts, employees don’t even need to manually configure anything to access the company email, which of course is a for any companies IT department.

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Install PlayBox HD For iOS 9 / 9.1 Without JailBreaking

PlayBox HD for iOS lets you stream tv shows and movies to your iOS device along with the ability to download them direct your your iOS device.  You can also stream them via airplay to your Apple Tv.  Morally ambiguous yes, does it work, yes but none the less incredibly handy.  Here’s how you can install PlayBox HD without the need to jailbreak your iPhone.

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Dragon Dictate 5.0.2 Released. El Cap Compatibility Addressed And Bug Fixes

Dragon Dictate 5 has been a part of my workflow since it’s release.  Granted there’s a few features missing from it’s windows counterpart, transcription still needs working on but none the less it’s an improvement over 4.  5.0.2 brings fuller El-Cap compatibility and the correction choices window is now properly displayed.

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Interview With Crystal Developer Dean Murphy. The State Of Adblocking, Inspirations and Life Change. Part 1

Given the weekends announcement that Marco Arment, the developer of Peace and other great apps, decided to pull his offering, this podcast is strangely on topic for once. It was my great pleasure to interview Dean Murphy of Crystal (crystalapp.co). We cover many topics, so much so that it’s a 2 parter edition of the Rampant Mumblings.

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BluePlanetTales. Interactive History Lessons on your iOS Device. Now With Value Subscriptions

Learning about history when I was at school was a long and torterous process. This was back before iPads, smartphones and the like. It was 2 hours of hell copying from one book into another. Needless to say I was dissintereted in History and failed that course. Things would of been a LOT different if BluePlanetTales had been around Im sure of it.

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Adblock Plus releases its web browser for iOS

Since installing Crystal I’ve been vocal on Twitter about just how often I will share a page from zite or flip board into safari to make it easier to read aka less adverts distracting from the content I want to read.

Going one better than Crystal a content blocker for iOS, Adblock for iOS has just been released. What makes it different from crystal is that it’s a full browser with ad blocking built in rather than an add on.

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New app allows users to ‘remix’ work by Godfather of pop art #Dazzleit

A new app allows users to ‘remix’ artwork by Sir Peter Blake, the Godfather of pop art, best known for designing the 1967 Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. Dazzle It is commissioned by 14-18 NOW: the First World War Centenary Art Commissions and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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