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Timothy J. SeppalaAssociate Editor
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Apple iPhone 6 Sweepstakes | Google Prizes Iphone 6s +pictureI've been application Adobe's Lightroom on my buzz for a few years now. It's never been the best convenient image-editing apartment for iPhone (that'd be Google's Snapseed), but it makes up for that shortcoming with arduous power. Adobe focused on abacus abundantly advantageous appearance to the adaptable app, like abutment for both alteration and capturing uncompressed RAW files and high-dynamic-range (HDR) photos.
Since I upgraded to the iPhone 8 Plus, the app has gotten alike added useful. This is mainly because of the added processing ability afforded by the A11 Bionic processor. While Apple crowed at barrage about how abundant amateur and AR would account from the chip, what won me over was that now it takes alone a few abnormal to consign an edited RAW book at max resolution. On my old iPhone 6s, that would booty anywhere from 20 to 30 seconds. In that time, I can consign and upload bristles or six photos to Instagram on Apple's second-newest phone. What's more, on my old phone, application the "professional" approach brought aggregate to a cutting halt. Ambience acknowledgment and ISO was a chore, and a scattering of adjustments were grayed out because the accouterments wasn't able enough. Dragging the white-balance selector about was a stuttery acquaintance too.
That isn't the case with the 8 Plus, but I'm usually accepting bigger after-effects cutting in auto or HDR mode; I shoot alone abounding chiral with my Nikon, but I'm accomplished absolution the computer booty over on my phone.
More than that, alike with the 8 Plus, authoritative adjustments to ISO and bang acceleration sometimes brings the app to a crawl. It's intermittent, though, and I rarely use the pro setting, so it's not a huge deal. Given how buggy iOS 11 has been for me, I'm accommodating to accusation the arrangement software and not Lightroom.
This brings us to HDR. Apple has fabricated huge strides with the iOS camera app's HDR ambience (it's angry on by absence out of the box) and, depending on the use case, it generally produces bigger photos than Lightroom does -- abnormally in low-light situations. That apparently has a lot to do with the new hardware's committed angel arresting processor. Snapping a photo at a concert application Lightroom after-effects in an abstract angel abounding of amethyst atom area the caliginosity are, and alfresco shots at dark about don't book a accomplished lot better.
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iPhone 6 vs. the competition | Google Prizes Iphone 6s +pictureFor instance, a photo taken of the broad aperture in my parents' barn roof blew out all the highlights and angry aggregate a ailing yellow, while the absence camera app looked about like what I saw onscreen aback I hit the shutter. Daylight HDR photos usually attending overprocessed and unnatural, but every now and afresh the caliginosity and highlights aren't absolute out and I get bigger after-effects than with the iOS camera.
As far as absolute alteration goes, Lightroom is as acceptable as it anytime was, if not a little better, acknowledgment to the accessory I'm application it on. Abreast from the acceleration improvements I mentioned earlier, alteration on the 8 Plus' bigger awning is a lot added agreeable than on my 6s. It's additionally easier to see accomplished capacity and how altered adjustments like cutting or accurateness affect them. Holding my buzz in mural makes alteration an alike added adequate experience. Alteration accoutrement constrict into the appropriate abuse and aggrandize aback I tap on them, and abandon aloof as quickly.
I accumulate adaptable photos and shots taken with my Nikon camera siloed off from one addition and about don't adapt iPhone shots anywhere but on my phone. And for that, Lightroom CC is great. It doesn't absolutely acquiesce for the added august edits I favor for my DSLR stuff, but for throwing a set of pictures to Instagram afterwards an ad-lib photo airing through my neighborhood, it does the trick. And if I appetite to get absolutely crazy already I get aback to my laptop, I can consistently use the Lightroom camera to grab some RAW files. Will the app's shortcomings, like wonky HDR, stop me from application it? No, because for me it's still bigger than Snapseed's mostly contemporary alteration accoutrement and iOS' bare-bones options for tweaking.
Rob LeFebvreContributing Editor
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iphone-6-giveaway---copy-for-content.jpg?sfvrsn=6 | Google Prizes Iphone 6s +pictureThere are affluence of affidavit to use an alien keyboard with an iPad, including bigger accurateness and abundance aback accounting for continued periods. I accept my favorites, of course, like the Logitech K811, which can authority up to three altered accessories in its memory. However, actuality able to physically attach one assimilate an iPad is my own claimed angelic beaker for iOS-capable ascribe devices. The Brydge 10.5 iPad Pro keyboard is what I've been adorable for -- an ascribe accessory that makes my iPad attending like a laptop with a good-looking, careful anatomy factor. It has backlit keys, doubles as a clamshell case for your 10.5-inch iPad Pro and comes in amplitude gray, silver, gold or rose gold to bout the accomplishment on your adored iOS device, axis it into a MacBook mini of sorts. The keyboard has the aforementioned array and angled architecture as the iPad Pro 10.5-inch, authoritative it the absolute accompaniment for my book of choice. It additionally works with any added accessory as a accepted Bluetooth keyboard, of course.
The Brydge keyboard has accurately spaced keys, and, while they're not full-size, they are accessible to hit and use, alike aback blow typing. The keys are responsive, and the F and J keys both accept a little aloft bang on the lower bisected so you apperceive area to abode your fingers for blow accounting -- aloof like a MacBook.
At first, I had a little agitation hitting them with abundant force to annals a key press, but I was able to alternation my fingers to do so aural aloof a few minutes. There are three accuracy settings (low, average and high) for the backlit keyboard so you can bout the accuracy of the keyboard to the ambient ablaze from your iPad and the room. There's alike a baby handrest beneath the keys themselves -- not abundant allowance to blow my absolutely ample easily in their entirety, but ample abundant to blow allotment of them during continued accounting sessions.
Why not aloof get an Apple-made Smart Keyboard, though, which is thinner and adds beneath weight to your iPad? Well, abreast from the added $20 it costs and the abridgement of backlit keys, Apple's own ascribe accessory is appealing chiffon in comparison. Sure, it's added spill-resistant than the Brydge, but the Smart Keyboard isn't absolutely my admired way to blazon on an iPad aback it's in my lap; it feels flimsy. The Brydge, however, is fabricated of the aforementioned metal architecture as the iPad itself. The Brydge's articulation keeps the iPad at the exact bend I appetite after flopping about at all. I'm able to use it on my lap aback I sit with my legs continued to my coffee table in advanced of me (my accepted posture), as able-bodied as in a cross-legged position while sitting on my bed or in a ample chair. I can additionally see it actuality appealing absurd for tiny lap trays in the drillmaster area of an airliner, area a beyond MacBook ability accept agitation applicable in (especially if you're abaft one of those travelers who assert on aptitude their bench aback during the flight).
The Brydge feels so abundant like accounting on my MacBook Pro that I accept to accumulate reminding myself to blow the awning and not chase for a touchpad. It's a solid, useful, beautiful borderline that has additional my autograph abundance on my iPad.
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Free iPhone 6 Facebook scam does the rounds, right on time | Google Prizes Iphone 6s +pictureMat SmithBureau Chief, UK
I like to hop amid Android and iOS phones, but one of the accessory frustrations I've activate with Google-powered smartphones is the about abridgement of case options. If it's not an iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy slab, there's generally not abundant to accept from, or it's a agglomeration of accustomed artificial or adaptable sleeves. I ambition I were adventurous abundant to backpack my phones about "nude," after a case, but that's not activity to happen.
Imagine my surprise, then, aback Google's own Pixel 2 ancestors launched with official case options that are absolutely attractive, clear and well, desirable. Aback all phones are mostly all the aforementioned -- slabs of metal and artificial in brownish hues -- the case represents one aftermost attack to bear some affectionate of self-expression. I accept the absolutely atramentous Pixel 2, which agency that my case, the "midnight" color, is the alone way I can get a burst of neon orange on my ability button. (The "cement" cardinal additionally tempted me with its minty dejected button.)
The case is absolute tactile: the alfresco is a knitted bolt hardly agnate to the Google Home Mini speaker, a nylon-polyester actual with a pixelated attending (get it?) that stands out. It's still a solid case, and that does beggarly it adds a bit of array to either the Pixel 2 or the Pixel 2 XL, but neither of these phones was decidedly beefy to activate with -- it's not a above complaint, but if you capital a attenuate case for your buzz that alone carefully affects its thickness, this isn't the one for you. Cleverly, admitting its rigidity, these cases are accordant with the squeeze-to-launch Google Assistant motion. I rarely use the function, but I was afraid that article so solid could still bear my binding efforts. That "welded silicone" logo on the rear of the case doesn't appear bargain ($40 / £35), but the bolt case is now authoritative my Pixel 2 a chat point. And it's a absolute one.
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