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Photoshop has offered Select Subject and Sky Replacement tools for quite some time, and now Adobe is bringing those powerful masking capabilities to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic to make selective adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw. Adobe claims this is the biggest change to selectively editing photos since the release of Lightroom 2. Adobe started working on Lightroom’s new masking features over a year ago and surveyed “tens of thousands of customers” to try to understand the biggest pain points they faced when making selections....

Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced today that Facebook is pausing its Instagram for Kids project and building new parental supervision tools. Over the past few months, reports about Instagram developing an alternative for kids received a lot of bad press and some organizations criticized Facebook for this. Not only that, the Wall Street Journal published some stories about internal memos over Facebook saying how bad its app is for kids....

[SPOILERS for those not caught up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ahead.] – After eight Ghost Rider-filled episodes, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has made the transition to their second “pod” of the season, with this one focusing on LMDs. While it looked like Aida was positioned to be the new big bad, it is actually a combination of forces that will be testing S.H.I.E.L.D. Aida’s creator Dr. Radcliffe came into possession of the Darkhold and is working with a new villain - Anton Ivanov aka The Superior, played by Zach McGowan - as Senator Nadeer continues to destroy the organization’s public image....

As rumors regarding Apple’s AR/VR headset gain traction ahead of an expected release this year, Facebook parent company Meta has reportedly hit a roadblock in its own VR/AR software efforts. According to a new report from The Information, Meta has halted its efforts to build a new software operating system to power its headsets. According to the report, this project had been underway for “several years and involved hundreds of employes....

Comic book fans are enjoying the Golden Age of superhero movies, as many of their favorite characters are finally being adapted for the big screen. Everything from Batman to The Inhumans is coming through the pipeline, meaning the filmmakers are truly exploring their libraries of characters. . Here are 10 Amazing Hidden Easter Eggs in Superhero Movies. Spider-Man 2 Doctor Strange is making his way to theaters as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but he’s been name-dropped in movies well before Disney got a hold of him....

Guillermo del Toro’s visionary sci-fi monster epic, Pacific Rim, was a film ahead of its time in terms of scale and creature design. It postulated that the world had been overrun by ancient leviathans known as kaiju, and humanity’s only defense was constructing enormous robot warriors to defeat them. These robots, known as Jaegers, required a neural link between their two humans pilots — two heads were better than one when taking on their ancient foes....

The gothic fantasy series Castlevania has returned to Netflix for a triumphant third season, building on the momentum of the first two seasons to deliver a compelling storyline full of character development, action, and stunning visuals. Inspired by the hit video game series of the same name, creator Warren Ellis has taken fan-favorite characters like Trevor Belmont and Alucard and made them complex heroes, while Dracula remains a villain burdened by tragedy and loss....

Nothing says “ca-ching” more in Hollywood than the words reboot or remake. Let’s be honest here, remakes of popular franchises aren’t produced because some brilliant idea has surfaced to make the story more grounded or relevant. They’re constantly being churned out to get people into theater seats. Cashing in on a name brand is one of the laziest things Hollywood does, especially when they produce something far less interesting than the original....

Nabbing an iconic role is the pinnacle of onscreen acting. For every twentysomething starting out or fortysomething struggling to hack it, a signature part can make all the difference between twiddled thumbs and Hollywood fame. It really does the trick. Mark Ruffalo has three Oscar nominations under his belt, yet the world will always associate him as The Hulk in Marvel’s Avengers. Fair or not, it’s the way Hollywood works, and it’s provided moviegoers with some of the greatest fictional characters ever conceived....

There’s something irresistible in the story of an ordinary person suddenly touched with greatness, whether it’s superpowers or super-stardom. In Victorious’ 2010 pilot, protagonist Tori Vega (Victoria Justice) isn’t looking to be a star. Then her sister Trina gets sidelined by allergies right before her big performance at the Hollywood Arts school. Who can possibly step in for her? Wait, Tori’s rehearsed with Trina, she knows the whole number! Let her sing it!...

Starting with Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, leading into Batman vs. Superman, growing into Wonder Woman, and then getting a feature of their own, the Justice League has finally assembled itself into theaters. While the production process of that first team movie wasn’t perfect, these heroes can handle a bad beat. It won’t be the first time their characters were besmirched by an ill-fated multimedia venture and it won’t be the last....

For nearly as long as there’s been a Super Bowl, TV networks have used the time slot immediately following the broadcast to bring the big game’s audience to high-profile programming. Sometimes, the network shows the premiere of a debuting series; other times, it’s a particularly major episode of an existing series. This year, with FOX showing the game, it gave the post-Super Bowl spot to the premiere of 24: Legacy, the new spinoff series of its long-running hit 24....

The twist has been a common element in storytelling for as long as there have been stories - it leads the audience to zig where the story zags. A well executed twist can be something spoken of for years after. Most notably, M. Night Shyamalan has built a career around the twist. This storytelling technique appears in superhero comics a lot, to various effects and reception. A long perished team member returns from the dead?...

In the 100th episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Phil Coulson revealed his handpicked his successor to one day lead S.H.I.E.L.D. and his choice is no surprise: when the time comes, he wants Daisy Johnson to become the new Director. Of course, Daisy immediately rejected the very idea of replacing Coulson, who is dying. But the venerable Agent who helped kickstart the Marvel Cinematic Universe isn’t misguided or wrong about his pick to lead the team: Daisy isn’t just meant to become S....

The MCU releases three movies a year, and those movies have huge casts of characters that cross in and out of each other’s movies. Naturally, just like there are characters like Thor and Iron Man who have a clear arc, there are going to be some characters who fall by the wayside. Getting cast in the MCU can mean a one-way ticket to stardom and a steady paycheck for 11 years....

We’ve always felt quite sorry for production designers. The people tasked with bringing a director’s vision into the real world and building the environments that actors get to inhabit can toil away for months and sometimes even years at a time. The end result of all their hard work can usually be measured in a few minutes of screen time that, more often than not, goes completely unnoticed by viewers. Then, all that painstaking attention to detail, all that sourcing of historically accurate props and other assorted minutiae, gets torn down to make way for the next production....

Though the details are still scarce, fans of the Cartoon Network series Young Justice are rejoicing after news broke that Warner Bros. Animation will be reviving the show for a third season. Despite a dedicated fan base during its initial run, the show was cancelled in 2013 after just two seasons. Premiering in 2010 and loosely based on the comic title of the same name, the show was praised for its mature content, character growth, and overarching storylines....

In the nearly fifteen years since it has gone off air, Friends has consistently shown that a series doesn’t need to be new to stay relevant and beloved. With new viewers of all ages flocking to the series thanks to Netflix and reruns on countless television stations, as well as long-time fans staying as devoted as ever, the series continues to be discussed more than most sitcoms, both for its good and bad qualities....

The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has had its ups and downs. The first installment, The Curse of the Black Pearl, was a smash success in 2003. The film took everyone by surprise thanks to its swashbuckling action, sharp wit and Johnny Depp’s unforgettable performance as Captain Jack Sparrow. Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End were filmed simultaneously, with the former hitting screens in 2006 and the latter arriving a year later....