I’ve been an Adobe subscriber for 12 years, starting during my graphic design degree, in which I thought I’d be reliant on Adobe Photoshop and its ilk for my entire career. As a professional tech journalist, I have used Photoshop plenty, but there are some great free Photoshop alternativesthat I could use more reliably. Krita is one of my favorite Photoshop alternatives; it offers all I need from a creative tool, so I won’t yearn for Photoshop once I quit. There are lots of reasons I’m moving to Krita. Some might resonate with you enough to join me.

Tired of relying on Microsoft, Google, and other brands for your email? Want to bring everything under your direct control? Do it yourself with a custom email server for yourself, your friends and family, and anyone else you wish to provide an account. In this guide, I'll round up some tools and things you should consider while setting up your own email server. This will include basic stuff such as domains but also more advanced solutions for managing your server with a dynamic public IP address.

Now that everything about the new RTX 5080 is out in the open, I've reluctantly decided to skip this generation and retain my RTX 3080 for another year. I was hoping to upgrade to the RTX 5080 in the months leading up to the launch, but no matter which way I cut it, I can't justify that anymore. My RTX 3080 still holds up in the latest games at 1440p optimized settings, so the wait continues for me.

If you've been keeping up to date with your GPU news, you'll know that AMD may release the mighty RX 4070 in March. Well, it turns out that its developments may have spooked Nvidia a bit, as Team Green has decided to push the release of its own RTX 5070 back a month. And even if the company didn't plan the move, it still presents a fine opportunity for Nvidia to take a swipe at its age-old rival.

Elon Musk’s X has agreed to pay President Donald Trump “about $10 million” to settle his lawsuit against Twitter, reports The Wall Street Journal. The settlement would come on top of an estimated $250 million that Musk, who now seemingly has broad authority over government agencies as the head of DOGE, put toward helping Trump get elected last year.Trump sued Twitter, Facebook, and Google over his account suspensions following the January 6th, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, and a judge dismissed this lawsuit in 2022, rejecting arguments that the company was a state actor or that Section 230 is unconstitutional. While Trump’s case against Google is still pending, Meta decided to settle with Trump for $25 million late last month. Before that, ABC News agreed to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit for $15 million. And last month, the Journal reported Paramount Global was considering caving on Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over the editing of a Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview.

A good quality monitor can really make a huge difference when it comes to the gaming experience. Not only can you get excellent visuals thanks to enhanced colors and black levels, but the performance numbers can also help with your gameplay as well. Of course, the major hurdle here is that gaming monitors that really make a difference are often quite expensive.

If you have a small business and you're looking for ways to improve your technical infrastructure, a NAS is one of the best ways to do it. I've helped out a few businesses at this stage with one, as while all of their needs were different, the best solution across many of them was a NAS to store data for ease of access.

You can never have enough storage space, which is why it's important to always stock up on storage whenever it's possible. With that said, this Seagate Expansion 24TB external hard drive is going to be a fantastic way to keep all your things backed up, especially when it's down to its lowest price to date. For a limited time, you can now score this drive for $280, which is $50 less than its current retail price.

If you're still on Windows 10, you may have noticed that something new appeared on your operating system after doing a Windows update. The newest update brings in the brand new Outlook app, which Microsoft is using to replace the old Mail and Calendar apps. There's just one problem: it's not great.

DaVinci Resolve is a powerful video editor and color-grading tool, but performance can suffer when you're working with high-resolution video clips, heavy effects, complex timelines, or limited hardware. Fortunately, optimizing the right settings can drastically improve playback, reduce lag, and speed up rendering without compromising quality.

Usually, when you’re looking for open-source alternatives to Adobe apps, you have plenty of options to choose from. For instance, apps like GIMP and Photopea serve as solid alternatives to Photoshop. You can even build a whole creative suite similar to Creative Cloud using open-source software. However, there’s one Adobe app that has far too few open-source alternatives — Acrobat. It has become the default choice for reading and processing PDFs, whether you use a Windows PC or a Mac. Still, there are a handful of open-source alternatives to Acrobat that you might want to consider. Here are four of them.

I'm not much of an AI enthusiast, but I will admit that AI image editing has saved me a ton of time. I personally get a lot of leverage out of background removal tools, which always do a far better job than me messing around with the magic wand tool in GIMP. Luckily, for people who have my level of skill with image editors, Adobe's new Lightroom changes make it even easier to get stuff done.