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  Find a laptop that allows you to realize the full potential of your photo editing software. 1 Skilled photographers and professional graphic designers know that only part of their work is completed when a picture is taken – creating compelling images inevitably requires at least some time at a computer with photo-editing software. Hardly anyone, including amateur shutterbugs using their smartphones, presents their images to the world completely unadorned. But it’s really in the hands of upper-echelon creative professionals that editing software sings. Imperfections that strip images of their power and reality can be corrected. Unique elements can be added that provide otherworldly qualities that change the way people react to an image of a person, place or thing. No matter what your goals, the most advanced photo-editing software can only attain its full creative potential when teamed with the appropriate hardware. There is a plethora of editing software available, and you must w...

  Whether we like it or not, the beginning of a new console generation brings both trouble and opportunities for PC gamers. Those shiny, new consoles are outfitted with mid to enthusiast-class hardware, driving PC system requirements up. You’ll find that, all of a sudden, AAA games aren’t running at a flawless 60 FPS on a mainstream GPU anymore. So while the average new game may be more resource intensive, that also means titles can take better advantage of modern PC hardware. It’s been this way for the past few generations. Back in 2005, early-generation Xbox 360 games like F.E.A.R. and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, punished even top-tier gaming PCs. In 2014, Assassin’s Creed: Unity, pegged as Ubisoft’s first “true” next-gen game, ran at an appalling 24 FPS at 1440p on the flagship GeForce GTX 980. While Unity certainly isn’t representative of the performance profile of all early eighth-gen games, it was markedly harder for PCs to run games that came out after the PS4 and X...

  Kim Komando  |  Special to USA TODAY Everybody loves a cool trick. No matter how well we know an app or program, there’s almost always some shortcut we never learned. The same goes for hardware: We may use gadgets every day without knowing their helpful quirks. A great example is Zoom, which millions of Americans have recently discovered for the first time. Tap or click here for 11 of the best Zoom tricks you’ll wish you’d known sooner. In quarantine, you may spend a lot of time with the tech you already own, especially if you’re working from a home office. Little do you know, you may be doing things “the hard way,” when you could be cutting corners for free. Speaking of free, tap or click here for 15 tech upgrades you can get for free, including no-cost programs that work like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office. Here are some of my favorite popular tech tips, tricks, and shortcuts for a range of popular programs and tools: 1. Put your USB drive in the right way the f...