If you've been eyeing Huawei's latest P30 Pro smartphone and its ISO 409600 low-light capabilities, you should know that there's major trouble brewing for the brand due to a the US government blacklisting it. Google has reportedly suspended its business with Huawei, including dropping Android support.
Fujifilm has received rave reviews for its cameras in recent years, but sadly the same can't be said about its companion app for mobile devices. But Fujifilm just released a new major version of its Camera Remote app, and v4.0 promises design and usability improvements.
Miggo has just announced the Pictar Pro, a device the company calls "the world's most advanced camera grip for iPhones and Androids." The add-on is designed to give your phone DSLR-like controls.
Leica has announced a new smartphone app called FOTOS that's compatible with a number of Leica cameras. With multiple Leica cameras supporting wireless connectivity now, FOTOS is one app that rules them all.
Moment has just launched a major revamp to its smartphone camera app. Paired with the company's cases and high-end lenses, the app aims to bring a "DSLR shooting experience" to your phone.
In this article, I'll share my top 16 favorite apps that I use almost every time I have to plan a photography session, a photo trip, or a complex spot with a long hike in the mountain to get there.
Instagram has quietly launched a new app called "Instagram Lite" for Android on the Google Play App Store. It's a lightweight app that provides the joy of photo sharing while barely taking up any storage space on your smartphone.
There's a new app that lets you shoot portraits of virtual models in your real-world location. It's called Augmented Reality Photo Studio.
Microsoft has launched a new app called Photos Companion that allows you to easily transfer photos from your smartphone straight to your Windows 10 PC.
Google has created a trio of apps that utilize experimental technology in a bid to push forward the possibilities of smartphone photography and videography. The apps — Storyboard, Selfissmo!, and Scrubbies — use techniques like smart object recognition and person segmentation algorithms similar to Portrait Mode to enable creative editing of images and video.
One of the world's prestigious international portrait photography competitions has sparked a conversation about the nature of portrait photography after it awarded a top prize to a photo that doesn't even show an actual human being: the portrait is of an android.
VSCO has just introduced Recipes to its popular mobile photo editing app, enabling users to create and share presets that allow for quick applications of certain looks and styles to photos.
The RevolCam is a new unified smartphone attachment that adds wide angle, macro, and fisheye lenses to the camera along with an adjustable and detachable LED light and mirror.
Facebook has updated its mobile app for both iOS and Android with support for capturing and sharing 360° photos without any extra hardware required.
Here's a 15-minute video by photographer Sean Tucker in which he runs through an effective technique for processing black and white images, with a focus on mobile. Tucker demonstrates using curves and HSL sliders to achieve a dramatic look for his images that end up on his Instagram.
The iPhone camera just received praise from a rather unexpected source. Former Google SVP Vic Gundotra has glowing things to say about his iPhone 7's photo capabilities, claiming that the phone marks "the end of the DSLR era for most people" and that it's years ahead of Android smartphone cameras.
Adobe today released new updates for its mobile Lightroom apps, bringing powerful new features and new interface designs for both iOS and Android.
Meet Mendr, the Uber of the Photoshop and image processing world. Nowadays, almost everything is moving online. Hailing a cab is now done on your phone with Uber. Airbnb let's you crash on someone's spare bed. Now you can send your photos off to be processed, straight from your phone.
Google has been steadily adding features to their Google Photos app since I/O 2017. The new archive feature isn’t the most exciting of them, but it has an interesting trick up its sleeve.
Following the winding down of its business, Triggertrap has followed through on its promise to open-source its mobile apps and hardware. This could mean that the product will live on, despite Triggertrap’s demise.
Arsenal is a new attachment for your DSLR or mirrorless camera that suggests the best settings for your shot using artificial intelligence, while also enabling you to fully control your camera using a smart phone.
As Triggertrap continues winding down its business, their Triggertrap Mobile Dongles are becoming increasingly difficult to find. But there's some good news now: the company has decided to open source the hardware, making it is possible to build your own dongle.
Alongside Google Lens and an interesting content-aware fill feature announced by Google at I/O 2017, the company also revealed some new sharing features coming to their Google Photos app: Suggested Sharing, Shared Libraries, and Photo Books.
Google has released version 2.13 for its Google Photos app for Android, and the latest update brings a helpful new feature for people who shoot a lot of home videos: stabilization that can be applied to any video.
One of the most popular location scouting and photography planning apps in the world is getting its long-(long-long-long-)awaited debut on Android. Android users, meet PhotoPills.
A growing number of users are turning to Google's ever-improving Photos app to backup their ever-growing camera roll. But while the main function of Google Photos is storage, the app's automatic photo editing features are getting more and more robust. Today, that means auto white balance.
After doing some testing of the feature earlier this month, Instagram has officially rolled out multiple photo posts. Starting today, you can post up to 10 photos (or videos) in a single post on your Instagram profile, and the app will generate an interactive slide-show for your followers to enjoy.
Starting this month, select Chromebook users will be able to download and use a full suite of Chromebook-optimized Adobe Android applications for free. From Photoshop Mix to Lightroom Mobile and more, Adobe wants to give students the tools they need to unlock their creativity inside the classroom and beyond.
Adobe just announced Lightroom for Android 2.2, an update that adds additional functionality for photographers who shoot RAW. The app can now import RAW photos directly from your camera.
Over a year after announcing its Photoshop Fix photo editing app for iOS, Adobe has finally released the same app for Android users.
I just got back from Batanes as part of a large group of bloggers and other media people who were there to try out the photography features of the Asus Zenfone 3 line of mobile phones, courtesy of Asus Philippines. I was there mainly as a resource person on shooting the Milky Way, but I was intrigued about the possibility of pulling off Milky Way shots using a mobile phone.
Earlier this year, 22-year-old London-based developer Nick Smith launched Dehaze, a web tool that suggests relevant Instagram hashtags given a genre and a location. After being well received by Instagram users, Smith has now rebranded the tool and launched it for both iOS and Android. Dehaze is now Focalmark.
Google has announced a new update for Google Photos that brings four new features for finding, animating, and rotating your precious memories.
Google's Android Experiments platform is all about wacky ideas, and the company's own experimental app Sprayscape is nothing if not wacky. Using your smartphone's camera and gyroscope, the app lets you paint 'perfectly imperfect' VR-ish 360° photos.
After upgrading my phone and switching over to iOS, I began uploading videos and photos to Facebook using the app itself... only to find out that it was not uploading my files in high-definition quality at all.
The Google Photos app just keeps getting better. First, the app made made backing up your iPhone's photos a breeze. Then it started turning Live Photos into stabilized GIFs. And now, now it can create themed slideshows a la Facebook, and make sharing your photos easier than ever.
It might be the most requested Instagram feature behind pinch-to-zoom, and it's finally here. As of the latest update, Instagram lets you save an unfinished post as a draft that you can come back to and publish later. Cue slow clap.
Snapseed has just released version 2.9 of its popular Android and iOS photo editing apps. This latest update brings RAW editing to the iOS app, giving Snapseed full RAW support on both major platforms. RAW files from 144 different camera models are currently supported.
Prisma, the ultra-popular, we-didn't-know-a-photo-filter-app-could-get-this-popular-anymore filter app that stylizes your photographs to look like famous paintings is no longer an iOS exclusive. Today, it arrived on Android.
Turning your smartphone into a 3D-capable machine might soon be a lot easier than you think thanks to the Eye-Plug: a tiny little Android accessory that wants to add a second camera to your smartphone, and will supposedly cost just $35.