Camera+ 2 Mobile App Maker Launches Camera+ Studio for Mac
Mobile photo editing app developer LateNiteSoft -- known for the mobile app Camera+ 2 -- has launched the Camera+ Studio application for Apple computers.
Major Photoshop Update: Sky Replacement, Healing Brush, and More
Adobe has announced what it is describing as a "major" feature update to Photoshop on desktop and iPad available today. Healing Brush and Magic Wand are now available on iPad, and Sky Replacement has the ability to import up to 5,000 skies at once on desktop.
Apple’s Next iPhone To See Multiple New Camera Features: Report
A new report alleges that Apple's next iPhone, presumptively called the iPhone 13, will feature at least three major new camera and video recording features that the company hopes will entice buyers to upgrade to the latest model.
Serif Re-Engineers Affinity Photo for ‘Massive Performance Improvements’
Serif has released its latest 1.10 update to its image editor suite, Affinity Photo, alongside Affinity Designer and Publisher, which claims to bring "superpowered performance" with a completely re-engineered architecture.
Corel’s PaintShop Pro 2022 Comes With New AI Photo Editing Features
Corel has announced PaintShop Pro 2022 and PaintShop Pro 2022 Ultimate -- an all-in-one photo editing and graphic suites that has received major upgrades from its earlier 2021 versions.
Latest Capture One Update Upsets Workflows and Angers Digital Techs
On July 22, Capture One released a new update (version 14.3.0) that made a fundamental change to how some users were working with the application. It removed the Output Tab and replaced it with the Exporter, which has broken the workflows for many pro photographers and digital technicians.
AI-Assisted Photo Cloud Platform Lensii to Challenge Google Photos
An upcoming cloud-based Artificial Intelligent (AI) app for smartphones called Lensii claims that it will soon be able to assist users in organizing, sorting, searching, and choosing the best images from their collection of photographs.
LuminarAI’s Latest Update Adds AI-Powered ‘Portrait Bokeh’ Tool
Today, Skylum has released the fourth free update to the LuminarAI photo editing software since its initial launch in late 2020. This new update adds a new Portrait BokehAI tool along with several other features.
Capture One Update Adds Magic Brush Tool and Redesigned Exporter
Capture One 21 has released update 14.3.0 that brings what the company touts as new and improved features that includes a new Magic Brush as well as a new camera and lens support.
Darktable v3.6 Update Makes The Free Lightroom Alternative Easier To Use
Darktable -- a popular and free open-source Adobe Lightroom alternative -- has released version 3.6 and adds a rework of the export and import module which makes the application easier overall to use.
Is Mylio Any Different Now Than It Was At Its Tepid 2014 Launch?
Photo organizing software Mylio (which stands for "My Life Organized") has re-emerged after nearly seven years thanks to a recent wave of updates and partnerships with influencers like iJustine. After a tepid launch back in 2014, is the service worth revisiting?
PostPro Wand AI-Powered Culling Plugin Review: A Digital Assistant
After a long day on location photographing a wedding, concert, or event, the last thing most shooters want to do when they get home is sit in front of the computer and spend the next few hours sorting the images to narrow down their selections. Wand by PostPro AI is designed to help creatives save time by doing that tedious process for them.
Canon’s ‘Subject Blur Correction’ Dips Toe into Computational Photography
Canon has applied for a patent that would use an in-camera algorithm in tandem with the camera's image stabilization system to intelligently determine the difference between blur caused by motion and blur caused by a moving subject, and correct it.
Review: set.a.light 3D Makes Learning and Seeing Light a Piece of Cake
Lighting is one of the most complex topics in photography. There are literally hundreds of light shaping tools and countless scenarios they apply to. No wonder many photographers are reluctant to learn lighting, despite it being one of the core skills any photographer should have.
This Sharpness-Boosting Process is Used by Hubble Telescope Editors
Picture Instruments, a Germany-based software company known best for its plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic, has released a new plugin that promises to create clean, detailed, ultra-sharp images with incredible depth by employing a technique used by the Hubble Space Telescope team.
Capture One is Coming to iPad in ‘Early 2022’
Capture One, which recently announced an update for native support on Apple M1 computers, has announced that it is currently developing an iPad app. In a note on its website on Instagram, the company says to expect the app to become available in early 2022.
LuminarAI Can’t Correctly Read EOS R5 RAWs, Fix Coming This Summer
Photographers who rely on Skylum LuminarAI to edit photos taken with Canon's EOS R5 have been struggling with the application as of its most recent update. According to multiple reports, the program cannot properly import R5 RAWs despite the company stating official support for the camera.
Turn Your iPad Into a Drawing Tablet: Sidecar vs Astropad vs Duet vs Luna
If you own an iPad and an Apple Pencil, there are several ways to pair them with your computer and transform them into a high-quality drawing tablet for photo editing. There's Apple's own Sidecar feature, the popular app Astropad, the hardware-assisted option Luna Display, and the "made by ex-Apple engineers" Duet Pro. I wanted to see which of these options offers the most features and the best experience for the photographer on the go.
How Much Better is Capture One on Apple M1?
Since Apple launched the M1, software developers have been racing to release new versions of applications to take advantage of its new architecture, with the most recent update coming from the Capture One Pro team. But just how much of an improvement should be expected from native support?
The Best Software for Recovering Deleted Photos in 2024
Industry professionals recommend that photographers backup files locally on an external hard drive as well as with a cloud service. Even the best of us don’t always do this, which means we may delete files we never meant to, or we may lose them if something happens to our devices.
LuminarAI Adds Support For Apple M1 Devices, HEIC Images, and More
Skylum Software has released the third update for LuminarAI which adds support for the Apple M1 Chipset, HEIC, and further enhances some of its AI-driven tools.
FotoWare’s Photo Consent App Logs Usage Rights at the Time of Capture
Norwegian-based FotoWare -- known for its digital asset management (DAM) software -- has launched a new Image Consent Management feature for browsers and mobile apps that can record usage rights and consent at the time of the image capture.
ON1’s Latest NoNoise AI Update Quickly and Smartly Removes Noise
ON1 has announced NoNoise AI, its new state-of-the-art application for image noise removal that it says was designed to give better results than any other noise reduction application on the market.
Photoshop’s ‘Save As’ Function Has Changed. Here’s Why
As part of its May 2021 release of Photoshop on Desktop -- version 22.4 -- Adobe made a significant change to how the "Save As" command works. Rather than continuing to act as it has across applications on all computers for decades, Adobe altered the basic functionality and has left users baffled.
DxO PureRaw Review: Bring Old, Noisy Photos Back to Life
Today, DxO launched PureRaw, an application that uses "exclusive technology" to enhance and improve RAW images by removing digital noise and lens flaws, leaving you with a cleaner and more accurate image.
Voice-Activated Backpack Aids the Visually Impaired with AI Cameras
Artificial intelligence developer Jagadish K. Mahendran and his team at the University of Georgia have designed an AI-powered, voice-activated, camera system that can help the visually impaired navigate common challenges such as traffic signs, hanging obstacles, and crosswalks.
Rawsie Claims It Can Make RAW Files 80% Smaller with No Quality Loss
Dotphoton, a deep-tech startup, has built a program called Rawsie that enables quantum-based RAW image compression. What that means, practically speaking, is that its technology can compress RAW file data sizes by up to 80% without quality loss, dramatically reducing storage requirements.
Facebook Targets Emerging Markets with Launch of Instagram Lite
Instagram Lite is a less data-intensive, smaller Android-only version of Facebook's popular application and is going live in 170 countries as part of the social media giant's push into emerging markets.
Real-World Test: Photoshop for Apple Silicon is Really, Really Fast
Earlier today, Adobe finally released the full-blown non-Beta version of Photoshop for Apple Silicon, and we got a chance to test it out. I won't beat around the bush: the benchmarks are really impressive, matching or outperforming Intel-based computers that cost two to three times as much.
Vecnos Launches SphereFlow to Revitalize Interest in 360-Degree Photos
Vecnos, the company spun off from Ricoh that focuses specifically on 360-degree products and technology, today announced a new feature called SphereFlow that it hopes will allow users to rediscover and rekindle their love for their 360-degree images.
Ken Rockwell Patents ‘Smart Cropping’ Camera Software for Zooms
Ken Rockwell has announced that he has patented a software addition that would leverage the ability for full-frame cameras to shoot in crop modes and automatically apply that feature when a lens is zoomed for extra optical throw in situations like bird photography.
Affinity Photo Launches Version 1.9, Bringing Host of New Features
Serif has launched its Version 1.9 update of the Affinity suite of apps, which includes the Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo. This free update brings multiple enhancements, including live liquify, RAW improvements, and GPU acceleration for Windows machines.
Skylum Has Updated Luminar AI with a More Simplified Edit Flow
Skylum has just published an update to Luminar AI (version 1.0.1) that the company says delivers a "more refined version of Luminar" while also addressing a few bugs. The update is available now.
PhotoStatistica 2.0 Improves How It Visualizes Your Photo Habits
Last June, PetaPixel shared PhotoStatistica, an app that takes the EXIF data from your photos and displays them as graphs. In short, it gave you a visual representation of how you shoot. The app has seen a version 2.0 update that significantly improves its features.
Confirmed: Capture One is Significantly Increasing the Price of Select Plans
Capture One is reportedly increasing the price of the Nikon, Fujifilm, and Sony-specific versions of its software to "better reflect that these products equally offer the same set of professional tools and features" as Capture One Pro.
New Cloud-Based Software Can Turn Any 2D Photo into a 3D Hologram
Looking Glass Factory, the company that brought you the extremely successful Kickstarter for the hologram photo frame back in December, has announced a new cloud-based service that can turn any 2D image into a 3D hologram in seconds, no programming knowledge required.
10 of the Best Studio Management Apps for Photographers
Whether you’re a new photographer or a seasoned veteran in your field, keeping track of things in your photography business from emails to schedules, clients and payments can be very overbearing. The more you and your business grow, the more help you need; reminders, sticky notes just don’t cut it.
Adobe Lightroom v6 is Falling Apart
Lightroom version 6.0, officially Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC 2015, was the last major release of Lightroom that was available with a perpetual license (i.e. a one-time purchase). Unfortunately, some users who don't wish to make the jump to paying a subscription through the Creative Cloud are finding that "perpetual" isn't as all-encompassing as they thought.
Skylum Luminar AI Launches with AI at the Core of the Experience
Skylum has officially launched Luminar AI which comes packed with multiple AI-Powered editing tools including an enhanced sky replacer and several new ways to reshape and change the human body or face.
Apple’s Highly-Anticipated ProRAW is Now Available
Apple's combination of RAW and computational photography into a single DNG file that it calls ProRAW is now available for the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max with iOS version 14.3.