Pranav Lal is a photographer from New Delhi, India who, despite his blindness, is able to take photos thanks to The vOICe, a device that turns live camera images into sounds that he can use to compose his images.
Fujifilm cameras come pre-loaded with access to popular film simulations but unfortunately, all of the company's simulations are not available to all of its cameras. But in this 10-minute video, Pal2tech reveals a hack to unlock them all, regardless of camera.
DxO has announced the availability of PhotoLab 4.1, a free update to those who already own DxO PhotoLab 4. The update brings support for Apple M1 computers, an improved HSL tool, and adds five additional camera profiles.
Apple has announced the Pro Display XDR Calibrator along with Firmware version 4.2.30 that allows for in-field recalibration of the Pro Display XDR for specific color workflows that may require custom calibration.
After announcing the first Pro version back in 2017, Pixelmator has announced Pixelmator Pro 2.0, a massively revamped version of the popular MacOS-based photo editing software.
When Leica launched version 2.0 of its FOTOS universal smartphone app last year, it became a freemium app that had optional Pro features you could subscribe to for $70 a year. But Leica has now quietly made FOTOS 100% free.
Hot on the heels of Nikon's official webcam software release, Canon has announced its free full production version of the EOS Webcam Utility Software for both macOS and Windows, bringing with it compatibility for 43 EOS and PowerShot cameras and 14 video conferencing services.
Kodak has launched a new application – powered by artificial intelligence – that promises to quickly cull your images for you based on a set of rules. Called Kodak Professional Select, the company promises fast, easy, and accurate results.
Hasselblad has just released a significant firmware update for its X1D II 50C and the 907X 50C cameras that adds some important features, including: a distance scale for manual focusing and multiple improvements to the built-in Interval Timer.
Though news started rolling out yesterday, today Adobe has officially released Lightroom Classic 10.0 which brings new controlled adjustments for shadows, midtones, and highlights in the Color Grading tool, faster editing with improved performance enhancements, real-time tethering support for Canon, and more.
In an announcement that flew under the radar a little bit, Panasonic has released some proper webcam software that lets you use your LUMIX camera as a webcam on both Mac and Windows. This replaces the slightly hacky tethering software work-around unveiled back in June.
Adobe has just unveiled Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2021, adding several Sensei AI-powered features like 'Moving Photos' animations, a Face Tilt adjustment for portraits, and some more Guided Edits that help beginners learn new photo and video editing tricks.
Google’s Picasa was first released in 2002 as a quick way to catalog and edit your photos en masse. In 2015, Google released its last update and has since replaced it with the now ubiquitous Google Photos.
Portland-based software company ON1 made three announcements yesterday. It launched a new application called ON1 Portrait AI, pushed a major update to ON1 Photo RAW Mobile for iOS and Android, and unveiled the latest version of the ON1 Photo RAW desktop editor, which will officially launch in October.
Canon and Fujifilm have both released updates to their respective webcam utilities, which allow their customers to use their still photography cameras as webcams for online video conference calls.
Sony has released its new HEIF Converter, a free app that takes HEIF photo files and converts them to JPEG or TIFF files.
If you own a Hasselblad X1D II 50c, 907X Special Edition, or if you ordered the 907X 50C that was released yesterday, you now have some new tethering options. The company has released version 2 of its Phocus Mobile app, making it possible to tether your camera, wired or wirelessly, to an iPhone.
Corel has announced PaintShop Pro 2021, the latest major release of the 30-year-old image editor. This new version brings AI features that aim to help photographers save time and "achieve previously unattainable results."
GoPro has just released a new MacOS app (Windows coming soon) that makes it much easier to use the Hero 8 Black action camera as a webcam without plugging in any sort of additional hardware. All you need is your GoPro, the free 'GoPro Webcam' software, and a USB cable.
If you're a Photoshop user who's considering switching to the free and open-source image-editing program GIMP, PhotoGIMP is a patch designed to smooth out the transition for you.
First came Canon, then Fuji, and now Panasonic has released (or in this case, updated) a piece of free software that lets you use your professional camera as a webcam, even if you don't own a capture card like the Elgato Camlink.
A newly discovered Apple patent reveals what the "group selfies" could look like in a socially distanced world. The feature is described as a "a synthetic group selfie," where multiple people submit images or video of themselves, that your iPhone can then stitch together using software.
PhotoStatistica is a new Mac app that examines EXIF data from large sets of photos and turns it into interesting statistics and visualizations that reveal how you go about shooting photos.
Since acquiring the popular Nik Collection of photo editing plugins from Google back in 2017, DxO has released several minor updates. Now, nearly three years later, they've finally debuted a major refresh. Nik Collection 3 comes with a new plugin launcher, a brand new perspective plugin called Perspective Efex, and more.
Canon was rightly praised when it unveiled its EOS Webcam Utility last month, allowing users to turn many of the company's most popular DSLRs and mirrorless cameras into webcams without using a capture card. There was just one issue: the Beta was Windows only. Well, not anymore.
Fujifilm has just officially announced webcam support for X and GFX series cameras. The new software allows you to use your mirrorless camera -- yes, even a medium format one -- as a camera for your online video calls or video streaming.
Capture One has two major announcements up its sleeve this morning. First, they've released the much-anticipated free update to Capture One 20 that they teased two weeks ago; and second, they've officially unveiled Capture One for Nikon.
Whenever a discussion touches on the subject of RAW processing and photo management applications, digiKam rarely comes up. Even when talking about open source photography software, RawTherapee and darktable are often the only names that are thrown around. So let me give you an elevator pitch that makes a case for digiKam.
Portrait and headshot photographer Ivan Weiss recently created a helpful tutorial that walks you through his entire portrait editing process in the popular Adobe alternative Affinity Photo. If you've been wanting to give Affinity a shot, this is a phenomenal resource.
Sony has released a major firmware update for the sports-focused a9 II, adding a bunch of useful high-speed shooting features and other usability enhancements, including one much-requested Canon EOS R copy: the ability to close the shutter whenever you swap lenses.
Camera and lenses aren't the only photographic essentials that cost money. A decent machine with plenty of RAM and fast storage (preferably SSD) and rather expensive serious photography software are must-haves, too.
Not be outdone by Adobe—who is currently giving everyone 2 months of Creative Cloud for free—Serif is offering prospective users 3 months of free access to Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, after which you can buy the software at a steep discount if you so choose.
In response to requests from educators, Adobe has announced that it will be providing free at-home access to Creative Cloud apps to those students who usually only have access on-campus. It's one way the software maker is trying to empower students to keep learning amid campus closures caused by the novel coronavirus.
After launching with the PostScript printing language back in 1982, Adobe's product offerings have ballooned to comprise over 50 apps used across a wide range of industries. If you often hear Adobe app names being thrown around but don't really know what they're for, here's a helpful video by the YouTuber Humtog that explains all 50+ apps in just 10 minutes.
Yesterday, Topaz Labs—the software company behind popular photo editing plugins and software like DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Gigapixel AI—announced that it will start charging for product upgrades. Users are understandably upset.
Sony has unveiled a Software Development Kit (SDK) that will give developers remote access to "key camera controls and still image data," so they can develop their own third-party applications for controlling Sony's mirrorless full-frame cameras remotely.
Free Lightroom alternative RawTherapee just released version 5.8. And in addition to the usual compatibility and performance improvements, the open source software has also added an impressive new feature called "Capture Sharpening."
There's amazing work being done in the area of using neural networks to edit or create photos. If you'd like to experience some cutting-edge technology for yourself, check out GANPaint Studio. It's a free online demo that shows how photo editing tools of the future could work.
Canon has announced a brand new product called the Photo Culling Plugin. It's an intelligent AI assistant for Adobe Lightroom Classic that helps you save time during post-processing by intelligently selecting the best shots for you out of a large set of photos.
A month ago, a photography podcast slammed the preset industry in a scathing episode that was all about how presets and the photographers who sell them are terrible. Now, the photographer duo behind the popular YouTube channel Mango Street are speaking up and sharing their thoughts on this contentious topic.