Software

Microsoft has launched a new app called Designer that will feature AI-image generation powered by DALL-E.

The "most significant update" in ON1 history is available today. The 2023 version of Photo RAW features the Super Select AI Tool, which the company says is a "giant leap forward" in technology and makes editing tasks much easier.

Ricoh's real estate-focused business service Ricoh360 Tours has announced a set of artificial intelligence (AI) upgrades that it claims make it extremely easy for anyone to generate high-quality virtual tours and floor plans with fake furniture and more.

DxO has announced updates to its PhotoLab 6 and Viewpoint 4 software packages adding artificially intelligent (AI)-powered features and new tools for photographers.

Zenfolio has announced what it calls Smart Pricing, an "advanced data-driven technology" that uses pooled historical transactions to help photographers competitively price their prints and photo products.

Other World Computing (OWC) has announced Copy That for Mac, what it describes as an intuitive, easy to use backup tool for content creators to speed up their camera, memory card, and storage device offloads to multiple destinations with 100% exact matching data verification.

ACDSee's Photo Studio Ultimate 2023 update is focused on artificial intelligence (AI) features, like a new Face Edit and subject removal, which brings it more in line with competitor products from Adobe and Skylum.

Adobe has announced the 2023 updates to both Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements with a focus on making the apps -- which have historically been designed to be dead simple -- even faster to use and easier to understand.

Skylum is going mobile with the launch of imgmi, an artificial intelligence-powered mobile editing app that is designed to make it easier to publish better-looking photos on social media.

Zoner Photo Studio X has announced a new update that brings changes to the user interface as well as extends its support for RAW formats.

A new artificial intelligence-powered web-based tool called Palette is able to take any black and white photo and colorize it. The creator is so confident in the results that he is billing it "the DALL-E of color."

Skylum has announced that the next paid Extension for Luminar Neo is called Focus Stacking, a tool for combining photos taken at different focal lengths.

Lithuanian developer Pixelmator has released Pixelmator Pro 3.0 "Muse," which the company says is a major update to the long-standing Photoshop alternative.

Capture One has added the ability to tether to a camera to its iPad app, bringing one of the most requested features to the mobile platform.

There has been a lot of talk about AI generated images and visual art. One of the projects that I found most impressive was DALL-E 2. This is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.

Elia Locardi has announced Radiant Photo, a new standalone software or plugin that promises "smart technology" that is optimized to achieve perfect color preservation and realistic details.

DxO has announced that users of any of its titles -- DxO PhotoLab 5, PureRAW 2, ViewPoint 3, FilmPack 6, and Nik Collection 5 -- now have access to more than 75,000 camera and lens combinations, which it touts as the world's most comprehensive.

Topaz Labs has announced a new program called Topaz Photo AI, a program that it says combines all its best image tools to automatically detect and fix image quality issues using deep learning.

Adobe has announced it has purchased Figma, a popular design platform and Adobe XD competitor, for $20 billion in cash and stock. The company says the merger will "usher in a new era of collaborative creativity."

CyberLink has announced an update to PowerDirector, its multimedia editing suite, that it says brings even more artificial intelligence (AI) assisted tools and templates, making it easier for creatives to access advanced editing.

Adobe is planning to release a new camera app aimed at more "serious" photographers who want to take their smartphone photos to the next level.

ON1's Photo RAW application is getting "the most significant update" in its history with the 2023 version due to be launched in October.

Skylum has revealed the next two paid Extensions for Luminar Neo and says that the editor has shifted to become more of a "platform" that hosts add-on tools to solve specific photo editing tasks.

A DNG file is a high-quality image format that is quite common even though it's a relative newcomer compared to some file types such as the TIFF format, which is decades older (2004 vs 1986, respectively).

Sony has announced firmware update v1.1 for the Alpha 7 IV full-frame mirrorless camera that adds lossless compressed RAW in three sizes for still photos, shutter speed and ISO setting retention, touch shutter function, improved Eye AF, and more.

BeReal is a new social media network that puts a focus on authenticity. Others have made similar claims but this goal has proven difficult to achieve. This guide will look at what BeReal is and how to use it.

Zenfolio has announced PhotoRefine.ai, a new application that employs artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce the amount of time photographers spend grouping, rating, and culling images after a photo session.

Skylum has announced a "new vision" for Luminar Neo that is built on paid Extensions. The company says it will build Neo into an adaptable creative platform by releasing seven total Extensions by the end of the year.

Bloom has announced a new gallery and image proofing system for photographers that is included with the free tier of its studio management application. The company says it offers the same features that many other services ask upwards of $50 a month for.

One of the most (seemingly) basic tools in Photoshop is the venerable Crop Tool. Used to cut way portions of an image to only leave the desired area, the Crop Tool might appear to be simply a one-trick pony. However, there is a lot more to here than you might think. In this guide, I’m going to break down the various options for making the best use of the Crop Tool.

TIFF is a fairly common file type and is often requested by print agencies since it was made with printing in mind by a company that developed desktop publishing apps. TIFF has been around for a long time and is very versatile, handling black and white, various color spaces, such as CYMK, RGB, and even spot colors with ease.

A Live Photo can be made from a video, but this isn't a built-in capability of the iPhone. Instead, a third-party app is required. Alternatively, an iPhone can capture a Live Photo if the camera app is set up to do so. The iPhone’s default setting of Live Auto, however, leaves the decision to an Apple algorithm that might choose to snap a still photo instead. Thankfully, this setting can be adjusted to force Live Photo to be recorded every time if preferred.

A newly-released artificial intelligence (AI) model called the "Generative Facial Prior" (GFP-GAN) can repair most old photographs in mere seconds, and it can do it for free.

If you’re anything like me and have hundreds of thousands of files taking up terabytes of space on multiple RAID arrays and cloud services, finding specific photographs or figuring out where I might have duplicates can be an absolute headache.

Looking to make basic adjustments to photos without having to shell out a lot of money for image editing software? There are a large number of online photo editors these days that can be used completely for free within your web browser.

Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 18 has officially been released, headlined by cloud collaboration features and multiple proxy workflow enhancements.

Adobe Lightroom Classic is an incredibly powerful raw-processing tool, but it has so many layers and features it can take a long time for users, especially beginners, to discover them all.

LumaTouch has announced what it calls a "major update" to LumaFusion, the mobile multitrack editing platform. LumaFusion v3.1 improves the color workflow experience by adding Scopes, which shows histograms, waveforms, and vectorscopes in real-time.

Skylum has announced that it is bringing HDR Merge to Luminar Neo as the platform's first paid extension. HDR Merge compiles up to 10 exposure-bracketed photos into a single HDR image.