VSCO has announced that it's redesigning its popular mobile camera app for both iOS and Android. The new app will be focused on both creating and consuming content, increasing the app's strength as a photo sharing social network.
Instagram has officially announced a set of new tools for business users, called Instagram Business Tools, that will help the platform be even more powerful for marketers. As was leaked over the past weeks, there will be new business profiles, analytics, and promoted posts.
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." — Henri Cartier Bresson
Curious what film would work best in any particular situation? Or where you can send that film off to be developed? Or where to buy more film if you're running low? If you shoot Kodak, the company's Professional Film App can answer all of these questions and more.
The creators of Scanbot—an app that lets you quickly and effectively scan documents using your phone's camera—have turned their attention to your old photos. Their new app Unfade promises to make digitizing old prints a snap, and features some built-in color restoration to boot.
The times they are a-changin' at Instagram, or at least they're about to be. Hiding inside the recently refreshed photo sharing app's code are four unreleased features that a keen-eyed engineer has discovered.
The Lightroom Develop Preset Creator is a new browser-based app that can generate presets with random looks for your photos. If you've ever wanted to use random filters in Lightroom, this site can help you do it.
The film simulation software company Really Nice Images has launched a new iPhone camera app called RNI Flashback. While the app is yet another film simulation app in a market saturated with them, it aims to stand out by adding randomness to the equation.
This is useful. The folks over at LEE filters just released a handy little exposure guide app that will help you calculate the right shutter speed when you're using their Little Stopper, Big Stopper, or Supper Stopper ND filters.
DJI, the world's leading drone maker, has launched DJI+ Discover, a new mobile app that provides a social network for drone owners to connect with each other, with companies, and with clients.
The new Photonomie app wants you to "say goodbye to the rectangular photo," at least where photo chat is concerned. With Photonomie, you can ditch the boring old rectangle and begin capturing & sharing immersive, interactive, 360° scenes with your friends in instead.
Polarr has just launched version 2.0 of its popular iOS photo editing app. The new version features a list of new features and an upgraded user interface.
Shootlr is a new iOS and Android app that turns selfies and photo taking into a social experience that you do with friends and family. Instead of shooting and sharing selfies and snaps yourself, you can use the app to request pictures from others.
Google announced this week that its Google Photos app on Android now supports non-destructive editing. You're now free to make drastic changes without worrying about writing over the original file, because all edits are now reversible.
Here's an interesting idea: the Japanese company Cosina has released a new augmented reality app that shows you what various lenses look like on your camera.
After a trip or event, sifting through all the photos you've taken and selecting just the best ones can be a daunting task. To make the process a bit easier, Google Photos today announced a feature that can put together albums for you.
Facebook is spending dough to battle Snapchat on the casual photography front: the company just acquired MSQRD, a face-swapping camera app that has been exploding in popularity among smartphone users.
Monogram is a new iOS app by the printing company MOO that lets you design an elegant portfolio of your photos and carry it with you in your pocket.
iOS and Android smartphones aren't the only devices in the world of Instagram anymore. Today Instagram finally launched its beta app for Windows 10 Mobile smartphones, expanding its reach in mobile photo sharing.
Adobe today launched Lightroom on Android 2.0, the world's first end-to-end RAW mobile photography solution. It's an app that lets you shoot, edit, and share RAW/DNG photos using an Android smartphone.
Earlier this month, Instagram finally added support for switching between multiple accounts in the same app. Now the photo sharing service is adding another oft-requested feature: 2-factor authentication.
That's the security feature that texts a security code to your phone when you're logging into your account to verify that it's actually you doing the login. It makes the login process slightly more cumbersome, but what you get is a lot more protection from people trying to hack in.
Google has been making big moves into the world of digital photos recently through its Google Photos product, which offers free and unlimited storage and sharing. As the popularity of the service grows -- over 100 million people use it now -- the relevance of another fades: Google announced today that it's shutting down Picasa to focus solely on Google Photos.
Ubersnap has launched a new GIF printing service that turns animated images into moving Harry Potter-style physical prints.
If you have two or more Instagram accounts -- perhaps one for personal and one for business -- Instagram has some great news for you this week: the company is finally rolling out multi-account support, which lets you log into multiple accounts in one app and quickly switch between them. This official announcement comes just weeks after some Android and iOS users began seeing the feature in their apps.
Don't have the time or money to visit a photo exhibition you're interested in? In the future, paying a visit will be as simple as strapping a virtual reality headset to your head.
At EyeEm's Photo Hack Day 4 in Berlin recently, one of the apps developed was called Rooms. It's a virtual reality Android app that lets you enjoy photos in a virtual photo exhibition, and the app gives us a taste of what may soon be commonplace in the world of art.
Ever notice when you search for photography gear online that all the prices are exactly the same? Does it make you wonder why there isn't at least ONE retailer selling that awesome lens for less?
Have you ever tried to haggle? Maybe you have experienced that awful feeling of negotiating with a super annoying salesperson that was barely listening and every time he said something it was as if you weren't even standing there. You know, that "I don't care about you, I care about my commission" attitude. And even if you don’t mind dealing with that type of seller, do you really want to spend time, gas, and money driving around from store to store?
After launching its peer-to-peer camera gear rental network back in 2013, CameraLends is now pushing into new territory: mobile.
The startup just launched an iPhone app that allows photographers to lend and borrow gear to/from other photographers. It's "the first ever mobile app for renting," says CameraLends.
Microsoft has launched a new camera app for iPhones that's designed to help you take the perfect selfie. It's called Microsoft Selfie, and it uses some of Microsoft's latest technology to auto-tweak snapshots of your face.
Here’s a sweet and simple photo organization tip for those of you using iPhones and iPads: in the Photos …
Just days after Tumblr announced support for Apple's Live Photos, Facebook is following suit. The social networking giant announced today that the official Facebook app on iOS can now lets you share and experience Apple's Live Photos.