Snap, Google, and Apple Sued for Failing to Protect Teen Users
Snapchat, Google, and Apple are being sued by a 16-year-old girl and her mother who claim the platforms failed to protect teen users from “egregious harm.”
Snapchat, Google, and Apple are being sued by a 16-year-old girl and her mother who claim the platforms failed to protect teen users from “egregious harm.”
LensKit is a new iOS app that gives photographers the option to try out many different cameras and lenses to see how they work together. It will even help visualize the photograph by displaying a simulation.
Optics 2022 from Boris FX brings some seriously impressive special effects (SFX) tools like color grades, easy masking, and impressive lighting effects in a package that can be used as a stand-alone application or as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic.
Google has announced that it is updating the layout of the Google Photos app to make it much easier to find specific photos in the library and sharing tabs.
DxO has announced the 2.0 update to PureRAW. It features several significant additions like support for Fujifilm X-Trans files.
The NoFilter app is designed to help photographers discover picturesque locations all over the world. It focuses on the natural beauty of destinations and promotes showcasing locations without artificially enhancing them.
Instagram has been is struggling with an identity crisis and is failing to resonate with young people. Despite this, it managed to be the number one most downloaded app globally in the last quarter of 2021.
Bazaart, mainly known as a photo editing and graphic design app, has announced video editing support on iOS. The addition of video support keeps its offerings in line with the extremely competitive app-based editing market.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri has revealed that the social media platform will put an even bigger focus on its video features, such as Reels, in 2022. There will also be a focus on improving the app's messaging service, monetized content creator tools, and transparency.
Darktable, the free and open-source raw photo app, has released its version 3.8 update that adds some big features and improvements, including compatibility with Canon's CR3 raw format as well as support for editing devices.
Pixelmator has announced Pixelmator Photo for iOS, what it calls the most powerful editor ever designed for a mobile device. The company even goes so far as to call it "basically Aperture for iPhone."
Darktable, RawTherapee, digiKam are undeniably powerful applications for processing RAW files. But while they offer a plethora of advanced editing and processing tools, using them to get the result you want requires and patience and some effort. But who has time for that?
NeuralCam has launched version 5 of its iPhone app that adds a super-resolution 48-megapixel artificial intelligence (AI) upscaling system that it claims reduces noise and enhances detail in photos.
VSCO has added a set of age-old yet still powerful tools to its iPhone app: dodge and burn. The addition allows users to take more granular control over shadows and highlights in their photos.
Instagram has released a long-awaited feature that allows users to delete a single image or clip from an already uploaded carousel.
The digital payments company Square has launched the Square Photo Studio app which allows sellers to easily take "professional" product photos from a mobile device and sync them to their online store or Square item catalog for free.
Snapchat has introduced a new Food Scan feature that allows users to scan ingredients with their smartphone camera in the app and receive recipe suggestions matched from an online food platform.
Google has updated its Google Camera app to version 8.4, which adds features that debuted on the new Pixel 6 flagship phones to older devices.
Twitter made its platform more photo-friendly last spring when it did away with cropping of images in feeds, but strangely this feature did not come to the web. That changes today, as full-size images are now supported across all platforms.
Google's new "Pet Portraits" feature inside its Arts and Culture app allows users to find works of art that resemble their pets by simply submitting a photo and letting the artificial intelligence find a match from thousands of art pieces.
JPEGmini has released Update 3.3 for the Image optimization app which brings a long-requested feature to the software: it can now reduce the size of video files.
DxO has announced the version 1.5 update of the AI-powered RAW processor software PureRAW.
D-ID, the company whose tech powers the MyHeritage app, has demonstrated a new use for its technology. Called "Speaking Portrait," it allows any photo to be animated with uncanny realism and is capable of saying whatever the user wants.
The same developer who created a free app that lists over 150 film simulations for Fujifilm is back at it and has published over 40 such simulations for Ricoh GR cameras.
Coeur d'Alene entrepreneur Chris Whalen has announced a new app called Histork which leverages Augmented Reality (AR) to "bring history to life through the screen of a cell phone."
In this nine-minute video from Workphlo, photographer Dustin Dolby explains how to light catalog quality reflective product photos using just a single Speedlight.
100ASA, an online community with over 10,000 photographers globally, has launched an app that it says is designed to be a direct competitor to Instagram.
Sony has updated its Visual Story mobile application to now support video. The app was designed for wedding and event photographers but has expanded functionality to aid hybrid content creators.
VSCO has added a simple object removal tool to its iPhone and Android app. The tool works similarly to content aware tools in Photoshop or Samsung's Object Eraser.
Polaroid has announced the Polaroid Now+, a new camera that packs in a ton of new features, but only allows access to them through the company's smartphone app.
The GoPro Quik app is getting a substantial perk added for its subscriber base: unlimited cloud storage at no additional cost.
An interactive fall foliage prediction map has made a photographers' job of planning fall shoots easier by showing the peak periods when leaves will be at their most colorful in each region.
In the light of Instagram's recent statement that it is no longer a photo-sharing app, a new photography-focused, subscription-based community app has launched to support the art of photography through a distraction-free experience.
Levion Software's free Photo Map app for Android shows photos stored on device or in multiple cloud storage platforms and illustrates them on a world map so users never lose track of where and when their images were taken.
Think you have a good pulse on how your cat is feeling? Tably is a new AI-powered app that can help confirm whether your suspicions are correct. Simply use your smartphone camera to take a picture of your feline friend and the app will use machine learning to decode its mood.
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.
During a second-quarter earnings call, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that video has grown in importance for the social media platform and now accounts for almost half of all time on Facebook. Instagram's largest engagement is also in video content as the company pivots away from photos.
A controversial smartphone app called Citizen is offering to pay people who can rush to crime and emergency scenes to capture the events with their smartphone cameras in hopes of encouraging ordinary people to participate in the app as well.
A massive ten-year-long biodiversity study that represents the largest camera trap effort ever has now been turned into a free mobile game called Unseen Empire.
A new photography start-up Shoott has created an online platform where clients can quickly find available, vetted photographers for brief 30-minute photoshoots and promises the shooter a $100 per hour guaranteed minimum rate.