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VSCO has joined forces with Oakley, maker of sport sunglasses, to create filter presets for their popular editing app that let you view the world through a pair of the sought-after eyewear.

Meet Mendr, the Uber of the Photoshop and image processing world. Nowadays, almost everything is moving online. Hailing a cab is now done on your phone with Uber. Airbnb let's you crash on someone's spare bed. Now you can send your photos off to be processed, straight from your phone.

It's not a new feature, but today Apple has released a new cinematic commercial for its 'Memories' feature of the Photos app on iOS devices. It's poignant look at the power of photography in helping us enjoy memories.

Good news for iPhone and iPad users who are running low on storage space: Apple’s upcoming iOS 11 update will bring more efficient compression technology that the company estimates will save users up to 50% on storage needs.

Sherpa is a free iOS app that turns top geotagged Instagram photos in to a travel guide and location scouting tool.

Google has been steadily adding features to their Google Photos app since I/O 2017. The new archive feature isn’t the most exciting of them, but it has an interesting trick up its sleeve.

Following the winding down of its business, Triggertrap has followed through on its promise to open-source its mobile apps and hardware. This could mean that the product will live on, despite Triggertrap’s demise.

Apple's big announcements of the day are mostly hardware focused—new iMacs, and that crazy powerful iMac Pro. But the Cupertino-based company also previewed the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 11, complete with some creative and useful updates for mobile photographers.

Halide is a new ‘premium camera for your phone’ that provides advanced control over camera settings along with a gesture-based interface that aims to become muscle memory, like the dials of a camera.

Arsenal is a new attachment for your DSLR or mirrorless camera that suggests the best settings for your shot using artificial intelligence, while also enabling you to fully control your camera using a smart phone.

As Triggertrap continues winding down its business, their Triggertrap Mobile Dongles are becoming increasingly difficult to find. But there's some good news now: the company has decided to open source the hardware, making it is possible to build your own dongle.

infltr, short for “infinite filters”, enables you to apply millions of filters to your media with a tap. The latest update enables GIF editing, making it the first app to feature editing of all 4 media types in one package.

Alongside Google Lens and an interesting content-aware fill feature announced by Google at I/O 2017, the company also revealed some new sharing features coming to their Google Photos app: Suggested Sharing, Shared Libraries, and Photo Books.

A growing number of users are turning to Google's ever-improving Photos app to backup their ever-growing camera roll. But while the main function of Google Photos is storage, the app's automatic photo editing features are getting more and more robust. Today, that means auto white balance.

Photo editing startup Polarr has launched a new app for iOS called Picky. Using artificial intelligence, Picky not only selects your best iPhone photos, but it'll automatically touch them up for you too.

In addition to announcing Lightroom CC 2015.8 today, Adobe also launched version 2.6 of Lightroom for iOS. The new app update overhauls the editing interface, making it easier for photographers to edit RAW files on a phone.

The iPhone 7 Plus has a new Portrait mode that artificially blurs backgrounds using info captured by the two rear cameras. If you want a similar look but don't have an iPhone 7 Plus, check out the new Patch app for iOS. It uses neural networks to generate faux depth and blur.

Film fanatics have a new app to drool over today. Mastin Labs—purveyors of the self-styled "only" Lightroom and Photoshop presets "that truly match film"—is taking their obsessive devotion to accurate film emulation into the world of smartphone photography.

Earlier this year, 22-year-old London-based developer Nick Smith launched Dehaze, a web tool that suggests relevant Instagram hashtags given a genre and a location. After being well received by Instagram users, Smith has now rebranded the tool and launched it for both iOS and Android. Dehaze is now Focalmark.

Google has announced a new update for Google Photos that brings four new features for finding, animating, and rotating your precious memories.

The children of wealthy people often flaunt their opulence through Instagram photos, spawning a popular blog called Rich Kids of Instagram. Now those Instagram users have an exclusive photo sharing app designed for them as well. It's aptly named Rich Kids, and it costs a whopping $1,000 per month to share photos through the service.

It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here. Prisma, the app that offers users the algorithmic ability to transform their photos into paintings in the style of the great masters, now works on videos as well.

If you're using a smartphone to capture light painting photos, the phone is usually IN the photo as a light source. But the new Pablo app lets you actually use your iPhone as the camera, capturing light trails that mimic traditional long exposure shots.

The Google Photos app just keeps getting better. First, the app made made backing up your iPhone's photos a breeze. Then it started turning Live Photos into stabilized GIFs. And now, now it can create themed slideshows a la Facebook, and make sharing your photos easier than ever.

It might be the most requested Instagram feature behind pinch-to-zoom, and it's finally here. As of the latest update, Instagram lets you save an unfinished post as a draft that you can come back to and publish later. Cue slow clap.

Polarr's powerful and popular photo-editing app on iOS was just upgraded to version 3.0, and the new update brings powerful face detection and editing tools that are being seen for the first time in Apple's App Store.

Google released the Cardboard Camera app back in December, but until this week it was Android only. Well, no longer. The iOS version of the app just launched, enabling iPhone users to capture and share immersive 360° VR photos in a snap.