Camera Bits, the company behind Photo Mechanic, announced that it will shift its photo editing and organization software away from perpetual licenses and toward a subscription model.
The Pixelmator and Photomator photo editing platforms have been updated this week with a new Denoise algorithm that the developers say allows both applications to better recognize noise and, therefore, better remove it.
Mylio, the company that first appeared back in 2014 as a photo organization and editing tool, is relaunching the Mylio Photos app as free-to-use for most users with the option to upgrade to a premium paid tier.
ON1 has announced a new version of Photo RAW that will include all of the improvements to Resize AI it announced last month as well as other enhanced features and an improved user experience.
Canon has showcased a neural network, deep learning-powered image processing technology that can dramatically improve image quality in three areas: noise, color, and lens imperfections such as aberrations or blur.
ON1 has announced the first major update to Photo RAW for 2023 which improves crop overlays, makes sky replacements better, and adds multiple new features to the Healing Brush tool.
DxO has announced an update to the PhotoLab software which brings much more powerful control over color, allowing users to simulate ink and paper combinations when soft proofing.
After announcing that it would no longer provide new features to perpetual license owners, Capture One promised that a new "Loyalty Program" was coming. Today, it announced what that would entail.
Pixelmator Photo has released what it calls a "major" update, headlined by all-new Clarity and Texture adjustments that it says allows photographers to improve the appearance of fine details using a texture-aware algorithm.
Capture One is changing how the perpetual license of its software will work. Starting in 2023, the company will no longer tie itself to an annual cycle for major releases and while perpetual licenses will receive bug fixes, they won't get new features.
Serif has announced Version 2 of its Affinity Creative Suite with a huge list of updates to Designer, Photo, and Publisher, all of which still don't require a subscription.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mylio has announced a new service that it says can connect the photo libraries of multiple devices together privately and securely without the use of the cloud or even an internet connection.
Buying a copy of Photoshop back in the day wasn’t cheap, but it used to be easy. One price, one copy. Nowadays, with subscription models dominating the creative software space, things have gotten a bit more complicated. And while photographers may need a bingo card to know how much Photoshop is going to cost, there are a lot more benefits than swinging down to the local computer store and picking up a copy.
Retouch4.me offers a collection of nine plug-ins that it says use AI to capably and effectively retouch photos and target specific retouching tasks to quickly automate what would normally take much longer to do by hand.
Zoner Photo Studio X has announced its Spring 2022 update that brings a variety of tools that allows users to customize their interface in addition to an improved Viewer, optimized Catalog, and more.
Capture One has announced Capture One 22, which the company claims brings improved performance, support for the latest cameras, panoramic photo stitching, and HDR merging. The update also opens up the door for more features coming in 2022, such as the company's first cloud and tablet products.
Capture one has announced update 14.4 which it says brings new capabilities, updates, and camera and lens support. More than that though, it updates the exporter workflow experience that is based on user feedback.
ACD Systems International has launched the newest edition of its flagship software -- ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2022 -- boosting the digital asset management process and introducing AI-powered facial recognition.
Following the announcement that it would soon launch a new image editor, Skylum has shared some of the features that are coming to its new Luminar Neo platform.
Cyberlink has announced PhotoDirector 13, which promises improved AI-editing tools, integration of Getty and Shutterstock libraries, and adds new lighting effects and color adjustment features.
Adobe has announced what it is describing as a "major" feature update to Photoshop on desktop and iPad available today. Healing Brush and Magic Wand are now available on iPad, and Sky Replacement has the ability to import up to 5,000 skies at once on desktop.
ACDSee has launched free beta access to its Gemstone Photo Editor 12 -- a layered editor that supports RAW level working with multiple documents and non-destructive tools. But, does it hold up with similar grade editors or still has a way to go yet?
Serif has released its latest 1.10 update to its image editor suite, Affinity Photo, alongside Affinity Designer and Publisher, which claims to bring "superpowered performance" with a completely re-engineered architecture.
On July 22, Capture One released a new update (version 14.3.0) that made a fundamental change to how some users were working with the application. It removed the Output Tab and replaced it with the Exporter, which has broken the workflows for many pro photographers and digital technicians.
Capture One 21 has released update 14.3.0 that brings what the company touts as new and improved features that includes a new Magic Brush as well as a new camera and lens support.
ACDSee has released a free beta version of Gemstone -- a new stand-alone editing software that is currently available for anyone to try -- that looks extremely promising as an Adobe Photoshop alternative.
Photo organizing software Mylio (which stands for "My Life Organized") has re-emerged after nearly seven years thanks to a recent wave of updates and partnerships with influencers like iJustine. After a tepid launch back in 2014, is the service worth revisiting?
Capture One 21 -- originally launched last December -- today sees its first major update which adds additional functionality, new lens and camera support, and introduces a host of fixes for known bugs and glitches.
Nikon recently announced the launch of its free NX Studio software, which has hopes to be a Lightroom/Capture One Pro alternative for Nikon RAW processing on Windows and Apple computers.
Nikon has launched NX Studio, a free photo and video editing application that appears to have many features found in Lightroom and Capture One but is tailored specifically to Nikon cameras. The company says that NX Studio enables viewing, processing, and editing of still images and video.
Serif has launched its Version 1.9 update of the Affinity suite of apps, which includes the Photoshop competitor Affinity Photo. This free update brings multiple enhancements, including live liquify, RAW improvements, and GPU acceleration for Windows machines.
ON1 has announced that its Effects, Portrait AI, Resize, and HDR plugins are now compatible with Capture One. The latest versions of these plugins were announced last year with the promise for Capture One support "soon." That promise has been fulfilled.
Capture One is reportedly increasing the price of the Nikon, Fujifilm, and Sony-specific versions of its software to "better reflect that these products equally offer the same set of professional tools and features" as Capture One Pro.
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.
ON1 Software has announced the 2021 Professional Plugin Series which features new versions of ON1 HDR, ON1 Effects, ON1 Resize, and ON1 Portrait AI. The plugins are compatible with a host of popular editing applications, with the promise of more support coming.