DxO is rolling out Nik Collection 9, the latest version of its suite of eight photo editing plugins, with the biggest changes coming in AI-driven selection tools. In addition, there are three new creative filters, a color grading tool, and blending mode support across its filter library.
Blackmagic Design unveiled DaVinci Resolve 21 this week and alongside the expected types of improvements, like more AI-powered video editing features, Blackmagic shocked the creative world by adding RAW photo editing and organization features to Resolve 21. I've been trying Resolve 21's new photo editing features since it arrived on Monday, and there's a lot to like. There's also quite a bit that isn't quite up to snuff, is just a bit too different for my tastes, or is outright confusing.
Blackmagic Design announced DaVinci Resolve 21, a major update to the company's popular video editing platform. Despite being a video editor, one of DaVinci Resolve 21's biggest new features is a brand-new Photo page that enables colorists and photographers to use Resolve to edit still photos.
VSCO has increasingly incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) into its photography products, including AI Lab, a dedicated AI-based editing platform inside the VSCO app on iOS. To better understand how photographers feel about AI and how they want to use it in their photography workflow, VSCO conducted a survey of photographers across the U.S. and Canada in December, and the results are quite interesting. The company published its report today.
AI-powered post-processing platform Aftershoot has published what it describes as binding public commitments, outlining three key pillars for how the company will develop, implement, and utilize artificial intelligence as part of its product offering.
Processing thousands of photos on a computer can be a cumbersome task, especially when the task at hand is tedious and unimaginative. Could agentic AI be an answer to that?
DxO has released PhotoLab 9.6 to bring its more advanced noise reduction algorithms, only recently introduced when the company launched PureRAW 6. While this was an anticipated move, it makes official the expanded coverage for a wider range of cameras. This includes new edge-softening controls for its AI-based masking tools, along with a compressed DNG export option to reduce storage overhead.
Adobe has brought its promised agentic AI assistant to Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat.
DxO has released PureRAW, characterizing the software as a foundational step in a photography workflow rather than just another editing tool. PureRAW’s primary focus doesn’t change with this launch, which is to work with RAW files before handing them off to other apps for more elaborate touches, be it in DxO PhotoLab, Lightroom, or Photoshop.
BorderTool Pro is a new macOS utility developed by Michael Damböck, a Fujifilm X Photographer, to streamline some of the more repetitive steps in a photographer’s workflow: adding borders, mats, and presentation-ready finishing touches to exported images. Built as a native menu-bar application, BorderTool Pro focuses on speed, batch processing, and preserving file integrity without requiring a full-fledged image editor.
As photographers know all too well, image libraries can be a lot to keep track of. Between internal storage and external drives, sometimes many of them, finding exactly the right photo or folder can be very frustrating. Photographer and cinematographer Paul Kothe agrees, so he built an app to solve the problem once and for all.
Asus is expanding its professional display ecosystem with the ProArt CaliContrO MCA02, a 3-in-1 colorimeter that combines precision color measurement, hardware and software calibration, and integrated display control into a single compact device. Aimed at photographers, video editors, designers, and other color-critical professionals, the tool reflects Asus’ continued push toward tighter integration between hardware, firmware, and software within its ProArt lineup.
Adobe today added new camera and lens support to Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Lightroom Classic. Newly supported cameras include the OM System OM-3 Astro and the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome, while new lens support includes the latest lenses from Canon, Leica, and more.
Back in late 2022, PetaPixel wrote about photographer Tom Schucker's Pieca camera, a 3D-printed Raspberry Pi-powered camera with a Leica M-mount. Schucker is back with yet another awesome photography creation, but this time it's a photo editing app built around advanced film simulation effects.
Some of VSCO's beloved Adobe Lightroom presets have returned nearly seven years after they were discontinued, albeit only for a limited time and only for VSCO Pro subscribers.
A photographer says he feels vindicated after he had not one but two sets of photos falsely accused of being fake on the same day.
VSCO has added a new prompt-based image editing tool to its app, allowing photographers to simply describe the edits they want to see in natural language.
Adobe has released Photoshop 27.2, introducing new tools for visual artists, including new adjustment layers designed for photographers and improvements to Adobe Firefly features and performance inside Photoshop.
The official X account for The White House published a digitally altered photo of a protester being arrested in Minnesota.
The latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro has arrived, boasting a bevy of new AI-powered features, though it's no longer called Premiere Pro. Adobe Premiere 26, sans the "Pro" in the name, is fundamentally still the same nonlinear video editing (NLE) app, albeit with a bunch of new tools.
We can quickly acquire tens of thousands of photos. Therefore, managing them effectively is essential. Equally, we are becoming more demanding of our development and editing software. Recently, the most effective way of managing our workflow has changed dramatically, making our lives easier.
Evoto has had a tough week. While the AI photo editing software company was on hand at Imaging USA 2026 in Nashville, a major photographic industry conference full of working professionals, news broke that the company was testing an AI Headshot Generator that promised to help users save on studio costs by bypassing professional headshot photography services altogether. The move has been criticized as tone-deaf, and Evoto quickly scrambled to try to undo the damage.
Software company Cyme released Peakto 2.6 today, the latest version of its AI-powered photo and visual media management tool for macOS.
DxO Labs has released 326 new modules for its photo editing applications, including support for the latest gear from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Hasselblad, Leica, and more. The additions bring the total number of camera and lens combinations supported in DxO's software to over 110,000.
Israeli officials have admitted that the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sara Netanyahu, heavily retouches her photos and has even credited herself as the photographer on official state photos.
Digital photography is wonderful. It has positively impacted my life from the second I picked up my first camera, a Nikon D80. However, the other side of that coin of accessibility and convenience and nearly infinite image-capture capabilities is a seemingly impenetrable pile of image files, including RAWs, JPEGs, and even videos, over almost 20 years. Finding what I'm looking for in my massive library has always been a nightmare. But it doesn't have to be, thanks to Excire Search 2026.
Higgsfield AI has released a new feature called Relight, allowing the user to reimagine the lighting for a photo or video.
Elevate.io, the browser-based collaborative video editor developed by Blackbird, has partnered with Epidemic Sound to bring Epidemic Sound's music catalog to Elevate.io’s editing environment.
Tricksters in the U.K. are using AI photo editing software to make themselves look heavier so they can get their hands on weight loss drugs.
A new AI-powered photography app promises to coach users to frame their shots better, and it even helps out with the editing.
Elon Musk has announced a controversial new feature on his X platform, one that allows any user to edit any image without asking permission.
Every professional photographer understands the frustration of a complex mask. When you’re dealing with fine hair against a busy background, the sheer fabric of a wedding dress, or even highly detailed product shots, traditional selection tools quickly become a time-sinking ordeal. Hours spent painstakingly refining edges in post-production translate directly into lost studio time and increased labor costs. It’s a tedious, manual bottleneck that hinders the creative flow.
ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac 26 has launched, offering a fully local, pay-once post-processing and digital asset management (DAM) tool with integrated AI capabilities, entering a space long dominated by subscription-based software. The release positions the software as an alternative for photographers seeking a different approach to organizing and editing their images.
As promised, Nikon and RED have launched their new Imaging Recipes for compatible Nikon Z Series cameras, including the Z6 III, Z5 II, Z50 II, Zf, and the most recent Nikon Z camera, the video-oriented ZR. There are nine new RED-developed Imaging Recipes, plus a trio of new ones from professional creators.
Google Photos may have "photos" in its name, but recent and upcoming updates focus on powerful new video editing tools. Leading the charge is a new feature to let users create an automated highlight reel of their video clips and photos in just a few clicks.
Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 20.3 today, bringing a wealth of new features and improvements to the popular video editing software.
It’s easy to imagine that anxiety over manipulated images began with Photoshop or AI, but photographers have been wrestling with the problem almost since the birth of the medium. More than a century ago (113 years back to be exact), the U.S. faced a scandal over doctored images of the president, and the outrage nearly led to a national ban on fake photos.
Nikon and RED are working together on a new set of Imaging Recipes for Nikon cameras, slated to arrive on December 10. Although details are scarce on these hyped new recipes, there's still a lot to say about Nikon Imaging Cloud's Imaging Recipes.
Google has released a more advanced version of its Nano Banana AI image model, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to spot the difference between real and AI-generated photos.
Google recently unveiled a new photo editing tool that users can control using only their voice. First on the Google Pixel 10 smartphone, and then later expanded the feature to a wider range of Android phones in the United States.
Alfred Buckham was an aerial photographer who took to the skies at a time when pilots' lives were measured in weeks, not years. But he was also a master manipulator in the darkroom and paved the way for Adobe Photoshop and today's AI photo apps.
The Associated Press (AP) has switched to Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve Studio for its global news production operations, putting another feather in Blackmagic's cap.
Google has opened up advanced Gemini features in Google Vids that were previously restricted to paid subscribers and made them free to anyone with a Gmail account.
With surprising lack of fanfare, Fujifilm has released its promised GFX Eterna 55 Look-Up Tables (LUTs) based on 10 different Film Simulations. These 3D LUTs work with F-Log2 and F-Log2C, meaning that filmmakers using any recent Fujifilm camera with high-end video features, including X- and GFX-series models beyond the GFX Eterna 55, can take advantage and give their log footage a classic Film Simulation appearance.
A photo restorer has breathed new life into the only universally accepted portrait of Billy the Kid, giving viewers a clearer image of the Wild West's most infamous outlaw.
Arri, one of the biggest brands in all of digital cinema, launched a new tool that aims to make digital video look more analog. Arri Film Lab is an OpenFX plugin that integrates into industry-standard color grading workflows and gives filmmakers and editors creative tools to make their digital videos, regardless of what camera they used, look like they were shot on film.
Bird Photographer of the Year 2025 has disqualified one of its Silver Award winners after the image "did not meet the competition's authenticity requirements."
Retouch4me, known for its AI-powered photo and video editing tools, has introduced Dust OFX, a new plugin that automatically removes dust and small particles from video footage. Built for DaVinci Resolve and compatible with other OFX-based editors, the plugin uses advanced neural networks to streamline one of the most time-consuming aspects of video retouching.
Elevate.io introduces a new era of video creation with its browser-based platform, uniting real-time editing, AI-powered tools, asset management, and live collaboration into a single workspace. This all-in-one approach promises to transform how teams create, review, and deliver content via the cloud.
The Zoner Studio Fall Update 2025 promises a major step forward for photographers seeking faster, more intelligent workflows.
