A photographer who lost all their Lightroom presets following a catalog corruption built a super helpful tool to recover their precious editing presets, which were built over a decade-plus of careful photo editing.
Video Assist is an iPad app that turns Apple's popular tablet into a professional-oriented HDMI and SDI video monitor. Version 2.0 of Video Assist is now available, adding many significant features to the app.
Skylum announced the latest major update for its new AI-powered portrait editing software Aperty. The 1.3.0 update adds three new AI-powered retouching tools as well as several workflow and UI/UX improvements, plus expanded language support.
Cyme released Peakto 2.3 today, adding significant new features to its AI-powered photo and video management platform. With Peakto 2.3, photographers can access all their media from anywhere, even when those files are stored locally on a computer hard drive.
Dutch startup LiveDrop is increasing the size of offline file transfers enabled by its app on mobile devices via special QR codes that don’t require the two devices to connect to each other.
Pattern Recognition Company announced the new Excire Foto Office Edition, an AI-driven digital asset management tool for businesses and teams with shared databases.
In photography, background removal is a key technique. Whether for commercial photography, e-commerce, or personal use, a clean, distraction-free background is essential. On platforms like Amazon, product images must have a pure white background to enhance product visibility. For personal photography, background removal is often used to create professional profile pictures or for artistic designs.
DxO will release DxO PureRAW 5 in April, promising a big jump from previous versions courtesy of a more refined interface, local adjustments, and AI-powered denoising via DxO's DeepPrime 3 technology.
LumaTouch announced that their mobile post-processing app, LumaFusion, will receive a big update with new Version 5.2.
Annapurna Interactive’s upcoming landscape photography video game Lushfoil Photography Sim has a new trailer, and, finally, a release date: April 15, 2025.
Today, Adobe has announced Photoshop Mobile and Web plans with apps to bring professional-level post-processing to smartphones and the web.
Photographer and app developer Drew Mylrea released Range Camera, a new iPhone camera app that promises more natural-looking photos and streamlined RAW image editing.
Happy birthday, Adobe Photoshop. The world's most famous photo editing software turns 35 years old today, and Adobe is marking the occasion by looking back at landmark moments in Photoshop's illustrious history.
Adobe's Firefly Video Model officially launched last week, albeit in an underwhelming public beta form, alongside new Firefly premium plans. Photographers and hybrid creators may wonder if they need a Firefly plan in their workflow. The answer? Probably not, at least not yet.
Today at Adobe MAX Japan, the software giant announced updates to Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw, bringing new features and improvements across the entire Lightroom ecosystem, from desktop to mobile.
The Adobe Firefly Video Model is now available in public beta. Firefly is the only IP-friendly and commercially safe generative AI model available right now.
Last November, Pixelmator announced that it had reached an agreement with Apple to be acquired for an undisclosed amount. According to the Pixelmator team's update to its apps, that deal has closed.
Capture One will shut down its community forum on Friday, February 14. While the "Notice Board" and "Known Bugs" sections will remain, the company is moving all general communications out of the forum and into support requests and social media.
Sony updated its Creators' Cloud platform and accompanying Creators' App to streamline content management for photographers and videographers. The new update enables direct upload from certain Sony cameras to Google Drive or Adobe Lightroom.
A new app called Unpro Camera says it strips away all of the processing typically applied by an iPhone to produce unprocessed-looking photos that the developer says look "astonishingly natural."
Cloudflare, the leading connectivity cloud company behind which 20% of the Internet’s traffic sits, launched a one-click Content Credentials system to track image authenticity across the internet and preserve accurate creator attribution.
Boris FX released a new version of its popular Optics plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic that add new AI-driven masking for still images.
Blackmagic Design announced Blackmagic Camera for Android 2.0. The updated video camera app adds support for new Android devices, including the Samsung S25 Ultra, which added log recording this year. The app update also adds new features, functionality, and other improvements.
Luminar Mobile version 2.2 is available now, adding comprehensive RAW image editing support and iCloud syncing to the iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro photo editing application.
Panasonic is updating four of its mirrorless cameras, including the full-frame Lumix S5II and S5IIX and the Micro Four Thirds GH7 and G9II. The new firmware promises to improve functionality and overall user experience. In many cases, the firmware updates add features that were introduced in the Lumix S9.
With the famous Sundance Film Festival kicking off this week in Park City, Utah, Adobe thought it a good time to discuss what's next for Adobe Premiere Pro, a popular video editing platform for amateur and professional filmmakers alike.
Following its firmware update for the 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VC VXD G2 in November, Tamron had improved the performance of another of its popular E-mount telephoto zoom lenses, the 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD.
Canon Inc. announced Live Switcher Mobile, a new iOS and iPadOS application that delivers multi-device integration and switching for live streamers, including content creators and gamers.
Instagram alternative Pixelfed launched a mobile app last week on Android and landed on iOS today. The decentralized, ad-free, and open-source platform, which aims to offer "a fresh take on photo sharing," has surged in popularity and even run afoul of Meta moderation.
Every photographer encounters challenges with image quality at some point. These could be blurry or out-of-focus pictures from unsteady hands, grainy or noisy shots from cranking up the ISO, underexposed images in dim lighting, or pixelated photos that lose their clarity and detail when zoomed in -- these are all typical headaches requiring effective solutions.
