Software

Digital photo editing has come a long way in the past two decades, and two software programs that have impacted the field are RawShooter and Lightroom.

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Runway has added support for 15-second videos generated by AI into an iOS app, allowing users to transform videos shot on iPhone into anything they can imagine.

Imagen AI has added the ability to manually adjust an editor's "Personal AI Profile," the company's name for the unique way that its artificial intelligence (AI) edits their photos using data from previously edited projects.

Insta360 has published a firmware update for its flagship action camera the X3 that adds the ability to use it as a webcam, improves the PureShot mode to allow for better and clearer photos, and makes it possible to import framing edits to a computer.

Skylum has released update 1.9 update Luminar Neo that brings a heavily-requested Undo/Redo functionally to the artificial intelligence-powered photo editing application.

The artificial intelligence-powered (AI) photo editor Neurapix has unveiled a new service that is able to deliver edited photos in real-time by eliminating the upload and download to and from the cloud steps entirely.

Stability.AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, has announced a new artificial intelligence-powered upscaler that is capable of quadrupling the resolution of an image.

Picsart is launching its official Discord server, which will be free to access while offering an additional three paid tiers.

Peakto, an artificial intelligence-powered (AI) app for Mac that provides photographers a centralized view of all their images across numerous popular photo editing apps, has announced new compatibility with DxO PhotoLab and DxO PureRAW.

ProGrade Digital has updated its Refresh Pro computer software -- a tool for maximizing the performance of a card and monitoring product health -- with the ability to update the firmware of its memory cards.

Audio Design Desk (ADD) is a program that combines a massive library of royalty-free sounds and music with artificial intelligence (AI) to quickly and accurately add sound to a video edit.

AMS Software has presented a new version of PhotoWorks – a multi-purpose photo editor. Over the past 15 iterations, this image editing software has been rising in prominence but retained one drawback – Windows exclusivity. Version 16.0 finally breaks that mold and opens up PhotoWorks to the Apple audience. It also introduces new features, which is a good reason to revisit the previous review and witness the progress.

LumaTouch has released LumaFusion Multicam Studio, an add-on to LumaFusion that enables videographers to sync, switch, and edit clips from multiple camera and audio sources within LumaFusion on iOS and iPad OS devices.

Following Adobe's announcement last week of new artificial intelligence (AI) innovations in its video editing applications, Premiere Pro and After Effects, Adobe has announced that its widely used photo editing Lightroom applications will be receiving new AI-powered updates.

DaVinci Resolve 18.5 features four new artificial intelligence (AI) tools and more than 150 feature upgrades.

Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 developer preview that makes it faster and easier to view photos in the Windows File Explorer. In the preview release, users can directly view their Photos app image library while browsing files and folders within File Explorer.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced Amazon Bedrock and numerous new services built on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) services. Amazon Bedrock is the company's new application programming interface (API) for developers to utilize Amazon's new generative AI tools.

ON1 has announced Resize AI 2023.5, the latest version of the company's resizing software. The update introduces AI Face Recovery and improved results using the app's super-resolution upscaling technology.

Ahead of summer, a popular time for people to visit the US's many national parks, Google is updating Google Maps with helpful new information to make it easier for people to plan outdoor adventures and navigate national parks.

You may recognize Aftershoot as one of the leading AI culling apps on the market. Now, Aftershoot is revving up its mission to streamline the entire post-shoot workflow for photographers with its AI editing software, Aftershoot EDITS.

The French photo software company DxO has released an update to its Optics Modules that it says will give photographers the best possible performance from their camera and lens combinations, correcting lens imperfections and softness with "unparalleled precision".

At the 2023 NAB Show, Adobe has announced significant product updates to its video-oriented software including Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. The software company announced major enhancements to its Frame.io service, including Frame.io functionality designed for still photographers.

Pixelmator Photo is being rebranded as Photomator and is getting a series of updates including selective adjustments -- including artificial intelligence-powered automatic subject, background, and sky selections -- linear and radial gradient masks, brush selections, and more.

Snapchat is a popular social media app that makes it easy to keep in touch with friends and quickly share selfies, photos, and videos. With 382 million daily active users, it's also a great place to get brand exposure.

Twinmotion, a real-time visualization tool that is powered by Epic's Unreal Engine, is capable of not only generating 3D product photos of everything from shoes to cars, but it can even create entire photorealistic worlds.

Western Digital has confirmed that its network security was breached and some data was obtained. The company shut down access to some of its systems in an attempt to block the attack, though how successful that action was remains to be seen.

Viewfinder is an upcoming video game that asks players to challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world using an instant camera.

Claid.ai already produced artificial intelligence (AI) software that clipped photos from backgrounds, but now it has a new feature that will generate detailed background images for them.

Canon has released a new firmware update for the EOS R5 that allows it to create massive 400-megapixel photos by stitching together multiple shots captured by moving the in-body image stabilization (IBIS) mechanism.

Cyme and Pixelmator have collaborated on a new version of the Peakto photo management app for macOS. Peakto now supports Pixelmator Pro documents, allowing Pixelmator Pro users to sort and organize their files all in one place.

A serious privacy flaw in Microsoft's Snipping Tool on Windows 11 and Google Pixel's Markup tool allows hackers to partially recover the unedited, original version of a photo that has been cropped with the software.

Canva, an easy-to-use design platform, is adding a wealth of new features to the service today. From artificial intelligence-powered (AI) editing tools, to better photo editing options, to new video editing features, there is a lot to unpack.

Zoner Photo Studio X has announced a significant new update, adding key new features to the photo editing application for Windows. The highlights include native support for 1,200 more camera lenses, faster RAW processing, a redesigned RAW demosaicing algorithm, faster import and export, and support for multiple monitors.

Adobe has announced a new business suite of tools called Adobe Express for Enterprise which is being bundled with its Creative Cloud for Enterprise subscription, effectively forcing businesses to at least consider moving away from Canva.

A group in Illinois has filed a class action lawsuit against California-based Prisma Labs, the company behind the artificial intelligence-powered photo editing app, Lensa.ai.

Adobe has one-upped itself again and has achieved record revenue in the first quarter of 2023. That's a strong start to the year which follows 2022 where the company also beat previous revenue records.

DxO's 3.0 update to PureRAW adds the company's latest artificial intelligence (AI) technology "DeepPRIME XD" which improves noise reduction, RAW enhancements, and gives better control over which corrections are applied through the DxO Optics Modules without reducing the "one-click" functionality.

Cyme has announced a new version of its macOS universal photo organizer, Peakto. Version 1.5, codenamed Pic-Saint-Loup, adds annotation features to the artificial intelligence (AI) photo meta-cataloguer.

Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), photo culling app Aftershoot promises to be the fastest and easiest way for photographers to select, rate, and edit their images.

Sony's Creator's App is now live. Designed to connect a smartphone to Sony's Alpha cameras to allow a host of features, it replaces the poorly reviewed Imaging Edge, which will be removed from both Google Play and the Apple App Store.

ON1's impressive sky swap technology is now available as a standalone app.

Skylum ClearCut Pro is a camera-to-cloud app that automatically removes backgrounds from photos between when they are captured and when they are delivered through the cloud to an editor through Frame.io.

Prequel, an artificial intelligence-powered image editing app for iOS and Android, has launched a new app called Artique that it says is an “all-in-one advertising and marketing graphics platform” for businesses and creators using mobile devices.

The "Exposure Donut" is a new way to understand manual exposure controls on a mirrorless camera. Created by British engineer and photographer Tim Helweg-Larsen, the Exposure Donut, or Expodo, is a software tool designed to simplify exposure on mirrorless cameras.

DALL-E is the AI image generation app that shocked the world by creating high-quality portraits and artistic paintings without using a camera, film, canvas, or brush.

Pixelmator Pro version 3.3, codenamed Mosaic, is now available and includes an all-new Remove Color adjustment to make it easy to remove color from images and video quickly. The latest release also includes powerful Clarity, Selective Clarity, and Texture adjustments for enhancing fine details in photos.