Software

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.

An artificially intelligent (AI) tool has revealed exactly how celebrities have been Photoshopped on magazine covers.

The ability to change the sound that the Nikon Z9's electronic shutter makes is actually coming, as demonstrated by the company during a live stream.

Frame Set allows filmmakers to search a library of more than 116,000 individual frames from nearly 6,500 commercials, movies, and music videos for the purposes of inspiring other projects.

Sony's Creators' Cloud platform -- originally designed for professional and enterprise users -- is now open to individuals and includes cloud storage, the ability to connect with peers, and will soon support a "camera to cloud" application.

PictureThis is the most popular plant identifier app, and it works with the camera on your iPhone or Android phone. While the recognition of PictureThis isn't perfect, it generally proves to be remarkably accurate thanks to its well-trained AI.

Fujifilm is expanding its coming support for Frame.io's Camera to Cloud (C2C) integration to include the X-H2 camera.

Peakto, a universal photo organizer for macOS, now features Instagram compatibility.

Thanks to a partnership with Parallels, Microsoft will officially support running Windows 11 on M1 and M2 Macs in a virtual environment.

Adobe Premiere Pro is getting a few feature upgrades today including the long-requested ability to automatically tone map high dynamic range (HDR) video files.

Picsart says that its latest update to AI Avatar allows it to generate two people in one image. The company says it is the first major artificial intelligence (AI) photo editing platform to support this.

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.

No doubt most of us have found ourselves in the following situation... You’ve discovered a beautiful landscape scene that you’ve carefully composed in your camera’s viewfinder. Your camera is on a tripod and there’s no wind, so you’re feeling confident that you’ll be able to capture everything in one shot with both a small aperture and a slow shutter speed. Things are looking great!

It was Sunday morning January 25th, 1998, and I was in The Associated Press’s trailer in the parking lot at Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego. Last-minute preparations were underway for coverage of Super Bowl XXXII between the Green Bay Packers and the Denver Broncos – Favre vs Elway. Perfect!

Imagen has added new features to its artificial intelligence-powered (AI) photo editing solution, ImagenAI, including subject mask editing and the ability to share an AI profile with additional photographers.

Darktable, an open-source photography workflow application and RAW processor, is at risk of dropping support for macOS as its sole developer has decided to move on, and there is no one to replace him.

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.

Sigma is making its fp and fp L cameras more appealing for filmmakers thanks to the addition of a new color mode, the ability to use 4TB external SSDs, Open Gate with Anamorphic desqueeze, Atomos Cloud support, and more

Physical photographs can be scanned with an iPhone and it's easy to get good results with a little preparation and attention to detail. There are several apps that you can use to speed up and simplify the process, each with a different approach. The app that's best depends on your particular needs.

Reverse image search is an incredibly useful technology, allowing you to locate online photos that are an exact match or similar in some way to your own. It can also be used to search for products and places just by supplying a picture, even if it's an image that you found online. With the right app, it's possible to get a live result from your smartphone's camera.

Neurapix says it has accelerated its artificial intelligence (AI) software and is now able to learn a photographer's style by analyzing a fraction of the photos it used to need -- up to 24 times as fast.

Lightroom preset developer DVLOP and SLR Lounge have partnered to release Impossible Things, an artificial intelligence-powered (AI) photo editor that works natively inside of Adobe Lightroom.

Picture Instruments says its Master Match Software can turn any color into any other color, making it ideal for color matching different cameras together or making any camera's photos or videos look like they were captured with a different camera.

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.

Fujifilm is addressing the autofocus performance of the X-H2S and has released an update for the camera to improve its subject detection and tracking algorithms.

DxO says its Optic Modules are able to offer photo corrections at an unparalleled level and target sharpness and distortion at specific areas of an image to improve quality more accurately.

Germany-based startup Neurapix says it has created an artificial intelligence-based software that can learn from previously edited images and apply it to new photos at a blistering speed of up to 600 photos per minute.