With the advance in computer technology, you would think editing photos is faster than ever before. It's simply not the case - far from it. Software such as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic has become far more sophisticated, and with the increasing file sizes improving your workflow speed and productivity becomes a necessity.
Picsart has created a website that hosts 19 image and video editing tools that can be accessed for free in a drag-and-drop format. It supports a ton of tasks from resizing, file type conversion, background removal, color pickers, and more.
When thinking about the Curves tool in Adobe Photoshop, the phrase “With great power, comes great responsibility” is a thought that comes to mind. Curves is the most powerful tool in Photoshop for adjusting brightness, contrast, tonality, and color.
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.
OWC's Copy That software is a workflow tool designed to quickly and accurately transfer video footage to backups, editors, producers, and directors.
Axledit is a browser-based collaborative video editing platform from Axel.AI that sees itself as the Google Drive of video editing.
Adobe is leveraging its acquisition of Frame.io to expand cloud collaboration access -- including the ability to send content directly from a camera to editors -- to just about anyone, even mobile users through a partnership with FiLMiC Pro.
Picsart has announced that its entire web-based photo editor is available directly integrated into Google Drive. The app enables users to edit Google Drive images in Picsart's Web Editor and save them back to Drive in one connected interface.
Apple has updated Final Cut Pro so that it works better with the M1 Max and M1 Ultra chips found on the new Mac Studio. Update 10.6.2 additionally adds a list of fixes and enhancements for all computers.
Drop Shots is a remote workplace solution that allows clients to take part in and collaborate on photo shoots virtually and in real-time via a low-latency view through the lens of the photographer's camera.
Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 18 brings a ton of new features, but the headline addition is cloud collaboration which could make DaVinci a serious threat to the dominance of Adobe Premiere even amidst its recent Frame.io integration.
Adobe has announced that its annual creativity conference, MAX, is returning to in-person this year after two years of virtual-only shows that came about due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Nikon Z9 is about to get a lot more powerful thanks to a free firmware update that adds in-camera 12-bit RAW video at up to 8K at 60 frames per second, oversampled 4K at 60 frames per second, a pre-release photo capture button, and so much more.
Apple's iMovie 3.0 update adds new storyboard templates that let editors visualize what is needed and gives them instructions on how to capture the perfect shot for a given narrative.
Adobe's latest release of Premiere Pro focuses on faster workflows and a more approachable interface for new users through integrated cloud collaboration via Frame.io, a new import and export workflow, and an Auto Color feature.
Pixelmator Pro has announced version 2.4, codenamed Odessa, which brings a redesigned Layers sidebar along with color adjustments and effects layers, over 200 new vector shapes, and optimization for M1 Ultra.
Capture One has announced an update to its popular editing software that has a re-envisioned keystone tool in addition to several other updates including the promise of "substantial speed improvements" on Apple Silicon.
Optics 2022 from Boris FX brings some seriously impressive special effects (SFX) tools like color grades, easy masking, and impressive lighting effects in a package that can be used as a stand-alone application or as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic.
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.
DxO has announced the 2.0 update to PureRAW. It features several significant additions like support for Fujifilm X-Trans files.
Skylum, the company that produces the Luminar series of software products, has its main development center in Kyiv, Ukraine. But, despite Russia's invasion upsetting its normal workflow, the company has managed to push an update for Luminar Neo.
ON1 has announced its next-generation technology that is powered by what it calls state-of-the-art neural networks for image upscaling: Resize AI. The company says it can enlarge photos and create realistic details with spectacular results.
For this landscape photo, I wanted to get back the warm sunrise light, especially on the mountain face in the back. Also, I wanted to restore details, mostly from the darker parts in the foreground to have a nicely balanced exposure.
Capture One has shared its development roadmap for the remainder of 2022 that covers four areas the company plans to devote its resources for what it calls a multi-platform ecosystem.
Adobe has announced that it will cease all new sales of its products and services in Russia in response to what it describes as unprovoked, violent attacks on Ukraine.
Pentax has announced a new firmware update for the K-3 Mark III DSLR that improves the performance of its ability to capture astrophotography. Called Astro Tracer Type 3, it tracks celestial objects without using the GPS unit.
Adobe Photoshop has been around for so long that it has become the international standard for photo editing and is even used as a generic verb for any type of photo edit. But, like all great things, it took a long while for it to reach its current state.
RitchieCam is a new camera app developed by Ritchie Roesch. Roesch sought to make a camera app that was both universally simple but still capable of making compelling photos.
The NoFilter app is designed to help photographers discover picturesque locations all over the world. It focuses on the natural beauty of destinations and promotes showcasing locations without artificially enhancing them.
Artificial Intelligence-powered (AI) culling software Aftershoot uses machine learning to automate the time-consuming process of culling photos. Its latest update reduces storage requirements by 90%, adds support for HEIC, time syncing, and more.