Pika is a new bot friend that "explores the world" with children through the use of a smartphone camera. The concept combines the camera with computer vision and augmented reality.
California-based software developer Macphun (soon to be Skylum) has announced Luminar 2018, a digital photo editor and organizer that's aiming to be a direct competitor to Adobe Lightroom.
As the worlds of artificial intelligence and digital photography collide, we're starting to see some mind-blowing technology emerge. The latest research in turning low-resolution photos into high-definition photos may drop your jaws -- it's starting to cross into the realm of sci-fi.
Let's Enhance is a new free website that uses neural networks to upscale your photos in a way Photoshop can't. It magically boosts and enhances your photo resolution like something straight out of CSI.
Macphun has just announced that it's changing its name to Skylum. The company, which became well-known for its popular photo editing apps for Mac, is expanding to Windows and needed a new name as a result. Company CEO Alex Tsepko announced the rebranding in a post on the official blog.
If you use Lightroom 6 and don't have any plans to switch to Adobe's subscription software, here's a warning: don't run the Lightroom updater through Adobe's download manager with default settings. It will delete your Lightroom 6 and install Lightroom CC instead.
The popular Nik Collection of photo editing software will live on. Just months after Google said that it was abandoning the brand and ending development, DxO has just announced that it has acquired Nik Collection from Google and will continue development "for the benefit of the photographer community."
As the growth of VSCO has shown, analog photo filters are a big business these days, and Phase One wants to get in more on the action. They've just announced a new Film Styles Pack with analog photo filters designed for photographers using Capture One.
If you've started using Photoshop CC 2018, you may have noticed a strange purple line following your brush around as you're using it now. That line is called a "brush leash," and here's a helpful 6-minute video by retoucher Pratik Naik about what that purple line is and how you can use and customize it.
A day after Adobe announced the new Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC, Macphun began teasing the fact that it's currently building a competitor to Lightroom. It'll be a photo manager that'll work with both hard drives and the cloud. The short video above is a sneak peek.
Adobe shared its powerful Content-Aware Fill as a sneak peek back in 2010, and the feature has become a powerful tool in the Photoshop arsenal. Now the company is teasing a new technology called Deep Fill, which takes the idea to yet another level using AI techniques.
Adobe is pushing further into the world of cloud-based software, and this week it rebranded Lightroom as Lightroom Classic CC so that the company's new cloud-oriented app could be called Lightroom CC. But if your loyalties lie with the desktop app formerly known as Lightroom, don't worry: Adobe says it will continue developing that app into the future.
In addition to its Cloak and Scribbler projects, Adobe also used its MAX 2017 conference to offer a sneak peek of a technology called Scene Stitch. It's like Content-Aware Fill on steroids: instead of guessing the fill content with details from the photo, Scene Stitch uses AI and a database of images to find content to fill the hole.
Nude is a new app for iOS devices that will automatically identify and hide all of your sensitive photos, protecting them from prying eyes and making your Camera Roll safe to share with family and friends.
Adobe demoed a number of technologies at Adobe MAX 2017 yesterday, including something called Cloak. It's basically Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill for video -- you can easily remove unwanted things from video, as you can see in the 6-minute demo above.
Adobe unveiled its cloud-centric Lightroom CC yesterday and announced that desktop Lightroom has been rebranded as Lightroom Classic CC. The company also stated that Lightroom 6 would be the final standalone version of Lightroom that doesn't require a subscription... backtracking on what the company said just a few years ago.
Adobe has just announced its October 2017 update of Photoshop CC, which comes with a number of new features and improvements to the photo editing program. Big ones in this release include a brand new Curvature Pen Tool and improved brush preset management.
Lightroom is no more. Adobe today announced a new cloud-based Lightroom called Lightroom CC. The current desktop-based app you know as Lightroom is being rebranded as Lightroom Classic CC. Lightroom Classic will be desktop-oriented, while Lightroom CC will be cloud and mobile focused.
Google Photos is now able to identify and recognize your furry feline or canine companions, pulling together albums specifically featuring them.
Here's a quick Photoshop trick in a 6-minute video by PiXimperfect that's great for making composites. It allows you to save different layers, alongside any adjustment layers, into separate files.
Windowed is a simple new app that finally lets you upload to Instagram directly from your Mac or PC desktop.
Control Room is a new app that turns your smartphone or tablet into an external control panel for Lightroom photo editing. This means you can control adjustments through the screen on your phone while watching those adjustments affect the large photo open in Lightroom on your computer.
Adobe Portfolio, a platform for photographers to share images online on their own websites, will now integrate with Lightroom collections. This means you can upload entire collections at once, straight from Lightroom to your online portfolio.
Adobe has just announced the release of Photoshop Elements 2018. With this latest version, Adobe is moving away from using version numbers and will instead begin naming the software version after the upcoming year.
ON1 just announced a new version of its Photo RAW photo software, which is using crowdsourced ideas to become an ultimate RAW processor. This latest version has a number of new features and improvements, including HDR, panorama stitching, and more.
Two months after the US Army ended its use of DJI drones due to "cybersecurity" reasons, DJI has just launched a new privacy mode that allows operators to fly completely offline. DJI says the goal is to provide "enhanced data privacy assurances for sensitive government and enterprise customers."
In this 12-minute tutorial by PiXimperfect, learn how to use alpha channels in Photoshop to make "insanely difficult" selections. An example situation for which you may need to employ this technique could be selecting pieces of the sky from behind a tree on the horizon.
There are plenty of ways you can color correct an image, but here's a technique you might not have learned before. this technique from In this 6-minute tutorial by f64 Academy, learn how inverting the colors in your photos can help you effectively remove color casts.
In this 6-minute video, photographer Mark Denney talks through the Orton Effect and how it can be used to make dreamy landscape photos in an instant.
Blocker is a new augmented reality app that could change the way you plan your next shoot. The app allows you to "shoot" with a variety of over 400 different virtual camera types, introducing objects into the real scene in front of you via your smartphone's camera.
To the untrained eye, the difference between the vibrance and saturation sliders is not immediately obvious. Jesús Ramirez of Photoshop Training Channel explains the subtle difference between these two useful tools in this 5-minute video.
Hello, photographers. Here's a giant list of 194 photo editing tools and photography apps you can use in your photography.
Snapchat has been rolling out a continuous stream of new filters, but the latest ones are rather unusual. Following the trend of Snapchat working with augmented reality, the new additions will totally transform a boring blue sky into something far more dramatic.
Kodak Moments, the consumer printing arm of Kodak, has launched a new Facebook Messenger chatbot. Its purpose: to try and sell you prints of your old photos.
After updating your iPhone to iOS 11, you may have noticed that your photos are all .heic files instead of the ubiquitous .jpeg. If you're rather go back to shooting JPEG for now until you feel more ready to make the switch, it's actually extremely easy to do.
Photoshop is such a hugely featured application that much of its feature set can be overlooked by even seasoned veterans. This 25-minute video tutorial from photographer Jake Hicks explores some of the less intuitive features that Photoshop offers.
Google today rolled out the latest version of its Snapseed photo-editing application. Version 2.18, available for Android and iOS users, features a fresh new user interface and new presets.
Instagram has long featured a 3x3 grid of photos across its platform, allowing photographers to get creative and create larger photo mosaics by uploading the individual pieces as separate photos in the correct order. If you've spent a considerable amount of time and effort building these mosaics yourself, here's some bad news: it looks like Instagram may soon break that classic grid (and your mosaics).
Ask any photographer their least-favorite thing about Adobe Lightroom, and they will most likely tell you it’s the application’s speed. There are a few tricks to help optimize the responsiveness of Lightroom, and this minute-long Lightroom coffee break video focuses on generating 1:1 previews.
Exposure by Alien Skin is an alternative program to Adobe Lightroom, providing a non-destructive RAW editor and organizer. A new X3 update will be coming this fall, bringing a long list of new organizing and creative features.
Alongside its new X-E3 mirrorless camera and XF 80mm f/2.8 Macro lens, Fujifilm has also announced the development of a new RAW conversion program called "Fujifilm X Raw Studio." This software is different from others in that it's designed to offload work from your computer's CPU by using your camera's processor to convert RAW photos.
Mastery of the pen tool enables complex vector shapes and selections that can be used for masking or extracting elements from an image. There is a bit of a learning curve to the tool, but this 30-minute video from Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect will teach you everything from the fundamentals to real-world use.
Adobe just announced that there's a powerful new Curvature Pen Tool coming to Photoshop CC later this year. The 1-minute video above is a sneak peek at how this upcoming tool works.
Pixelmator is an image editor for macOS that launched back in 2007 and has since grown into a formidable alternative to Adobe Photoshop in a previously untouchable domain. Now the company has just announced a Pro version of its software, which is set to be released this fall.
Instagram is moving further and further away from its mobile-centric routes. Instagram has just announced that Stories can now be watched on desktop Internet browsers.
VSCO just announced Mobile Presets 02, a new pack of presets that brings VSCO's popular mobile filter looks to desktop photo editors.
Back in August 2015, Instagram introduced support for landscape and portrait orientation images. This was great news for photographers, as getting rid of the forced square aspect ratio stopped the need for ugly crops. Earlier this year they introduced the ability to upload multiple photos at once, but this brought the return of the square aspect ratio.
My name is Albert Dros, and I am a professional landscape photographer from the Netherlands. People often tell me that I am "in the right place at the right time." But I obviously don’t post "failed" shoots. And not only that, I also spend a great deal of time planning my shots in order to make my chances of success as high as possible.
Facebook has updated its mobile app for both iOS and Android with support for capturing and sharing 360° photos without any extra hardware required.
DJI is releasing a new firmware update for the Spark camera drone, and this is one update that Spark owners will not want to ignore. If you fail to properly update your Spark, DJI will disable it and prevent it from flying at all.