A growing number of users are turning to Google's ever-improving Photos app to backup their ever-growing camera roll. But while the main function of Google Photos is storage, the app's automatic photo editing features are getting more and more robust. Today, that means auto white balance.
Adobe released a major update for Lightroom Mobile on both iOS and Android today. And in addition to a few simple features like "speed review" and a notification widget for iOS, and radial & linear selection tools for Android, Adobe dropped a bombshell: RAW HDR capture... on your smartphone.
After doing some testing of the feature earlier this month, Instagram has officially rolled out multiple photo posts. Starting today, you can post up to 10 photos (or videos) in a single post on your Instagram profile, and the app will generate an interactive slide-show for your followers to enjoy.
Want to learn how to blend 3 bracketed exposures of the same scene to create a single photo with greater dynamic range? Here's a great 17-minute video tutorial by travel photographer and educator Jimmy McIntyre on how to do so in Photoshop CC.
Fans of free have something to celebrate. The popular open-source RAW photo processor RawTherapee has received a massive update to version 5.0. The update including a bunch of new features, performance enhancements, some bug fixes, and much more.
In my previous article on the difficulty FujiFilm’s X-Trans sensor has preserving fine color detail, I used the free software Darktable to process the RAW examples. I showed how, specifically in terms of color detail, Darktable was able to do a better job than FujiFilm’s own processing.
One of the beautiful things about photography is that you can always learn new things and adapt as new technology comes out. For example, the first camera I ever shot on was a 35mm film point and shoot, and now I shoot on a full frame DSLR.
Here's a powerful feature that looks like it's coming to Instagram: multi-photo galleries shared as a single post.
Photographers in the UK will soon be paying significantly steeper prices to use Photoshop, Lightroom, and other apps in Adobe's Creative Cloud. Adobe is the latest company to raise prices for customers in the UK, blaming its move on "recent changes in exchange rates."
As a professional photo retoucher, I owe Adobe most of my life. Without them, I would honestly not be where I am today, being able to do what I love every single day! Over the years, it has also gone through a multitude of changes, and since my life is tied directly to Photoshop, I pay very close attention to them.
Google-owned image editing app Snapseed is a go-to for many photographers when they want (or have) to edit photos on their smartphone. And starting today, those people have a new, highly-requested editing tool at their disposal: Curves.
You probably didn't know this, but at the beginning of this year, you could still purchase a brand new boxed copy of Adobe's four-year-old Creative Suite 6 by calling an Adobe call center. But as of January 9th, Adobe officially pulled the plug on CS6: now it's Creative Cloud or bust.
Starting this month, select Chromebook users will be able to download and use a full suite of Chromebook-optimized Adobe Android applications for free. From Photoshop Mix to Lightroom Mobile and more, Adobe wants to give students the tools they need to unlock their creativity inside the classroom and beyond.
Even though everybody knows how important it is to insure their photography gear, few people ever get organized enough to actually do it. It's just too much of a pain in the rear... well, it was. A new app called MyGearVault makes organizing and insuring your gear so easy, you're out of excuses.
One of the most popular free alternatives to Photoshop out there is GIMP, an open source graphics editor that packs a lot of punch. But if you want GIMP to really improve—adding features like high bit depth and CMYK support—the folks behind it are asking that you support one of their most prolific developers.
Sometimes people ask me why I started shooting videos on a phone and the answer is not that easy. I believe the best camera is the one we always have with us, in our pocket. Maybe it's not the most powerful of course, but at least we can bring it with us all the time.
In addition to working on a voice assistance for photo editing, Adobe Research has a number of other image editing projects brewing that it's showing off demos for. The 30-second video shows one technology that allows you to rotate faces in static photo portraits.
Intelligent virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa are quickly picking up skills and popularity. But what if your Adobe apps had a similar feature? What if Adobe designed a virtual assistant that would let you edit photos using voice commands?
Every time you upload a photo to Facebook, the social network analyzes it and adds tags so that a computer can "describe" your photo to any visually impaired friends who run across it with their screen reader. Now, you too can see what Facebook is "seeing" in your photos.
Human trafficking is a horrific problem that affects an estimated 20+ million people globally, but don't let that statistic overwhelm you. Thanks to the camera app TraffickCam, anybody with a smartphone can help fight this horror in a small way: by taking pictures of their hotel room when they travel.
Back in 2014, a free Lightroom Plugin called Show Focus Points blew up online. Unfortunately, that plugin hasn't been updated in quite some time, so if you have a newer camera you were totally out of luck... until now.
Magic Lantern may soon release their most popular feature since RAW video. A few of the folks who constantly improve the Canon software add-on have just found a way to generate 14-bit lossless DNG RAW files in-camera!
London-based design studio Wolf in Motion has launched Magic Hour, a new VR experience that lets you do advanced photography in a virtual world.
Twitter announced back in October 2016 that it would be shuttering Vine, its 6-second video sharing service. If you're a faithful Vine user who wants Vine to live on, there's good news for you now: some parts of Vine will live on as an app called Vine Camera.
Instagram today announced a new bookmarking feature that lets you save photo and video posts to remember and revisit at a later date.
Adobe today announced a new update for Photoshop CC that brings Touch Bar support for Apple's latest line of MacBook Pro laptops.
Photo editing startup Polarr has launched a new app for iOS called Picky. Using artificial intelligence, Picky not only selects your best iPhone photos, but it'll automatically touch them up for you too.
In addition to announcing Lightroom CC 2015.8 today, Adobe also launched version 2.6 of Lightroom for iOS. The new app update overhauls the editing interface, making it easier for photographers to edit RAW files on a phone.
Affinity Photo version 1.5 has just been released. It's the single biggest app update to the Photoshop competitor since it was released for Mac in 2015. And in addition to a host of new features, the app is also officially launching for Windows today as well.
Adobe just announced its latest update to Lightroom CC. Aside from new camera support and performance improvements, the main feature found in version 2015.8 is the introduction of the new Reference View.
Today's RAW support update from VSCO isn't the only thing the film emulation and photography presets company had up their sleeve. They also debuted something called VSCO X.
VSCO's app for iOS is a go-to for many mobile photographers, and this week it's getting an important update: RAW support. But not just RAW support for your iPhone photos, VSCO's mobile app can edit RAW photos from your phone and DSLR.
Ricoh wants to play with the big boys. In a surprising move for the company, Ricoh today unveiled Keenai (get it, "keen eye" but with AI?), an intelligent photo storage and management service that wants to bring all of your digital photos under one easy-to-organize umbrella.
Instagram today announced a slew of new features built to "keep Instagram safe," including the ability to like comments, disable comments on photos as you post, boot followers from a private account, and more.
Phase One today launched Capture One Pro 10, the latest version of the company's powerful raw conversion and photo editing software. It features interface improvements, behind-the-scenes tuning, and some new features.
Google has created a new Featured Photos screensaver for Mac that lets you enjoy some of the best photos being created by photographers around the world.
VLC's free and open source media player is a popular option for people who want a lightweight program that can handle pretty much any video format on any platform. The project just took another big leap in compatibility: it can now play back 360-degree photos and videos.
Adobe has launched Photoshop Elements 15 in the Windows Store, marking the first time the more powerful program has been offered through Microsoft's app store, where it joins Photoshop Express.
If you'd like to see how your photos are being used across the Web, there's a new free browser extension that lets you do so with one click. It's called PhotoTracker Lite, and it makes it easy to quickly search multiple major reverse image search engines.
Instagram took another big step this week in competing more directly with Snapchat. The Facebook-owned company has launched live video and disappearing photos.
GoPro today announced a new update to its Quik for Desktop app that brings a new telemetry feature. It's a data layer that finally unlocks the potential of the GPS sensor inside the HERO5 Black.
Google scientists are brewing technology that could one day help you to "enhance!" photos with sharper results than current software on the market. Called RAISR, the system uses machine learning for intelligent upscaling.
Photo scanning smartphone apps, watch out... Google just peed all over your turf. With the release of the new PhotoScan app, the tech giant is swooping in to help people quickly and easily digitize that old box of prints languishing in the attic.
Over at Adobe MAX 2016, Adobe gave a sneak peek of a new technology they're brewing called SkyReplace. The feature makes it extremely easy to replace the sky and look of a photo with just a few clicks and zero Photoshop knowledge. You can watch it in action in the 5-minute demo above.
Deal alert! A pre-paid annual subscription to Adobe's Creative Cloud Photography plan is currently deeply discounted over at Amazon. Instead of paying $119 for a year of Photoshop CC and Lightroom (~$10/month), you can buy a year for just $89 (~$7.42/month) -- a savings of 25%.
One of the most highly regarded Photoshop alternatives is now available on Windows. Affinity Photo today launched its free public beta for Windows users, allowing anyone to download the popular pro photo editing software.
Adobe just announced Lightroom for Android 2.2, an update that adds additional functionality for photographers who shoot RAW. The app can now import RAW photos directly from your camera.
Snapchat just upped the ante on acid trip-like augmented reality. In their latest update, the photo and video messaging app added something called 'World Lenses': basically animated filters that you can apply to the world around you the same way you could apply the app's 'Selfie Lenses' to your face.
The iPhone 7 Plus has a new Portrait mode that artificially blurs backgrounds using info captured by the two rear cameras. If you want a similar look but don't have an iPhone 7 Plus, check out the new Patch app for iOS. It uses neural networks to generate faux depth and blur.
Great news Canon lovers. That new 5D Mark IV you just bought won't be limited to the manufacturer firmware for too much longer. It seems the talented hackers at Magic Lantern have already managed to break into the new camera.
