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.
Over a year after announcing its Photoshop Fix photo editing app for iOS, Adobe has finally released the same app for Android users.
Film fanatics have a new app to drool over today. Mastin Labs—purveyors of the self-styled "only" Lightroom and Photoshop presets "that truly match film"—is taking their obsessive devotion to accurate film emulation into the world of smartphone photography.
Adobe announced an update to Photoshop CC today that brings a collection of new features and enhancements that photographers can use to improve the way they work.
Reuters and Adobe have teamed up to beef up the content available through Adobe's stock content service. The world's largest international multimedia news provider is making its editorial content and 60+ million asset archive accessible through Adobe Stock.
Earlier this year, after researching photo editing tools, I shared a list of 104 photo editing tools you should know about. After receiving a great deal of interest and feedback from the photography community, I've created one final ultimate list of 148 photo editing tools and photography apps.
CSSCO is a new free and open source project that offers VSCO-style retro photo filters made and used entirely with CSS.
Facebook will soon be updating its mobile app camera to include filter features popularized by apps such as Snapchat and Prisma.
A trio of scientists from MIT's Media Lab decided to get creative for Halloween ... and just maybe scare the pants off of you. So if you're wondering how Kermit turned into undead Kermit, meet the aptly-named 'Nightmare Machine.'
After being acquired by Twitter in 2012 and launching to the public in 2013, Vine became a pioneer of the idea of sharing short videos socially. Now its famous 6-second video loops are coming to an end: Twitter announced today that it's discontinuing the Vine mobile app.
Only a month and a half after Instagram got rid of its photo maps, an iOS app calling itself the "Instagram for maps" is generating some buzz. It's called Streetography, and it offers you a refreshing new way to explore the world ... in pictures, of course!
Professional looking, shallow depth of field portraits are now available to a lot more people. Earlier today, Apple released its first major iOS 10 update, and included in that update is their much-anticipated fake bokeh "depth effect" Portrait mode for iPhone 7 Plus.
Photolemur is a new photo-editing program that claims to be "the world's first fully automated photo enhancement solution." It uses artificial intelligence to auto-enhance any photo with minimal human involvement.
Earlier this year, 22-year-old London-based developer Nick Smith launched Dehaze, a web tool that suggests relevant Instagram hashtags given a genre and a location. After being well received by Instagram users, Smith has now rebranded the tool and launched it for both iOS and Android. Dehaze is now Focalmark.
Macphun just announced a bombshell for the photo editing community. It's called "Luminar," and it's a self-proclaimed "complete photo editing powerhouse" that's built to adapt to your photo editing preferences and skill level.
Instagram today announced that Stories will begin appearing on the app's Explore page, allowing the public to discover interesting new stories to watch. The service is also rolling out suicide prevention tools to support struggling users.
Upscaling a photograph always means trading resolution for size. And while Photoshop's "preserve details" scaling does a pretty good job, there's a freeware program called "A Sharper Scaling" that can do it even better.
Instagram Web upload is finally here! Okay not really... but it sort of is. As of today, Instagram is available on Windows 10 tablets and PCs, making it possible for the first time to upload a photo to the photo sharing site from your computer. But there is a catch.
Google has announced a new update for Google Photos that brings four new features for finding, animating, and rotating your precious memories.
The children of wealthy people often flaunt their opulence through Instagram photos, spawning a popular blog called Rich Kids of Instagram. Now those Instagram users have an exclusive photo sharing app designed for them as well. It's aptly named Rich Kids, and it costs a whopping $1,000 per month to share photos through the service.
Choosing the right hashtags for your Instagram photos can make a big difference in how many eyeballs see your work. If you find yourself constantly struggling to come up with the best relevant hashtags for your photos, there's a new web tool designed just for you. It's called Display Purposes.
Google's Android Experiments platform is all about wacky ideas, and the company's own experimental app Sprayscape is nothing if not wacky. Using your smartphone's camera and gyroscope, the app lets you paint 'perfectly imperfect' VR-ish 360° photos.
Here's a quick PSA for those of you who have a mobile workflow that involves posting to Instagram from the Flickr app. Don't. For some reason, sharing from Flickr to Instagram on your phone absolutely destroys photo quality, leaving you with a pixely mess.
It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here. Prisma, the app that offers users the algorithmic ability to transform their photos into paintings in the style of the great masters, now works on videos as well.
Craigslist is one of the go-to places for photographers looking to buy and sell used camera gear locally, but a new challenged has emerged. Facebook has announced a new Craigslist-competitor called Marketplace, a feature that lets you buy and sell in your local community.
Adobe today announced Photoshop Elements 15, the latest version of its consumer-oriented photo-editing software. The update brings even more automation in photo organization and editing.
Earlier this week, we showed you some really interesting image editing research from the University of Edinburgh, calling it a peek at the future of Photoshop. Well, it turns out we were more right than we realized.
If you're using a smartphone to capture light painting photos, the phone is usually IN the photo as a light source. But the new Pablo app lets you actually use your iPhone as the camera, capturing light trails that mimic traditional long exposure shots.
After upgrading my phone and switching over to iOS, I began uploading videos and photos to Facebook using the app itself... only to find out that it was not uploading my files in high-definition quality at all.
This fascinating short demonstration of a neural network-powered photo editor might offer a small window into the future of Photoshop—a fully automatic future where massive changes are made in a single brush stroke.
Back in April 2016, ON1 announced Photo RAW, the first all-new RAW photo processor to emerge in a decade and one that uses crowd-sourcing for innovation. To give the world a taste of what's coming, ON1 just put out the 3.5-minute video above with a first look at the upcoming software.
Fotr is as close to film photography as you're likely to get out of your iPhone. The new iOS app acts just like a film camera: you have to buy "digital" film, and every single photo you take with that "roll" is printed... even the crappy ones.
Well, you can add "captioning photos" to the list of jobs robots will soon be able to do just as well as humans. After some training, the latest version of Google's "Show and Tell" algorithm can describe the contents of a photo with staggering 94% accuracy.
Apple released iOS 10.1 to public beta testers today, and it includes one of the most anticipated features they showed off during their iPhone 7 keynote: the "Portrait" mode that fakes a depth of field effect.
The Google Photos app just keeps getting better. First, the app made made backing up your iPhone's photos a breeze. Then it started turning Live Photos into stabilized GIFs. And now, now it can create themed slideshows a la Facebook, and make sharing your photos easier than ever.
It might be the most requested Instagram feature behind pinch-to-zoom, and it's finally here. As of the latest update, Instagram lets you save an unfinished post as a draft that you can come back to and publish later. Cue slow clap.
Adobe today announced its latest version of Lightroom. Among the various features and fixes is the addition of Smart Previews, which will give your software an instant speed boost when you're working with large, high-resolution photos.
Polarr's powerful and popular photo-editing app on iOS was just upgraded to version 3.0, and the new update brings powerful face detection and editing tools that are being seen for the first time in Apple's App Store.
500px's latest app "RAW" is more than the name implies. Not only does it let you shoot and edit RAW photos on your iPhone, it also helps you license those photos to clients who submit specific briefs to the 8 million photographer 500px community.
Macphun—the company that's all about creating easy-to-use, powerful photo editing software for Mac users—has just released the latest version of their popular Aurora HDR app, complete with Batch Processing, an 'HDR Look' slider, and a lot more.
Adobe made a huge announcement today that will change the iPhone photography game entirely: the newest version of Lightroom Mobile for iOS now lets you capture RAW DNG photos right inside the app.
Google released the Cardboard Camera app back in December, but until this week it was Android only. Well, no longer. The iOS version of the app just launched, enabling iPhone users to capture and share immersive 360° VR photos in a snap.
Facebook is updating its Moments photo app to become more competitive in the world of hosting and sharing. The new version adds the ability to host full-resolution photos and share them over the Web.
The Google Photos app wants to be a staple... for iOS photographers. Just a month after poking fun at 16GB iPhones and offering Google Photos as a storage solution, the tech giant has updated the app once again. This time, they want to make your iPhone's 'Live Photos' a lot more usable.
In a feat of creative "appropriation" on-par with the whole Instagram/Snapchat Stories release, Shutterstock is stepping all over Adobe Stock's toes by releasing a powerful Photoshop plugin that does the exact same thing.
Remember Instagram's Photo Maps? No worries, neither did we until we found out today that, shockingly enough, Instagram has decided to kill off a feature they say "was not widely used."
Professional travel photographer Elia Locardi made this 30-minute video tutorial that shows how he's able to shoot and edit top-notch RAW photos without carrying a laptop around, and instead using the Adobe Lightroom Mobile app, which got RAW editing in June 2016.
Snapseed has just released version 2.9 of its popular Android and iOS photo editing apps. This latest update brings RAW editing to the iOS app, giving Snapseed full RAW support on both major platforms. RAW files from 144 different camera models are currently supported.
Instagram has launched a new feature that photographers will appreciate: starting today, you can pinch to zoom into photos and videos across the app.
Doing extreme retouching to the human body in photos has gotten a great deal of bad press as of late, but that's not keeping a London-based software company Anthropics Technology from trying to innovate in that space. It has launched a new program called PortraitPro Body, which it claims is "the industry’s first dedicated full body retouching software."
