500px today announced a new tool called Splash. Instead of searching for photos using titles, keywords, EXIF details, or colors, Splash lets you hunt for photos simply by sketching them on a canvas.
If you subscribe to Adobe's $10 per month Creative Cloud Photography plan for access to Lightroom and Photoshop, there's a sale going on today that you might want to take advantage of. For today only, Adobe is selling a prepaid year-long subscription to the plan for just $95 instead of $120, a savings of 21%.
Excire Search for Lightroom is a new Lightroom plugin that lets you search for photos using powerful image recognition technology. Want to find a photo of your family on a beach? Just type in "beach," and the software will search for photos based on the content.
Storage and backup. It’s a mundane reality of photography. I’d much rather spend time with my camera or be teaching others about photography. But, in the digital age, you have to have a storage and backup strategy for your photos. Storage and backup may be mundane, but they are unquestionably critical.
Eye-Fi, the Mountain View, California-based company that helped pioneer Wi-Fi memory cards, announced back in June that its older cards would be rendered largely useless after September 2016. Now, after the outcry of many angry customers, the company is now changing course: the cards will be stayin' alive.
Ever since the Prisma app swept people up in a frenzy of photo-to-painting simulation, people have been waiting for Prisma to release the video version. They're working on it, but a Russian company has actually beat them to the punch.
What if Instagram had launched over 20 years ago, and instead of being an iPhone app it had been a Windows 95 .exe program? Russian designer Misha Petrick decided to find out.
Instagram just took a page from Snapchat's book by announcing Instagram Stories, a new feature that lets you share temporary slideshows with multiple photos and videos.
Using only 12 photos and the impressive new Platograph Pro software we told you about on Friday, photographer Ron Risman was able to create what he's calling a "pseudo timelapse." 12 photos, 12 'moving' sequences.
Getting started with Magic Lantern can be a bit daunting for a beginner. That's why computer science student and filmmaker Jake Coppinger put together this easy-to-follow step-by-step video guide that shows you how to (safely) install and use the powerful software add-on.
Plotagraph Pro is an incredible new photography tool that can take any still image and animate it into a beautiful looping GIF or video file. No need to shoot a video or capture multiple frames, a single JPEG is all this Web-app needs.
Microsoft today launched Microsoft Pix, a new smart camera app for the iPhone that uses artificial intelligence features to help you shoot better photos.
In the world of digital photography, maximum quality tends to come at a price: file size. Optimization you apply to your pictures can only go so far and the line between good quality digital files and optimal file size is a precarious one.
Adobe today announced a new member of the Lightroom family: Lightroom for Apple TV. While Lightroom on your computer or mobile device is geared towards editing and organizing photos, Lightroom on Apple TV is meant for enjoying photos.
Prisma, the ultra-popular, we-didn't-know-a-photo-filter-app-could-get-this-popular-anymore filter app that stylizes your photographs to look like famous paintings is no longer an iOS exclusive. Today, it arrived on Android.
Worthy challengers to Adobe Photoshop don't come around very often, so that's why Affinity Photo got the photography world excited when it was launched in 2015. Now the award-winning pro image editing app is getting another major update. Version 1.5 will include a number of powerful new features.
The Polaroid brand has launched a new free mobile app called Polaroid Swing. It's "an innovative moving photo app" that opens the door to a "new visual medium for the mobile era."
This is pretty big: Adobe today announced a major update for Lightroom for Mobile, and one of the exciting new features is the app's new ability to open any type of RAW file that can be opened on Lightroom for Desktop.
Prisma is a new camera app that transforms your photos to look like paintings by famous artists. It goes beyond the film simulation filters that are widely available these days to offer a surprisingly realistic painting filter.
Snapchat has evolved WAY past the simple self-destructing photo messenger it started as. And today, the app took a big leap forward by introducing 'Memories,' basically a Camera Roll inside the Snapchat app that lets you save, search, and replay or re-share old photos and videos.
A future version of Photoshop may include some pretty powerful automatic selection tools if the technology in this new paper by researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Adobe Research pans out.
The photo software company ON1 drummed up some excitement back in April by announcing Photo RAW, the first new RAW processing software to be released in a decade. To make sure the software is exactly what photographers want, ON1 has just launched The Photo RAW Project, an effort to crowdsource the best ideas for what the software should be like.
Lapsiere Rouge is a free desktop app that can sum up your time-lapse projects in a single image.
The news that Metabones Sony E-Mount to EF adapters and speedboosters had just been updated with some of Sony's native autofocus functionality was hailed with many shouts of joy, but those shouts may have been premature. It seems the results are... less than great.
Phase One has announced the latest version of its Capture One Pro imaging software. Version 9.2 brings new features that are designed to help improve a professional photographer's editing workflow.
After teasing us with the magic that is Content-Aware Crop a few weeks ago, Adobe is finally ready to release that feature and a few more into the wild. Photoshop CC 2015.5 is officially here, and it's got a few tricks up its sleeve.
Instagram may be seeing a big dip in engagement, but plenty of photographers still rely on the service to bring in business. Now, thanks to the LR/Instagram plugin, their lives just got a bit easier.
Ricoh has announced that it's acquiring Eyefi's Cloud service, the photo hosting product that was launched in April 2014. Eyefi will continue to own and sell its Wi-Fi-enabled SD memory cards, now called the Mobi Pro, which it has long been known for.
Avast, best known for its antivirus software, has announced a new iOS app that's designed to help iPhone users free up space when snapping a lot of photos. It's called Photo Space, and it's designed to increase your photo storage by 7x.
Want an easy way to back up your memory card to any external hard drive without having to pull out your main computer? A Raspberry Pi computer can help you do just that.
Photography company VSCO has released a new film pack that may finally woo the film emulation hold-outs among us. It's called the "VSCO Film Essentials" pack, and it'll nab you 14 of VSCO's most popular presets for just $59.
Flickr generated a lot of bad feelings back in March 2016 by making its Auto-Uploadr app a Pro-only feature. If you're not Pro but would still like the convenience of automatically uploading new photos, you can build a custom gadget that does it for you.
If RAW photography coming to iOS wasn't enough exciting news for you today, get this: the highly-regarded pro photo editing app Affinity Photo is coming to the iPad.
Need a pick-me-up this morning? We've got you covered. It turns out Apple snuck a big photography announcement into the background of the WWDC presentation yesterday: RAW photo editing is coming to iOS 10.
Apple just unveiled iOS 10 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Among the new features is a smarter Photos app for making, storing, sharing, and revisiting your memories.
Facebook launched its new Moments photo-sharing app back in June 2015. Now the social networking giant is pushing hard to get users onto the new app... by threatening the deletion of auto-synced photos.
The Dutch company TomTom is best known for making GPS navigation devices, but did you know that it's also a player in the action camera market? The $300 TomTom Bandit action camera just got a software update that makes it even more attractive for underwater shooting: it can now auto-correct colors while submerged.
Adobe today announced its latest updates to Lightroom and Camera Raw. In addition to new lens support and various bug fixes, the updates bring a brand new feature called Guided Upright -- it's a tool that lets you easily straighten lines in photos.
Google just made Apple's 'Live Photos' feature a whole lot more usable. No, that's not a typo, a new iOS app created by none other than Google just took the neat-but-often-ignored Apple feature to the next level.
Instagram just released version 8.2 of its iOS app. Among the "bug fixes and performance improvements" is a new iOS extension that lets you post directly to Instagram from elsewhere in iOS.
Have a virtual reality headset and enjoy browsing Instagram photos? Instamuseum is a new app that lets you combine those two things: it turns Instagram accounts into a virtual reality museum that you can "walk around" in.
VSCO has announced that it's redesigning its popular mobile camera app for both iOS and Android. The new app will be focused on both creating and consuming content, increasing the app's strength as a photo sharing social network.
Want to see the power of ReelSteady's software based image stabilization for After Effects? The video above shows a crazy wingsuit stunt by BASE jumper Graham Dickinson and his friend Dario. The GoPro HERO footage has been stabilized using ReelSteady as a "stress test."
Not so long ago I posted a little rant against Lightroom on Reddit. I use Lightroom on a daily basis. It's a great piece of software, and it does two things very well: cataloging and RAW processing. My problem is with the interface.
Photographers are always telling each other to print their photos, but at the same time, services keep springing up that let you do the exact opposite: digitize your prints. Photomyne is one of these services, a feature-rich smartphone app that lets you turn your old prints into digital files faster than anything else out there.
Curious what film would work best in any particular situation? Or where you can send that film off to be developed? Or where to buy more film if you're running low? If you shoot Kodak, the company's Professional Film App can answer all of these questions and more.
Adobe announced today that the next Photoshop CC update will contain a brand new feature called Content-Aware Crop. It will let help to fill in gaps in your photos while you're using the crop tool to rotate images or expand canvases. The 2-minute video above is a sneak peek demo at this powerful tool.
The creators of Scanbot—an app that lets you quickly and effectively scan documents using your phone's camera—have turned their attention to your old photos. Their new app Unfade promises to make digitizing old prints a snap, and features some built-in color restoration to boot.
Twitter announced a big change today that may help it become a much stronger player in the photo-sharing space: the company will no longer be counting photos toward the 140-character limits for Tweets.
The times they are a-changin' at Instagram, or at least they're about to be. Hiding inside the recently refreshed photo sharing app's code are four unreleased features that a keen-eyed engineer has discovered.
