Software

Consider this scenario: as a professional photographer, you were all set for an exciting photoshoot with your client. But despite your best efforts, it didn’t go as planned.

Neurapix is AI-powered software designed to help professional photographers save time and energy when processing and editing photos. While there's a lot of great discussion about AI in photography, many users feel comfortable with AI that reduces friction in their workflow.

Less than two weeks after significant outrage concerning Adobe's Terms of Use, fueled in part by poor communication, a lack of trust, and good old-fashioned misinformation, Adobe has delivered its promised revised Terms of Use, complete with new explainer text and assurances.

ON1 Photo RAW 2024 launched last November, quickly followed by version 2024.1 in December and 2024.3 a couple of months ago. In typical fashion, ON1 has released a significant overhaul about half a year later, bringing version 2024.5 to photographers later this month.

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Adobe in the United States District Court, Northern District of California, alleging that the software company obscures fees and makes it illegally tricky for users to cancel software subscriptions.

Skylum has announced the release of its revamped and expanded Luminar for iPad (and now iPhone) with Luminar Mobile. As of today, the updated apps are available for the iPad, iPhone, and Apple Vision Pro devices.

BeReal, the "anti-Instagram" photo-sharing app that had a brief stint atop Apple's App Store charts in 2022, has been purchased by French app developer Voodoo for a whopping €500 million, approximately $537 million.

Following Apple's WWDC keynote, Apple executives Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spoke with tech YouTuber iJustine about the company's AI future and hinted at a possible Google Gemini collaboration.

At Tuesday's Design Made Easy event, Adobe gave its Adobe Express platform a professional polish.

The confusion and anger surrounding an Adobe Terms of Use update last week caused Adobe to revisit its language and communications at large. Beyond a blog post late last week, Adobe today published another blog post, announcing plans for direct communications with customers and an updated Terms of Use.

Four years after Apple first launched widgets for iOS 14, the feature gets new customization upgrades and sees its effects felt throughout the operating system.

Apple's 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote address, considered by industry analysts to be one of the most important ever, has focused heavily on artificial intelligence (AI).

Blackmagic Design has announced Blackmagic Cloud Sync, a new feature of its Blackmagic Cloud storage platform that enables cameras to sync media into a DaVinci Resolve bin while the camera is actively recording.

Adobe released a new blog post explaining its changes in its Terms of Use, when Adobe applications may access a user's content, and whether a user's content will be used to train Adobe's artificial intelligence (AI) models and services.

Sony announced a significant update to its Monitor and Control (M&C) app, bringing the mobile platform to version 2.0 and adding powerful new features for content creators.

To celebrate the seventh anniversary of its award-winning photography app, Halide, the team announced Kino, a pro video camera app for iPhone.

Retouch4Me has announced its latest photo-editing software 'Adams,' which serves as a centralized interface for batch retouching with Retouch4Me AI-Based plugins.

ProGrade Digital's Refresh Pro software is designed to address multiple issues that arise with memory cards over time, including the fact that they get slower with age and use. It originally launched in 2019 for $30 but, citing the "vital" importance of what it can do, the company is making it free.

When someone deletes images from their iPhone, they expect the photos to be truly gone. However, an unusual bug appeared in iOS 17.5, which has since been replaced with an urgent iOS 17.5.1 update that brought photos back from the dead.

The popular online editing application Canva received a significant makeover today at the Canva Create Event in Los Angeles.

Pixelmator Pro 3.6, code-named Archipelago, brings powerful AI-driven masking features to the popular photo editing app for Mac.

Skylum has announced Project "Barcelona," a new desktop application designed specifically for professional portrait retouching built in collaboration with portrait photographer Julia Trotti.

Continuing its push for commercial and enterprise customers, Adobe has announced Express for Enterprise, promising to deliver automated content creation, AI tools, and ease of use.

Fuzzy Door Tech, the technology division of Seth MacFarlane's production company, announced the ViewScreen Scout beta, an app for real-time scouting for the iPhone.

Adobe is bringing even more Firefly-powered artificial intelligence (AI) tools to Adobe Lightroom, including Generative Remove and AI-powered Lens Blur. Not to be lost in the shuffle, the company is also expanding tethering support in Lightroom to Sony cameras.

Meta isn't done trying to compete with BeReal. The Instagram owner is reportedly working on a new feature similar to BeReal's casual selling point.

Camera Bits are introducing C2PA Content Credentials technology into Photo Mechanic to help in the fight against disinformation.

Capture One's move away from perpetual software licenses marches on and it has replaced its Multi User license system with what it calls Capture One Studio for Teams. It has some improved features to be sure, but it also costs upwards of 344% more per year.

OpenAI today released GPT-4o, the company's new flagship AI model. The "o" stands for "omni," and reflects GPT-4o's ability to handle multiple types of inputs at once, including audio, images, and text.

Dehancer is known for its plugins for photo and video editing software, but the web browser-based Dehancer Online lets users go plugin-free -- no app downloads required.

I'm Karlis, a professional photographer with 13 years of experience and a focus on weddings. I've been using AI image editing for over two years, during which I've tested various tools and now work with the German provider, Neurapix.

While today's Apple event centered on the iPad lineup and redesigned iPad Pro, the tech company also offered some extra surprises, one being the announcement of an update for Final Cut Pro on Mac, an upgraded Final Cut Pro for iPad app, and a new Final Cut Camera app for iPhone and iPad devices.

DxO has announced the latest edition of its photo editing suite, Nik Collection 7. The update introduces a significant set of advancements for Nik Color Efex, better U Point local adjustment technology, workflow improvements, and several other improvements.

There has been a decades-long relationship between photographers and Adobe. However, the company's recent public discourse and marketing have made some photographers feel uneasy and, in some cases, furious.

Cyme, the developer of macOS photo cataloging app Peakto and the new AI-powered image search tool, Peakto Search, has announced that the latter app is coming to Capture One Pro.

Photo management software Excire Foto has been updated to Excire Foto 2024, bringing significantly improved AI-powered photo filtering, culling, and organizing tools to photographers.

Zoner Photo Studio X's spring update promises to bring "the world's best HDR photo editing" to the Windows-based photography app, alongside other new features and improvements.

At its MAX event in London, Adobe announced a huge update to its artificial intelligence system Firefly. Version 3 of the platform is significantly improved over previous iterations and promises to be able to make photorealistic images with greater variety.

Audiio, a leading provider of licensed music for creators, has announced Elements, a new way for people to mix and match components from multiple tracks to create something personal and unique.

Image editor Picsart announced "Smart Background," a new tool that automatically creates an AI-generated environment based on the subject.

Adobe has announced its new Adobe Express mobile app is available now to all users.

Retouch4me has released an update for its free Adobe Photoshop panel that allows users to edit their images through a single interface with the plugin(s) installed locally or through the cloud, extending its original functionality.

Instagram users may have noticed a new colorful circular logo at the top of their messages interface lately. It is Meta's AI-powered chatbot.