In an attempt to fight misinformation spread through photos and video, Instagram is adding a "False Information" warning to the platform. Using a combination of user reporting and automation, suspected content will be sent to independent fact-checkers for review and flagged as "false" if it turns out to be fake.
Instagram has launched a new anti-bullying feature that uses AI to recognize potentially offensive language and warn you that you're about to post something that could get you in trouble.
Great news for photographers who like sharing their work on Twitter, but hate what the site does to the quality of your images: the social media giant has announced that it will no longer compress your JPEGs to death. No more transcoding that totally destroys your photography.
The worldwide hiding of Instagram likes has begun, and even if you're not affected by this "test" yet, it's likely you will be soon. If you want to avoid this and continue to see your like counts, there is a solution in the form of a free browser extension called "The Return of the Likes."
Google announced today that it will be adding a private messaging feature to Google Photos, making it possible to share one-off images and video with friends and family without having to create a shared album or leave the app.
In a technical article published earlier today, Facebook has reveled some of the Machine Learning (AKA 'AI') technology that decides what photos show up on Instagram's "Explore" tab—the main way IG users discover new accounts and content.
Wikimedia Commons has millions of public domain and freely-licensed photos available to the world, and now there's a powerful new tool that helps you dive into the ocean of imagery for exploring or locating exactly what you're looking for. It's called wikiview, and it's a graph-based visual image navigator.
Canon has announced that it's shutting down Irista, the cloud-based photo storage solution it launched for photographers back in 2014.
It seems that a Google Street View car in the UK literally ran into a problem when trying to go under a very low overpass in Northern Ireland. Based on the photos it captured and uploaded, it looks like the camera was knocked over onto the roof of the car.
Shutterstock has rolled out a new background removal tool to its Shutterstock Editor online image editor, allowing users to quickly and easily extract subjects from their backgrounds in any photo.
First off it’s not you, it’s Instagram. It comes down to a few very simple things that can be summed up in three words and two reasons: chronological order and saturation.
If you go to Instagram and search #120mm or #120mmfilm right now, and you will find over 740,000 posts by budding and experienced film photographers alike. There's only one problem: there is no such thing as 120mm film. And a new movement/website is doing its best to set the record straight.
The folks over at Canva have put together a fun, interactive Color Wheel tool that might just be the easiest, most enjoyable way way to play around with and learn about color theory.
Back in 2008, an app called I Am Rich appeared on the iOS app store for $1,000. The now-infamous app did absolutely nothing—it was just a status symbol that proved you had money to burn. Now, a website and Instagram account called Golden Price Tag is following in I Am Rich's footsteps, and rich kids are paying $1,000 and up for the "privilege" of having their photos featured.
If you're new to film photography, or you're curious about the variety of film stocks that are out there, there's a useful new website you should definitely check out. It's called Filmtypes, and it's a database of emulsions that wants to help you find your next roll of 35mm film.
Following a shocking expose from Business Insider, major Instagram ad partner Hyp3r has been banned by the platform for tracking millions of users' locations, saving public Instagram Stories, and automatically scraping user data.
Creative Commons just launched CC Search, a search engine for CC images that has been in beta testing for years as it was being developed and polished. It's a portal to over 300 million CC images from 19 different collections.
Flickr has just announced a new partnership with the image monitoring and legal-tech service Pixsy to create the world's first fully integrated end-to-end solution for combating photo theft.
Have you been asked to shoot photos in exchange for "exposure" but aren't sure how many "exposures" your photography is worth? Figuring out a exposure exchange rate can be tricky, and that's where Photography Domination's handy Exposure Calculator comes in.
Want to turn some old black-and-white photos into color photos? There's an amazing new website called Colourise.sg that'll get the job done for you. It uses deep learning AI to create remarkably realistic results in just seconds with zero work on your part.
After being acquired by Yahoo in 2005, Flickr became bound to its new owner's authorization system, meaning all users needed to have a Yahoo account just to use Flickr. Flickr has just announced a new login system that finally frees the service from Yahoo.
Canon has announced the launch of RAISE, a new AI-powered photo sharing platform that's geared toward helping photographers improve, organize, and share their photos.
NVIDIA's mind-blowing AI that generates faces of people who don't exist recently led to an unofficial website called thispersondoesnotexist.com that lets anyone generate a new random face in an instant. Creative director Mike Solomon has built upon the idea with a new website called Judge Fake People that experiments with letting the public rank the attractiveness of AI-generated faces.
NVIDIA got the world talking in December 2018 after showing off a new AI that can create ultra-realistic photos of people who don't actually exist. Now there's a website that lets you generate these imaginary portraits yourself. It's called thispersondoesnotexist.com.
Here's an unusual way to obtain the simple stock photo you need: Photo Creator is a web app that lets you build your own realistic stock photos. The site features thousands of models, objects, and backgrounds that you can combine into your own creations.
After being acquired by SmugMug from Yahoo, Flickr announced in November 2018 that it would be limiting free accounts to 1,000 photos and videos total. The major change takes effect tomorrow, and if you're over the limit, your extra photos will may be permanently deleted.
Interested in contributing your photographic talents toward the collective knowledge base of humankind? Check out WikiShootMe. It's a tool that can show you locations near you where Wikipedia is lacking photos in.
Have you ever had a moment in your life where a friend, co-worker or client comes to you and ask you for a specific image and you just can’t find the original? If you’re like me with a few Lightroom catalogs containing ten thousands of photographs, then this situation will likely happen.
If you often find yourself needing to remove the backgrounds from photos but don't have the time to manually do it, you might want to bookmark Remove.bg. It's a simple free website that automatically removes the backgrounds from photos in just 5 seconds with a single click.
If you'd ever like a quick way to share a particular photo along with the Exif metadata showing the equipment and camera settings it was shot with, ExifShot is a new desktop web app for you.