Getting a landscape file to feel deep and directional often comes down to what you do in editing, not what you did in the field. This matters to photographers who want edits that look intentional without turning every frame into a loud, crunchy mess.
Have you ever gone back to look at older images you created? Whether they’re from six months ago or six years ago, there are often elements worth revisiting. As our eyes mature and technology advances, we’re able to see opportunities to refine those images in ways we simply couldn’t before.
Aperty, professional portrait retouching software, has released a new update designed to integrate more seamlessly into photographers’ existing workflows. Here are the details from Aperty.
The update reflects months of direct collaboration with users and marks a strategic shift toward deeper plug-in support, improved performance, and long-term workflow stability.
This week marks the return of the Sundance Film Festival to Park City, Utah. The festival showcases dozens of new documentaries, shorts, and feature presentations, as well as a variety of panels of interest to independent filmmakers.
CYME has just announced Peakto 2.6, the latest version of its AI-powered media manager for Mac, introducing what is now the most comprehensive AI-driven culling and deduplication tool available for photographers and visual creators.
We all want our photos to pop. That desire drives us to experiment with sliders, presets, and AI tools that promise to transform our images into something extraordinary. But there is a fine line between "enhanced" and "radioactive," and most of us have crossed it without even realizing it. Your desire to make a better image is not the culprit.
While gear reviews can offer a lot of secondhand insight and opinion, there’s nothing like being able to try out the camera for yourself. While there is no way for us to let everyone interested try out the camera physically, this might be the next best thing.
Current owners of Luminar Neo are getting a holiday update with some new and unique features. Besides the usual bug fixes and some speed increases, Neo has added what they call an AI Assistant.
Switching away from Photoshop sounds tempting until you hit the parts of editing that punish you for being slow or slightly sloppy. If you shoot in rough light, push exposure hard, or do regular cleanup work, the gap between “good enough” and “clean” shows up fast.
If you shoot Fujifilm and you care about getting a finished look straight out of camera, the difference between film simulations and recipes changes how you set up every shoot. Get it wrong and you either lock yourself into a look you did not mean to commit to, or you spend time “fixing” files that never needed fixing.
When video became the main way to capture attention, the environment for photography began to disappear. To survive, it must once again become an object, not content.
Affinity is now completely free, and the video shows how to use it to build full edits without paying Adobe. If you wonder whether you can cut Lightroom Classic and Photoshop from your workflow, seeing this process in action gives you a clear sense of what you gain and what you give up.
“Why does that dog look green?” From that startling comment, my parents discovered that I was red-green colorblind. But is it possible to be a colorblind photographer? We examine this interesting dilemma.
You spend hours dragging sliders when you would rather be out shooting. Cutting that processing time in half starts at the moment you press the shutter. Treating capture as a deliberate commitment instead of a casual tap changes how consistent your files are and how long you stay stuck at the computer.
Your fancy camera is useless if your display’s colors aren’t accurate. For all you know, you might be looking at an entirely different image. Here’s how the new entry-level Datacolor Spyder Express has come to meet you halfway.
When you’re reading this, I am in Tokyo, Japan, visiting the gallery opening of the 2024 Fujifilm GFX Challenge Grant winners. In late 2024, I got the message that my pitch was selected and I would be getting $5,000 to photograph Canadian drag performers! A dream come true! Read on to find out about my pitch, the selection process, and how I captured the images!
Skylum has announced a significant fall update for Luminar Neo coming in early November.
This version includes powerful enhancements to existing features as well as innovative new additions such as a Luminar Neo ecosystem, restoration, and an AI editing assistant.
Luminar Neo Ecosystem and Spaces
Pen tablets are probably the only precision tools shared by photographers and illustrators, and they play a key role in the creative process. However, they could never really be that functional without a keyboard or mini keyboard on the side. This aims to change that.
Zoner Studio is rolling out its highly anticipated fall update today, bringing a suite of intelligent features designed to help photographers spend less time culling and more time creating.
Peakto is releasing a 2.5 update to its excellent media management tool that frees it from the cloud while allowing robust search of all your media assets and enabling team sharing.
Today, we’ll have a look at the brand-new color calibration tool from Datacolor: the Spyder Express.
Calibrating your monitor is kind of like brushing your teeth. It’s boring to talk about, and you don’t always feel like doing it. But if you don’t, sooner or later, you’re going to regret it.
For photographers seeking the perfect balance between in-camera creativity and personal style, the quest often leads to a crossroads. On one hand, you have the instant gratification of in-camera film simulations offered by brands like Fujifilm, which deliver stunning, ready-to-share images straight out of the camera.
If you’ve dreamt about editing and retouching on a large screen with a pen, this might be the perfect time to achieve that because new-generation pen displays have arrived, and they’re now as good as, or probably even better than, your computer monitor.
AI-based software company Evoto held its first-ever live-streamed event today to announce its latest build, Evoto 6.0, featuring numerous powerful updates designed to streamline retouching for photographers. Evoto Instant, a new platform aimed at event shooters seeking the fastest possible turnaround and delivery of their images, was also announced.
Maybe you can relate to this. You have filing cabinets full of negatives and transparencies you shot back in the film days that have remained untouched for decades now. What do you do with them? I’ve tried various scanners over the years, and none have given me the results I want. So I stopped bothering and continued to let them sit in their dark tombs, unloved and forgotten.
AI tools for editing are becoming more advanced, and some of them promise results that would have taken hours only a few years ago. Are they ready to compete with Photoshop?
DxO PhotoLab has been the editing choice for many photographers since 2017, specializing in correcting optical defects in camera bodies and lenses. It has a large following, but Adobe, with Photoshop and Lightroom, has always been the 800-pound gorilla commanding much of the market.
As a photographer, have you gotten around to using CFexpress cards despite the higher costs? If not, then this new option just might convince you to change things up.
Photographers love to brag about their hours in the edit cave. There’s a strange badge of honor attached to 2 a.m. Lightroom binges, as if suffering through endless slider tweaks somehow makes the work more “serious.” But here’s the truth: clients don’t care how long you sit in front of a monitor. They care about turnaround time, consistency, and whether the final product looks polished.
A growing number of photographers and creatives, once loyal to Adobe, are walking away. Is this the slow decline of Adobe's monopoly on the creative world?
There is an ever-increasing number of features added to our cameras, designed to simplify tasks such as focusing and determining the correct exposure. I love the process of taking pictures, and this move toward a reliance on automation is of little interest to me.
Is there a difference between blending and compositing in post-processing? Some photographers make no distinction between the two. But for many, there's a notable difference. It can represent the difference between deception and handling noise or dynamic range.
As AI tools improve, we all have to ask: What kind of creativity do we value most? Is it the idea? The process? The perfection or the imperfections? That’s not a bad thing. It’s a sign that art is still evolving.
Editing photos doesn't have to feel like a chore you dread. Instead, it's possible to streamline your approach and eliminate the clutter that's keeping you stuck at the desk.
You alone probably don’t need a charger this powerful, but if you work with other creatives in a team, this new GaN charger from UGREEN should probably be on your table for efficient, organized, and safe charging.
Converting color images to black and white in Lightroom often produces flat, uninspiring results that lack the punch of dedicated monochrome cameras. The secret isn't in expensive hardware but in understanding how to properly handle the conversion process and subsequent editing workflow.
I've always been skeptical about the introduction of AI into popular applications such as Photoshop; however, as time went on, I started experimenting with specific features, and eventually, Luminar Neo emerged as a standalone and plugin app for Photoshop and Lightroom. Naturally, my curiosity was piqued, and I had to test it out.
Modern photo editing software offers unprecedented creative control, with thousands of filters, adjustment options, and effects available at the click of a button. Adobe Lightroom alone provides over 100 adjustment sliders, while apps like VSCO offer hundreds of preset filters.
Adobe has released, without fanfare, a work-in-progress camera app for iPhones that shows tremendous promise, and I think it will excite photographers. The app is part of Adobe's Indigo Project.
Here are some Adobe-provided sample images:
I’ve been a fan of SanDisk’s portable Extreme Pro SSDs for many years. When I travel with my laptop, I take a couple with me so I can back up my photos and videos each day. The ones I’ve been using transfer data up to 2,000 MB/s (sustainable read and write speed). They’re also very durable, with good water and dust resistance (IP65).
Peakto has been a premier Mac app for organizing and finding photo assets, using AI and metadata to quickly find images no matter where you have hidden them. Now, they are adding powerful collaboration tools and tools for pre-editing video, and we know a lot of our readers are also creating videos as well as still images.
Today, we will take a look at new tools inside DaVinci Resolve Studio that help improve efficiency in the early stages of your editing workflow.
Editing black and white photographs effectively isn't as simple as flipping a switch in Lightroom. Getting the process right has a significant impact on the quality and authenticity of your final images.
Wacom’s Cintiq line offers precision illustration and editing pen displays with high-resolution screens and reliable color accuracy. These three new options take them to a whole new level.
The Thunderbolt and broader USB-C hub space is crowded with options from budget to premium, offering a dizzying array of ports. ProGrade, makers of excellent high-performance storage, are diving into this space with their first hub: a Thunderbolt 4–based hub designed around their card reader ecosystem. Does this hub have what it takes to stand out from the crowd?
Adobe's new Adaptive Color Profile uses AI to analyze an image, adjusting color, tone, and contrast of raw images. Unlike presets, Adaptive Color Profile is not a "one size fits all." How would it work with night photography images, which are notoriously difficult for AI to interpret?
An unusual Soul Service Station in the desert. Long streaking stars. Surreal light painting. We take you behind the scenes to reveal how you can also create photos such as this.
The Nik Collection has been a powerful and useful tool for photo editors since DxO rescued the software from Google in 2017.
The software is used in Photoshop and has a variety of color and black-and-white effects that have proven popular.
This version 8 of the collection is a big leap over previous upgrades.
Boris Oliviero, the product director, says:
More is sometimes less. High dynamic range can be great for bringing out the details in your photographs’ shadows and highlights, but it can also make them look rather flat, clinical, and lifeless. If you want to give your images impact and emotional depth, consider trying high contrast instead.
Panorama photography presents unique challenges, both in the field and during post-processing. For years, PTGui has been a favorite powerhouse tool for photographers needing more control and better results than the basic stitching tools provide.