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.
Zoner Studio has been named EISA Photo Software of the Year 2025–2026, an honor that highlights its balance of accessibility and professional-grade performance. The award, presented by the Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), recognizes products that stand out for innovation, usability, and impact across the photo industry.
When it comes to retouching software, many photographers have felt disappointed by the promise of an easy yet professional editing solution. Could Evoto AI be the dream editing suite we have all been waiting for? Today we take a look under the hood.
VSCO has introduced VSCO Workspace, a studio and client-management platform that integrates the Táve Studio Manager CRM and adds new tools aimed at helping photographers run day-to-day operations in one place. The software is designed to scale from solo operators to multi-person studios, with an emphasis on workflow automation and business organization.
We talk a lot about sharpness and resolution, but when’s the last time your image made someone feel something?
DxO Photo Raw has long been my go-to software for producing high-quality results. Whether you use it as a standalone or a plugin for other software, there’s no doubt that its suite of tools is a worthwhile investment for serious photographers who want the absolute best results.
Many of us use our work in programs beyond what can be done in Lightroom and Photoshop. Just like Adobe is being challenged by outstanding alternatives to Lightroom for digital asset management, the CorelDRAW Suite is winning over users for other functions.
Disk Drill has been around a long time. Its job is to recover files from damaged disks such as hard drives and SD cards—pretty much anything that holds media files.
Zoner Studio’s Spring 2025 update introduces a smarter, faster way to edit photos, built around a powerful new AI-driven Local Adjustments tool. Formerly known as Zoner Photo Studio X, the software has been renamed to reflect its evolution—but everything familiar is still here, just with more power under the hood.
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.
When dealing with high ISO and fast-action photography, noise and image sharpness are constant challenges. Choosing the right tools can mean the difference between usable shots and missed opportunities, especially when your lighting conditions aren't ideal.
Adobe's recent shift toward the AI-focused Creative Cloud Pro plan makes now an ideal moment for photographers to reconsider their reliance on Adobe products. With the company automatically migrating subscribers to this pricier tier starting June 17, 2025, costs for individuals on annual plans are increasing from $60 to $70 monthly, and from $90 to $105 for month-to-month subscribers.
Locationscout is a sort of Swiss Army knife for all kinds of useful photo information. It comes in a variety of flavors: iOS, Android, and a full-featured web app.
What Does It Do?When you open the app, you'll see a selection of countries and places to explore.
Pushing your camera's ISO is often a necessary evil in photography. Whether capturing the ambiance of a dimly lit wedding reception, the sprawl of the Milky Way, or the split-second action of wildlife, higher ISOs let you get the shot. The trade-off, however, is digital noise—that grainy, color-speckled texture that can obscure fine details and degrade the overall quality of your images.
A few years ago, I first heard about the retouching software Retouch4Me when one of our readers asked me to review it for the Fstoppers Youtube Channel. I immediately fell in love with the software and added it to my workflow. This year, they have added some features we have all been waiting for, so let's look at what is new with this powerful skin retouching software.
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.
Skylum is rolling out a spring update to their popular AI-based editing program, Luminar Neo. Users should start seeing the update today when they launch the application.
We spent some time on the new DxO PureRAW 5 when it was announced in February, but now it's out and I've had a chance to give it a run.
Culling is an essential part of a photographer’s workflow. However, sorting through thousands of images takes up precious time and focus. This article looks at how AI-assisted tools like Imagen’s Culling Studio help speed things up without losing creative control.
We've had a look at Aperty before, the new portrait editor from Skylum, which also offers the popular AI-based photo editor, Luminar.
The company says update 1.3.0 introduces powerful new retouching tools, significant UX improvements, and expanded language support, making portrait editing more efficient and precise than ever.
Adobe's subscription model isn't just a matter of price—it's a matter of dependence. For anyone seriously involved in photography, this is something you need to understand clearly.
For Mac users, Peakto software has always been one of the premier solutions for cataloging and easily finding your media because it automatically sorts your media as it comes in, using AI to help you find images by content, colors, time of day, camera settings, and many other attributes.
took a look at the first version of Color Theory Pro last year and found it interesting and useful. Now, version 2 is out, and I find it more interesting and more useful.
The app is a plug-in for Photoshop and is aimed at landscape photographers and astrophotographers. This is the first version that deals with night sky images, so I'll start there.
Switching from Lightroom to another digital asset management and development tool can be daunting for photographers. There are very good reasons to, and DxO PhotoLab 8 is one of the most compelling options. Here’s why and how a Sony Ambassador made the switch.
When I am developing an image, I want to get the best possible results. Over the years, I have tried many different programs side by side, and for final image quality, DxO PhotoLab stands out. Here’s why anyone serious about their photography should consider it.
Photographers are increasingly concerned about AI's impact on their art. While huge arguments rage on about AI and copyright theft, artists are adopting two new tools that prevent their work from being scraped. It’s time photographers started employing them, too.
In what seems like a time-honored tradition every time Adobe announces a price increase, photographers are looking at alternatives to the company's subscription-based Creative Cloud photo editing tools.
CYME announces that Peakto Search, the Mac-only plugin for Lightroom Classic and Capture One, is back with two new features designed to make creators’ lives easier: Instant Speech Search and Custom Metadata Display.
Small, uncomplicated automated telescopes for casual viewing seem to have taken off. Among the most popular are the Seestar, the Dwarf2, and the newer Dwarf3.
The problem is that the included editors are pretty basic, but there's enough data in these little scopes' images to get a better result than the included apps can provide.
Do you ever get tired of manually searching for, tagging, culling, and organizing your images? I can relate.
Adobe has once again kicked photographers in the teeth with a huge increase in their subscription charges of 50%. They have also stopped new subscriptions for the cheapest photography plan. What can we do about it?
The holidays are the time for family, good food, and bokeh—lots and lots of bokeh. That's why in this article, we're going to discuss how to take buttery, clean bokeh photos and how to edit them with ZPS X and its latest update.
What Is Bokeh?
Adobe is adjusting the pricing of its popular photography plans, a change that impacts many users who rely on Lightroom, Photoshop, and other tools for their work. This is the first price hike since 2013, so understanding what’s changing and what it means for you is important to avoid surprises or unnecessary adjustments to your workflow.
The manufacturers of ON1 Photo RAW are releasing a new product under their new Pro brand. The first product, Lightpanel, uses AI-driven features that allow professional photographers to cull, review, and edit thousands of photos.
One skill a photographer must develop is determining which elements in a scene have the most potential to draw the viewer’s attention in the final image. Reducing the visual mass of distracting elements is crucial in directing the viewer’s attention. Sometimes, it is a matter of physically moving an object in the composition.
I covered the announcement of the latest release of Radiant Photo last month. It looked promising, but reviewers didn't have it in hand to take a deep dive into the software. Now I've had it for a few days and want to share my thoughts and experiences.
First, I'm looking at the Radiant Photo 2 software from the perspective of a landscape photographer.
Just when you thought you'd seen just about every editing tool, Radiant Photo comes along with a solid update to its Radiant Photo Editor that I first took a look at in 2022. Since then there have been many improvements and new tools.
This latest version is packed with features, new tools and improved workflows.
Picture controls, picture styles, and picture profiles are a few of the names they go by, depending on your camera brand. But what are they, and how can they help you create images and make editing easier?
For me, there are two heavy hitters in the AI retouching market: Evoto and Retouch4me. But is one better than the other?
In recent years, the demand for user-friendly design tools has skyrocketed. With more businesses and individuals needing quick, high-quality designs without advanced design skills, solutions like remove.bg have become popular. This AI-powered tool stands out by providing a streamlined, automated service that photographers can rely on to achieve clean, precise extractions in seconds.
DxO has continued to innovate with tools for serious photo editors, and today they are releasing a significant update to ViewPoint 5, their tool that fixes geometry, perspective, and shapes. Anyone who does architectural or city photography is going to want this tool if they don't have it already.
The Fall upgrade from Skylum will have users excited, as it contains new features that add a lot to the program's many capabilities, but users will also see some long-standing requests granted. The fall update is available for download or upgrade on October 10.
Zoner has announced a significant update to their photo editing and management software, Zoner Photo Studio X. The fall 2024 release introduces several AI-powered features, improvements to output quality, and enhanced customization options.
Last week, Nikon released a quintet of LUTs for its Z line of cameras that bring a touch of RED color science to the Nikon world.
Apple has announced the release of iOS 18, a major update for iPhone users, available now. This new version brings a variety of features focused on personalization, privacy, and intelligence-driven user experiences.
DxO, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, has done a solid update to PhotoLab, its class-leading RAW editor.
This latest version, PhotoLab 8, can really push the quality of your RAW files, something DxO has been an expert at for years.
ACD Systems has announced the release of ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2025, a software update designed to enhance image editing and management workflows with the integration of AI-powered tools. The latest version brings significant performance boosts, utilizing GPU acceleration to power AI-driven features like the newly introduced ACDSee AI Super-Resolution.
We've covered Mylio products before; recently, they relaunched their Mylio photo manager. Think of Mylio as having some of the features of the Lightroom catalog, with some higher-end features as seen in Peakto.
Skylum, the company that offers AI editor Luminar Neo, has some very desirable updates coming in October.
According to the company, this fall upgrade introduces cutting-edge enhancements driven by advancements in generative AI technology, along with several highly requested features.
Here are some of the highlights of what is coming:
When it comes to photo editing software, the selection out there is not huge by any means. However, the programs that are available to us at least stand out from one another in interesting ways. Today we’re going to talk about Zoner Photo Studio X, more specifically the 2024 update.