Articles tagged "software"

Adobe's latest addition to Camera Raw is a Super Resolution feature, which quadruples the pixel count of your Raw files and, in theory, doubles their linear resolution. Does that mean that you really don't need more than 12 or 16 megapixels anymore? We've put it to the test.

In our latest software shootout, we pit Adobe's Camera Raw against Capture One Express Fujifilm, included for free with every Fujifilm camera. Can you get all you need with the free option? For a lot of people, it looks like the answer could be yes.

ON1’s next Photo RAW 2021 update will let you create custom keyboard shortcuts and macros to speed up your editing workflow.

Skylum today announced Luminar AI Update 2. The free update includes significant improvements to Sky AI, including the ability to show sky replacement reflections in water.

Adobe has released a slew of updates for Lightroom, Lightroom for mobile and Lightroom Classic.

The first major update to Capture One 21 is available now. The update adds new features, improved functions, additional camera and lens support and squashes bugs.

When Olympus released the E-M1X sports camera in late 2019, the company also released a modern editing app called Olympus Workspace. Is it fully featured and fast enough to replace an Adobe-based editing workflow? Let's find out.

A new version of Avalanche helps convert image catalogs from Aperture and Lightroom so they can be used with Luminar AI.

Canon has announced a new computer-vision artificial intelligence system, and it underpins a brand-new iOS app, Photo Culling. Canon's new app helps you organize the photos on your smartphone by grading them and recommending images for deletion.

Affinity Photo has long been a strong competitor to Adobe Photoshop. With its new version 1.9 update, Affinity Photo is an even stronger photo editing application. Available for macOS, Windows and iPad, Affinity Photo 1.9 adds many new features and promises improved performance.

ON1 has announced that its Professional Plugins are now supported in Capture One. This includes ON1 Effects 2021, ON1 Portrait AI 2021, ON1 Resize 2021 and ON1 HDR 2021. Plugins are available individually and as a bundle that includes all four plugins.

Last year we covered PhotoStatistica, a macOS app that visualizes the EXIF data of your images and shows you the ways in which you capture photos. A new version was just released, introducing many improvements, including a new UI and new filtering tools.

A new license or upgrade for Capture One for Fujifilm, Nikon and Sony used to cost $129 USD. A newly-instituted price hike has increased the cost to $199 (or $149 for an upgrade). Alongside the price change, Capture One has added a seat to new license purchases. Subscription costs have also increased.

Exposure X6 is the latest Adobe Lightroom competitor from Exposure Software. With great image quality, impressive speed and powerful features, it's a compelling option that doesn't require a monthly subscription.

New software development kits (SDK) may not be the most buzzworthy announcements, but Sony's new camera automation SDK could be very interesting to product photographers.

The Nik Collection 3 by DxO has been updated to version 3.3, adding 25 new presets to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary.

Canon has announced the macOS version of its EOS Webcam utility is out of beta and now supports 43 Canon cameras. The Windows version has also received a version 1.1 update.

Kodak Professional Select is a new image selection software. It relies upon AI to analyze, grade and select the best images from a given batch.

Adobe's virtual MAX 2020 conference is underway and Adobe has announced updates to its family of software, including Adobe Photoshop 2021. The newest version of Photoshop includes AI-powered features such as Neural Filters and Sky Replacement.

Skylum Software has teased a new feature for its upcoming photo editor, Luminar AI. In 2021, Luminar AI's AI Sky feature will be able to create realistic reflections in water. This feature has been requested by users since Luminar's first AI Sky Replacement tool launched in 2019.

Now, more than three dozen Sony camera systems can be used as webcams with macOS computers using little more than a single USB cable and the latest Imaging Edge Webcam utility.

The negative conversion plug-in for Lightroom 6 and Lightroom Classic has received one of its biggest updates to date, including an editing engine rebuilt from the ground up, a slew of new tools and a LUT-based emulation option for Lightroom Classic users.

Adobe has announced Photoshop Elements 2021 and Premiere Elements 2021. The new applications include new features, including some powered by Adobe Sensei AI, and additional Guided Edits.

Using new GPU optimization some features of Exposure X6 now run up to three times faster than before. The new version also brings easy color select-and-replace masks and enhanced noise reduction

In addition to supporting new Raw formats, the success rate for reconstructing Raw image and video files has been improved to 99% and 96%, respectively.

Ahead of the holiday release of Luminar AI, Skylum Software has shared new information on how Templates work in Luminar AI and how photographers will be able to use them to find inspiration for ways to edit their images and save a lot of time.

We know, we know, you're sick of the webcam news, but Nikon users can now use ten of Nikon's most recent DSLR and mirrorless cameras as webcams on their macOS computers.

The update comes only a handful of weeks after the digiKam team published the major version 7.0.0 release in late July

The AI could be used to increase the FPS in existing videos, providing content creators with a new way to update old videos and generate slow-motion footage.

Open source software such as darktable is a free alternative to expensive standalone and subscription-based photo editing software. In its latest release, darktable version 3.2 includes many new features and performance improvements.

In its largest update yet, digiKam adds support for more than 40 additional raw image formats and gets a huge neural network face recognition upgrade.

The security update comes on the heels of a report that certain Adobe programs had flaws that could potentially allow for code to be executed on unsuspecting customers' computers.

Just about every major camera manufacturer is getting in on the 'use your camera as a webcam' trend, and starting in August, Nikon shooters can join the fun.

ON1 joins the ecosystem game with ON1 360, a subscription service and mobile app for iOS and Android that syncs the photos you choose between devices and ON1 Photo RAW on the desktop. Here are our first impressions using it.

ON1 has launched ON1 360, the latest version of ON1 Photo RAW 2020 with ON1's new Photo Mobile application for iOS, iPadOS and Android mobile devices. The new solution syncs raw processing between your mobile device and computer.

The macOS app will parse through the EXIF data of your photos and visually breakdown the results into bar, pie and pivot charts using more than 20 variables.

DxO has announced Nik Collection 3. The popular plugin suite includes a new Perspective Efex plugin for fixing distortion and adjusting perspective, bringing the total number of plugins in the suite to eight.

Earlier this month, Capture One showed off an upcoming update during a livestream presentation. Today, Capture One released this teased update, which is free for current Capture One 20 users.

In a first for Capture One, the company showed off a trio of new features ahead of a free update, scheduled to release by the end of May. Among the new features, Capture One 20 will get new heal and clone brushes plus a new before/after view.

Frustrated that you can't get in the studio with a model to test and experiment with lighting set-ups and shooting ideas? This set.a.light application might just keep your creativity on the boil until the world returns to normal