XPPen Says Its Magic Drawing Pad is the First Pro Mobile Drawing Tablet
XPPen's new Magic Drawing Pad is what the company calls the industry's first professional and mobile standalone drawing tablet, described as "a magic studio on the go."
Wacom Adds Two New Size Options to its Cintiq Pro Display Tablet Line
Wacom has announced the addition of two new display tablets that join the Cintiq Pro 27.
XPPen Artist Pro 16 (Gen 2) Review: Incredible Pen Accuracy, Affordable Price
There's no denying that in the last few years, we've seen a veritable explosion of pen and display tablets from competing companies. At this stage in the competitive game, the hardest part for creatives has been figuring out what makes one tablet better or different than another at each budget level.
Wacom One 13 Touch Display Tablet Review: Designed For Beginners but a Hidden Gem For Pros
Wacom recently expanded its lineup of entry-level pen tablets, adding the $600 Wacom One 13 Touch Tablet, the first pen display in its category to feature 10-finger multi-touch gestures.
New SKN Plugin for Photoshop Simplifies Skin Retouching Without AI
NBP Retouch Tools has announced a new $99 SKN plugin for Photoshop that promises to transform skin editing into a seamless process that's efficient and enjoyable for retouchers, and doesn't just rely on artificial intelligence (AI) "magic" to complete.
XP-Pen’s Artist Pro 16 Display Tablet Brings Industry First 16K Pen Pressure
XP-Pen has announced the second-generation, $599 Artist Pro 16 display tablet for artists and retouchers. The updated tablet boasts a 2.5K resolution with a stylus that leverages an X3 Pro Smart Chip with a "world-first" 16K pen pressure technology.
Retouch4Me’s New Photoshop Plugin Makes Color Matching Effortless
Retouch4Me has announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) plugin called Color Match that can be used to apply colors from a reference image to a second working image.
Wacom’s Four New Affordable Pen Tablets are Designed for Beginners
Wacom has announced four new Wacom One brand tablets designed for beginning artists seeking an affordable and portable pen tablet or display tablet solution for their creative work.
Huion Kamvas Studio 16 Review: More Than a Pen Tablet, Not Quite a Laptop
Pen display tablets have been getting better and more affordable, so it makes sense that all-in-one devices like the Huion Kamvas Studio 16 would follow the same path. But what makes this device a little different is it's a pro pen tablet made for designers, illustrators, and photographers to help them get their art created quickly and easily while also being a fully functional Windows PC.
Capture One Update Adds New AI Tools and Wireless Tethering for Fujifilm
Capture One has announced the 16.2 "spring" update that adds new features and artificial intelligence (AI) powered tools designed to speed up users' workflows.
Luminar Neo Update Adds Undo/Redo Feature and Improves Performance
Skylum has released update 1.9 update Luminar Neo that brings a heavily-requested Undo/Redo functionally to the artificial intelligence-powered photo editing application.
Xencelabs Pen Display 24 Review: Putting Wacom on Notice
At this point in the "Tablet Debate", the argument about who makes the best tablets for photographers will shift back and forth between Xencelabs and Wacom depending on who you talk too and what deep-down preferences they have. While Wacom may have reigned supreme for a very long time, it's hard to deny that with the launch of the $1,899 Pen Display 24 Studio Series, Xencelabs has officially given Wacom a reason to worry.
Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 Review: One Display Tablet To Rule Them All
Wacom's Cintiq Pro 27 might be expensive, but it is one of the most immersive, accurate, and stable display tablets ever.
Veikk Voila L Pen Tablet Review: Punches Way Above its $40 Price
There are now tons of pen tablet makers out there and the options have given new users far more power to choose from a wide variety of styles, features, and obviously prices. The new $40 Veikk Voila L gives beginners an impressively competent "bare-bones" pen tablet to learn on for scant little investment.
Compare How 7 Pro Landscape Photographers Edited the Same Photo
Every photographer tries to develop a personal look to their images, and that is no better shown than by asking a group of them to apply their style to the same photo.
Luminar Neo’s Extensions Bring Incredible New Features For Photographers At Every Level
Skylum Software has added several powerful extensions to the already impressive Luminar Neo application including Upscale AI, Focus Stacking, HDR Merge, Noiseless, and Supersharp AI, bringing the currently available total for the application to seven. These new tools give creatives an impressive amount of control over their images, expanding the current functionality of the photo editing program to a full-blown "suite".
Use Magic Light AI To Add A Dash Of Wonder To Your Holiday Photos
Luminar Neo has a new extension available just in time to add something special to your holiday photos. The Magic Light Extension, may not be as big, flashing, and extensive as some of the others available within the system, but what it does bring is a lot of fun and adds a little (or a lot) extra sparkle to your shots.
Portrait and Headshot Retouching with Luminar Neo
Portrait retouching can get overwhelming sometimes with the steps you need to take to make your shots look absolutely perfect. Maybe these steps aren't that hard, but they can definitely be very time-consuming, so finding any way to speed this process up to make better and more efficient use of your time is a high priority for every photographer. Using Luminar Neo to tackle these steps can make retouching a breeze using just a few tools and leveraging some of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) built into the application.
ACDSee Photo Studio Mac 9 Adds Facial Recognition Photo Organization
ACDSee has released Photo Studio Mac 9, what it calls both a fully-featured Digital Asset Management (DAM) tool as well as a non-destructive editor.
The Best Drawing Tablets for Photo Editing in 2024
Anyone who has spent any extended time editing photos with a mouse will find that often, it's just not the best experience. That's why so many editors switch to a drawing tablet (also known as a pen tablet), but picking the best one has gotten surprisingly challenging in recent years.
NBP CMX2 Photoshop Plugin Updated, Now Faster and Works on Apple Silicon
NBP Retouch Tools has released a long-awaited update for the Color Map X Panel for Adobe Photoshop that brings full functionality to Apple Silicon (M1/M2), new Windows, and is fully compliant with the new Adobe UXP.
The ‘Most Significant Update’ to ON1 Photo RAW is Now Available
The "most significant update" in ON1 history is available today. The 2023 version of Photo RAW features the Super Select AI Tool, which the company says is a "giant leap forward" in technology and makes editing tasks much easier.
DxO Adds Powerful New Tools to PhotoLab 6 and ViewPoint 4
DxO has announced updates to its PhotoLab 6 and Viewpoint 4 software packages adding artificially intelligent (AI)-powered features and new tools for photographers.
Photographer Explores the Damage Humans Have Done to Earth
Photographer Anya Anti has created 2.5 Seconds, a climate change awareness project that she hopes will start a conversation about the issue and educate more people about the facts, the urgency of the crisis, and the seriousness of its consequences.
Huion Inspiroy Dial 2 Pen Tablet Review: Perfect Price to Performance
Huion says its new $160 Inspiroy Dial 2 (Q630M) pen tablet is designed to enhance and improve every feature from the previous tablet and "boost efficiency of creatives to the next level." I think the company achieved that goal.
Retouch4Me Review: AI Retouching That Actually Works
Some may enjoy editing, but most photographers will agree that actually taking the photos is the best part of the job. So finding a way to speed up and reduce the amount of time spent at the computer is more than welcome, which is where Retouch4Me comes into play.
Heal OFX is the First AI-Powered Plugin That Retouches Skin in Video
Retouch4me has announced the first neural network-trained plugin for DaVinci Resolve that automatically retouches skin imperfections extremely quickly and entirely on its own.
How To Edit Digital Images to Look Like They Were Shot on Film
Travel photographer and content creator Pat Kay has released an extensive and detailed video on how to edit a digital image in Adobe Lightroom to make it look as though it was captured on film.
This Complete Six-Part Portrait Retouching Video Series is Totally Free
Professional photographer and YouTuber Sean Tucker -- known for his informative and inspiring content centered around street photography -- has quietly released a completely free series of focused tutorials on portrait retouching.
Luminar Neo Adds a One-Click Portrait Background Removal Tool
Skylum has announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool in Luminar Neo that it says will help eliminate the time-consuming process of masking and background removal in portraits.