Levels often seems like a boring old tool in photo-editing programs. Maybe you’d use it to quickly fine-tune contrast by dragging the left and right sliders inwards. But it’s good for much more than that.
Let’s face it, not everyone who ends up in front of your camera is going to have amazing white teeth like the model in the photo above. There are going to be times when you have a client whose teeth might be stained.
You may recognize Aftershoot as one of the leading AI culling apps on the market. Now, Aftershoot is revving up its mission to streamline the entire post-shoot workflow for photographers with its AI editing software, Aftershoot EDITS.
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".
Imagen has come a long way in the months since PetaPixel initially reviewed the service with the improved workflows and further enhancement of Talent AI Profiles. These AI profiles have been created by industry-leading photographers with unique editing styles so that any user can instantly edit their own images to match them instantly.
DxO has announced updates to its PhotoLab 6 and Viewpoint 4 software packages adding artificially intelligent (AI)-powered features and new tools for photographers.
Zoner Photo Studio X has announced a new update that brings changes to the user interface as well as extends its support for RAW formats.
Google researchers have unveiled a new artificially intelligent (AI) program that has incredible denoising ability allowing users to "see in the dark."
One of the most (seemingly) basic tools in Photoshop is the venerable Crop Tool. Used to cut way portions of an image to only leave the desired area, the Crop Tool might appear to be simply a one-trick pony. However, there is a lot more to here than you might think. In this guide, I’m going to break down the various options for making the best use of the Crop Tool.
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.
Picsart has announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that it says removes noise, upscales images to higher resolution, and improves overall image quality.
Picsart has gone from an upstart app for kids to one of the most popular photo editors on the planet: its users create more than a billion edits a month. Now it has its sights set on Adobe's dominance.
Skylum has updated Luminar Neo with artificial intelligence-powered masks that will analyze all the elements present in an image and identify them as separate elements automatically.
When thinking about the Curves tool in Adobe Photoshop, the phrase “With great power, comes great responsibility” is a thought that comes to mind. Curves is the most powerful tool in Photoshop for adjusting brightness, contrast, tonality, and color.
Zoner Photo Studio X has announced its Spring 2022 update that brings a variety of tools that allows users to customize their interface in addition to an improved Viewer, optimized Catalog, and more.
Like most photographers, I love black-and-white infrared images. There is a purity and intensity to a well-crafted monochrome image, and there are many software options out there to help convert an image to black-and-white.
Early access to Luminar Neo is giving us the first look at its four prominent features: Dust Spot Removal, Relight AI, Powerlines Remove tool, and Luminar Share app. With a full release around the corner, is Luminar Neo living up to expectations?
Fylm.ai was originally created with professional video color grading in mind, but the browser-based editor recently added support for RAW photos. That sounds nice, but does it have something unique to offer a relatively crowded space?
The Tone Curve in Capture One 22 is by far my favorite tool to edit images, but it's usually one of the most difficult commands to get to grips with. It can definitely be one of your most valuable assets if you want to improve your editing skills.
The color grading panel in Lightroom offers powerful tools that can completely transform an image. Photographer Kevin Raposo has put together a brief tutorial to show what these tools are capable of.
Darktable, RawTherapee, digiKam are undeniably powerful applications for processing RAW files. But while they offer a plethora of advanced editing and processing tools, using them to get the result you want requires and patience and some effort. But who has time for that?
Photos of Kate Middleton and other high-profile women have been heavily Photoshopped as part of a domestic violence campaign on Instagram, which has sparked anger from some users while others have praised it for raising awareness.
The digital payments company Square has launched the Square Photo Studio app which allows sellers to easily take "professional" product photos from a mobile device and sync them to their online store or Square item catalog for free.
Although Photoshop has many tools to cover practically any post-processing desire, it is daunting to newcomers as a result. To help make the program easier to jump into, photographer PJ Pantelis has shared a brief tutorial that equips photographers with a handful of top tools to get started in Photoshop with ease.
Capture One was recently updated with a dedicated before and after tool, and new powerful heal and clone tools. Before this update, the healing and cloning tools were unusable to me, but now with this update, I can save the time of moving back and forth between Capture One and Photoshop.
XP-Pen's new Artist Pro 16 is one of the most compelling entry-level graphics displays on the market. It's lightweight, well-built, highly customizable, color-accurate, and all for a price that will make Wacom owners blush. It's not a perfect product, but no other Full HD pen display on the market offers this kind of experience and build quality for just $450.
The founder of lutify.me has launched fylm.ai, a modern AI-powered and browser-based approach to motion and stills color grading that helps users easily match and extract color, emulate print film, share and collaborate remotely, and more.
Adobe has unveiled the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022, which utilizes its Sensei AI technology to do all the heavy lifting -- just like the previous version -- and introduces new tools, like moving overlays, artistic photo effects, easy object selection and removal, and more.
Don’t toss a photo just because the lighting isn’t the best. You may be able to bring it back alive in post-production. As photographers, we face countless different scenarios and it's nearly impossible to get the perfect shot 100% of the time.
There's one piece of equipment that the working photographer uses more than any other. No, it's not their camera. Not their favorite lens either. I'm talking about their photo editing monitor.