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Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 07, 2024  | 

Skylum, makers of popular AI-powered Luminar Neo, has announced the release of Aperty, an all-new professional portrait editing solution that promises faster natural-looking results and abundant advanced features.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Sep 27, 2024  | 

It comes as no surprise that many professional and some high-output amateur photographers use AI-assisted editing apps and/or plug-ins to perform standard image editing operations in bulk. Pros have outsourced common, repetitive editing tasks (like knocking out backgrounds) for years. In fact, beginning back in the good ol' days of analog photography, studios routinely outsource retouching and — of course — film processing and printing.

Shutterbug Staff  |  Sep 18, 2024  | 

Zoner has released several major upgrades to ZPS X that improve portraits, enhance workflow, obliterate chromatic aberration and leverage AI to make photo editing easier and more powerful than ever before.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Sep 13, 2024  | 

Deleted images do not “disappear.” Formatting a memory card does not “erase” the images.

Never sell or loan a memory card unless you’re willing to risk the possibility of sharing every image, video, tax return and any other file that’s ever been saved to it. The same applies to hard drives, SSDs and USB drives. Here’s why it happens, and how to protect yourself.

Shutterbug Staff  |  Sep 13, 2024  | 

You may have seen rumors recently about Adobe stealing content from creators and using it to train their stable of applications and/or for other reasons. To address these unsubstantiated claims, Adobe sent a notification via the Creative Cloud dashboard that explains Adobe that does NOT steal your images to train Firefly, their robust AI engine, or for any other purpose.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jul 26, 2024  | 

Remix is an AI engine that generates images you can do something with immediately. The gateway enticement is Magic Camera, a snappy app that lets you shoot a selfie, add a text prompt, and simply be amazed. Even if you've become weary from reading about AI this and AI that, go to Magic Camera (it's 100% free) and give it a shot. Link in story below.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Sep 15, 2023  | 

When Adobe announced how they’re implementing Firefly, their potent AI engine, across their various software applications, they also declared the adoption of a consumption model for access, i.e., a Generative Credit plan that regulates usage. Here are the details including the number of tokens each app receives monthly. 

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Sep 13, 2023  | 

Adobe announced major AI-generation news and the best thought-out, purposeful rules to protect nearly everyone in the source artist-to-end-user chain. Here are the major takeaways.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Sep 01, 2023  | 

Our local supermarket has Halloween candy and scary witches on display, so that can mean only one thing in New Jersey—school is about to open. Annually, each and every elementary school student produces, on average, 331* metric tons of precious artwork; add another 11* tons if they attend summer camp. Some of the items are small enough to fit on the refrigerator door, and all of them are worth keeping forever. Short of renting offsite storage space to house and curate their youngsters' souvenirs of academia, how do sentimental parents cope?

[ *Author's estimate based on absolutely nothing. ]

Shutterbug Staff  |  Aug 04, 2023  | 

Show your best images to the world and earn bragging rights when your photograph is selected to join the Shutterbug Photo of the Day gallery. It doesn't matter whether you shoot with a smartphone or a Hasselblad—if you have the talent, let it be recognized.

Dan Havlik  |  Dec 10, 2020  | 

What if there was one app that could fix the worst case of blur in a photo with just the click of a button? Well, there's a much-talked-about new piece of image software that promises to do just that and, according to a recent test by software guru Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect, it's surprisingly effective.

Shutterbug Staff  |  May 13, 2019  | 

Astrophotography apps are almost as indispensable for shooting the night skies as your camera, lens and tripod. But which astrophotography apps are essential?

Dan Havlik  |  Oct 15, 2018  | 

It took them long enough. That’s what some Photoshop/iPad users might be saying after hearing today at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles that Adobe will finally be releasing a real version of Photoshop for the iPad in 2019.

Barry Tanenbaum  |  Nov 10, 2017  | 

Harold Davis came to iPhone photography about seven years ago by the usual route: “I’d been hearing about it,” he says, “and I needed a phone. I got the phone, and then it was, Okay, now let’s see what the camera can do.” What’s happened after that may or may not be considered usual.

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