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Nik Photoshop Plugin Filters Collection by DxO Software Review
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jan 03, 2019  | 

If you do any photo editing, you’ve probably heard about the collection of plugin filters called Nik. The package has been around for close to 15 years, and now it’s in the DxO barn so we can be confident that it will remain compatible and relevant for years to come.

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10 Point REVIEW of Luminar Neo Image Editor
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Dec 01, 2023  | 

Luminar Neo from Skylum Software balances dynamic presets with essential editing tools and extreme ease-of-use. Newbie or vet, you should take a closer look.

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10 Point Review of Radiant Photo AI-Powered Image Enhancing Software
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Dec 23, 2022  | 

Radiant Photo, version 1.1.0.243. Review.

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10-Point Audit: Neurapix AI Plugin for LR Classic
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jun 21, 2024  | 

Ever wish you could wave a magic mouse and edit a large batch of Raw images in Lightroom Classic—in your own personal style—in just a minute or two? Meet Neurapix AI

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10-Point Software Audit: Gigapixel AI
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jan 17, 2025  | 

Gigapixel AI allows users to enhance, upscale, sharpen, denoise, recover and reimagine images—even low-res, pixelated dreck—and render stunning, sharp, printable images. Here is our 10-point audit.

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13 Most Exciting Photo Accessories I Used in 2024
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jan 10, 2025  | 

Fellow photographers, we were blessed with a bumper crop of cool new stuff in 2024. I'm including lenses and software in this roundup, but not cameras. Here are 13 of the absolutely best products I had a chance to play with last year. I snuck in a mildly controversial number 14 at the end because I couldn't resist.

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2013 Top Products Of The Year: The Best Gear In 40 Categories
Edited by George Schaub  |  Sep 13, 2013  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2013  | 

Every year member magazines from the Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) gather to consider and vote on the top products of the year in 40 categories, ranging from cameras to tripods to software and printers. This year’s selections represent technological sophistication along with features and functionality that make them leaders in their respective categories.

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5 Lightroom/Photoshop Plugins This Landscape Pro Can't Live Without (VIDEO)
Ron Leach  |  Jan 29, 2024  | 

Last week we featured a tutorial explaining a foolproof way to install, organize, and manage image-editing plugins so they work most efficiently for your specific needs. We're following that up today with what one pro says are "the five best plugins for Lightroom and Photoshop."

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5 Things I Didn’t Know About Alien Skin Exposure X4: Software Review
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jan 24, 2019  | 

What I don’t know would fill a 300TB hard drive, that’s for sure. But I thought I had a pretty good handle on Exposure X4 from Alien Skin. I’ve been using Exposure in its progressive incarnations for a long time, so I was really surprised to learn that it has powers I never knew.

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7 More Great Holiday Gifts for Photographers – New and/or Unique Edition
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Dec 18, 2020  | 

Looking for photo gifts that are a little different for the photographers in your life? Start here with our list of the 7 greatest new and/or unique photo gifts in the universe. If you are into digital photography or cameras of any sort yourself, odds are you’ll find something on this list of photo gifts that you’ll want to call your own. We did.

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ACDSee Pro 3; Managing Your Workflow
John Brandon  |  Mar 01, 2010  | 

For the pro photographer, there are two possible scenarios in managing a photographic workflow. One is the scattershot method, the second approach features a clear organizational method.

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ACDSee Pro 5: A New Version Of A Photo Management/Image Enhancement Suite
John Brandon  |  Jul 05, 2012  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2012  | 

With each successive release of ACDSee Pro, the photo management suite adds ever-more-powerful features. In this review I hope to help you decide whether or not its features match up with your own workflow, meet your needs, or even improve on existing features to enhance your photographic creations.

 

In my own workflow, the new version, ACDSee Pro 5, smoothed over a few rough edges in the editing process and made my management chores a bit less time-consuming. The release is not so groundbreaking that it might make you consider abandoning Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture altogether, but there are some pro-level additions that are definitely worth considering. The program never crashed and operated quickly for just about any task on a standard desktop PC. Note I said PC—there is no Mac version available or considered at this point.

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Adobe Adds Exciting Generative Expand Feature to Photoshop (beta)
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jul 30, 2023  | 

Think of Generative Expand as Cropping in reverse gear.  It's mind-blowing. Instead of making the image smaller and deleting pixels, the new feature allows you to expand image content beyond its original borders by using the Adobe Firefly-powered Generative Fill function to create additional content that never existed but blends naturally with the original image. The new content can be an extension of the original data or based on the Command Prompt you type. This description is an oversimplification—read on for some real-world examples you haven't seen anywhere else.

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Adobe Photoshop 6.0
The Editors  |  Feb 27, 2001  | 

Improvements in capabilities and ease of use make the most popular pro image-editing program even better

Adobe Photoshop was introduced 11 years ago this month, and it's been the photo-editing tool of choice for most serious photographers and desktop-publishing professionals ever since. Does that make it the right one for you? Well, if you're serious about digital...

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 10: Aimed At Amateurs, It’s Got Some Pro Tools, Too
John Brandon  |  Mar 12, 2012  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2012  | 

Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 caters to the entry-level crowd, but is imbued with several professional-level tools. Even when a feature is not really intended for serious photographers, there is a goldmine of functionality that could save countless hours. The app is celebrating 10 years on the market. Adobe has slowly revised the workflow, and it’s getting much better.

 

In this version, you’ll first see a start-up screen with two buttons, one for organizing photos and one for editing. It makes more sense to click the button to organize images first, especially if you’re not even sure which images need editing.

When you do, one of the first prompts you’ll see asks how you normally import photos. That’s handy, because even the most experienced pro has to get photos off the camera somehow. You might typically load images onto a network drive, or prefer loading directly off the camera. (An option to scan images seems woefully dated these days.) Whatever option you choose, you can always go back and select a different import default. For now, it just means, when you start Elements 10, the app will automatically look for that specific source.

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