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Adobe Photoshop Elements 25 — Top New Features & My 7 Favorite "Old" Features
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Dec 06, 2024  | 

Exciting AI-powered features added to Adobe Photoshop Elements make version 25 more powerful, more fun and even easier to use. Here's a recap of the top 5 new features, with before/after examples, plus the 7 preexisting features I find most compelling.

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Adobe Updates Lightroom and Lightroom Classic - Video Support Tops the List of New Features
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jun 14, 2022  | 

 

Today, Adobe Lightroom and Lightroom Classic gained video editing tools, significant improvements to the Preset functions, AI-driven red-eye correction capability and other enhancements. Similarly, the Discover sharing feature was bolstered with new remix options.

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Adobe Updates Photoshop Elements & Premier Elements with Emphasis on Adobe Sensei AI
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 19, 2023  | 

The 2024 editions of Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements leverage Adobe Sensei AI-powered features and gain additional automated one-click creative edit options plus slick new GUIs. The corresponding web companion apps have also been enhanced. Here's a summary of what's new.

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Adobe's Generative Credit Plan Explained in Detail
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. 

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Adventures with a Click Bit Photo Activity Tracker
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Sep 01, 2016  | 

My friend Kasia (not her real name) bought a Click Bit bracelet last month to track her photography activity and immediately became obsessed with recording every detail of her camera life. Not passively obsessive, either—she’s become a compulsive, fanatical, evangelistic, raving maniac. But let’s go back to when she was still just chubby Kassie…

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Alien Skin Exposure 5
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jul 21, 2013  | 
It used to be fun selecting film and developer combinations back in the Dim Ages of Photography, before digital happened. You can enjoy nearly the same experience today by processing images with Alien Skin Exposure 5.
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Alien Skin Exposure X Imaging Software: A First Look Review of the Film Emulation Tools
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Dec 11, 2015  | 

Just in time to add some nostalgic film effects to our holiday photos, Alien Skin has released Exposure X, a greatly enhanced refinement of its popular imaging software package. In its latest incarnation, Exposure X is designed to deliver image organization and editing—and it does an elegant job of both. But its greatest strength, as I see it, still lies in accurately emulating the look of film of all types, vintage and modern. Here is a close up view of how that works.

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Amazon’s Best Selling Cameras, Lenses & Tripods
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Aug 26, 2022  | 

Because Amazon is one of the world’s largest marketplaces for digital camera gear, checking out the best sellers in photo related categories provides a sense of what’s popular—and maybe even a few surprises.

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An Interview with Alamby Leung, “That Girl” Formerly with the DigitalRev Photography Show
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 08, 2015  | 

Alamby Leung is known to millions of photo enthusiasts as the girl who used to be a background character on the YouTube channel DigitalRev TV. We caught up with her recently and asked her how life is after leaving that popular show. 

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Annoyed by Your iPhone’s Default Photo Settings? So are we.
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jan 06, 2023  | 

If you have a recent iPhone it probably defaults to Live Photo and stores images as files that have an HEIC file name extension. Here’s how to change the default to shoot regular still images and save them as the JPEGs you’re accustomed to. But HEIC (High Efficiency Image File format), better known as HEIF, is better than JPEG in many ways, and after learning a bit about it you may not want to revert back to your old, comfortable JPEG files.

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Aperture Priority is the Best Auto Exposure Mode for Mirrorless and DSLR Cameras
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jun 09, 2021  | 

Your mirrorless or DSLR camera probably offers four Exposure Modes: Program, Aperture, Shutter and Manual. Program Mode is easy, Manual Mode is slow, and Aperture Priority Mode is the best in most situations. Here’s why.

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Aperture Priority vs. Shutter Priority
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Apr 29, 2016  |  First Published: Apr 28, 2016  | 

Many, many years ago, in a silver halide universe far, far away, amateur photographers were divided into two camps. Their differences were not based on political orientation. And they had nothing to do with the Cold War, nationality, ideology or anything else so trivial. What was the division that separated otherwise rational people? Read on…

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Are Camera Prices Lower in Japan Since $1 = ¥149?
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 13, 2023  | 

Can you buy a camera at a better price in Japan? Many factors suggest that this could seem like a logical conclusion. The Japanese yen has fallen in value against the US dollar over the past several months and now hovers near the psychological barrier of ¥150 to one US dollar. Skyrocketing inflation, stagnant export sales and a weak yen are exacerbating the struggles of the Japanese economy. Has this cocktail of financial havoc generated bargains for photographers?

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Are You Prepared to Protect Your Photo Stuff From Cataclysmic Disasters?
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Sep 06, 2018  | 

Okay—you’ve taken all the prudent measures to protect your home and family from Mother Nature’s temper tirades. That’s terrific! But what about your cameras, image files and photographs? Whether or not you acknowledge global climate change, you’ve got to admit that there’s been some vicious weather juju going on recently. Let’s talk preparation.

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Arrows
Jon Sienkiewicz Blog  |  Nov 07, 2009  | 

I collect arrows. No, not the kind with feather fletching that archers launch from bows. I collect images of arrows, mainly those painted on pavement. I guess I have hundreds of them, but sadly they’re scattered all over the place because I didn’t realize I was collecting them until a couple years ago.

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