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Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Feb 28, 2025  | 

Adobe just announced Photoshop for the iPhone, a free app with an upgrade path to a new paid Photoshop Mobile and Web plan that provides more advanced tools. Adobe indicated the Android version will be available before year's end.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Feb 21, 2025  | 

Unless you live on flotsam near Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean, you've already heard that Adobe Photoshop is now 35 years old. Photographers, graphic artists and other visual creatives—but especially photographers—should by all means celebrate.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Feb 14, 2025  | 

Adobe just announced major enhancements to AI-powered editing in Lightroom & ACR, a text-to-video app based on Firefly, Project Neo (3D design app), significant speed enhancements in Illustrator and more.

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.

Shutterbug Staff  |  Jan 07, 2025  | 

Real estate photographers face challenges unique to their industry, but the potential for high volume and revenue growth is outstanding. What are the obstacles and, more importantly, how can modern AI technology—plus hard work and talent—overcome these barriers and lead to greater success and much less stress?

Shutterbug Staff  |  Dec 08, 2024  | 

They say the best gift is something you want to own yourself. If that's true, this gift list hits the jackpot 10 times over. We want them all! You will too. Check this out.

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.

Shutterbug Staff  |  Nov 15, 2024  | 

The new AI-driven features in Zoner Photo Studio X elevate the platform directly to the professional photographer’s workstation. Even more important, ZPS X puts powerful pro tools into the hands of amateur enthusiasts who want pro results — at prices absolutely everyone can afford. Despite the amazing power, using ZPS X is easy enough even for smartphone-shooters to reap enormous benefits.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 15, 2024  | 

AI Retouching is coming to Aftershoot soon, and you're invited to join the waitlist to become a beta tester.

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.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Aug 23, 2024  | 

Can you call Michael H. Steven’s pictures photography? No — no way. In all but a few cases, no camera was involved. Creative imagery? Yeah, that label might work. But where does it fit? Somewhere near the intersection of Photography Parkway and AI Boulevard. Under the blinding neon sign of a mildly demented mind. But is it art?

Shutterbug Staff  |  Aug 14, 2024  | 

Professional photographers are always on the lookout for reliable ways to streamline their workflow, automate tedious, repetitive tasks and bolster the consistency and clarity of their creative vision. Thousands of photographers worldwide have incorporated Neurapix into their post-processing procedures. Two highly successful pros tell us why they adopted Neurapix and how Neurapix has affected their businesses.

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