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Skylum has released a Luminar 2018 update that brings its new AI Sky Enhancer filter to the image editing software. The new tool works "almost instantly" to improve the sky in photos, only requiring the user to adjust a slider, according to the company. AI Sky Enhancer... more

Can you do a professional retouch of a portrait photo using only Photoshop’s Brush tool? That’s what the Brush Tool Challenge is all about, and here’s a neat 22-minute video by photographer and retoucher... more

Sigma has announced the prices for three of the lenses it announced at the Photokina trade show in September. The 40mm F1.4 DG Art lens for full frame cameras will cost $1400 while the 56mm F1.4 DC DN for crop-sensor mirrorless cameras will cost $479. The Sony E-mount version of its 105mm F1.4 Art will sell for around $1600. All three will be available this month.

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A new startup company called Catalog has raised $1.5 million to drop the cost of advertising photos for businesses from hundreds or thousands of dollars to just tens of dollars per photo. As you might expect,... more

A few years ago I was shooting at dawn in East London for one of my books. I walked past a butcher and thought, “awesome!” Capturing people up at dawn can be really hard as they are either not around or it can be difficult to find people doing interesting things.

The scene was great. I liked the blue early morning light on the buildings contrasting with the yellow tungsten inside. It really was a perfect combination of elements. I lifted my camera, shot this, but I... more

The Swedish city of Malm has an unusual new museum called The Museum of Disgusting Food. It’s a collection of some of the strangest and most universally revolting foods collected from cultures around... more

Yesterday Flickr made their first big restructuring announcement since recently being purchased by SmugMug. Beginning next year on January 8th, Flickr will limit free accounts to 1,000 photos. The previously offered free 1 terabyte of storage... more

Red Hydrogen One hands-on

The story of a flagship smartphone launch in 2018 typically goes like this: "This is a phone. It's the same as the phone that came before it, only it has a new processor and bigger screen. It's screenier. Also, the camera hardware is mostly the same but software improvements give it a better Portrait Mode and HDR capabilities. Something something... more

Apple has released iOS 12.1 for iPhone and iPad on Tuesday. As promised, the update brings a fix for the "beauty filter" issue that resulted in soft selfies and... more

Pixelmator has announced plans to release an image editing app called Pixelmator Photo for the Apple iPad. The new app utilizes Apple's Core ML machine learning technology to power multiple features including ML Fix, an algorithm trained using 20 million professional images.

Pixelmator Photo is an AI-powered app offering non... more

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