Software and Printing

Adobe just announced the latest version of its consumer-friendly Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2024. The updates address ease of use and a streamlined workflow. Plus, there's no subscription. Both applications are available as perpetual licenses

Is something in your photo distracting the viewer? Sure, you could go old-school and break out the Clone Stamp, but new tools and features, including AI-assisted technologies, give you more options for removing unwanted elements in far less time.

Each of the 1,693 Optics Modules added in DxO Lab's latest update are designed to get optimal image quality from various camera and lens combinations when editing within the company's editing applications.

Darktable 4.2.0 is here, featuring many significant updates to improve overall performance, image editing tools and the user experience. Darktable 4.2.0 is an open-source raw image editor for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Perpetual license owners will receive bug fixes until the next major release, but new the features and functionality you get at launch is what you have to work with going forward.

Pixelmator 3.2 is a major update to the popular macOS image editing app. The new features include brand-new video editing tools and support for additional motion-based designs and file formats.

More than two years after its latest major release, Open Source Raw photo editor RawTherapee has received a new update. Version 5.9 adds many new features, improved tools and expanded camera support.

The free app allows photographers to control and customize various settings for select Tamron lenses using their USB-C Android device.

DaVinci Resolve 18.1 is available now. The free update features support for vertical video resolutions, timeline locking for collaborative workflows, AI-powered audio tools and effects, improved performance and more.

Anthropics has announced the latest version of PortraitPro, its AI-powered portrait editing and retouching app. PortraitPro 23 includes new tools for addressing flyaway hairs and adding backlighting, stylistic creative effects, improved performance and Apple M1/M2 support.

ACDSee Photo Studio Mac 9 has been announced, ushering in new AI-powered face detection and facial recognition tools, key UI improvements, and numerous performance and tool enhancements.

After years of being exclusive to iOS and macOS, the popular multitrack video editor LumaFusion is now available as a paid open beta on Android and Chrome OS.

Affinity Photo 2, a popular alternative to Photoshop, is now available on macOS, Windows and iPad. The new version features an improved UI, many new features, better editing tools and much more.

Capture One Pro 23 is available now. It includes many new features, including Smart Adjustments, faster culling and importing, Layers within Styles, and much more.

ON1 is implementing a few of its new AI-powered editing tools into its 2023 preset suite, including Quick Mask AI, AI Adaptive Presets and more.

Pixelmator Photo 2.1 adds support for importing and applying LUT to images as well as a new EDR Mode for showcasing the most dynamic range possible for Raw images. Also new is full support for iPadOS 16.1, including full use of virtual memory swap for better performance.

Blackmagic Design has announced that DaVinci Resolve is arriving on iPad Pro models later this year. The popular and powerful video editing app will allow users to perform significant post-production on the go with Apple's latest high-end tablets.

At Adobe MAX, Adobe, Frame.io, Fujifilm and RED have announced a joint effort to bring native Camera to Cloud integration into select cameras, including Fujifilm's flagship X-H2S mirrorless camera.

At this year's Adobe MAX, Adobe has introduced new features across its suite of photo editing applications, including Lightroom, Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw. The new versions add major new AI features to make editing your photos easier than ever.

Burst Photo is a new open-source app on macOS that aligns and merges multiple images shot at high ISO to deliver a significantly cleaner final image.

The latest version of ON1's all-in-one raw photo editor, ON1 Photo RAW 2023, is available now. The app includes many AI-powered editing tools designed to make editing more powerful and accessible, including new Super Select AI, Mask AI, and AI Adaptive Presets.

The latest version of DxO PhotoLab 6 includes a new DeepPRIME XD technology that promises even better clarity, especially when editing high ISO images. The software includes numerous new tools and features, like a new working color space.

Copy That for Mac features integrated checksum verification, detailed reporting, presets, thumbnail support, file renaming and automated error detection.

Adobe's Photoshop and Premiere Elements apps make editing photos and videos easy for users of all skill levels. The latest versions add more editing tools, more AI features and improved performance.

You can now access Topaz Labs' denoise, sharpening and upscaling capabilities in a single app that can be used standalone or as a plugin with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom Classic or Capture One.

After spending 15 years manually editing Raw image files out of his camera, Radiant Imaging Labs' founder Elia Locardi created the first photo editing software with what he calls 'intelligent scene detection.'

ON1's annual Photo RAW update has been announced. ON1 Photo RAW 2023 includes many new AI features for making editing faster and easier.

Super Select AI uses artificial intelligence to create smart adjustment masks that can be applied to any image with a single click of your mouse.

Pixelmator has announced that its Pixelmator Photo app for iPhone and iPad is coming to Mac with a new, redesigned native app. Alongside this great news, Pixelmator has also announced that Pixelmator Photo is moving to a subscription pricing model.

Apple has released new software updates that fix significant security flaws on iOS and macOS devices that could have been exploited to provide system-level access to hackers.

LumaFusion 3.1 is the latest version of the popular multi-track video editing app for iOS and iPad OS. The major release includes new color editing tools, including real-time scopes, improved effects editing, better audio editing, and many other improvements.

ACDSee Free is a new raw file browser for Windows from the makers of ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate. The free app lets you browse and sort through many files, including raw images, on your computer drive without any import process.

DigiKam is a free, open-source raw photo management and editor for macOS, Windows and Linux. The team has recently released the latest version, bringing the app to version 7.7.0. The update adds many bug fixes, new features and file support.

Fujifilm has announced the Instax Mini Link 2 smartphone printer. The compact printer features new customizable frames, image modes and a feature called INSTAXAiR that lets you 'draw' designs onto your prints.

DxO has announced Nik Collection 5. The suite of eight plug-ins includes redesigned Color Efex and Analog Efex plug-ins, plus Viveza and Silver Efex, which were rebuilt last year.

Adobe has released a major update to its Lightroom ecosystem that includes video editing capabilities, new preset functionality and much more.

Starting June 30, 2022, these programs will no longer be available to download from Nikon's website. Instead, Nikon is pushing users to its updated suite of image capture and editing apps, including NX Studio, NX Tether, Camera Control Pro 2 and others.

Capture One for iPad will be available on June 28, and it includes many of the features users can find on the desktop version, with more features coming via updates following launch.

ON1 has announced the newest update to its ON1 Photo RAW 2022 all-in-one photo editor. Version 2022.5 integrates Resize AI into the editor, plus it includes improved noise reduction and Sky Swap AI. The update also includes new camera support.

By leveraging hardware acceleration, Adobe has managed to speed up 10-bit 4:2:0 HEVC video export times by 10x on macOS computers and Windows computers running AMD GPUs. Adobe has also sped up smart rendering, added HDR proxies and more.

Collaboration is as important as ever. At this year's NAB show, Frame.io has significantly expanded its cloud-based collaboration platform with new partnerships, apps and features.

The two new features make it easier than ever to create and edit videos on-the-go with iOS and iPadOS devices.

Capture One has announced Capture One 22 (15.2.0). The update includes new functionality, quality-of-life improvements, performance enhancements, new camera and lens support, and bug fixes.

DxO PureRAW 2 is the latest version of DxO's impressive RAW processing application. You can use PureRAW 2 alongside existing workflows with non-DxO software, such as Lightroom, to get the most out of your RAW files before you begin editing.

Have you ever wanted to make a large print from a small file? If so, you've likely used some form of photo enlargement. While traditional technology uses interpolation, ON1's new Resize AI app uses machine learning to recreate detail as you increase the pixels in your photos.

If all goes to plan, Capture One will be available on three different platforms in 2022. Capture One has shared its development roadmap for the rest of the year, including an update on Capture One for iPad and iPhone.

Adobe has updated its popular video editing software, Premiere Pro, adding new AI-powered sound features, improved Speech to Text, and more.