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DxO has announced DxO PureRAW 2, the latest version of its impressive app for pre-processing RAW images. The original version delivers excellent results, combining demosaicing and denoising into a single RAW processing step. The latest major release, PureRAW 2, offers improved speed and...
French company DxO has long been known for their superb and highly advanced photo software, specifically their OpticsPro lens corrections and Prime noise reduction technology. The company has always been at the cutting-edge of getting the most from your photographic equipment, and last year set out on a...
If you have a lot of images in your Lightroom library, it can be very difficult to find a specific image or keep your library organized. There are numerous built-in tools you can use, such as creating keywords, but if you are trying to add keywords to tens of thousands of images, it can take a long time. Fortunately, the...
For a long time, photographers wanting an all-in-one RAW editor and photo manager solution have looked to Adobe Lightroom, and with good reason. However, Alien Skin, a software company known primarily for their plug-ins and excellent film emulation software, has a Lightroom competitor of their own, Exposure. With the...
Note: I reached out to Tony Kuyper, the creator of TKActions Panel, earlier this year about reviewing his software. A copy of TKActions Panel V5 and an accompanying video guide series were provided to me for the purposes of this review. No other compensation was received.
Back in 2006, photographer Tony...
There are many location apps available for photographers on iOS, but one of the best I’ve seen is MapAPic from Sea to Software. The developer recently updated his app and reached out to me with a code to download and try the app for myself. No other compensation was received for the review below.
Basically, MapAPic...
The built-in camera app on iPhone is fine for many purposes, especially for capturing quick shots. However, it does not offer the user much in the way of control. There are numerous third-party apps which aim to put the photographer in control of their iPhone’s built-in camera in ways the native camera app does not. A...
Portraiture 3 is the latest version of Imagenomic's popular plugin. The new version includes many improvements to features, performance and the user interface. I have had a chance to try the plugin for myself and it's certainly an impressive piece of software.
Apple’s last Aperture release was in 2014 and the company has no intention of bringing it back. Instead the Cupertino-based tech giant offers users Photos for macOS which is a far cry from Aperture in terms of power and versatility. What Photos does offer is a cloud-connected experience and a simple user interface. Apple...
When photographers are looking for a RAW editor, there are a variety of choices and two of the most popular are Adobe Lightroom and Phase One Capture One Pro. I have been a longtime user of Adobe Lightroom, but I’ve always been interested in Capture One Pro after hearing many photographers talk about its excellent RAW...
MacOS photo editor Picktorial launched in early 2016 before being updated to version 2 that summer. The affordable and powerful RAW editor has now reached a new milestone, version 3. For owners of the first two versions, the new update is totally free, by the way.
What’s new with Picktorial version 3? The major new...
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We covered Photolemur in early December. Since then, I've had the opportunity to use the MacOS software and see what it offers photographers.
To brief you on what Photolemur is, it is a piece of automated photo editing software. Claiming to be the "world's...
A couple of weeks back, Macphun unveiled Luminar, their MacOS all-in-one RAW photo editor. I’ve been testing a pre-release version of the software for the past week and I have to say, it’s quite impressive. It strikes a great balance between accessibility and power. It also plays nicely with other applications, allowing...
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FotoJet.com is a one-stop shop for online for photo editing, creating photo collages and graphic design. You can easily create collages, photo grids, photo cards and more using a wide variety of templates. Recently, FotoJet added the ability to edit your...
Macphun's Aurora HDR 2017 software made its debut for Mac OS X on September 29, and I've been fortunate enough to have a review copy of the software to work with this past month. I've been very impressed with the software and think that it's an excellent option for photographers looking to either make better HDR images...
You know the trouble with autofocus. It can be, well, off a bit. That's why there's an autofocus adjustment option buried deep in your camera's menu system.
And you know Michael Tapes Design invented the LensAlign as the optimal target for evaluating just how your camera/body combo autofocuses (because you've read...
There are two things we really like about StickyAlbums.
First, it gets your images off your hard drive and onto your client's mobile devices where they can easily share them. It gets your images easily off your hard drive, we should say, with a Web-based tool called Builder that assembles a branded (your brand) slide...
We're not nostaglic. But we really like shooting with old lenses (even if -- or because -- they don't autofocus).
And while our old-lens images captured on our pristine digital sensors look about as modern as a kit lens, we really thought they deserved a more analog rendering.
It turns out there are a few options for...
Ever try to get rid of those geometric distortions you get when you shoot wide angle or even just point up at a tall building (or any building)? Did you think your image editing software was going to make it easy? Are you alive to tell the tale?
Well, survivor, you can relax because DxO Labs has wrapped its anamorphic...
When we last took a look at ACDSee Pro in 2007 we lauded its affordability and capabilities but complained that it had remained a bitmap editor in an age of non-destructive editing. That isn't an issue any more. And the good news doesn't stop there.
We cover the latest advances and report the modest system...