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I’ve personally been following Adobe for years as both a big fan and a harsh critic of their products, dating back to the first time I ever opened an Adobe application in 2002. That outspoken dichotomy is a result of a fact about me: if I love your products, I expect the creators to love and respect them in kind. I want...
What is one thing almost every photographer has on their person every time they shoot? A smartphone. These ubiquitous devices may be viewed with some scorn by longtime photographers, but in addition to being able to capture impressive images, smartphones can act as fully-featured photography assistants that are capable...
Armed with a Fujifilm X-T2 and a trio of Fuji XF lenses: XF 16-55mm f/2.8, XF 50-140mm f/2.8 OIS and XF 14mm f/2.8, landscape photographer Dan Cook headed to Iceland. What made Cook’s trip unique is that he was editing and sharing his fantastic images directly from the field using his iPhone.
Cook notes that "In order...
Instagram "Imagesets" galleries are a feature that has been available for two years to advertisers (and was teased earlier this month via a beta release) but today, they are being rolled out to all Instagram users. In their most recent app release, you can now upload up to ten photos or videos at a time, which will be...
Many mobile photographers rely heavily on Snapseed and Instagram for image editing and social media and both apps have received interesting updates. Snapseed has added curves, a tool which has been highly requested by on-the-go photographers. You can utilize curves to easily adjust shadows, midtones and highlights and...
Magix Software's Camera MX app has been available for Android devices for a while now, and it was recently updated to version 4.0. The app -- which is used by over 1.3 million users each month -- was one of the first to bring live photos to Android devices earlier this year via its Live Shots feature.
The Live Shots...
As part of the Creative Cloud ecosystem, Adobe has launched Spark, a collection of free "integrated web and mobile solutions for creating and sharing impactful visual stories."
Putting the power to create visual content in the hands of content creators -- and for free, no less -- Spark could certainly be of...
There are tons of iPhone camera apps available. Some people get by just fine with the native camera app in iOS. Others want more control over their images. What is true for iPhone users in general is that they tend to like taking photos with their phones. This is evidenced by the top four most popular cameras on Flickr...
According to a recent survey by Photoion Photography School, 68% of adults said that they edit their photos before sharing them. And it seems that more people are not only editing their photos before sharing them, but also turning to apps on their mobile devices rather than editing their photos on full-fledged editing...
It might not be the most widely-used setup for post-production, but Canon’s Digital Photo Professional and EOS Utility programs offer a solid option for anyone looking to organize, process and export their RAW photography workflow.
To help those looking to give its a try, Canon has released six tutorials, each of which...
Photos often live or die by the quality of the sky in the background, and golden hour skies can add a stunning backdrop. But relying on luck to get the perfect sky isn't always a great idea. How can you figure out where the best golden hour skies will be ahead of time, so you can plan accordingly?
That's where a...
iPhoneographers: If you're using an iPhone 4S or later and you've been putting of updating to iOS 8 while the inevitable kinks are worked out, now might be the time to reevaluate your decision. A new third-party camera app is here that takes advantage of the new features in Apple's latest, greatest mobile OS, and...
Creating a good hyperlapse video can be a lot of fuss. The defining feature that makes the technique so much more interesting than a simple time-lapse is camera motion, but simply moving your camera by hand or shooting from a moving vehicle isn't enough. The accelerated playback speed of hyperlapse means that even...
One of the best ways to improve your smartphone photos is to introduce some apps to your workflow that expand your phone's photographic capabilities. In a recent video for The Guardian, Dan Rubin, Instagram early adopter and editor-at-large for The Photographic Journal, showed off some of his favorite mobile photography...
Reviews of iPhone photo editing apps are a dime a dozen. So why are we bothering to link to yet another such rundown? Simple! The Sweet Setup just published literally the best roundup of iPhone photo editing apps we've seen. Need another reason to take a look? They even interviewed some of the most popular instagram...
For the first time, Sony has opted to release a set of PlayMemories apps in beta, giving the general public a chance to play with them before they get their final layer of polish. The four apps are available free, and for people who have an NEX-6, NEX-5R, on NEX-5T, it's an excellent opportunity to get this functionality...
Facebook has freshly announced a new app for browsing through your news feed. Dubbed Paper, it looks to be a very different way of interacting with the things that people post on the social network. And a big part of that is that it'll take photos from being small thumbs to large, expansive, and interactive elements.
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Storehouse is a new, free iPad app, that'll let you easily take your photos and videos from a number of different image services (and your own camera roll), and turn them into gorgeous, image driven narratives that you can easily share.
With Storehouse, you can pull images from the iPad's camera, Dropbox, Flickr, or...
If you've ever been watching the news, and someone's cellphone footage from a breaking event has popped up, you've doubtless noticed that it was probably shot in portrait format. A holdover from people inherently holding their phones vertically rather than horizontally, vertical oriented videos look bizarre and lose huge...
Microsoft's Photosynth is a hidden gem of an app, an incredibly powerful panorama tool for Windows Phone and iOS, as well as on the desktop. Now Microsoft is previewing a new generation of that technology, and it's going to offer a lot more than just turning around in place.
Photosynth has always provided support for...