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Capture One is axing the free tier of its photo-editing software on January 30
Popular photo-editing software company Capture One is ending its free Express tier on January 30. It's hoping to steer consumers toward the Pro plan that costs, at minimum, $24 each month.
Adobe adds AI masking and content-aware healing to Lightroom 2022
Adobe Lightroom 2022 has arrived, and the latest features make it easier to select people or objects to adjust their colors or remove them completely.
Adobe Lightroom now supports video
With it's latest Lightroom release, Adobe has finally added a much-requested feature: video support.
Adobe adds automatic sky and subject masking to Lightroom
New tools are coming to Lightroom today.
Adobe adds AI-powered masking tools to Lightroom
AI-powered tools will let you select the sky or a subject with a single click.
Adobe releases Lightroom for Apple M1 and Windows ARM devices
Following the beta release of Photoshop for Apple's M1 Macs, Adobe's version of Lightroom for ARM-based machines is now available.
Adobe adds more film-like color grading tools to Lightroom
At Adobe Max, Adobe detailed the new features coming to Lightroom Classic and Creative Cloud.
Adobe Lightroom iOS update permanently deleted users’ photos
A recent update to the Adobe Lightroom app permanently deleted some iOS users’ photos and presets, an Adobe rep confirmed on the Photoshop feedback forums. “We know that some customers have photos and presets that are not recoverable,” Flohr wrote.
Photoshop’s AI subject selection now handles portraits with ease
Adobe is adding new features to Creative Cloud apps to help you collaborate or share your projects with others. Of course, there are a number of new features for your regular everyday work, too. Perhaps the most interesting addition is an AI-powered selection feature for portraits that will save you a ton of time.
Adobe adds split-screen multitasking to Lightroom on iPad
If you'd prefer to have a second app open on your screen while editing photos, Adobe might have just granted your wish. It's enabling split-screen multitasking in Lightroom on iPad with the app's most recent update. It's a handy addition that should bolster productivity for many, and it follows the arrival of a direct import tool on iPhone and iPad.
Adobe Lightroom's direct import feature comes to iPhone and iPad
iOS Lightroom users rejoice, the long-awaited direct import feature is finally available. As of today, you'll be able to import photos directly from an SD card or USB drive into Lightroom iOS and iPadOS, instead of using the previously time-consuming workaround of importing images to camera roll and then copying them over to Lightroom's library.
Adobe Lightroom for iPad and iOS will directly import photos
It's been a long time coming, but you can finally import photos directly from your SD card or USB drive into the iOS version of Lightroom. Previously, users had to import images to their camera roll, then copy them over into Lightroom's library. This doubled the amount of storage that the photos occupied, so taking the additional step of going back to your camera roll and deleting the files was an arguably necessary step. The new workflow, revealed today on Adobe's YouTube channel, will let you get to work touching up and recoloring your compositions faster.
Loupedeck's premium editing console is for video and photo pros
Loupedeck is known for its control surfaces that speed up Lightroom and Premiere Pro editing with buttons, dials and a jog dial for more intuitive controls. So far, its devices have had prosumer-level quality, but now the company has launched the $549 Loupedeck Creative Tool (CT), its first premium console for professional editors.
Adobe speeds up Lightroom Classic editing with GPU acceleration
Adobe has done a good job of using your computer's GPU to speed products like Premiere Pro and Photoshop. However, it hasn't given Lightroom the same love, and with the enormous 60-megapixel-plus files coming out of cameras (and smartphones) these days, you need all the speed you can get. Luckily, Adobe has announced that the latest version of Lightroom Classic will now take better advantage of your GPU where it's most needed -- editing photos.
RAW image editor merges the best parts of Photoshop and Lightroom
Image pros that work with RAW photos must often switch back and forth between Lightroom and Photoshop, first to adjust the look and then to do any layering or cleanup. FXhome, the company behind the YouTuber VFX program HitFilm, has just launched a $149 app called Imerge Pro that helps you avoid that juggling. It's "the world's first non-destructive RAW image compositor," the company claims, enabling you to load up your RAW photos and do all those chores in one app.
Adobe offers schools Creative Cloud licenses for $5/year
Adobe has been slowly moving its apps and services to the cloud since 2013. If you use any of the company's creative products — like Photoshop, Illustrator or Lightroom — you probably already purchase them via a subscription, which can run anywhere from $10 to $83 per month for an individual. Now, Adobe is making the full suite of Adobe Creative Cloud apps for K-12 schools to $5 annually per license (with a minimum purchase of 500 licenses per school or 2,500 per district).
The best desktop photo-editing apps
Last month we covered the best mobile photo-editing apps, but if you're serious about photography you'll need more than the tools a phone or tablet can provide. Professionals rely on software from Adobe and others because of the power these programs afford them. Combined with shooting in the uncompressed RAW format, dedicated image editing suites allow you to adjust white balance, exposure, sharpness and color at a granular level. That might be a little intimidating for folks used to point-and-shoot cameras or a smartphone, but for professionals and hobbyists, this means they can reproduce the image they saw in their minds when they hit the shutters on their DSLR or mirrorless cameras. Beyond editing tools, some of these software suites also offer ways to organize and share your photos without leaving the app.
Adobe Lightroom uses AI to edit your photos like a pro
Many photo editing apps have an auto-adjust feature that can improve photos, but pros tend to steer clear of it for a reason -- it's more of a vague guess than an informed edit based on experience. Wouldn't it be nice if it learned from the pros? It does now. Adobe has released updates to Lightroom (both CC and Classic) and Camera Raw that use its Sensei AI to improve photos based on examples. The new Auto mode compares your image to "tens of thousands" of professionally edited shots and uses that wealth of info to make smarter decisions. This doesn't guarantee that you'll have Ansel Adams-grade photos with a couple of clicks, but it could limit your editing to minor tweaks. It's definitely a help for newcomers who want pro-quality shots but don't yet know how to achieve those effects themselves.
HP ZBook X2 hands-on: A hulking tablet for a niche audience
HP claims to have made the "world's most powerful detachable." The company is unveiling its ZBook X2 convertible at the Adobe Max conference today, which is appropriate since this device is designed for people who use Adobe's pro software suite. Specifically, people who use apps like Photoshop, Lightroom and Illustrator and need a capable tablet that can keep up with demanding graphics editing on the go. I enjoyed doodling on the Zbook X2 during a recent demo, but I'm not sure its $1,749 asking price is justified. To be fair, of course, I didn't use it as it was intended and I'm not the target audience.
Palette's Lego-like controls made me a faster video editor
Until robots take over video editing, you'll still have to fiddle with cuts, colors and sound levels. A keyboard is not always the best tool for that, and many control surfaces, like Loupedeck, are strictly targeted at Lightroom users. So what's a video editor to do? One of the more interesting controllers on the market is Palette Gear -- it's expandable, flexible, programmable and looks cool. As I discovered, if you're willing to spend some timing learning and programming, it can make you a faster and better editor, too.
