A Commercial Photographer’s Take on When to Use AI (and When Not To)

Last year, a client came to me with a straightforward brief: they needed a full lookbook for their new clothing line. But there was a catch. “We don’t want a shoot,” they said. “Just take our phone photos and make them look professional with AI.” I could have said no. Instead, I said yes -- and it changed how I think about my entire career.

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The DaVinci Resolve 21 Photo Editing Tools Show Promise but Are Imperfect

Blackmagic Design unveiled DaVinci Resolve 21 this week and alongside the expected types of improvements, like more AI-powered video editing features, Blackmagic shocked the creative world by adding RAW photo editing and organization features to Resolve 21. I've been trying Resolve 21's new photo editing features since it arrived on Monday, and there's a lot to like. There's also quite a bit that…

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DaVinci Resolve 21 is Now a Lightroom Alternative: RAW Editing, Tethering, Masking, and More

Blackmagic Design announced DaVinci Resolve 21, a major update to the company's popular video editing platform. Despite being a video editor, one of DaVinci Resolve 21's biggest new features is a brand-new Photo page that enables colorists and photographers to use Resolve to edit still photos.

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Nearly 90% of Surveyed Working Photographers Are Using AI

VSCO has increasingly incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) into its photography products, including AI Lab, a dedicated AI-based editing platform inside the VSCO app on iOS. To better understand how photographers feel about AI and how they want to use it in their photography workflow, VSCO conducted a survey of photographers across the U.S. and Canada in December, and the results are quite…

BorderTool Pro Brings High-End Digital Framing to the macOS Menu Bar

BorderTool Pro is a new macOS utility developed by Michael Damböck, a Fujifilm X Photographer, to streamline some of the more repetitive steps in a photographer’s workflow: adding borders, mats, and presentation-ready finishing touches to exported images. Built as a native menu-bar application, BorderTool Pro focuses on speed, batch processing, and preserving file integrity without requiring a…

This Mac App Lets You Find Photos No Matter Which Drive They’re On

As photographers know all too well, image libraries can be a lot to keep track of. Between internal storage and external drives, sometimes many of them, finding exactly the right photo or folder can be very frustrating. Photographer and cinematographer Paul Kothe agrees, so he built an app to solve the problem once and for all.

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Asus’ New ProArt Color Calibration Ecosystem Helps You Achieve Accurate Colors

Asus is expanding its professional display ecosystem with the ProArt CaliContrO MCA02, a 3-in-1 colorimeter that combines precision color measurement, hardware and software calibration, and integrated display control into a single compact device. Aimed at photographers, video editors, designers, and other color-critical professionals, the tool reflects Asus’ continued push toward tighter…

Photographer’s New App Gives Digital Photos a Realistic Analog Appearance

Back in late 2022, PetaPixel wrote about photographer Tom Schucker's Pieca camera, a 3D-printed Raspberry Pi-powered camera with a Leica M-mount. Schucker is back with yet another awesome photography creation, but this time it's a photo editing app built around advanced film simulation effects.

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