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Excire Foto: Best Darn DAM Ever
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  May 08, 2025  | 

If you deal with more than a couple thousand images, you need a DAM, a Digital Asset Manager. Excire offers two solutions that fit the billing of "best ever."

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Most Exciting New Photoshop Feature: Adjust Colors
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  May 02, 2025  | 

If you're using the latest version of Photoshop, you're likely exploring the cool new stuff that was recently added. Which enhancement do you find most exciting? There's no doubt in my mind — it's Adjust Colors. Here's why.

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Skylum's Luminar Neo Gets Exciting Enhancements
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Apr 25, 2025  | 

For spring 2025, Luminar Neo has been boosted with a new set of additional AI tools. Already a powerful and popular program, this upgrade adds features all photographers will appreciate. Here's the scoop.

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Major Enhancements Coming to Nearly All Adobe Apps
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Apr 24, 2025  | 

At the Adobe MAX Creativity Conference in London, the San Jose-based software behemoth took the lid off a veritable ton of upgrades and improvements to Photoshop, Lightroom, Premier Pro and Firefly—and most of the other members of their editing family—and we're excited about all of them.

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Zoner Photo Studio X Spring Update Enables You to Harness the Awesome Power of Masks Like a Pro
Shutterbug Staff  |  Apr 21, 2025  | 

Expertly applied Masks have long been one of the most powerful tools in photo editing. But using Masks effectively can be very difficult to master—until now. The spring upgrade of Zoner Photo Studio X simplifies the process via AI-powered Masking Tools that automatically detect and select people, backgrounds, skies and other essential parts of an image.

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New Tech Eliminates Bottlenecks in Pros' Workflow
Shutterbug Staff  |  Apr 02, 2025  | 

What exactly is a "workflow," and how does the right advanced technology increase efficiency, conserve resources and improve the consistency of the end results?

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Photoshop Phone Home
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Feb 28, 2025  | 

Adobe just announced Photoshop for the iPhone, a free app with an upgrade path to a new paid Photoshop Mobile and Web plan that provides more advanced tools. Adobe indicated the Android version will be available before year's end.

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Happy Birthday Photoshop
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Feb 21, 2025  | 

Unless you live on flotsam near Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean, you've already heard that Adobe Photoshop is now 35 years old. Photographers, graphic artists and other visual creatives—but especially photographers—should by all means celebrate.

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Adobe Announces Key Updates & Public Beta of Two Mind-Blowing Apps
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Feb 14, 2025  | 

Adobe just announced major enhancements to AI-powered editing in Lightroom & ACR, a text-to-video app based on Firefly, Project Neo (3D design app), significant speed enhancements in Illustrator and more.

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10-Point Software Audit: Gigapixel AI
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jan 17, 2025  | 

Gigapixel AI allows users to enhance, upscale, sharpen, denoise, recover and reimagine images—even low-res, pixelated dreck—and render stunning, sharp, printable images. Here is our 10-point audit.

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Why Imagen is the Smart Choice for Real Estate Photographers — Meet A Pro Who Knows
Shutterbug Staff  |  Jan 07, 2025  | 

Real estate photographers face challenges unique to their industry, but the potential for high volume and revenue growth is outstanding. What are the obstacles and, more importantly, how can modern AI technology—plus hard work and talent—overcome these barriers and lead to greater success and much less stress?

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10 Gifts Photographers Will Appreciate Totally
Shutterbug Staff  |  Dec 08, 2024  | 

They say the best gift is something you want to own yourself. If that's true, this gift list hits the jackpot 10 times over. We want them all! You will too. Check this out.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 25 — Top New Features & My 7 Favorite "Old" Features
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Dec 06, 2024  | 

Exciting AI-powered features added to Adobe Photoshop Elements make version 25 more powerful, more fun and even easier to use. Here's a recap of the top 5 new features, with before/after examples, plus the 7 preexisting features I find most compelling.

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Join Waitlist to Beta Test Professional Culling, Editing & Retouch App
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 15, 2024  | 

AI Retouching is coming to Aftershoot soon, and you're invited to join the waitlist to become a beta tester.

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AI-Powered Editing With Zoner Photo Studio X
Shutterbug Staff  |  Nov 15, 2024  | 

The new AI-driven features in Zoner Photo Studio X elevate the platform directly to the professional photographer’s workstation. Even more important, ZPS X puts powerful pro tools into the hands of amateur enthusiasts who want pro results — at prices absolutely everyone can afford. Despite the amazing power, using ZPS X is easy enough even for smartphone-shooters to reap enormous benefits.

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