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Everything That's New in Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premier Elements 2026
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 01, 2025

With heavy emphasis on AI-enabled enhancements, improved ease-of-use, and more powerful features overall, Adobe has released the 2026 versions of Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements. Here's the rundown.

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Excire Foto Launches Search 2026 for LRC
Shutterbug Staff  |  Sep 16, 2025  |  First Published: Sep 17, 2025

Featuring video support, automatic focus checking, and other exciting new features, Excire Search 2026 plugin for Adobe Lightroom Classic makes its debut. Here's what's new.

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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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Exciting Zoner Studio Upgrades Fall 2025
Shutterbug Staff  |  Oct 21, 2025

Zoner Studio, winner of the prestigious EISA Best Photo Software Award for 2025-26, has announced several exciting enhancements that are available now. The new features are being added to Zoner Studio license holders' apps automatically.

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Exploring the New Features of Adobe Photoshop Elements 14
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 29, 2015

Adobe has released version 14 of Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements. Both are exciting and easy-to-use, and offer enough editing horsepower for most photo and video enthusiasts. Although Premier 14 is chock full of improvements, including some cool new things you can do with 4K video, I found the enhancements in Photoshop Elements to be more groundbreaking and fun. So that’s what we’ll focus on today. 

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Fall Updates Make Zoner Photo Studio X Much Faster & Easier to Use
Shutterbug Staff  |  Sep 20, 2023

Zoner has updated Zoner Photo Studio X and the watchword is SPEED. The updates significantly enhance performance by utilizing your graphics card, enriching the experience on lower-powered PCs, improving ease of navigation, and much more. Already established as a top features-for-dollar photo and video editor, Zoner Photo Studio X continues to get better and better with every upgrade. Plus you get a ton of extras and all for the same very affordable price.

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Fighting Digital Noise: DxO Optics Pro 9
Jack Neubart  |  May 30, 2014  |  First Published: May 01, 2014

DxO Optics Pro is a Raw converter that keeps pace with the ever-growing, ever-changing world of digital photography. The newest version—DxO Optics Pro 9 (for Mac or Windows)—focuses on one of digital imaging’s most troubling artifacts: digital noise. Whether you’re shooting at high ISOs or bringing out blocked shadow detail in a seriously underexposed image or an HDR photo, digital noise (luminance and chrominance) can rear its ugly head. And now we can finally deliver a knockout punch to this culprit. But before you get in the ring, there are a few things you should know.

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Film Simulation Software Shootout: DxO FilmPack 4 Vs. Alien Skin Exposure 5
George Schaub  |  Feb 24, 2014  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2014

I have always had mixed feelings about so-called “film simulation” software, programs that offer one-click presets that add effects and options for manipulating digital images. On one side, I am unsure why the designers use visual references to types of film for their preset IDs. It strikes me that an increasingly small proportion of folks relate to them. On the other side, I admire their offering programs that open up a raft of image expressions in easy to attain fashion. I will not revisit that discussion here, although the near concomitant release of two such programs, Alien Skin’s Exposure 5 and DxO’s FilmPack 4, makes it tempting to do so.

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Finding the Balance: AI Editing Tools & the Artistic Vision
Shutterbug Staff  |  Jun 20, 2023

The number of AI editing tools has taken an upswing. But with this advent of new tech comes a debate among photographers about striking a balance between efficiency and preserving their artistic vision. In this article, we'll explore what AI editing tools are here for, the challenges and benefits of using these AI tools, and how to achieve a harmonious balance between efficiency and creative expression.

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Flat Earther Flips & Goes Over The Edge & Other News We Know You Missed Because We Made It All Up
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 03, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 04, 2025

Even if you subscribe to every big network newsletter and keep your TV tuned to a news station 24/7, you miss some important lies. We can't let that happen. So occasionally we manufacture a few interesting facts and deliver them to you as if they really happened. Hell, that's more than most of the real news outlets do. I mean, a lot of the dreck we report is at least plausible.

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Flic App from Lifehack Labs Lets You Quickly Delete iPhone Photos with a Swipe
Cynthia Boylan  |  Oct 09, 2014

The new Flic app from Lifehack Labs gives you a quick and easy way to get rid of unwanted iPhone photos with just a swipe of your finger. Swipe to the left and an image is deleted. Swipe to the right and it's saved to your phone's camera roll.

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Free Affinity Photo Software Could Give Photoshop a Run for Its Money
Cynthia Boylan  |  Feb 09, 2015

Serif has announced that its professional-level Affinity Photo editing app for Mac is now available as a free download for public beta testing. Serif’s Affinity Photo is designed to give pro photographers fast performance, highly accurate editing tools and a fresh workflow.

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Free Online Photoshop and Lightroom Classes Offered All Next Week at CreativeLive
Dan Havlik  |  Feb 20, 2015

Do you want to learn more about Photoshop but don’t have a lot of money to do it? Well, how does "free" sound? That’s the price for over four dozen online Photoshop and Lightroom classes being offered free-of-charge at CreativeLive next week.

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FREE Photo Editing Software: Olympus Workspace has Amazing Features and All Olympus Art Filters
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Sep 17, 2021

Free to all Olympus users, Olympus Workspace has SECRET super powers starting with the ability to apply ANY Olympus Art Filter to ANY image file captured by ANY camera, scanner or screen grabber.

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Free Software Alert: Brice Lambson Is Back with Updated Image Resizer for Windows
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Apr 19, 2018

Wish you could right-click an image—or batch of images—and resize to desired dimensions? You can, and the best image resizing app has just been updated. Best of all, it’s free.

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