BlackRAW Studio Brings Blackmagic Color Grading and ProRes RAW to iPhone
BlackRAW Studio brings ProRes RAW and Blackmagic RAW capture plus pro color grading, curves, and LUTs to iPhone. What mobile video shooters get.
Imagen's Intelligent Studio Doesn't Just Add AI Editing — It Abandons the Linear Workflow
Imagen's Intelligent Studio adds manual RAW editing and a plain-language assistant, and drops the cull-then-edit order. What that means for pro photographers.
Adobe Camera Raw 18.6 Adds a Glow Tool That's Actually Worth Using
ACR 18.6 introduces a Glow tool with three distinct light-effect modes, maskable to any subject — alongside the new Trim tool and an expanded Metadata Info Panel.
DxO PhotoLab 10: The Masking Update Lightroom Can't Match
DxO PhotoLab 10 delivers AI depth masks, facial feature selection, and a unified color wheel — all for a one-time $250 purchase with no subscription required.
Aphera: The RAW Editor Built by Photographers Who Stopped Using Lightroom
Ex-VSCO engineers launched a native Apple Silicon RAW editor that handles 100MP files in real time. At $99 through August 31, it's the alternative the Lightroom-fatigued have been waiting for.
Capture One Mobile Gets Heal/Clone, Color Balance, and Two More Long-Overdue Features
Capture One's mobile app adds four user-requested features including the number one ask: Heal/Clone. What this means for photographers who edit on the go.
Lightroom's August 2026 Update: Generative Expand, Better Masking, iPad AI Denoise
Adobe Lightroom 15.5 adds feather/edge masking sliders to Classic; Lightroom 9.5 brings Generative Expand to desktop and iPhone; M-Series iPad users finally get AI Denoise.
An $8,200 Medium-Format Camera Should Be Easy to Edit. It Isn't.
Hasselblad's X2D II 100C gained better Capture One compatibility, but hands-on testing shows its RAW files are still harder to edit than a Nikon Zf costing a fraction of the price.
10 Ways to Speed Up Lightroom Classic (The Catalog Size Matters Less Than You Think)
GPU acceleration, drive configuration, and preview strategy matter more than catalog size for Lightroom Classic performance. An Apple Silicon finding changes the platform calculus.
Sony a7R VI vs. the Field: Which Full-Frame Sensor Wins in 2026?
PetaPixel's head-to-head test of the Sony a7R VI, Nikon Z8, Canon R5 Mark II, and Panasonic S1R II reveals where each sensor excels — and which trade-offs matter most.
Hasselblad Meets Capture One: What Native RAW Support Means for Medium Format Shooters
Capture One now supports Hasselblad 100MP cameras natively, with custom color profiles and lens corrections. Here's what changed, what's still missing, and why it matters.
Why LoCA Is the Chromatic Aberration Your Editing Software Can't Actually Fix
Longitudinal chromatic aberration is the color fringing that software dehazing and lateral CA correction both miss. Understanding why it forms — and which lenses produce it — changes how you evaluate glass.
Linear Camera Profiles in Lightroom: What They Are and When the Extra Effort Is Worth It
Linear camera profiles strip out the default tone curve that Lightroom applies to every RAW file — and that one change fundamentally alters how highlight recovery, color grading, and contrast control work. Here's the full workflow and when to use it.
Apple RAW Engine 9: The Biggest Camera Software Shift Since 2017
Apple's Core Image RAW 9 combines demosaicing and denoising in a single Neural Engine pass — the same approach as DxO DeepPrime, now running on 784 cameras.
Why Lightroom Presets Look Fake — And What Authentic Processing Actually Requires
Most Lightroom presets are designed for visual impact at first glance, not photographic authenticity. Understanding the difference changes how you approach post-processing for images that hold up over time.
Adobe's Latest Lightroom Update Is Quietly Killing Classic
Adobe's April 2026 update routes contextual search exclusively to Lightroom Desktop, not Classic — a pattern of strategic feature withholding that signals Classic's slow deprecation.
DaVinci Resolve 21: Free RAW Editing That Changes the Lightroom Equation
DaVinci Resolve 21 adds a dedicated Photo page with RAW support, tethering for Sony and Canon, and AI masking — challenging Adobe Lightroom's core workflow at a fraction of the cost.
AI Photo Restoration Doesn't Recover What Was Lost — It Invents What Never Existed
The problem with AI 'restoration' isn't image quality — it's the conceptual framework. Conservation protects what's there. Restoration fabricates what isn't. AI does the latter.
DxO PureRAW 6: DeepPRIME XD3 for All Cameras and 4× Compression
DxO PureRAW 6 expands DeepPRIME XD3 to Bayer sensors and adds 4× compression — processed DNGs that are smaller than the original RAW files they came from.