Google announced today that it’s scrapping the $150 purchase price for the Google Nik Collection and that users can now download it free of charge. At first glance, this is pretty amazing news but, reading between the lines of Google’s official statement, this may not be as great as it sounds: “As we continue to […]
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DxO Optics Pro 10.5.4 update and half price offer
DxO has updated all three of its key image correction and enhancement applications. DxO Optics Pro 10.5.4 comes with support for six new cameras and 50 additional lens combinations to bring the total to more than 28,000 – camera and lens profiles are used together to provide the software’s automatic RAW conversion and lens correction […]
Lightroom CC 2015.5 and Lightroom 6.5 updates
Adobe has announced a series of bug fixes and support for new cameras in both versions of Lightroom. Bug fixes include changes to the Panorama Merge feature: If you fix sensor spots in one image, this should now be carried across to all of them The Boundary Warp feature has been improved, where Lightroom fills […]
Aurora HDR 1.2.1 update and payment by instalments
MacPhun’s Aurora HDR software has been updated to version 1.2. Aurora HDR now comes in German, Spanish, and Japanese language versions and there’s updated RAW support for Panasonic, Olympus, Fuji, SONY, Nikon and Leica. New version update: Read the Aurora HDR 2019 review Aurora HDR can be used both as a plug-in, in which case the RAW […]
Google Nik Collection updates explained
I’m a huge fan of Nik plug-ins, and while many (including me) were a bit concerned when Google bought them out, the Google Nik Collection itself seems to be working pretty well – the addition of Analog Efex Pro at no extra cost was a bonus too. But the way Google manages downloads, updates and […]
New DxO Perspective for Mac free until November 3rd!
DxO Perspective for Mac seems to have appeared out of the blue. It’s a Mac-only program available free from the App Store up until November 3rd 2013, and $19 after that. That looked too good a deal to miss, so I’ve downloaded it to check it out. Instead of being a brand new concept, though, […]
Google Analog Efex Pro first look!
Google added a brand new Analog Efex Pro module to the Nik Collection pretty much without telling anyone! The Nik Collection is now owned and distributed by DxO. Analog Efex Pro is, as the name suggests, designed to replicated the ‘analog’ look of old films, cameras and darkroom processes. So I’m going to start with […]
DxO Optics Pro 9 announced
DxO Optics Pro is a combined RAW conversion and lens correction tool. It uses lab-developed profiles for specific camera and lens combinations to automatically correct lens distortion, corner shading (vignetting), edge softness and chromatic aberration (colour fringing) and can transform the quality of pictures from even basic D-SLRs and lenses. Version 9 brings improvements to […]
It’s the end of Photoshop as we know it!
On May 6th 2013 Adobe announced Photoshop CC, the replacement for Photoshop CS6. Adobe also announced that Photoshop CC would be a subscription-only application provided as part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud online ecosystem. This means CS6 is the last version of Photoshop to be offered with a ‘perpetual licence’, and from now on you’ll have […]