Have We Reached Peak Photo Editor?
What else can they possibly add to photo editors that isn't gimmicky AI shite?
RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World
A deep dive into landscape and aerial photography from Australia's South Coast, with practical shooting guides, post-processing tutorials, software reviews, gear insights, and frank commentary on the photography industry's evolving landscape.
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Photo Developer - Clean, Minimal, Mac-Only RAW Editor - Reviewed
There is certainly no shortage of photo editing apps for the Mac, with options available at all price points and catering to all niches.
Ten Epic Photo Editing Tips for When You Just Can’t Be Fucked
Look, we’ve all been there.
Tested Apple’s Huge Update to RAW Photography Coming Soon to MacOS 27 Golden Gate
I always keep an eye on the annual Apple developers conference (WWDC), in case there is anything whatsoever of interest to photographers, and the vast majority of the time I am disappointed.
Photography YouTubers Were All Using Wacom Tablets. Then They Weren’t.
Cast your mind back about five or six years.
Photo Competitions Are Still Doing This. Photographers Are Still Falling For It.
Read those T&Cs
Nothing Over $50USD: 18 Photo Apps Rated
We live in a world of rapidly escalating costs where the only thing that isn’t rising faster than the price of goods and services, is wages.
Never Buy a New Camera (Buy Last Year’s)
I’ve got a fairly ancient gaming PC that hasn’t seen an upgrade in over six years, and which would struggle to play modern triple-A games in 1080p above 20 frames per second.
Lift a Boring Photo With Dreamy Golden Light and AI Masks in Photolab 9
One of the most useful ways of leveraging the new AI masks in Photolab is to create the separation necessary to properly ‘sell’ any tweaks to the light that you add in post.
The Darktable Hater’s Guide to Darktable, Part 3: Beginner's Workflow
This is the series for the everyman: the poor bastard who just wanted to fix a photo and instead found four kinds of saturation, a tool called wavelet decomposition by frequency band, and a white balance slider hidden in a module called Colour Calibration because darktable believes surprise should be part of the workflow.
The Problem(s) with Lightroom: And Why Adobe Are Failing Photographers
Unlike many of the apps that make up the current Creative Cloud suite, Adobe actually built Lightroom in-house.
Excire Foto 2027 Reviewed
This Photo Organiser is Dull in All the Right Ways
Is The Weight Of Expectation Killing Your Love Of Photography?
Back in the before-times, when all of human knowledge was stored in books in libraries and not on servers in data centres, you only knew you weren’t as good as the photographers you’d actually met.
Topaz Spent Five Years Making Photos Worse. Adobe Bought Them Anyway
The acquisition nobody asked for, of an app nobody should use
Stock Photography’s Last Gasp for Survival Is to Hop Into Bed with the Very AI Systems That Made It Obsolete
With a name like Getty, it doesn’t come as much of a shock to discover that they’ll basically do anything to survive - including entering into a business partnership with the very organisations that made their products defunct.RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World is a reader-supported publication.
Yes, Lightroom's New AI Subject Select is Better, But ...
Adobe have rolled out the June update to their photography apps - Photoshop, Photoshop Beta, Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and Camera RAW - and it’s the usual combination of updates, tweaks and bug fixes.
Darktable Gets AI: A Miracle In Our Time?
It’s been eight years since Adobe pioneered AI masking when they rolled out the ‘Select Subject’ tool in Photoshop, back in 2018.
Hey Switchers! Here’s Why Your RAW Edits Look Different (and Better) in Photolab
Seven reasons your photos look different before you've touched a single slider
Beach Vlog
Sunrise landscape shoot on Seven Mile Beach, NSW
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