Tag: image editing

DxO announces free Webinar Series for April 2020

DxO, one of the most innovative companies in the photography and image editing industry — Photolab being one of my favourite and most powerful editors — will be hosting free webinars throughout the month of April. Simply register to save a seat for one of their many photographic educational webinars and then sit back and enjoy as a number of renowned hosts take you through how to shoot, process and create amazing photographic results.… Read More DxO announces free Webinar Series for April 2020

Erik Vlietinck

Luminar 4’s AI assistance is actually quite good

Luminar 4 sky replacement in photo

Luminar 4 is Skylum’s most AI-driven app until now. It has a plethora of features that no longer depend on your masking or layer blending skills without – much to my surprise – taking out the creativity completely. What Luminar 4 does help you with, is to automate the work that requires you to painstakingly draw selections and blend layers to correct luminosity errors.… Read More Luminar 4’s AI assistance is actually quite good

Erik Vlietinck

DxO releases Photolabs 3 with unique colour manipulation wheel

DxO released its third upgrade of Photolabs, the former Optics Pro. The new version has a new repair and clone tool, a new local adjustments mask manager and a new colour wheel. And finally, after so many years, the metadata module has been updated as well, albeit with a very modest support for a keywords, author name and copyright field.… Read More DxO releases Photolabs 3 with unique colour manipulation wheel

Erik Vlietinck

Affinity Publisher is an InDesign killer

Affinity Publisher layout design app review. Interface view.

Serif, the developers of Affinity Photo and Designer, last week released their much-anticipated publishing app, Affinity Publisher. The new layout design app comes with a good deal of unique and very clever features, including “StudioLink”, an integration system – that re-defines the adjective “seamless” – between Publisher and their Designer and Photo apps.… Read More Affinity Publisher is an InDesign killer

Erik Vlietinck

Review: DxO NIK Collection 2

NIK Collection 2 review

DxO recently released a brand new version of NIK Collection. NIK Collection 2 now includes Analog Efex Pro 2, Color Efex Pro 4, Dfine 2, HDR Efex Pro 2, Sharpener Pro 3 Output and Sharpener Pro 3 Raw Presharpening, Silver Efex Pro 2 and Viveza 2. DxO created over 40 new presets, includes U Point local adjustment RAW editing capabilities and adds support for HiDPI displays — which is interesting for Windows users only.… Read More Review: DxO NIK Collection 2

Erik Vlietinck