It's Autumn again here in Ireland, my absolute favourite time of the year for Photography. I love as the light gets lower in the sky and the fall colours fill the roadways and countryside with hues of red and gold.
To celebrate this special time of the year for photographers, just like last year, I'm having an Autumn sale on all my Lightroom and ACR presets. In fact, I'm giving 25% off everything in my digital download store. From now until October 31st you can get 25% off anything in the store by using the coupon code:
Autumn2015
...at the checkout in the store. And you can use this code as often as you want. Head over to the store to check out my Lightroom presets and Photoshop Tools and see what's available.
After my recent video on using Siri to add captions and keywords to photos, someone on social media asked a question that kind of took me aback: “What's the point?” I had assumed everyone who was in any way into photography understood the benefit of adding keywords and captions, but I guess not. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense in a way. Phones recognise faces. Most software (except Lightroom Classic, because…Adobe) can find "dog on a beach" without a single piece of user-generated metadata, and AI seems to know what's in every picture. So why bother writing anything by hand?
In this week’s photo software news….Lightroom’s latest mobile tools offer new ways to rescue photographs, while Topaz has released fixes that should interest Mac users. The controversial PhotoCraft also continues its development, although there are still good reasons to approach it cautiously.
Someone recently left a comment on one of my videos insisting that AI Denoise was just “slop” and that a denoised photo wasn’t a real image anymore. It made me realise that some people think AI denoising works the same way as generative AI, replacing their photo with something synthesised. It doesn’t. Tools like Lightroom’s Denoise use machine learning to clean up the pixels you actually captured, removing noise while keeping the real detail, whereas generative tools invent content that was never there. In this post, I explain the difference and why a denoised photo is still your photo, just cleaner.
In this video, I show you a cool way to use Siri AI in the new macOS 27 Golden Gate to create captions and keywords for use with Lightroom, Lightroom Classic or any photo editor, really. The trick involves using Apple’s “Visual Intelligence” feature to let Siri see what image you’re looking at, and then it can generate captions from there. I also show you how to use the new “Describe a Shortcut” feature to create a shortcut to do this quickly in one step.
This edition (the first! of a new series - I hope) of “photo software news update” looks at Lightroom’s new Prompt to Edit feature, improved Reflection Removal, and the release of ON1 NoNoise AI 2027. There are also practical workflow improvements for Camera Raw and Photoshop users, plus native Affinity integration in DxO PhotoLab 10.1. Here is what has changed, which features are still in early access or beta, and what these updates could mean for your photography workflow.
Adobe have just released the latest version of Lightroom: Lightroom Classic 16, and it’s a major new update with a ton of new features. These include a new Vectorscope tool, A Glow Effect, AI Depth masks and many more. I recorded a walkthrough video where I show you the new features and how to use them. There are also corresponding releases across Adobe’s photography lineup released today too, but for this post, I’m just concentrating on what is in the update to Lightroom Classic