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Thomas is a professional fine art photographer and writer specialising in photography related instructional books as well as travel writing and street photography.

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A Hijacked Domain: A Cautionary Tale for Photographers and Artists

May 19

May 19 A Hijacked Domain: A Cautionary Tale for Photographers and Artists

Thomas Fitzgerald

I was chatting online with fellow Irish photographer David Cleland, and he told me of a rather unfortunate situation that has happened to him. I’ve been following David for a long time. He was one of the first people I knew who was embracing the Fujifilm ecosystem in the early days. He is actually a former Fujifilm X-Photographer, and you may know him through his website, FlixelPix. Unfortunately, through a series of unfortunate events, David has lost control of that domain, and now has a new website where you can find his work.

Apple Launches “Creator Studio”, A Subscription Bundle of its Creative Apps

Jan 13

Jan 13 Apple Launches “Creator Studio”, A Subscription Bundle of its Creative Apps

Thomas Fitzgerald

Apple has just launched a new subscription bundle of creative applications for a pretty low price of $12.99 a month, or $129 a year. Called “Creator Studio”, the bundle includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor, and Pixelmator Pro. Weirdly though, it also includes Pages, Keynote and Numbers, which are already free. The value of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro combined would be about $600, so the subscription price is pretty good.

One of my Photos is Part of a Museum Exhibit in New York

Dec 5

Dec 5 One of my Photos is Part of a Museum Exhibit in New York

Thomas Fitzgerald

This is a story I’ve wanted to share for a while now, but I wanted to wait until the exhibit actually started. One of my photographs is part of a Museum exhibit in New York. Even just saying that sentence seems surreal. One of my street photos (above) from New York will be part of the “Street Food City” exhibit at the Museum of Food and Drink in Brooklyn.

DxO Releases PhotoLab 9 with AI Masking and Expanded Local Adjustments

Sep 2

Sep 2 DxO Releases PhotoLab 9 with AI Masking and Expanded Local Adjustments

Thomas Fitzgerald

DxO has released PhotoLab 9, the latest version of its RAW photo editor. The update adds AI-powered masking, expanded local adjustments for noise reduction and sharpening, workflow improvements such as image stacking and batch renaming, and support for Apple HEIC/HEIF and ProRAW formats. The release also introduces DeepPRIME XD3 processing for Fujifilm X-Trans files.

Nik Collection 8 Released – New Masking Features and Workflow Improvements

May 6

May 6 Nik Collection 8 Released – New Masking Features and Workflow Improvements

Thomas Fitzgerald

DxO has released Nik Collection 8, bringing new Photoshop masking features, a redesigned plugin panel, and updates to Silver Efex and Color Efex. It’s an update that adds more flexibility for those using the suite within Photoshop. I’ve gone through the key new features and pricing details in this post.

DxO Announces PureRAW 5 with Local Adjustments and DeepPRIME 3

Feb 27

Feb 27 DxO Announces PureRAW 5 with Local Adjustments and DeepPRIME 3

Thomas Fitzgerald

DxO has announced PureRAW 5, the latest version of its RAW processing software, set for release on April 15, 2025. The update introduces local adjustments for targeted noise reduction and sharpening, a redesigned interface, and the third generation of the DeepPRIME denoising engine. Fujifilm users also gain access to a new DeepPRIME XD3 X-Trans Beta mode for enhanced detail recovery.

DxO Announces the Release of DxO PhotoLab 8

Sep 17

Sep 17 DxO Announces the Release of DxO PhotoLab 8

Thomas Fitzgerald

DxO has released DxO PhotoLab 8, the latest version of its RAW image processing and correction software. This update includes several new tools and refinements aimed at providing greater control over the editing process.

New Lightroom Presets Coming Soon

Jul 31

Jul 31 New Lightroom Presets Coming Soon

Thomas Fitzgerald

Film, Lightroom, Preset

I’m delighted to share some information about a project I’ve been working on for a little while. As long time readers might know, I used to have a selection of Lightroom presets available back when I ran my own download store. Since I closed that in favour of selling on Gumroad, I have only really kept my black and white presets, T-Pan available. I had wanted to bring some of my other presets back for sale again, but when I looked at them I realised that many of them were quite dated. I started by looking to see if I could bring some of these old presets up to date, but I ended up with an entirely new set!

Adobe Updates its Confusing Terms of Service

Jun 21

Jun 21 Adobe Updates its Confusing Terms of Service

Thomas Fitzgerald

Editorial, News

After the calamity of Adobe’s recent Terms of Service update (which it turns out wasn’t that recent) they have followed through on their promise of re-writing the terms and adding plain English explanations for the various clauses.

DXO Celebrates 20th Anniversary - 20% off all DXO software for next 20 Days

Jun 18

Jun 18 DXO Celebrates 20th Anniversary - 20% off all DXO software for next 20 Days

Thomas Fitzgerald

French software company DXO Labs celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, and to commemorate it they are offering 20% off all of their software for the next 20 days. The company’s first product: DXO Optics Pro, the precursor to DXO Photo Lab launched this month 20 years ago in June 2004. Since then the company has added to its portfolio of photography software, including DXO Pure Raw, the NIK Collection and DXO Film Pack.

DXO Pure Raw 4 released

Mar 5

Mar 5 DXO Pure Raw 4 released

Thomas Fitzgerald

News, Software, DxO

Today, DXO announced the release of the latest version of Pure RAW, the company’s RAW pre-processing software. Version 4 adds some welcome new features including a new version of Deep Prime, DXO’s noise reduction and demosaicing technology, improved lens softness correction, and new workflow improvements. One of the most requested new features is that you now have the ability to control the amount of noise reduction through new advanced settings options.

Happy New Year, Plus Two Weeks!

Jan 15

Jan 15 Happy New Year, Plus Two Weeks!

Thomas Fitzgerald

Behind the Scenes, Editorial

I had this great plan to start the new year with a fresh blogging schedule, and a renewed energy. Of course that didn’t happen. It’s two weeks later and I’m only getting around to writing my “new year” post now. Like many a New Year’s resolutions, they crashed and burned on day two! But now that I have a moment, let me update you on a few things that have been happening, and some plans for the next little while.

DXO Black Friday Deals - Up to 50% off software and upgrades

Nov 21

Nov 21 DXO Black Friday Deals - Up to 50% off software and upgrades

Thomas Fitzgerald

All this week, DXO is offering up to 50% off new sales and upgrades for DxO PhotoLab, DxO PureRAW, Nik Collection, DxO FilmPack, and DxO ViewPoint. DxO’s photo editing software applications will be available at the best prices of the year from Monday, November 20 to November 27 (Cyber Monday). Click through for more details

DXO Announces Nik Collection 6

May 19

May 19 DXO Announces Nik Collection 6

Thomas Fitzgerald

I’m a bit late on this one, but DXO, earlier this week, announced Nik Collection 6. The latest release includes updates to 5 of the individual apps, as well as overall workflow improvements to the whole suite.

DXO Pure Raw 2.1 released. Native Apple Silicon and Support for new Cameras

Jul 28

Jul 28 DXO Pure Raw 2.1 released. Native Apple Silicon and Support for new Cameras

Thomas Fitzgerald

DXO labs have just released an update for DXO Pure Raw 2. Version 2.1 is now fully native on Apple silicon, and leverages Apple’s M1 and M2 processors. This release also adds support for the latest Canon Eos R series of cameras, and adds some improvements to the batch processing workflow.

Capture One for iPad Now Available

Jun 28

Jun 28 Capture One for iPad Now Available

Thomas Fitzgerald

After several months of being in beta, Capture One for iPad is now available. The App, which you can get now from the App Store, offers a subset of Capture One for desktop’s functionality, so it is limited. However, it does use the full capture One Raw engine, so images processed on an iPad will be as good as those processed on a desktop.

Capture One Addresses Service Outage

May 6

May 6 Capture One Addresses Service Outage

Thomas Fitzgerald

Last week Capture One suffered a service outage that affected users of the companies software. The issue was caused by Capture One’s payment provider, Fast Spring, and it caused the software to temporarily stop working for some users. Needless to say, people affected by this weren’t happy. Luckily, Capture One seems to have realised the seriousness of this, and yesterday they addressed it in a Tweet on the companies official Twitter Account.

PSA: Adobe Offering 20% Off Creative Cloud All Apps Plan

Apr 6

Apr 6 PSA: Adobe Offering 20% Off Creative Cloud All Apps Plan

Thomas Fitzgerald

Lightroom, Photoshop

Just a quick PSA - if you’re in the market for a new Adobe subscription, they’re currently offering 20% off the All Apps plan (this is the one I use) in select European, Middle East and Asian countries. Read on for more details.