Black Friday 2024 A Photographer's Guide to the Best Deals
29th November 2024

As a professional photographer, I've carefully curated this list of Black Friday 2024 deals to help you enhance your photography workflow and gear collection. Whether you're looking to upgrade your editing software or add new equipment to your kit, these deals from trusted brands I use and love will help you save while investing in quality tools. Black Friday 2024 Deals for Photographers Skylum For information on all the Skylum apps, you...

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Skylum Aperty Unveiled: A Portrait Powerhouse
25th June 2024

Tired of spending hours perfecting portraits in post-processing? Wish you could be out capturing those magical moments (perhaps with the best Fujifilm lenses for portraits) and spend less time glued to your computer screen? Or catching up on that Netflix queue? Skylum, the innovative minds behind the award-winning Luminar Neo, is here to answer your prayers! They're brewing up a portrait editing powerhouse, unlike anything you've seen before. A brand new app...

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Adding Custom Shortcodes to WooCommerce Products Short Description, cover
13th June 2024

There are articles about using WooCommerche shortcodes, but very few help with adding custom shortcodes to WooCommerce products. Specifically, to the product's short description. So, of course, I had to create a solution myself. If you're lucky, my first solution will already help you achieve that. But, if you, like me, use a custom theme that modified the default WooCommerce structure… Well, you're in for a ride. It wouldn't be the first...

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Adobe AI Terms of Service, generated AI art
8th June 2024

If you’re a creative pro, chances are you’ve heard about the recent controversy regarding the update on Adobe AI Terms of Service. In case you've been off the grid, here's the TL;DR version: Adobe sent a notice informing users that it could access their content via manual and automated methods. This caused a major stir, with many worrying that Adobe might use its users' work to train its AI models. Ever tried...

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A group of friends during Diwali (Copilot) consistent great photos with AI
1st June 2024

Exactly a year ago, I published my proven ChatGPT formula to achieve consistent great ‘photos' with AI (Midjourney). It has helped me produce many very good-looking, realistic images. But with the pace at which improvements are released, does the formula stand the test of time? Or is it due an update? This is what we aim to find out today. Before we dive in, as I did in the original post, I...

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product photography with AI
30th November 2023

AI art platforms can create stunning on-brand images for your e-commerce site with just text prompts. Learn the simple formula for visually-striking backdrops, colours, and compositions and boost your sales with no design experience needed!

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Generative AI technologies coming to Luminar Neo
22nd August 2023

I had written a different article introducing you to the new generative AI technologies soon to be integrated into Luminar Neo. But then I thought about having that digested by AI to see if I could rephrase some long or overtechnical sentences. And you know what? The result may be totally different from what I would write on these pages, but I found it quite funny. So I'm keeping the AI version,...

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My ChatGPT formula for consistently great image generation
1st June 2023

Yes, you have come to the right place to learn the secret to consistently obtaining great photos with Midjourney. It's all thanks to a proven ChatGPT formula. So it's AI creating AI—with the help of a human Photographer, that is. If you want only the formula, it's further down on this page. But if you have the time and want to understand what's behind this “secret sauce,” I recommend reading the whole...

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Luminar Neo Anniversary
15th February 2023

Luminar Neo is 1 year old today! Considering how far the Artificial Intelligence in Photography conversation has gone lately, it feels like a long time ago that Skylum pushed its boundaries with the Luminar series. To celebrate this first anniversary, there is now a fantastic deal on Luminar Neo subscriptions. You can get a whole free year of subscription! You definitely don't want to miss it, but more on that in the...

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Artificial Intelligence in Photography header
9th December 2022

I believe it is about time we talk about Artificial Intelligence in Photography because the rise of AI technology is rapidly changing the way we think about Photography. No longer just a tool for capturing and storing images, AI can now be used to automatically edit and enhance photos, provide unique perspectives, and even create entirely new images. One of the most exciting developments of AI in Photography is the ability to...

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Topaz Photo AI photo restoration
28th September 2022

TopazLabs just released Photo AI, which promises to enhance and restore your images with the click of a button. Or even before you click anything! Like Magic. I tested the software for a few weeks while in beta, and now it is finally available to everyone.And I must say I am impressed with the results! Yeah, you don't have to watch the video to know what I think about this: it works,...

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Capture One for iPad
28th April 2022

We have been waiting a long time for this: Capture One for iPad is finally a reality! It has been made available for public testing to a limited amount of registered Capture One users, including myself. And, of course, I put this to the test straight away and recorded my experience in a YouTube video… The Video So here is my hands-on first impression of the new Capture One for iPad! I...

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