Jon Sienkiewicz

5 days ago | shutterbug.com | Jon Sienkiewicz

Give yourself 10 points for every one of these 13 common misdemeanors that your NEVER do. For every transgression that falls into the "I do only it once in a while" category, give yourself 10 points anyway. What the hell; it's spring, the time for fresh beginnings. 1. Never carry your keys, wallet or cellphone in your camera bag. Having your bag full of camera gear stolen is devastating.

6 days ago | shutterbug.com | Jon Sienkiewicz

If you deal with more than a couple thousand images, you need a DAM, a Digital Asset Manager. Excire offers two solutions that fit the billing of "best ever."Excire calls their product a "photo management tool," but since Excire Foto 2025 also handles video, I think the correct label is DAM: Digital Asset Manager. And unless your collection of imaging creations spans just a handful of folders, you DAM well need it.What Exactly is Excire?

1 week ago | shutterbug.com | Jon Sienkiewicz

If you're using the latest version of Photoshop, you're likely exploring the cool new stuff that was recently added. Which enhancement do you find most exciting? There's no doubt in my mind — it's Adjust Colors. On April 24, Adobe added a bleep-ton of powerful new features to multiple Adobe Creative Cloud apps, with their Firefly AI engine taking center stage. We published a summary of the upgrades which you can read here: Major Enhancements Coming to Nearly All Adobe Apps.

2 weeks ago | shutterbug.com | Jon Sienkiewicz

For spring 2025, Luminar Neo has been boosted with a new set of additional AI tools. Already a powerful and popular program, this upgrade adds features all photographers will appreciate. Luminar Neo Key New FeaturesHere's the rundown. But first, what is Luminar Neo? What is Luminar Neo? Luminar Neo is a product you should know about. It's an affordable image editing app that operates as a potent standalone program or Photoshop and Lightroom plugin (Win and Mac compatible).

3 weeks ago | shutterbug.com | Jon Sienkiewicz

At the Adobe MAX Creativity Conference 2025 in London, the San Jose-based software behemoth took the lid off a veritable ton of upgrades and improvements to Photoshop, Lightroom, Premier Pro and Firefly—and most of the other members of their editing family—and we're excited about all of them. The list of enhancements is long—this is just a summary. After we've road tested our favorites, we'll report on them in detail.