Software, Websites

Google comes with a new application for the photo fans. The new PhotoScan app will scan your photos using your mobile phone or tablet. You don't need a flat-bed scanner and all the things around it. Just aim your phone to the paper photo on your table and take five photos of it.

Do you know Nik Collection? An interesting set of programs running separately or as Photoshop or Lightroom plugins? These precious photo editing tools are free now. Download is available for both Windows and OS X.

For a limited time (today's Mother's Day) there is a free download of Snapselect. This OS X app can find duplicate and similar photos in your folders or photo catalogues from another programs.

Adobe announced availability of new Photoshop version for members of their Creative Cloud program. The new Adobe Photoshop CC 14.2 comes with features like Perspective Warp, linked Smart Objects and support for 3D printing.

Day by day the number of photo processing software are increasing in android platform. Zoner has released a photo-processing tool for android platform and that too absolutely free of cost. You can download it from the Google play store. It supports all android devices with versions 4.0 and higher.

Pickmonkey is an online photo-editing tool, where you can bring your imagination to work. It comes in two versions, basic version comes for free and you can upgrade it to a paid version that allows you to use some more tools and ad-free editing. You can either choose a monthly plan for 4.99$ per month or an annual plan for 33$ a year for the paid version.

Now, there are plenty of photo processing software available in the market, which makes it difficult to choose the right one for you. Fhotoroom is an image processing software available in windows platform, which can be used by people carrying smartphones or tablets with windows operating system. This is available for free from the windows store, which is a major advantage. So, you can definitely try it once. Desktop version does not come for free.

This time DxO Optics pro has come up with some breakthrough achievements in raw image processing and conversions. They have introduced a new advanced noise reduction technology called “PRIME” (Probabilistic Raw Image Enhancement). This feature allows one to remove noise from images shot at very high ISO settings. So, photographers do not have to worry anymore about boosting the ISO in low light conditions. The new noise reduction technique is able to bring the details and colors after processing, which usually gets lost when we apply any noise reduction technique resulting in the photo to be very soft.

ACDSee Systems International has released ACDSee 17 with some new set of features in their photo editing software for windows platform. They made sure that the new version comes at a competitive price for the existing customers of ACDSee 17.

Are you Mac user and running OS X? You should try a nice app called Fotor. It is an easy to use one-click photo enhancer and collage maker for both the Mac and Windows computers.

Zoner Photo Studio is quite a well-known photo-editing application that comes to serve a number of post-processing tasks with a certain ease-of-use that simply reminds you of the simple days.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a software programme for photographers, whether they are professional or amateurs. It was developed by Adobe Systems in 2004, with the Version 1 for Windows and Mac OS X first appearing on the market in 2006.

The CS6 version of Photoshop has two new colour adjustment features, using built-in intelligence from thousands of hand-retouched pictures to give you an upgraded starting point for making adjustments.

It is possible to create seamless 360 degree panoramas using digital images and specialized stitching programmes such as PTGui or Photoshop. Most vendors include panorama-making software in the package when you buy their cameras.  There are several steps to making excellent panoramas and it is a good idea to use expert software and equipment.

The number one tool for any photo editing has been Adobe Photoshop, for a very long while, slightly surpassed in popularity by Adobe Lightroom in the past few years due to its ease of use and a more photographer-friendly environment (tasks that seemed daunting to complete in Adobe Photoshop are incredibly easy in Lightroom). With the constant development of the mobile world, it was only a matter of time until a touch version of the popular software would come “on a device near you”.