I like Adobe’s products. But I don’t like their subscription model. Based on making many tests I think other, non Adobe, software is better. Here are my recommendations. Photoshop Alternative There is only one serious candidate for this: Affinity Photo. At less than £50 Affinity is cheaper than Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Paintshop Pro and it […]
Topaz DeNoise AI – How Good Is It?
Topaz AI Clear has long been one of my favourite ‘image finishers’ – it performs two excellent operations: it removes any noise and it clarifies and sharpens the image. Despite the new DeNoise AI, I’ve continue to use AI Clear (part of the Topaz Studio suite). Today, I compared DeNoise AI with AI Clear, to […]
Topaz Labs 25% Off Sale
Topaz Labs are offering 25% off their products from now up to Friday 27th December 2019. I’m a huge fan of their products and I publish no photo without it being processed with at least one of their tools. Read my reviews and see the examples: Gigapixel AI Sharpen AI JPEG To RAW Mask AI […]
It’s Black Friday!
Just a short post to highlight what’s available this Black Friday. Sky Collection I’ve just released a new product, enabling Skylum Luminar 4 users to replace the skies in their images with some of my own. Read more here. Black Friday Deal-Skylum Luminar Skylum have reduced the price of Luminar to £72 with a choice […]
Skylum Luminar 4 – First Looks
The folks at Skylum kindly granted me access to a beta version of Luminar 4. The release date is November 18th, so this is near to being the pre-release version. It certainly felt stable and fully featured. Even better, it supports Canon’s CR3 files! Luminar 4 – What’s New? Readers of this blog will know […]
Topaz Studio 2 Flash Sale – 30% off this weekend
This is a great image editing suite which features a great set of enhancements and filters: The AI Clear filter is worth the price alone… You can download a trial version from Topaz Labs…
Topaz Denoise AI – Worthwhile or just noise?
Topaz Labs have just issued a fascinating blog post comparing the Denoise AI product to other class leading noise reduction programs. Is this just a carefully chosen image, well suited to Denoise AI’s processing or are they onto something here? So I took my own, noisy, photo. Unlike Topaz’s it was in daylight, and taken […]
Luminar – a fresh look. Is it time to upgrade?
It’s been a while since I reviewed Luminar and there is an update due to be released on November 18th. Given that it is on pre-sale at a much reduced price, including a free SmugMug subscription, I thought I’d revisit it and see what the current version can do. What is Skylum Luminar? Luminar is […]
Exposure X5 Update – Review
Exposure software (previously Alien Skin software) have recently released an upgrade to their Exposure program. They’ve kept the name, but now its Exposure X5. What is Exposure X5? Exposure X5 is Exposure Software’s flagship product. It is a Digital Asset Manager product for photographers. But it is so much more than that. It is a […]
More Topaz Magic-Mask AI Released
Topaz Mask AI As I stated in yesterday’s post, Topaz Labs seem to be the most innovative photo software company at the moment. They’ve restructured their software into two groups: Topaz Studio, which contains all their ‘regular’ plugins and enhancement tools. The AI range, their specialist tools. And now they’ve added AI Mask. I’ve played […]