Your Choice: Free Photo Editors To Replace Adobe In 2025

Who does not love a bargain? And with the prices of Adobe and other software rising constantly, it is nice to know that there is perfectly capable editing software out there that will be useful to most people, most of the time! Although you would have heard of many of these before, many of themContinue reading “Your Choice: Free Photo Editors To Replace Adobe In 2025”

Affinity Studio: Affinity Photo Has Gone Free!

Canva’s relaunch of the Affinity suite as the all-new Affinity Studio is a seismic event in the creative software landscape, transforming its three powerful desktop applications—Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher—into a single, unified platform that is now, surprisingly, completely free. Affinity has always been a powerful photo editing package, but it has always been heldContinue reading “Affinity Studio: Affinity Photo Has Gone Free!”

Don’t Follow the Crowd: Why You Should Trial Photo Editing Software Before You Buy

In the world of digital photography, the conversation around post-processing software often feels like a one-horse race. Adobe’s offerings, particularly Photoshop and Lightroom, are the “gold standard” and the packages that everyone “knows.” While there’s no denying their power and ubiquity, simply choosing a program because “that’s what everyone else uses” is a major disserviceContinue reading “Don’t Follow the Crowd: Why You Should Trial Photo Editing Software Before You Buy”

We asked photographers: What Operating System Do You Use For Editing Your Photos In Any Way?

It is always interesting to know and understand what operating system people use to edit and maintain their photography. We took a poll from a sample of over 100 people last weekend, and here were the results. Windows 41%Mac 34%Linux 1%Apple iPad 17%Android (mobile/tablet) 6% It is not surprising that Windows and Mac are theContinue reading “We asked photographers: What Operating System Do You Use For Editing Your Photos In Any Way?”

In camera grain for mirrorless cameras? Is it a good idea? Nikon thinks so!

Now that Nikon have announced the addition of in camera grain for their Nikon ZF cameras (and possibly others) I thought I would share some thoughts on what I feel about the ability to add grain to your images in your recipes. Nikon ZF implementation Nikon are adding a quite robust system for the additionContinue reading “In camera grain for mirrorless cameras? Is it a good idea? Nikon thinks so!”