Software

By now, you've heard about Lightroom 5 coming out of beta, but Adobe has also released an update to Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter, bringing both to version 8.1, and adding support for another handful of cameras and lenses. This update adds more for Micro Four Thirds and Medium Format shooters especially, and squashes a handful of bugs.

Less than nine months after the announcement of ACDSee 15, ACD Systems has announced ACDSee 16, the newest iteration of its popular photo management and editing software.

There are certain programs that are pervasive in the photography world. For the most part, they're the standard because they're extremely good at what they do. But, there's a a lot of photogrpahy software out there, and some of it is totally free. Apart from iPhoto (which you've probably already heard of), there are apps aimed at everyone from people who never take their cameras off auto, all the way up to those who only trust to shoot in RAW, and everywhere in between. In no particular order, these are some of our favorites.

Back in 2011, the internet was blown away when Adobe showed off a future Photoshop feature that could take an image suffering from camera shake and fix it automatically. It sounds fantastic, but we haven't heard much about it since then. Now, however, in a promotion for their upcoming MAX conference, they're offering one of their famous "sneak peaks" and showing the filter in a much more realistic setting.