The best Google Photo alternatives

The best alternatives for Google Photos With news that Google will stop unlimited uploads to Google Photos starting June 15, 2021, many photographers are thinking about alternatives. While ‘free' and 'unlimited’ options are all but non-existent with Google Photos gone, there are plenty of options if you’re looking to get away from the Google ecosystem and don’t mind paying for either subscriptions or one-time purchases. dpreview.com »

2020-11-14 19:48

Amazon Prime Photos Has a Sleek New Voice-Controlled App for Fire TV

Amazon has just launched a Prime Photos app allows you to view your photo archive in a powerful way on your Fire TV. The update enables integration with Alexa, which will show photos by the command of your voice. petapixel.com »

2017-08-04 18:04

WeirdBox Uses Your Instagram Photos in a Funny (and Creepy) Short Film

Here’s something that may make you laugh out loud… or feel creeped out. WeirdBox. tv is a new interactive video website that takes your personal Instagram photos and uses them for a humorous short film. petapixel.com »

2017-06-26 18:08

Helpful Advice on Getting Your Photos Printed Professionally

Have you ever had your photos professionally printed? It’s one thing to have your images stored away on a computer or SD card somewhere, but taking that final step and having them printed out for you to display gives them a new life. petapixel.com »

2017-06-20 21:20

This One Thing Will Make Your Photos Better: Storytelling

Here’s an inspiring video by Mango Street about one of the most important things you can learn to do as a photographer, which is storytelling. In addition to organically capturing moments as they happen, you can also conceptualize and execute an idea that inspires you, and Rachel and Daniel show how it’s done in the […] petapixel.com »

2017-06-12 22:03

16 Portrait Photographers With Photos Well Worth Your Admiration

Portrait photography is a fine balance between communication, creative vision, mise-en-scene and knowledge on how to produce particular effects in a photo. And over the years, the Phoblographer has interviewed a ton of great portrait photographers. thephoblographer.com »

2017-06-07 13:00

The Other 50%: Creating and Sharing Your Photos is Only Half the Work

Creating and sharing your work is just the beginning, as Chase Jarvis explains in this 6-minute ‘tough love’ video for his RAW series. Building a community is the long game. Sure, it’s hard work, but it pays off. petapixel.com »

2017-06-05 18:15

Beware: 500px Now Sells Your Photos on Fotolia Without Credit

I discovered this week that my 500px Marketplace photo is being sold elsewhere, and I haven’t gotten a dime of sales (yet). If you sell photos through 500px, this is something you should be aware of. petapixel.com »

2017-05-25 22:34

How To Make Friends Envy Your Travel Photos Without Leaving Your Room

I visited all these places from my studio. I created all of this miniature landscapes here in my studio with help of very basic products. I used old cardboards, plaster, polystyrene sheets, newspapers and acrylic colours. boredpanda.com »

2017-05-09 20:24

Why Printing Your Photos Will Make You a Better Photographer

Print your photos. This little piece of advice goes far beyond the simple joy of holding a photograph in your hand. In fact, printing your photos will make you a better photographer and help you hold on to the fulfillment that comes from taking pictures. petapixel.com »

2017-04-24 21:11

How to Color Your Photos Using the HSL Tool in Lightroom

Today, it’s becoming increasingly harder for your style as a photographer to become recognized. Of course, there are prolific photographers such as William Eggleston and Stephen Shore whose use of color is almost instantly recognizable. petapixel.com »

2017-04-14 18:22

How to Tell a Story in Your Landscape Photos

Sometimes when I go to new locations, they can be so awe-inspiring that I feel photographically challenged. When this happens, I need to take a step back and think about the location’s special traits that fill me with such awe. petapixel.com »

2017-03-06 20:55

What Do You Do When a Celebrity Uses Your Photos Without Credit… Twice?

What do you do when a celebrity with almost 5 million followers on Instagram shares your photography with their audience without credit… twice? That’s the question fashion photographer Don Mupasi is wrestling with this week. petapixel.com »

2017-02-03 19:55

4 Steps to Improve Your Photos (and How to Use Tone Curves)

One of the beautiful things about photography is that you can always learn new things and adapt as new technology comes out. For example, the first camera I ever shot on was a 35mm film point and shoot, and now I shoot on a full frame DSLR. petapixel.com »

2017-02-02 22:00

A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting Your Photos Online

As a photographer, you obviously want to spend your time focusing on your passion: capturing great images, being creative, and making art. Unfortunately, in our connected world, photo security is a very real concern. petapixel.com »

2016-12-10 01:48

Picky Chooses Your Best iPhone Photos and Auto-Enhances Them Too

Photo editing startup Polarr has launched a new app for iOS called Picky. Using artificial intelligence, Picky not only selects your best iPhone photos, but it’ll automatically touch them up for you too. petapixel.com »

2016-12-09 00:05

How to Speed Up Your Lightroom Editing By Using Anchor Photos

One of the ongoing pain points of being a photographer is the time we spend editing. Don’t get me wrong, I love turning a flat image into something breathtaking, but it does take a while to get through a batch of 1000+ photos from a wedding or concert. Combine that with the volume of events […] petapixel.com »

2016-12-06 23:51

Ricoh Keenai photo management system launches with smart tagging

Ricoh has announced the launch of a new photo storage and management service called Keenai. With Keenai, photographers can upload and store original resolution photos and videos, sync the content across multiple devices and share the content with others. dpreview.com »

2016-12-06 22:36

Ricoh Unveils Keenai For Managing Your Photos and Videos Across Platforms

In this day and age, we are all taking photos and video on a range of devices across different operating systems, for different purposes, in different places. It can be hard, nearly impossible really, to keep track of all your photos and videos without intense effort on our parts - more effort than most people want to give. thephoblographer.com »

2016-12-06 17:04

Google’s Free PhotoScan App Is Here To Save Your Old Photos

In the age of smartphones and the cloud, the vast majority of photos can be backed up to the cloud pretty easily, but what about your polaroids or old printouts? Of course, traditional scanning and backing up has always been an option, and there are also a variety of services that will scan and digitise your images for a fee (or not, as was recently the case for scanmyphotos. digitalrev.com »

2016-11-16 03:00

Handmade: 10 Photos To Spark Your Creativity

See who won our Handmade Photo Quest.

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2016-11-10 22:13

Tutorial: How To Make Food Levitate In Your Still Life Photos

Make your photos come to life with this exciting levitation tutorial!

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2016-10-19 21:36

Google Photos Gets New Features to Find, Animate, and Rotate Memories

Google has announced a new update for Google Photos that brings four new features for finding, animating, and rotating your precious memories. In the area of reminding you of old photos, the app can now reveal old photos of the people found in your recent ones. petapixel.com »

2016-10-13 22:25

Keegan is an Online A.I. Photo Coach Who Critiques Your Photos

Want to have your photos critiqued… by a computer? Keegan is a new online personal photo coach that can do that. Show Keegan one of your photos, and he’ll do his best to give you technical feedback to improve your photographic skills. petapixel.com »

2016-10-08 19:43

32 Colorful, Winning Photos That Will Catch Your Eye

Explore the wonderful world of color in pictures...

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2016-09-30 14:41

3 Colorful, Winning Photos That Will Catch Your Eye

Explore the wonderful world of color in pictures...

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2016-09-30 14:41

ColorWorks Transforms Your Photos into Wall Art Made of Crayons

Forget printing your photos on paper. There’s a company out there that can turn your favorite cityscape or family portrait into… crayon art. Mosaics made up of hundreds or even thousands of different colored crayons. petapixel.com »

2016-09-29 23:32

Your Phone Isn’t Uploading HD Photos to Facebook by Default

After upgrading my phone and switching over to iOS, I began uploading videos and photos to Facebook using the app itself… only to find out that it was not uploading my files in high-definition quality at all. petapixel.com »

2016-09-28 17:58

20 Composition Techniques That Will Make Your Photos Look Better

There are no unbreakable rules when it comes to how you should compose your photographs After all, who likes rules except for your old school principal or heads of H.R. departments? There are however, several guidelines you can use to help improve the composition of your photos. boredpanda.com »

2016-09-19 16:59

20 Composition Techniques That Will Improve Your Photos

There are no unbreakable rules when it comes to how you should compose your photographs. After all, who likes rules except for your old school principal or heads of H.R. departments? There are however, several guidelines you can use to help improve the composition of your photos. In this tutorial, I’ve listed 20 of these […] petapixel.com »

2016-09-14 19:33

11 cheap Photoshop alternatives for photographers at every level

11 alternatives to Photoshop Adobe Photoshop – now 26 years old – is the worldwide gold standard of pro-level image editing production and workflow. So why even consider using another photo editing app? Plenty of reasons: You may not need Photoshop’s heavy-duty firepower or you may not want to invest the time and effort required to scale its learning curve. dpreview.com »

2016-08-24 15:00

11 Photoshop alternatives for photographers at every level

11 alternatives to Photoshop Adobe Photoshop – now 26 years old – is the worldwide gold standard of pro-level image editing production and workflow. So why even consider using another photo editing app? Plenty of reasons: You may not need Photoshop’s heavy-duty firepower or you may not want to invest the time and effort required to scale its learning curve. dpreview.com »

2016-08-24 15:00