A market research study has concluded that the commercial photography business is growing, largely thanks to a surging e-commerce industry. [Read More]
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A new study from the University of California, Riverside has found that students who take photos of PowerPoint slides in class or during online presentations were better able to remember content than for slides they did not photograph. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-10-18 22:19
Immersive virtual reality (VR) headsets may reduce the amount of anesthetic that patients need during a procedure, a study has found. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-22 20:10
A new report has shone a light on photographers’ earnings in the wake of Covid-19 and highlighted how the pandemic was particularly detrimental to minority groups. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-05-04 21:37
The pandemic hit photographers particularly hard as public get-togethers and events paused for the better part of two years. It appears now that things are improving, and a new study of 3,300 global photographers shows a majority of optimism. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-04-21 23:57
A small study out of Europe is confirming what many of us probably knew intuitively already: while plenty of people love taking their own selfies, most people have no interest in looking at anybody else’s. petapixel.com »
2017-02-11 00:17
A small study out of Europe is confirming what many of us probably knew intuitively already: while plenty of people love taking their own selfies, most people have no interest in looking at anybody else’s. petapixel.com »
2017-02-11 00:17
AI-powered photo editor Photoroom, which received $43 million in funding earlier this year, has partnered with Genesis Cloud to deliver more sustainable computing power to Photoroom users. [Read More]
Image editor Picsart announced "Smart Background," a new tool that automatically creates an AI-generated environment based on the subject. [Read More]
Online retailers are AI-generating pictures of products that don't yet exist and selling them. When the products arrive, perhaps unsurprisingly, they don't look like the advertisement. [Read More]
Amazon has released a new beta feature that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate virtual backgrounds for product advertisements, putting virtual backgrounds behind real items. [Read More]
Gradient lighting is a more advanced technique that brings extra nuance and refinement to strobe lighting. It is an effect that is mainly used by product photographers but can have other applications as well. [Read More]
Flair markets itself as "The AI design tool for branded content," but based on hands-on impressions, it leaves much to be desired. [Read More]
Product photography is a major branch of commercial photography that is ubiquitous in our world, as product photos are used for everything from billboards and print ads to catalogs and store displays.