Google has apparently removed support for its Astrophotography mode from the Pixel 5 and 4a 5G ultra-wide cameras in the latest version of the Google Camera app. Astrophotography mode is now only available on the phones’ primary camera.
When both the Pixel 5 and 4a were released, Google’s Astrophotography mode was available for use on […]. petapixel.com
Astrophotographer Ian Norman of Lonely Speck recently got his hands on a Google Pixel 4 XL for testing, so he took it out to Joshua Tree National Park to see how well the “Astrophotography Mode” on this smartphone compares to shooting with a “real” camera. petapixel.com »
2020-01-31 23:25
Google's Pixel devices are usually cutting edge in terms of computational photography and the current Pixel 3 device comes with an entire range of computational imaging features, including the multi-frame-stacking Night Sight low light mode. dpreview.com »
2019-09-10 00:18
Google already took smartphone photography to a new level when they released their Night Sight mode, but it looks like they’re planning to improve low-light smartphone photography even further by adding some sort of astrophotography mode to the upcoming Pixel 4. petapixel.com »
2019-09-09 19:15
Google has released an update to the Google Photos app for iOS that brings bokeh adjustment for Portrait mode photos. The company announced the news through a Tweet yesterday. New to iOS, adjust the background blur and change the focus of your portrait mode photo. petapixel.com »
2018-11-20 19:10
Google has announced the replacement to its Pixel 2 smartphone series and the new Pixel 3 comes with some headline-grabbing features, including an upgraded camera system and new shooting features. digitalrev.com »
2018-10-09 03:00
Portrait Mode on the Google Pixel 2 Google's Pixel 2 comes with one of the best-rated smartphone cameras in the world, and is one of very few single-lens devices to offer a background-blurring, fake bokeh portrait mode. dpreview.com »
2018-01-02 18:59
Portrait mode shootout: iPhone 8 Plus vs Google Pixel 2 Like it or not, 2017 is the year that background-blurring Portrait Modes gained major traction in smartphone photography. Apple and Google both offer improved versions of the mode in their latest devices, making for better-looking results all around. dpreview.com »
2017-12-13 18:00
Standard image (left) and depth mask (right), Image: Google Background-blurring portrait or bokeh modes have pretty much become a standard feature on dual-camera equipped phones. Similar effects can be achieved with single-lens devices but operation tends to be more cumbersome, with more manual interference required, and results less realistic than on dual-camera setups. dpreview.com »
2017-10-18 15:04
As promised, Apple has issued a new version of iOS 17 to address overheating issues with the new iPhone 15 series of smartphones. [Read More]
ProGrade Digital has updated its Refresh Pro computer software -- a tool for maximizing the performance of a card and monitoring product health -- with the ability to update the firmware of its memory cards. [Read More]
Imagen, a personalized AI photo editing assistant, has announced a newly-refreshed desktop app. The company says the version released this week has been "completely rebuilt from the ground up." [Read More]
Google has updated its Google Camera app to version 8.4, which adds features that debuted on the new Pixel 6 flagship phones to older devices. As reported by XDA Developers, the 8.4 update doesn’t bring all the features found on the new flagship phones, but it does bring a few notable ones as well as […]
As part of its May 2021 release of Photoshop on Desktop for Mac — version 22.4 — Adobe made a significant change to how the “Save As” command works. Rather than continuing to act as it has across applications on all computers for decades, Adobe altered the basic functionality and has left users baffled. In […]
Adobe is leaning a bit more into the benefits of a cloud-based architecture with the rollout of an easy collaboration button and asynchronous editing in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fresco. The “Invite to Edit” button is available starting today.
Skylum has just published an update to Luminar AI (version 1. 0. 1) that the company says delivers a “more refined version of Luminar” while also addressing a few bugs. The update is available now.