If you're looking to upscale low-res images, Upscayl is a powerful and free tool for enlarging and enhancing images. It's cross-platform and in our tests, performs as well as other paid apps like Topaz.
What just happened? Adobe has introduced Indigo, a new computational photography app for iPhone that aims to bring pro-grade image processing to everyday users. Developed by a team led by Marc Levoy, a pioneer in computational photography, Indigo is designed to push the boundaries of what smartphone cameras can achieve by leveraging advanced algorithms and years of research.
RawTherapee is a powerful and free RAW photo editor, offering a compelling alternative to Adobe Lightroom. It features an advanced suite of tools designed to help users produce stunning images. While its interface may seem complex at first, RawTherapee is a favorite among photography enthusiasts and pros.
Adobe Photoshop Express is a simplified photo editing app built for quick fixes and social media-ready images. Available for free on Windows, iOS and Android, it offers one-touch tools for cropping, filters, retouching, and more.
Popular image viewer IrfanView has been updated with multithreading support for batch conversion, a new "Fit to Window" zoom option, a stained glass effect, additional slideshow hotkeys, and various other enhancements.
Gimp, one of the best free alternatives to Photoshop, has officially reached version 3.0. This long-awaited update features an upgraded GTK3 user interface, improved PSD file export, support for BC7 DDS files, and various usability enhancements. Additionally, it offers significantly better tablet input support.
The big picture: Traditional AI-based image tools often focus on generating images from scratch using text prompts, which has invited controversy due to copyright concerns. Firefly, however, leverages prompts to make complex edits to existing images within Adobe programs like Photoshop and Illustrator. Users can seamlessly add objects while maintaining consistent lighting, introduce new patterns, remove backgrounds, or extend image boundaries – though sometimes with unintentionally humorous results.
Topaz Photo upscaling app improves its Preserve Text enhancement feature to automatically run on areas of an image where text has been detected. Super Focus and Crop tools have also been upgraded.
Popular and free Photoshop alternative GIMP is nearing the release of its stable 3.0 version (after two decades of 2.x). This version introduces a refreshed logo, enhanced stroke selection options, and multiple quality-of-life improvements.
Affinity Photo, one of the best alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, now offers a six-month trial period you can download and use, along with the complete Affinity Suite. Recently acquired by Canva, Affinity Photo provides a comprehensive set of image editing tools suitable for both beginners and experts.
Darktable is an open source alternative to Adobe Lightroom, now introducing a new color equalizer to control hue, lightness, and saturation based on colors, and two new modules for image composition.
Darktable (a.k.a. the open-source alternative to Lightroom) now automatically saves your edit history every 10 seconds, and adds a new "RGB primaries" processing module for delicate color corrections and creative color grading.