Topaz Mask AI As I stated in yesterday's post, Topaz Labs seem to be the most innovative photo software company at the moment. They've restructured their software into two groups: Topaz Studio, which contains all their 'regular' plugins and enhancement tools. The AI range, their specialist tools. And now they've added AI Mask. I've played [...]

Windows 10 Upgrade is Still Free. I recently upgraded one of my computers to Windows 10. I know, I'm a late adopter. But Windows 7 was working fine for me and I didn't feel inclined to update it without good reason. I had to update it to test the new DXO PhotoLab 3, which won't [...]

ProWritingAid - a tool for bloggers and writers I've been writing this blog for over a year now and it's a very different discipline to taking and editing photographs. I find it harder. Until yesterday, my method was to write the post and then use Yoast's features to check my writing. That worked for shorter posts [...]

I have tested Topaz Gigapixel AI before and concluded that it is the best image resize software. I now wanted to give it quite a stern challenge. How would it fare going up against a  top-rated teleconverter such as the Canon EF 2x Extender, Mark 3? The extender Canon's 2x extended attaches to some of their [...]

Luminar 3 With Libraries was released recently and I've been playing with it for a while. Here's my first impressions: The Good A reasonable image browser with a unique layout It keeps itself up to date after you have told it the folder(s) where your images are The RAW conversion is high quality, although it [...]

In my previous reviews of this excellent software, I made a mistake regarding its focus stacking, saying that the individual layers in the stack cannot be edited. This is incorrect. See this Youtube video for details. To my mind Affinity is simply fantastic and it offers a real depth of features. But this mistake on [...]

I have used many APS-C mirrorless cameras, from the diminutive Canon EOS M100 to the medium sized Samsung NX500 to the SLR like Samsung NX1 and I have loved them all. But the appeal of 'full frame' cameras is strong. After all, full frame must mean better pictures, surely? Sadly, not. No camera will make [...]

I recently reviewed the initial release of A.I. Gigapixel and concluded it was a great Image Resize tool. Its main problems were the speed on low end graphics cards and it didn't support many low end graphics cards at all. This new release fixes the graphics card issue - the software will now run using your PC's CPU [...]

My Instagram Page I use and love Instagram. My Instagram page is gaining new followers everyday. It's not as fast as I would like, but it is steady and the new users are sticking around. Like most of us, I've tried different strategies for building up my following and I'm going to share with you [...]