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MacPhun Luminar is a brand new photo editor for Mac users. Designed to be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it, is Luminar the best photo editor for every photographer, regardless of their editing ability? ...

Adobe has some new updates and feature improvements coming down the pipe for Photoshop that was announced officially this morning. Among them, one of the biggest is no doubt the improvement to face-aware liquefy that now...

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Ok, so Apple pissed a lot of people off with their announcement of the 2016 Macbook Pro, be it the lack of a touch screen, the new keyboard, no SD card slot, or any non-thunderbolt3 ports. So it stands to reason that man...

When Apple unveiled its latest Macbook Pro laptops last month, one change photographers immediately noticed is the absence of a built-in SD card slot. While it hasn’t caused as much of a hoopla as the removal of the he...

Photographers pining for their very own Top Model-style reality show can stop now, Nigel Barker’s show Top Photographer has officially arrived. And you can already watch the first episode right here on PetaPixel. The 5...

Elon Musk unveils his unified vision for Tesla: fast cars, big home batteries and solar roofs

Instead of capturing a night sky time-lapse with the stars spinning overhead, Windston attached a GoPro HERO4 to his star-tracking telescope rig and shot the 1-minute video above that show’s Earth’s rotation in a dif...

DJI’s drone manufacturing factories are normally hidden from the public, but occasionally workers forget to delete test videos from memory cards before they ship in drones. These “found” videos offer a peek into th...

One thing is clear for those who have bought or are looking to buy the new 2016 Macbook Pro, adapters and hubs are going to be your new best friend - at least until manufacturers catch up and start releasing more USC-C/T...

To hear startup Glide tell it, your smartphone camera is just too difficult to reach at a moment’s notice, sitting there in your pocket. The next step in the evolution of the portable camera must be attached to you, wh...

Loupedeck is a new physical console that’s designed specifically for editing photos inside Adobe Lightroom. Its goal is to enhance your editing by putting everything you need into an ergonomic, physical interface at yo...

Voltaic has launched two new backpacks on Kickstarter, the Array and Offgrid. Both models feature integrated solar panels and removable batteries that charge when the bag is in sunlight. The Offgrid model is the smaller ...

I definitely love do-it-yourself projects, especially those that help me out with a project in a niche way. I recently had a story planned and I wanted the opening and closing shots to be of sunlight and moonlight stream...

One of the biggest points that photographers noticed regarding the latest line of Macbook Pro's that Apple announced last week was the exclusion of an SD card slot. For most people this is a negative because it means no ...

When I was in college, I lived for a while in a crappy little rental house next to a cemetery. Neither I nor my roommate, Brad, knew how to cook anything, and we ate bologna sandwiches pretty much all the time. Eventuall...

In photography, lighting is crucial to either make or break the shot. Life Lite is a new Kickstarter Project that aims to create a portable sized LED light that can be wirelessly controlled by a smartphone via a Bluetoot...

The Macro Room YouTube channel is quickly becoming a PetaPixel favorite. It started with dissolving pills, moved on to burning steel wool, and now the channel is revealing the odd textures and patterns of everyday object...

This foreground bokeh look is actually a setup I played around with a few times many years ago. I thought it would be a good, fun setup to share, as you can get some interesting results whilst playing around the much-lov...

It's not quite peak gift shopping time yet, but the deals are coming, fast an furious. Some are limited time, so make sure to check them out and check back often for the latest deals so you don't miss out on the deal of ...

A sea urchin's odyssey from birth to adulthood is remarkable

Introduction The Sony RX100 V is the company's newest addition to its lineup of premium compact cameras. As with the previous two versions, it has a 1"-type sensor, 24-70mm equivalent F1.8-2.8 lens but gains 24fps burst ...