File Formats
GIMP 3.4's New Project File Format and PSD Support
GIMP has carried an awkward format problem for most of its existence
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Photo Editing
GIMP 3.4's New PSD Support: What It Means for Your Editing Workflow
The longstanding friction between GIMP and Photoshop's native file format has always been practical rather than philosophical
Image Quality
Scammers Using AI to Pinpoint Photo Locations From Metadata
Every unedited photo your phone shoots arrives carrying a payload of structured data that has nothing to do with the image itself
File Formats
File Format Sustainability and Digital Preservation
The oldest surviving photograph—Louis Daguerre's 1837 still life on a silver-coated copper plate—has outlasted every piece of equipment used to create it
Photo Editing
The Lightroom Slider That Kills the White Halo on Mountain Edges
The problem announces itself clearly once you know to look for it: a pale, slightly luminous halo clinging to the boundary where a rocky ridgeline or pine-covered peak meets a bright sky
File Formats
A PBS Station Lost 70 Years of Archive When Cloud Vendor Vanished
A PBS member station recently lost access to roughly seventy years of archived footage when the cloud storage vendor it depended on shuttered without adequate warning
Image Quality
A Giant Mirror in Space Could Ruin Your Night Sky Photos
The Milky Way shot you waited three hours for, parked at 9,000 feet with the temperature dropping — it's home on your hard drive now, and something is wrong
Image Quality
What f/8 Really Costs You on a 400mm Wildlife Lens
There's a persistent assumption in wildlife photography that stopping down equals sharper images
Image Quality
Why Cameras Still Cannot See What Your Eyes See
There is a moment most photographers recognize: you raise the camera toward a scene that looks extraordinary — a backlit canyon, a restaurant table with candles, a face half in shadow — and the image that comes back is technically correct and somehow wrong
Photo Editing
Lightroom's New Editable AI Masks: What Changed and Why It Matters
Lightroom's masking system has been quietly rewritten
File Formats
Why One RAW File Can Contain Several Photographs
RAW files are routinely described as "digital negatives," which is accurate as far as it goes — but the analogy quietly implies one exposure, one frame, one image
File Formats
DNG as Official RAW Standard: What Changes for Your Workflow
The announcement that DNG has been formally adopted as an ISO standard after more than two decades as an Adobe-originated format shifts something that most photographers only half-noticed was unresolved: there was never a neutral, third-party guarantee that a DNG file written today would remain fully interpretable by software that didn't exist yet