Adobe Photoshop

23 Apr 2026 · Software News

DaVinci Resolve 21 just added photo editing and tethered shooting — Blackmagic is coming for Capture One's lunch, and it's free. Everything else in this roundup (Nik 9's AI color tools, Luminar Neo 1.27, Adobe's routine camera support update) is worth bookmarking but not rushing for.

28 Apr 2026 · Software News

Assisted Culling is now live in Lightroom, and it's the feature that actually matters here. If you're regularly delivering 500-plus selects from a wedding or corporate shoot, having a tool that pre-filters for focus and exposure before you even start flagging saves real time. The tolerance slider is the smart part: you stay in control of the final call, it just kills the obvious rejects first. The 5x slider performance claim is worth testing on your next edit — if it holds up on large RAW files, that's a genuine workflow improvement, not a marketing footnote. Sony a7 V shooters also finally get compressed Raw support, which should have shipped months ago.

29 Apr 2026 · Software Opinion

The Adobe exodus isn't about anger at price hikes. It's about alternatives finally being good enough. For years, photographers grumbled and renewed anyway because walking away meant rebuilding everything — catalogs, presets, client delivery, tethering workflows. That's no longer true. Capture One handles tethering better. DxO PureRaw sits cleanly inside existing workflows. Affinity Photo is a one-time purchase that doesn't phone home. The switch still costs time, but it no longer costs capability. If you're billing enough hours that the Adobe tax stings, run the numbers now — not at renewal time when you're under deadline pressure and just click yes again.

2 May 2026 · Software News

Adobe's updated Remove Tool doesn't just respond to your selections anymore — it goes looking for distractions on its own. For anyone doing location, event, or commercial work where backgrounds are never clean, that's a real time shift. The broader update reportedly touches three or four other cleanup and editing features too, so if Photoshop is in your post pipeline, this is worth opening right now rather than waiting for it to show up in your next round of updates.

9 May 2026 · Software News

Camera Raw can now mask by depth layer, not just subject or background. Pick a slice of the scene, foreground rocks, hazy midground, distant sky, and edit it independently. If you've ever spent 20 minutes painting luminosity masks to separate a near-field from a far-field in a landscape shot, this is the one to know about. Genuinely useful for architectural and editorial work too, anywhere you need precise tonal separation across depth without fiddly selections.

22 May 2026 · Software Tutorial

Photoshop's depth masking skips edge detection entirely and reads spatial depth instead, so a subject three metres from a background gets isolated cleanly even when colours and tones blend together. If you're cutting out subjects against complex environments, like a person in front of a cluttered office or a product shot with overlapping props, this tool does the work that used to take three rounds of Pen Tool cleanup.

26 May 2026 · Software News

Adobe shipped a depth range mask update to Camera Raw in the current version of Photoshop, no formal announcement. It changes how you can apply localized adjustments by distance from the camera inside Camera Raw.

28 May 2026 · Software News

Adobe has added upfront credit cost visibility to Photoshop's generative tools — you can now see what a task will cost before hitting generate. No pricing change, just transparency that wasn't there before.

30 May 2026 · Software News

Photoshop's latest update added two new masking tools inside Adobe Camera Raw. Both are live now and aimed at selections with difficult edges.

2 June 2026 · Launch News

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra runs on Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip, a 20-core ARM-based SoC built with MediaTek, with a shared memory pool up to 128GB. The 15-inch mini-LED panel peaks at 2000 nits HDR brightness. There's an SD card slot on board, though read/write speeds aren't confirmed yet. Adobe says it will rearchitect Photoshop and Premiere to take advantage of the chip's GPU acceleration.

16 June 2026 · Software News

Adobe has moved Lightroom's Assisted Culling out of early access, adding a Face View that surfaces detected faces so you can check focus and open eyes yourself, plus stack sorting that puts the best candidate first. A third-party integration brings Topaz Labs' Noise-Aware Sharpen model directly into Lightroom, though it draws on AI feature credits not included in all Creative Cloud plans. Sony a7R VI RAW support is also in, including the new Compressed (HQ) format, which carries through to Photoshop via Adobe Camera Raw.

20 June 2026 · Software News

Adobe's chat-based Creative Agent is now in Photoshop Beta on desktop, having launched on the web version earlier this year. It lets you type instructions to carry out editing tasks, from layer organisation to font identification, with edits applied as adjustable layers. Available now to Creative Cloud subscribers running the beta build.

26 June 2026 · Industry News

Adobe is acquiring Topaz Labs, the company behind Gigapixel, Photo AI, and Video AI. The two have been working together since October 2025, when Topaz upscaling, denoise, and sharpening models were folded into Photoshop. Deal closes second half of 2026, regulatory approval pending. Standalone Topaz apps stay available post-acquisition, but Adobe hasn't said anything yet about pricing or how Topaz tools will sit relative to Creative Cloud subscriptions.

27 June 2026 · Industry News

Adobe has acquired Topaz Labs, confirmed. Topaz tools currently sit inside Photoshop's AI upsizing (as a credits-based feature); the deal opens the door to broader integration of Topaz's sharpening and denoise into Photoshop, Lightroom, and other Creative Cloud apps. Topaz will keep selling standalone software, with Eric Yang staying on to lead the team.

18 Aug 2026 · Software News

Photoshop has a new blemish tool that removes spots while keeping the skin texture underneath intact. That second part is the notable detail — automatic retouching tools have historically blurred or flattened texture in the process of clearing blemishes.