Adobe Camera Raw 18.6 was released today, and it brings three additions worth your attention: a new crop tool called Trim, a metadata panel, and a new effects tool called Glow. Glow is the one that's going to change how a lot of people finish their photos — I've already gone back and re-edited ma...

Back on August 18, 2012, some friends and I got permission to shoot inside the abandoned Satsop nuclear plant in Washington. It's still one of the coolest shoots I've ever done. Fourteen years later, almost to the day, I'm bringing this photo back for episode 9 of Then and Now — my series where...

Last week's Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop update got most of the attention, with Blemish Removal and Generative Expand headlining the release notes. But the August 2026 cycle also brought real changes to Lightroom for iPad and iPhone — including one feature iPad users have been asking for sinc...

Adobe Camera Raw 18.5 landed this week, right alongside the Lightroom 9.5 update. If you use ACR through Photoshop or Bridge (which requires the Photography or Creative Cloud Pro plan), here's what's new in this release.   Vectorscope Gets More Flexible The vectorscope debuted two versions ago...

The August 2026 Lightroom 9.5 update brings over a batch of features that have already proven themselves in Camera Raw. If you've been editing in ACR and wondering when Lightroom would catch up, this is that update. Here's what's new and, more importantly, how to actually use it. First things fi...

There's a specific photo I think about whenever I'm tempted to skip a random drive down a back road. I took it in July of 2012 somewhere in rural Nebraska, turning left and right on a whim through stretches of farmland, and it's become one of my most cherished reminders that you never know what's...