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EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users’ photos to train AI models. Earlier this month, the…

Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users’ photos to train AI if they don’t delete them

TikTok is rolling out its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, in select markets. The app is available on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store in Canada and Australia, the…

TikTok starts testing its Instagram competitor TikTok Notes in Canada and Australia

Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited to Pixel devices and paid subscribers — including…

Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free

Another week, another AI app going viral. This time around, the AI app that has surged to the top of the App Store is EPIK, a photo-editing app that lets…

AI app EPIK hits No. 1 on the App Store for its viral yearbook photo feature

A clever new app called Slingshot is combining the serendipity of BeReal snaps with the friends-only photo sharing popularized by apps like Snapchat. But while the app’s inspirations are familiar,…

Slingshot’s playful new app lets you ‘sling’ quick photos to friends

Artisse is the latest AI photo creation app to challenge the recently viral app Remini and others by allowing users to generate AI photos of themselves by first uploading a series…

Artisse can generate AI photos of you from prompts, templates or even a reference pic

Google Photos will now sync your private photos stored in your Locked Folder across your devices via cloud backup, the company announced today. First introduced in May 2021, the Locked…

Google Photos now lets you sync your ‘Locked Folder’ private photos across devices

After the photo layout app Series became a must-have companion for Instagram Threads, its developer Ryan Carver has now decided to spin off a simplified version called Spreads, designed specifically…

Spreads lets you share full screen panoramic photos to Instagram Threads

WhatsApp is getting an upgrade that will allow users to share HD photos through the messaging app, according to an announcement shared by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his Instagram…

WhatsApp adds support for HD photos, says HD video coming ‘soon’

Series, an iOS photo app that helps you lay out your photos in creative ways for posting on social media, is now shaping up to become the must-have companion app…

Photo layout app Series makes it easier to post your panos to Threads

AI is impacting the realm of photography, ranging from tools for professionals like Adobe Photoshop’s new generative AI, to those for consumers, like Google Photos’ forthcoming Magic Editor. Now, genealogy…

MyHeritage debuts Reimagine, an AI app for scanning, fixing and even animating old photos

Amid user complaints over the current state of Instagram, Hipstamatic is returning to the App Store today with a relaunch of its social network for iPhone photography enthusiasts.

Retro camera app Hipstamatic makes its return as an anti-Instagram social network

One of the Google Pixel’s best photo-editing features, “Magic Eraser,” is now making its way to other Android and iOS devices. But it won’t be free. Today, Google announced that…

Google Photos’ AI-powered ‘Magic Eraser’ is now a Google One subscription perk

Pinterest’s new collage-making app Shuffles is now available to the general public, after entering an invite-only test phase earlier this summer. The app grew in popularity with Gen Z users,…

Pinterest launches its collage-making app Shuffles to the general public

After initially disabling the capability, OpenAI today announced that customers with access to DALL-E 2 can upload people’s faces to edit them using the AI-powered image-generating system. Previously, OpenAI only…

OpenAI begins allowing users to edit faces with DALL-E 2

We said this a couple of months ago, and we’re sticking to it now: the new background removal and image cutout feature is the most fun thing to come out…

iOS 16 users are getting creative with the new background removal feature for photos

The longtime iOS and iPadOS image editing application Pixelmator Photo, a companion to the popular Pixelmator Pro, is embracing subscriptions as it heads to the Mac. Previously the app was…

Pixelmator Photo is coming to Mac with a new subscription-based model

An app called BeReal, founded by former GoPro employee Alexis Barreyat along with Kévin Perreau, launched in December 2019 with its idea of asking users to post an unedited photo…

BeReal: Hype or hit? What to know about the Gen Z photo-sharing app climbing the charts

Google today announced a number of changes ahead for its popular Google Photos app for mobile devices. With the update, the company plans to make it easier to organize, import…

Google Photos update adds a handy import option alongside other organizational changes

A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Now out of…

Honeycomb, a private social app for families, raises $4M seed round

Google announced a series of upgrades to its Google Photos service, used by more than a billion users, at today’s Google I/O developer event, which was virtually streamed this year…

Google Photos update adds new Memories and a Locked Folder, previews Cinematic moments

Facetune maker Lightricks is out today with a new app, Filtertune, designed to create a community around custom photo filters. With the app, creators can make their own personalized preset…

Facetune maker’s new app Filtertune let anyone create and share personalized photo filters

Google Photos is reviving its photo printing subscription service and introducing same-day prints. The company earlier this year had briefly tested a new program that used A.I. to suggest the…

Google Photos revives its prints subscription service, expands same-day print options

Google is taking aim at photo face filters and other “beautifying” techniques that mental health experts believe can warp a person’s self-confidence, particularly when they’re introduced to younger users. The…

Google takes aim at ‘beauty filters’ with design changes coming to Pixel phones
AI On lying AIs

A yellow-eyed cat tilts its eyes at the camera, gazing up from a grey bedspread. ‘London Trip’, is the AI’s title for this photo-montage ‘Memory’ plucked from the depths of…

On lying AIs

Facebook is today rolling out a tool that will allow users in the U.S. and Canada to export their Facebook photos and videos to Google Photos. This data portability tool…

Facebook now allows users in the US & Canada to export photos and videos to Google Photos

Home furnishing retailer Wayfair was among the first to adopt AR technology as a means of helping people better visualize furniture and accessories in their own home, ahead of purchase.…

Wayfair’s app adds 3D visualization tools, including interactive photos & a room planner

Fresh off its recent raise of $135 million, Lightricks, the maker of popular selfie editor Facetune and several other top consumer-focused photo editing applications, is branching out. The company this…

Facetune maker Lightricks expands with a trio of apps for small businesses

Google Photos is getting its own version of Stories. But instead of focusing on what you’re doing now, as Stories on other platforms like Instagram and Snapchat offer, Google Photos…

Google Photos adds a time-traveling version of Stories, plus more sharing and printing options

When all of us are carrying phones that can snap a thousand photos a minute and are connected to cloud systems that can store millions, there’s an undeniable charm to…

The Polaroid Lab uses the light from your phone’s screen to turn digital photos into Polaroids