MacPhun
Skylum (formerly Macphun) is a software development company based in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is most known for its award-winning photo editing software Luminar Neo and Aurora HDR. Skylum is also the developer of other photography apps for Mac such as Snapheal, Focus, Tonality, Intensify, Noiseless, and FX Photo Studio. History Skylum was founded as Macphun in 2008 by two gaming developers and amateur photographers, Dmitry Sytnik and Paul Muzok. Initially the company developed applications for iOS. One of its first applications was Vintage Video Maker, which was later named Vintagio. In 2009, Apple named Vintagio among Best iPhone apps of the year. In total, the company released over 60 applications in the first three years. However, it saw the greatest number of downloads in the photography applications. Skylum thus decided to develop the same photography applications for macOS. In early 2010, Skylum launched its first macOS application, FX Photo Studio Pro, which was earlier availabl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aurora HDR
Aurora HDR is photographic software developed by Skylum Software (formerly Macphun) for Mac OS X and Windows. It attempted to create a powerful and simple yet fast HDR photo editing software. Aurora HDR is a High Dynamic Range (HDR) editing and processing tool released in November 2015. It was made through a collaboration between Skylum and HDR photographer Trey Ratcliff. HDR image editing techniques are designed to overcome difficult lighting situations where highlights and shadows are prevalent in the same image, but have also been used to create highly processed images as well. By automatically aligning and merging multiple exposures of photos, Aurora HDR can create a single tone-mapped image. A collection of editing and processing tools also allows layered compositions and targeted areas of photo and graphic processing. Versions and plug-ins Aurora HDR comes in five different versions for two different operating systems. Versions, previous and current, include: Aurora ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Luminar Neo
Luminar Neo is a universal photo editing software application developed by Skylum (formerly Macphun) available for Windows and macOS. Luminar Neo was released in February 2022. It works as a standalone application and as a plugin for Adobe and Apple products. It integrates with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom Classic, and Photos for macOS. Luminar Neo has won the Red Dot The Red Dot Design Award is a German international design prize awarded by Red Dot GmbH & Co. KG. There are prize categories for product design, brands and communication design, and design concept. Since 1955, designers and producers can apply ... Brands & Communication Design award in 2022, and the TIPA World Awards for two years in a row: in 2022 and 2023. History Prior to Luminar Neo, Skylum (at the time known as Macphun) launched a series of image editing apps, including Luminar in November 2016 and Luminar Neptune in 2017. Initially developed only for macOS, Macphun launch ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Trey Ratcliff
Trey Ratcliff (born July 7, 1971) is an American photographer, public speaker and writer. Personal life and education Born in Austin, Texas, on July 7, 1971, Trey Ratcliff is the son of Susan Ratcliff and Ray Ratcliff. He attended Jesuit College Preparatory in Texas before moving on to Southern Methodist University where he studied Computer Science. Ratcliff has three children with his ex-wife Tina, son Ethan and daughters Isabella and Scarlett. Career Since starting his daily photography blog in 2005 Trey has been a proponent of Creative Commons licensing for his images. Although being able to see only from his left eye since birth, he became notable in HDR photography. In 2017, Ratcliff's photographs had been viewed more than 150 billion times via Google based channels. He was the first person to have HDR photography displayed in the Smithsonian Museum following their 4th Annual Photo Contest. In 2018, his photography was again on display at the Smithsonian in their Renwic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Multi-exposure HDR Capture
In photography and videography, multi-exposure HDR capture is a technique that creates extended or high dynamic range (HDR) images by taking and combining multiple exposures of the same subject matter at different exposure levels. Combining multiple images in this way results in an image with a greater dynamic range than what would be possible by taking one single image. The technique can also be used to capture video by taking and combining multiple exposures for each frame of the video. The term "HDR" is used frequently to refer to the process of creating HDR images from multiple exposures. Many smartphones have an automated HDR feature that relies on computational imaging techniques to capture and combine multiple exposures. A single image captured by a camera provides a finite range of luminosity inherent to the medium, whether it is a digital sensor or film. Outside this range, tonal information is lost and no features are visible; tones that exceed the range are "burned o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Generative Artificial Intelligence
Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI, GenAI, or GAI) is a subset of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to produce text, images, videos, or other forms of data. These models machine learning, learn the underlying patterns and structures of their training data set, training data and use them to produce new data based on the input, which often comes in the form of natural language Prompt (natural language), prompts. Improvements in transformer (machine learning model), transformer-based deep learning, deep neural networks, particularly large language model, large language models (LLMs), enabled an AI boom of generative AI systems in the early 2020s. These include chatbots such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot, Gemini (chatbot), Gemini, and LLaMA; text-to-image artificial intelligence art, artificial intelligence image generation systems such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E; and Text-to-video model, text-to-video AI generators such ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Technical Image Press Association
The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA)Technical Image Press Association is an international, association advocating the interests of the and imaging magazine-publishing industry. The association represents 30 titles, published in eight European countries and seven non-European countries. History The organization was established in 1991 as an association of European photography and imaging magazines. Since 2009, members have joined from outside of Europe.[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |