Monday, 26th October 2026 The Weekly Creative A Quick, No-Fluff update from Glyn Dewis that Keeps your Creativity Current Sigma announced the FP2 this week, a full-frame compact with a partially stacked sensor, a tilting screen and 70GB of storage built in. Canva has built its own image model, and Lightroom on mobile can now open closed eyes in a group shot, for free. Elsewhere, there's useful firmware for the Nikon Z9 and Z8, the Sony A7R VI and the Ricoh GR IV, Capture One has a second 16.9...
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Monday, 19th October 2026 The Weekly Creative A Quick, No-Fluff update from Glyn Dewis that Keeps your Creativity Current Skylum put a proper RAW editor in a web browser this week, and Getty Images said it's taking itself private through a prepackaged restructuring, adding that it doesn't expect contributors to feel any impact. Elsewhere, Tamron has an affordable constant f/2.8 zoom heading to all four APS-C mounts, there's useful firmware for the Lumix S9 and the Nikon Z6III, and the...
18 days ago • 9 min read
Monday, 12th October 2026 The Weekly Creative A Quick, No-Fluff update from Glyn Dewis that Keeps your Creativity Current Nikon took first place off the winner of its own competition this week, after deciding the video was made with generative AI. The rankings were adjusted, the prize moved to second place, and Nikon says it’ll now look again at how the rules are worded. Elsewhere, Sigma and Tamron both announced lenses for Nikon Z on the same day, including the first zoom Sigma has ever been...
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Monday, 5th September 2026 The Weekly Creative A Quick, No-Fluff update from Glyn Dewis that Keeps your Creativity Current Getty Images was pushed off the New York Stock Exchange this week, which is the story for anyone whose income has a Getty line in it. A US appeal court also ruled for the first time that training an AI on someone else's copyrighted work was not fair use. Away from the drama, Adobe shipped its whole photo cycle on one day and two new Photoshop beta tools, while the...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
Monday, 28th September 2026 The Weekly Creative A Quick, No-Fluff update from Glyn Dewis that Keeps your Creativity Current Two stories dominate this week, and neither is a software release. Adobe closed its purchase of Topaz Labs on the 23rd September 2026, which puts the two most common third-party steps in a stills pipeline, noise reduction and upscaling, inside the company that makes the host application. And from the 21st September the big picture agencies, Associated Press, Reuters, AFP...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
Monday, 21st September 2026 The Weekly Creative A Quick, No-Fluff update from Glyn Dewis that Keeps your Creativity Current This was a busy week for practical photography tools. Affinity delivered the broadest software update, Capture One made wireless tethering genuinely more useful, and Canon and Sony both added hardware that solves clear, everyday shooting problems. The less obvious headline is policy: new draft guidance from the Philippines puts human creative contribution at the centre...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Monday, 14th September 2026 The Weekly Creative A Quick, No-Fluff update from Glyn Dewis that Keeps your Creativity Current Apple put a mechanical iris in a phone this week, six laser-cut blades and four selectable apertures on the iPhone 18 Pro, which is the first genuinely new piece of phone camera hardware in years. On the same day Ricoh Imaging said it's ending production of every current Pentax K-series DSLR, so the last mainstream DSLR line still being built has stopped. Two very...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Monday, 7th September 2026 The Weekly Creative A Quick, No-Fluff update from Glyn Dewis that Keeps your Creativity Current GoPro agreed to sell itself this week, which isn't how anyone expected the run-up to Apple's iPhone event to go. A $285 million merger with an optical-photonics firm called Starman Optical points the 24-year-old camera company at AI infrastructure, government and defence work, and it took a founder's letter three days later to calm the reaction. Elsewhere, DxO PhotoLab 10...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Monday, 31st August 2026 The Weekly Creative A Quick, No-Fluff update from Glyn Dewis that Keeps your Creativity Current 🎥 Who is Photoshop for now? 🤷♂️ 🎨 Project Photoshop - Virtual Summit I'm teaching at this year's Photoshop Virtual Summit, and this one's a bit different. PROJECT PHOTOSHOP runs from the 14th thru 18th September 2026 with over 33 hours of classes from 26 of the world's best Photoshop educators, all built around real projects rather than isolated tips. The idea is simple:...
2 months ago • 9 min read
