Nik Collection users rejoice: DxO has announced that they’re acquiring the Nik Collection assets from Google. The current version is available for free on DxO’s website. But they plan to go on with the development, and there will be “Nik Collection 2018 Edition” released mid-2018. Jérôme Ménière, CEO and founder of DxO, says they’ll continue to revolutionize the image processing market with Nick’s tools. The new version of their flagship software DxO OpticsPro (as of now available under the new name DxO PhotoLab) is the first embodiment of this acquisition....

In the past this swirly visual effect had been the money-train for Lomo and their Petzval lenses in the form of the 85mm and the soon to be publicly available 58mm. I own a lot of the Lensbaby lenses and I’ve been very pleased with the resulting optical effects from their previous products so I was certainly pleased to hear Lensbaby were taking a crack at the swirly bokeh effect now too....

Flickr offers quite a few perks to its Pro users and it has recently introduced another one. Anyone with the Pro account can now view photos in up to 6K resolution, which is three times larger than it was before. Let the pixel peeping begin! So far, 2048px on the longest side was maximum display resolution on Flickr. Even if you uploaded a photo larger than that, it was displayed at a maximum of 2048px....

Nowadays you can simply buy fake blood, even online. But if you don’t have a high budget and you’re filming the next Texas Chainsaw Massacre – you will probably still want to rely on DIY blood. Ketchup doesn’t really work, so – what’s the perfect recipe? Before cinema and TV, there were only theaters. And in theater, a red handkerchief symbolized blood. However, the directors wanted something less symbolic and more realistic....

While we all know Godox for their strobes and speedlights, Godox has also been making LED video lights for quite a while now. Until lately, though, they weren’t really all that good. That’s changed recently, though, as Godox has started to get more serious about their video-shooting customers. The Godox SL series, and in particular the SL60 have proven very popular. But now Godox is starting to focus more on versatility, with a new range of flexible LED lights offering a CRI of 96, stepless power output and remote control through a standard remote or the Godox smartphone app....