DP Review Friday June 20, 2025
Adobe is updating Lightroom and Photoshop to make some previously-announced features widely available and is teasing an AI filtering system for Lightroom that could make it much easier to cull collections of hundreds or thousands of photos. The update brings the Remove Reflections feature added to Adobe Camera Raw last year to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, notes DP Review. The non-destructive Denoise, Raw Details and Super Resolution tools are now in the Detail panel, as they are available as standard features.
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David Schonauer Friday June 20, 2025
Instagram desperately covets Gen Z: Recently, the app it introduced the most expensive brand campaign in it's history, squarely focused on that demographic The campaign, which casts Instagram as a
launchpad for scrappy creative types, is just one way in which Meta is acting on its long-simmering anxiety that Instagram risks being written off by a younger generation, noted The New York Times,
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The New York Times Thursday June 19, 2025
Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery whom President Trump announced he was firing last month, is stepping down, reports The New York Times. Sajet explained in a statement that she thought her decision was in the best interests of the institution. The Smithsonian Institution, which oversees the museum and has long operated as independent of the executive branch, reiterated that it retains the legal authority over personnel including Sajet, whom the president had criticized as partisan. See our earlier report.
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British Journal of Photography Thursday June 19, 2025
Fenix, the recently-opened museum in the city harbor area of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, focuses on both stories and visuals about migration—it is no coincidence, notes The British Journal of Photography, that the enormous building in which it is housed formerly served as the departure and entry point for millions of emigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the museum’s debut exhibitions is “The Family of Migrants,” which is inspired by "The Family of Man," the famous 1955 photography show at New York’s MoMA.
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