This New Mac App Keeps Track of Your Photo and Video Backups

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Keeping track of photo and video files across multiple hard drives, memory cards, and cloud services can become difficult as projects accumulate. A new Mac application called Tusk is designed to give photographers and video creators a way to track those files while also handling parts of the backup and offload process.

Tusk has now launched following a two-month beta period. The application catalogs project files across storage devices, including drives that are not currently connected to the computer, and uses BLAKE3 checksums to verify transfers. It can also

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James Webb Space Telescope Opens Up a Cosmic Treasure Chest

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The newest NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month delivers a spectacularly colorful look at a cosmic “Treasure Chest,” a neat feature of the nearby Carina Nebula, located just 7,500 light-years away.

The Treasure Chest, as it’s called, is actually a cometary globule in the Carina Nebula. A cometary globule is an “isolated cloud of gas and dust with a dense, dark head and a sweeping tail,” the European Space Agency explains .

While

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Lomochrome Color ‘92 Sun-Kissed Is a Fun Film With Character All Its Own

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Toward the end of the summer of 2024, Lomography struck again, bringing a new (sort of) addition to its Lomochrome line of experimental films. The company introduced Lomochrome Color ‘92 Sun-Kissed , a color negative film meant for experimentation and indulging in nostalgia.

To best understand Color ‘92 Sun-Kissed, it really helps to know a bit about its precursor film: the original Color ‘92. Lomochrome Color ‘92 was released a year earlier in 202

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The Zhong Yi Pittura 30mm f/2.4 Is a Fast and Wide Medium Format Lens

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Zhong Yi Optics has announced the Pittura 30mm f/2.4 , a manual focus prime lens designed to give Hasselblad XCD and Fujifilm GFX photographers an unusual combination of both fast aperture and a wide-angle.

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Flashback Is Offering a Photographer a Six-Month ‘Dream Job’

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Want to live in Hong Kong while getting paid to create photography and video content?

Flashback , the company behind the retro-inspired One35 V2 digital camera, is looking for a content creator or photographer to join its team for three to six months, with the company offering a paid full-time role along with flights and rent.

The unusual job opportunity is aimed at someone who wants to document Hong Kong while creating content for a camera brand. Flashback has not disclosed the exact salary, but says the

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Adobe Is Coming for Canva With Expanded ChatGPT Integration

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Late last year, Adobe introduced integrations for Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat inside OpenAI’s conversational AI platform, ChatGPT. Now Adobe has upped the ante and announced the Adobe plugin in ChatGPT , which brings every Adobe app inside ChatGPT.

Without ever leaving ChatGPT, users can now use over 70 different Adobe tools across the company’s software suite, including Firefly, to edit photos, resize videos, generate polished social media assets, and more. There are tools from Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premiere, plus

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DJI Teases Osmo 360 II With Footage From the New Camera

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DJI has released a second teaser for its upcoming Osmo 360 II, this time showing footage captured with the new 360-degree camera. The company says the camera will officially launch later today.

The latest video provides the first look at footage recorded with the Osmo 360 II, although DJI has not yet disclosed the camera’s detailed specifications. The teaser suggests DJI is emphasizing the ability to capture an entire scene and follow the action from multiple directions, a key advantage of 360


Tons of Top Cameras Are Discounted Right Now

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There are many great deals on a wide range of very good cameras at B&H right now. While not all of them are the absolute latest and greatest, they are very good interchangeable lens cameras, ranging from Micro Four Thirds all the way up to full frame.

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Canon EOS R6 II

Kicking things off is the Canon EOS R6 II . While it has been replaced by the excellent R6 III , the 24.2-megapixel R6 II remains a great full-frame

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International Pet Photographer of the Year Has an Incredible Portfolio

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The winners of the 2026 International Pet Photography Awards have been announced, with photographer Callie Soden claiming the Creative and Studio category titles before being named the overall International Pet Photographer of the Year.

Judges described her wider portfolio as a masterclass in versatility, spanning composite work, studio portraiture, and on-location photography while maintaining a clear, consistent visual identity.

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This Photographer Built An App to Capture Perfect Solar Eclipse Photos

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On August 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse will dazzle people in Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, Spain, and a small part of Portugal, plus some lucky people on boats in the Atlantic Ocean. For photographers gearing up for the total solar eclipse next week, and others farther down the road, photographer Steven Madow has created an incredibly robust new solar eclipse automation app, Umbra .

This is not the first time Madow’s work has been featured on PetaPixel . Earlier this year,

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