During photo editing, it’s sometimes necessary to focus on specific objects. For this purpose, we have tools for local adjustments: Brush, Gradient, and Circular filter. And with the arrival of

A seemingly unassuming feature with tremendous potential; color profiles that enhance your photos with a single click. These are "LUTs." Let's delve into how LUTs work and how to use them.

We've improved Zoner Photo Studio X to ensure that the necessary tools are even closer at hand. With the new navigation, you'll easily navigate through folders. With icons for the most common tools, you can access frequently used functions even with the hidden side panel. And as always, you can customize everything to suit your needs.

Unleash the treasure trove of new features in our Autumn Update. This time around, we've gone the extra mile to enhance the user interface, making it more intuitive than ever. We've fine-tuned and turbocharged processes to boost speed. But that's just the beginning! We've added a slew of nifty features for your cameras and local photo adjustments, and we're not done yet.

We regularly bring you interesting topics and photography tips from around the world of photography. We've decided that it's time to give you a chance to showcase your skills to the world. In our first challenge, we selected a travel-themed topic: Castles and Palaces.

Surely you’ve run into this before: you’re in a place that you want to show off through some great photos, but the weather is against you. There’s a dull gray sky with no room for creativity. You have a subject that’s interesting, but the rest is boring. In most cases you can make use of tone mapping, gradient filters and the like, but there are also cases where there’s no adjustment that can make the sky look good, and yet something does have to be done with it. There is one last resort—replacing the sky.

Presets make photo editing go faster. Because they can apply several of your frequently used operations at once. Presets keep you from having to set the same sliders to the same values again and again; it all just takes one click. The built-in presets aren’t a good fit for you? No problem. Zoner Photo Studio offers an easy way to create your own. It will save you work, and you’ll get to keep your own original editing style. 

We often associate a dark mood and almost horror-like edits with photos from abandoned urban places—urbex photos. But that doesn’t have to be a rule. The edits that you make to your urbex photos can also be entirely different.

Need to watermark some pictures? No matter whether you’ll be marking them with pictures or text, Zoner Photo Studio is here to help.

Just as some edits and lighting styles give you a soft-feeling photo, the opposite exists too. Meet the opposite of High Key. Meet Low Key... and learn to create harsher, grittier photos. You can use it for photos of senior citizens, photos of manly men (often the same thing!)... and even for nudes. Read on to find out how to create Low Key photos.