A camera lens filter is pretty much what you’d expect: it’s a physical piece of glass that attaches to your camera’s lens, filters the light before it reaches the sensor and, typically, has an effect ...

Retro-inspired cameras have become exceptionally trendy – but part of the retro look lies not in the camera at all, but in the lens. Film lenses were often not as sharp as their digital counterparts, ...

The Google Lens features announced at I/O 2019 began rolling out last Tuesday on Android. Later this week, the new Google Lens with filters for Dining and Translate will officially be available for ...

Photographers sometimes get tired of the sterile image quality produced by clinical lenses today. This may be liked by some photographers, but there are others who would prefer some character. If you ...

Lens filters are an important tool for many DSLR photographers, but dealing with different diameter lenses, stepping-rings, square filter mounts and the rest can be frustrating and expensive. But now, ...

Snapchat’s custom augmented reality lenses are no longer limited to just objects. On Tuesday, April 17, Snap Inc. opened Lens Studio to face filters, expanding on earlier options that allowed artists ...

Photoshop Blur filters are designed primarily for retouching images—to soften, haze, cloud, fuzz, or distort specific areas of a picture or the entire image. Backgrounds are often blurred out to ...

is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. At the end of last year, Snapchat introduced a way for people to build their own lenses. Today Snapchat is introducing a ...