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Download five high-resolution synthetic HDRIs mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups, for use in portfolio work.

Sunday, July 7th, 2019

Updated: mainly bugfixes this time, but there is also some very cool integration with new page layout tool Affinity Publisher.

Thursday, June 20th, 2019

Set of 9 GPU-based, VFX-focused After Effects plugins includes neat new tool Supercomp; updates to Primatte Keyer, Knoll Light Factory.

Wednesday, June 19th, 2019

Real-time VFX and motion graphics tools get new GPU-agnostic hybrid ray tracing system, plus native support for Substance materials.

Friday, June 7th, 2019

Updated: Standalone render denoising tools get new integration plugins for Houdini and Clarisse.

Monday, April 15th, 2019

Interesting new tool lets you place light sources on a 2D canvas to create your own synthetic HDRIs. Works in 32-bit linear colour space.

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018

Quixel's intuitive tool for blending scanned materials now out in beta. Free to Megascans subscribers.

Friday, May 18th, 2018

Landmark stable build of the open source image editor supports 32-bit linear workflow, adds new warping and foreground selection tools.

Sunday, April 29th, 2018

Now available: big update to the real-time toolkit adds scores of new features for rendering, texture baking and the Marmoset Viewer.

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

Node-based tool for authoring effects filters gets new workflow to support any 2D image-editing app.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2017

Photogrammetry software gets support for custom shaders, option to export textures in EXR format or as 32-bit TIFFs, 4K video output.

Thursday, November 16th, 2017

Landscape-generation tool gets better cloud generation, faster previews, and 32-bit EXR output.

Sunday, July 30th, 2017

Pro image-editing tool gets $30 iOS edition. All the key features of the Mac version, GPU-accelerated, and touch-optimised.

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017