383 Edit Free

383 Edit Free

From The Future of Photography by Chris Marquardt & Adrian Stock

April 22, 2026 · 39 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Blackmagic Design's free photo editing software and its impact on the economics of photo editing.

Watch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat! A possible step change this week in how we think of the economics of editing photos. Blackmagic Design launched Davinci Resolve 21 with a big new addition - editing of photos including raw files. And it's free! Or at least free for exports up to 10-12MP. So what happens when you have some really powerful free tools and then personal software you build through agentic development? What does this do to the economics of photo editing? And this agentic stuff is real. Adrian has developed and uses his own DAM and Jeremiah has an exciting project too. Picks of the week: Soundcore Space Q45 Macrowave This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with Adrian Stock https://adrianstock.com/ (Home) Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios (Card) Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home) All episodes at https://thefutureofphotography.com, All videos at https://tfttf.com/tfopvideo Find us at Discord: https://tfttf.com/jointfop, Web: https://thefutureofphotography.com, Twitter: https://twitter.com/tfopnow, Instagram…

People in this episode

Hosts: Adrian Stock, Chris Marquardt

Topics covered

  • photo editing
  • software
  • technology
  • economics
  • digital asset management

Keywords

  • photo editing
  • Davinci Resolve
  • Blackmagic Design
  • digital asset management
  • free software

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blackmagic Design

Products: Davinci Resolve 21, Soundcore Space Q45, Macrowave

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