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Relight is live in Photosoft. Change the direction and mood of the light in any photo, right in the browser.

Getty Images lost over 99% of its value in four years as AI ate into stock photography. Getty is now filing for bankruptcy as part of a restructuring deal and will become a private company again. Getty was one of the largest stock photo companies in the world. It charged businesses and media outlets for photos and videos from its huge library. In 2022 it went public at a $4.8 billion valuation. Then AI image generators arrived. They create similar images in seconds, and Getty's stock sites, Getty Images and iStock, came under pressure. Getty went to court. It sued Stability AI, the maker of Stable Diffusion, for using its images to train AI. A UK High Court judge largely ruled against it. A planned merger with rival Shutterstock then fell apart, leaving Getty alone with heavy debt and growing competition from AI. Its debt stands at about $2.1 billion, while its market value has shrunk to roughly $20.74 million. Now the Getty family and Koch Equity Development will own 100% of what is left. Getty spent decades making billions by selling images. AI made it possible to create similar images in seconds. And now a company once worth $4.8 billion has lost almost all of its value. This is how fast AI can take apart an established business.

Remove backgrounds and upscale images right in Telegram. Connect Telegram in Account → Integrations, then send a photo to the gimgs bot and tap ✂️ Remove background or 🔍 Upscale 2× / 4×. The result comes back as a full-quality file in a few seconds. It uses the same free daily quota as Photosoft, then 0.1 Point per image. Tip: send the image as a file to keep the original quality.

Connect Google Drive and Telegram to your gimgs account. Open Account → Integrations to link them in a couple of clicks. Telegram brings your account notifications (payments, Points, refunds) straight into a private chat, and Google Drive lets gimgs save files it creates right into your Drive. This is only the start: we have plenty of fun ideas for what these connections can do next.

Meet gsnap, a tiny screenshot tool for Windows and macOS. It does only what I need: select a region, adjust it, draw an arrow, save the PNG and copy it to the clipboard. One hotkey pastes the file path anywhere, so sending a screenshot to an AI agent CLI takes a second. Free, no account, nothing uploaded.

AI is making photo editing apps easier to build than ever. A small team, or even a single person, can now build photo editing tools with quality approaching commercial software that took years and millions of dollars to develop. Background removal, upscaling, object editing, professional image processing… more and more features that used to be paid can now be offered for free or at a very low cost. When quality is no longer an exclusive advantage, traditional software companies will face growing competitive pressure. So what keeps you paying for apps like Adobe, when there are more and more free options of comparable quality?

See Relight in action. One photo, endless lighting: pick a preset, drag the lights on the image and apply. It all runs on your device.

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