Photographer / Videographer: the best AI tools
Shoot less, deliver more, edit faster.
On the moving-image side, AI helps generate shots that never existed, edit by text, upscale old footage and reframe for vertical formats. It's an iteration workshop, not a magic button.
Our pick covers creative generation, assisted editing and post-production.
Recommended AI tools
Runway
The creative studio for generative video.
Descript
Edit your videos and podcasts like a text document.
Topaz Labs
The reference AI upscaling and enhancement for photo and video.
VEED.IO
An all-in-one online video editor, supercharged with AI.
Kling AI
Realistic AI video generation from text or an image.
Opus Clip
Turns your long videos into short, share-ready viral clips.
More tools for this job
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's commercially-safe generative AI (image, video, vector).
Grok Imagine
xAI's image and video generation.
Midjourney
The aesthetic benchmark for image generation.
Leonardo AI
Flexible image generation, with a real free tier.
Ideogram
The image generator that finally renders legible text.
Stable Diffusion
The open-source image model: total control, free to run locally.
Recraft
The image generator built for designers (vectors included).
Imagen (Google)
Google's image-generation model (Gemini / DeepMind).
FLUX (Black Forest Labs)
Black Forest Labs' frontier text-to-image models.
Krea
Real-time AI image generation and enhancement.
Magnific AI
The upscaler that adds striking detail to your images.
Clipdrop
The suite of one-click AI image-editing tools.
Playground AI
The canvas-style AI image editor, mixing real and AI images.
Higgsfield
AI video built for cinematic camera moves.
Synthesia
AI-avatar videos from a simple script.
HeyGen
AI-avatar videos and multilingual dubbing in minutes.
Concrete use cases
As a Photographer / Videographer, here's how to get the most out of these tools day to day:
- Runway — generate or extend a shot from a text prompt or an image
- Descript — edit a video just by editing its transcript
- Topaz Labs — upscale and clean up low-quality footage