During Black Friday, you can save 25% off all my software and courses (Lumenzia, Web Sharp Pro, my new Non-destructive Smart Objects course, etc) with discount code BF2025 (through Dec 1). Even better, you can stack that discount on top of the bundles. For example, you can get the Ultimate 7-Course bundle for $317 off the cost of buying all my courses individually – and you’ll get an 8th bonus blending course as well as bonus source images from several of my most popular YouTube tutorials!
There are also some great deals elsewhere this week for Black Friday on some of my favorite tools for photography (be sure to check back, as I will continue to update this page as deals are likely to get even better over the coming week):
- HDR Monitors:
- $900 off the ASUS PA32UCXR
- $400 off the ASUS PA32UCDM
- This is the best price I’ve ever seen and an outstanding OLED HDR monitor, offering 3.3 stops of headroom and support for calibration with a supported colorimeter such as the Display Plus HL below.
- See my full review for details.
- ==> See recommended HDR monitors for many other great HDR deals and details on the best options.
- $80 off the Calibrite Display Plus HL colorimeter (it supports ASUS ProArt calibration software and SDR / print profiling now, and is future-proofed for profiling HDR up to 10,000 nits when an ICC standard is available).
- Computer / hardware:
- Up to $800 off Nikon cameras and lenses
- Up to $400+ off the M4 / M5 MacBook Pro:
- This is an incredible laptop for photography, offering the best HDR display on the market, outstanding performance, quality, and battery life.
- Best values this week for 14″ display:
- $250 off: 14″ M5 with 24GB RAM, 1TB SSD (best value)
- $250 off: 14″ M4 Pro with 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD
- While I recommend 24GB of RAM or more, you can get $120 off the M5 + 512GB SSD + 16GB RAM.
- Best values this week for 16″ display:
- $310 off: 16″ M4 Pro with 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD
- $430 off: 16″ M4 Max with 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD (best savings)
- See my full reviews of the M4 and M5.
- If you get any laptop with limited internal SSD, you can optimize storage by using visually lossless DNG compression and getting a fast external SSD. I recommend one of the following (all have been very fast and reliable for me, and all work with a single cable providing both data and power):
- Vectotech (1-16TB): I have three of these and have used them for a long time without issue.
- Glyph (1-16TB): Any 16TB SSD is pricy, but I can take a copy of all my work with me (I have 20TB of data in total, much of which is normally on a very bulky RAID drive). It comes with a ruggedized rubber grip and requires only a single cable for both data and power.
- Sandisk Extreme Portablee (1-8TB): Very compact. I find this is a great option for backing up the computer, or adding more storage if you don’t have enough internal to the laptop (always be sure to backup your drives).
- Samsung T5 EVO (2-8TB): I have the least experience with this drive, but it is working great and the price is very attractive.
- Software:
- $30 off DXO Nik Collection 8, including amazing tools like Nik Color Efex Pro (see my tutorial).
- $30 off DXO PureRAW, which I love for cleaning up shadow details in foregrounds of high ISO photos (see my tutorial).
- 20% off PeakTo from CYME. This AI-based organizer lets you easily find any image in your catalog (see my tutorial).
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