Zoner Studio Fall Update Adds 37 Presets, a Creative AI Lab and Finer Color Control

Great photo editing isn’t about knowing every tool or spending hours adjusting settings. It’s about bringing your vision to life. That’s the idea behind the Zoner Studio Fall Update, which makes advanced editing techniques more accessible and gives photographers more freedom to build a style of their own.

The update is led by a new way of working with presets, and it also introduces AI Lab, a dedicated space for exploring creative AI, along with more precise color grading and tonal controls. It is available now to all Zoner Studio subscribers at no additional cost.

1. Advanced Preset Workflow: Build Your Look, Step by Step

Presets are no longer just ready-made looks. In the Fall Update they become building blocks for better edits.

Zoner Studio introduces 37 new presets across six categories, designed to work together as one flexible workflow. Start with a Color Style, add Film Glow or Microcontrast, apply Corrections or Creative Effects, and fine-tune the final result. The key difference is that each step builds on the previous one instead of replacing it.

The photographer stays in control throughout. Presets can be adjusted, combined with manual edits and saved as custom looks for future use. Advanced editing doesn’t have to mean a complicated workflow.

▶ VIDEO: Watch the Advanced Preset Workflow in action

2. AI Lab: A Playground for Creative AI

The new AI Lab brings selected creative and generative tools from Zoner AI directly into Zoner Studio. It includes 19 AI tools, with highlights such as:

• Noise Removal: reduce noise in photos taken in challenging light.
• Remove Object: remove unwanted elements from an image.
• Generative Extend: extend a photo beyond its original boundaries.
• Straighten: straighten or rotate a photo while generating the missing areas.

AI Lab is built for experimenting with finished photos and does not replace Zoner Studio’s regular editing workflow. Zoner Studio remains focused on reliable, photography-first tools, while AI Lab gives curious photographers a separate space to explore emerging technology.

It is also experimental by design. Results may vary, and the tools work online, producing JPEG outputs up to 4K resolution.

Michal Prouza, Head of the Software Division at ZONER, explains the thinking behind it: “AI is opening up a world of new possibilities for photographers. Our priority is to develop tools that genuinely make sense when working with real photographs. That’s why we fully integrate AI features into Zoner Studio only when we’re confident in their quality and practical value. At the same time, we don’t want to hold back photographers who enjoy trying new things. That’s exactly why we created AI Lab – a place to experiment with Zoner AI tools. It will be a living, evolving space where new features can appear, while others may change or be removed over time. And the tools that prove their value may eventually become part of Zoner Studio itself.”

▶ VIDEO: Explore the Creative AI Lab

3. Color and Tone Upgrade: More Precise Control

For photographers who like to fine-tune, the Fall Update adds three refinements that deliver more control over the final look without making editing unnecessarily complicated:

• Luminance Range: the improved masking tool targets highlights and shadows more naturally.
• Saturation Correction: expanded control over how Tone Curve adjustments affect color saturation.
• Split Toning: adjust midtones independently, alongside highlights and shadows, for more precise color styling.

Together they make it easier to change the mood of a photograph while keeping the result natural.

▶ VIDEO: See the Color and Tone upgrade

Other Improvements

The Fall Update also includes smaller workflow improvements across Zoner Studio:

• Filtering by stacks in Search makes it quicker to find what you’re looking for.
• Animated text for videos adds more life to your video projects.
• Zoni, the AI assistant, is now available directly inside Zoner Studio, so you can get answers about the software and its features without leaving your editing workspace.

Availability

The Fall Update is available to all Zoner Studio subscribers at no additional cost. A subscription costs $59 per year, or $98 per year for a family plan, and new users can explore the latest features with a free 7-day trial at zoner.com.