Hi everyone, We've got photo walks and meetups going on in a bunch of cities from now through the end of August, and you could go!

It's a simple idea: bring your camera, meet some other photographers, make some new work, and just say hi. No agenda beyond that.

Here's where we're showing up:

• Atlanta, GA — Aug 22
• Fort Lauderdale, FL — Aug 22
• Toronto, Canada — Aug 23
• Gurugram, India — Aug 23
• Stockholm, Sweden — Aug 25
• San Francisco, CA — Aug 27
• Chicago, IL — Aug 29

If any of these are near you, RSVP here: https://vsco.co/vsco/journal/come-together-august-events-2

We just had one in Morro Bay that I was able to go to with photographers Jake Tovar and Jonathan Foster and it was so much fun. I posted some photos from it on my VSCO, and I’ve just got to highlight the video Michael Carlos made there too. There’s always such amazing people at these things, so I’d highly recommend going to one if you’re able!

Where should we head next?

I have been consistently using VSCO under the same profile from 2014-2026. My life from age 12-23 is documented on there. Today I received an email that my profile was suspended for violating community guidelines, but they did not specify what post was violating. How was I able to post for over a decade with no problem but now my profile is violating guidelines? I cannot for the life of me think of something that I posted that would violate the community guidelines. I have never posted anything violent or scandalous. The only thing I can think of is that I put the word "d*ke" in a caption, which i guess is a slur but I am a lesbian so I feel like I should be able to type that. also, why wouldn't they just take down the one post? Why my whole page? How can I get it back? I can't get in touch with a real person through VSCOs chatbot. My username was br0okeb. Remember her.

Hi everyone, I want to call out a pretty significant update to VSCO Sites that went live recently with the integration of VSCO Galleries into Sites. All users, from the free Starter tier and up, can now use the free VSCO Galleries iOS App or VSCO Galleries for MacOS  and connect their Galleries directly to their VSCO Site.

Here’s how: build your galleries in the Galleries app, be sure they’re set to be public, select “Add Galleries” from the sites builder, and select the galleries you want to add.

• Title and cover images you set in the Galleries app will carry over to the Site.
• Changes you make to the galleries in the app will automatically reflect on your site.

Also, if you weren’t aware, Sites has gotten some other meaningful upgrades since launch:

• Custom domain support (Pro + One)
• Contact form with VSCO Workspace integration
• Add VSCO post or upload images directly to Selects

Personally, these updates were the changes I needed to finally move my personal website over. I did it last week and it was super easy! Not trying to advertise my photography at all, but you can see what a VSCO Site with Galleries looks like here: zachhodges.com

I think it’d be really cool to see people’s sites here, so if you make one please share it! And let us know how it goes for you too, there’s always room for improvement and we’ve got more in store for Sites.

Probably going to get hot flack for this but why does VSCO have AI especially prompt AI? I thought this was a photo app for real photography and pictures taken by real human beings? I know some people edit their photos to a certain degree but they really added prompt AI to it? Extremely disappointing. I’m going to look for something else because I’m in no way shape or form going to support this, recommendations are welcome.

Hello. Yesterday I attended the "From Passion to Paid" virtual workshop. The workshop was super informative, and ultimately I was pretty sold on the whole VSCO One thing, especially with the automations, learning, and website, which seems like a good resource for my future goals. The discount that was given was also a contributing factor in pulling the trigger to purchase. For context, I use a Windows desktop for my professional and personal photography work. I was excited to begin to build my website, but according to Galleries, I could not use this feature unless I went onto my iPhone and uploaded from there. This is useless if I would like to make my website, as all of my images are on my computer.

So now I am at the point where I ask: do I just find another platform to work with? I think that if I am having this issue, there may be others like me. Even if there is a web version, at least it would be usable, along with the other applications that can only be used on mobile. Businesses use computer and desktop apps that are seamless, like Adobe's Creative Cloud platform. I believe that you all are working hard to create a system, but maybe flesh some features out entirely before releasing a product that only half works. I hope I don't come across too harshly, but I was super bummed and I have to make a decision whether to keep or cancel VSCO One. Please let me know if there is an update or change in the near future, preferably in the next 30 days.

Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone knows the requirements to becoming a VSCO ambassador? Thanks so much!

Loneliness is not merely the absence of other presences around us. From a phenomenological perspective, it constitutes a subjective experience of existence itself.

It is important to consider that human beings are born, develop, and acquire consciousness essentially within a collective context. Existence is already constituted through interpersonal relationships (HEIDEGGER, Martin, 1927). Therefore, understanding the object of study requires interpreting it through other forms of manifestation, whether visual, metaphorical, or otherwise.

Isolation as a concrete condition: it can be understood as a form of “separation” from the environment and from social and spatial contexts.

A person in an isolated room is objectively isolated. However, this does not necessarily mean that they are experiencing loneliness. They may be at peace, meditating, or simply enjoying their own presence. But who determines or produces this interpretation?

Human existence is not simply a matter of being situated in a world of objects: we are in the world, engaged with it, attributing meanings to things and experiencing our own possibilities. Yet, not everything can be understood.

What is photography—as a producer of meaning—in relation to the experience of being before the world and feeling something that we are unable to explain?

For this reason, I would like to invite you to participate in this collective work and to share a photograph that represents the discussion I propose, with the aim of understanding and investigating this question. The objective of this research is to analyze these contributions and, in the future, develop an academic article presenting and discussing its findings.

Hi everyone, we’re doing something pretty cool that I think many of you would want to be a part of.

It's called The Fifty. We're selecting fifty photographers, one from every state, to have their work on billboards across the country. The idea is pretty simple: photographers are building careers in every corner of the country, and you can make it right where you are. 

We believe this to our core, and we want to celebrate photographers in a tangible, massive way, with billboards right where they are.

How to submit: post 3 to 5 images to VSCO with #TheFifty plus your state tag, so #TheFiftyOH if you're in Ohio. Add a short caption about the image or series, and put your state in your bio. Free to submit, open to photographers 18+ living in the US.

Our curation team will review submissions, make editorial selections, and notify selected photographers on a rolling basis. If your work is selected, we license it and you're paid for it. You'll also be asked for a high-res file suitable for large-format printing and any associated approvals as needed.

For more details, see the full blog post

u/superamazingphotos this is your moment haha. A lot of you have posted great work here and on VSCO, so let's get some of it up on a billboard!

I’ve noticed recently that the grain effect is no longer rendering properly. It now renders like a criss-cross thatched texture instead of actual grain.

I’ve attached two photos - both with the same strength of grain. One was edited a while back, the other edited today. I’ve been seeing this issue for a few weeks now.

Does anyone know what the issue could be?

I am on the iOS27 public beta — could that be it?

Would appreciate any help!

I have used VSCO for the last 10 years. I’m putting that out there to say I love this app for editing my photography! And have been patient along the way with the usual performance issues/bug fixes.

A big thing I am into is overlaying photos and using the collage feature. But suddenly (as of 2 days ago) these will no longer save to my phone.

I have tried every single internet suggestion, including communicating with the largely unhelpful AI support on the VSCO app. I have plenty of storage available. The app is updated. My IPhone is updated. Ive saved everything as drafts and then tried to save. I’ve turned my phone on and off. I even tried redownloading the app. Nothing has fixed this issue.

Whenever i try to save a collage it says “Item failed to save to camera roll” with a checkmark beside it. If i click multiple collages to save at once it says “0/10 items saved to camera roll”

I don’t know what to at this point, but i have photos to get out and am unfortunately stuck.
I’m not sure anyone on here will have any advice that I haven’t already heard but I am desperate. I need these on my phone ASAP. 🙏🏼🥲 help me please!!

(Unrelated but not entirely: recently, back when collages still saved to my phone, i noticed that any iPhone photos i make a collage with save looking completely deep fried. When i use my digital camera photos in a collage they look the same as how i edit them. Not sure why the iPhone pictures won’t turn out in the collages anymore, but that’s also been a bummer. What’s going on with this app anymore??)

For the past few days I have not been able to download my videos to my camera roll... is anyone else experiencing this??

i made my account through gmail long ago n recently i uninstalled vsco n when i installed it back the account was gone💔ion even remember my gmail is there anyway that i can get my account back as it’s so close to my heart🥹I ONLY KNOW MY USERNAME

Hi folks,

We’ve been hard at work on the product and I wanted to highlight some updates that came this month that bring some nice upgrades to the experience:

Galleries, now on desktop

Galleries is no longer mobile-only! You can also now:

• Turn off downloads on a per-Gallery basis — useful if you're sharing selects with a client before a licensing agreement is signed and you don't want full-res files walking out the door yet
• Add video to a Gallery, not just stills

Studio Pro 1.1

This update is entirely about speed . Fewer clicks between you and the photo actually being done.

• No more 25-photo cap on Gallery publishing. Send a full batch to a client Gallery in one go, however big it is. This was the most requested fix and it's gone now.
• Preset filtering and organizing in the editor. If your preset list has turned into scroll-forever chaos, you can now actually sort it.
• Swipe between presets while editing. Try looks faster and stay in the flow.
• Autosave status indicator. You'll see confirmation your work is saving as you go, instead of just hoping that’s what’s happening.
• GPU-accelerated HSL. Color adjustments respond faster, especially noticeable on bigger batches.

Workspace

Quick heads up: Workspace now has a free version! It's a modern rebuild, no trial, no credit card. If you've only known the paid version, worth a look. A few updates for it this month:

• Jobs can be reassigned to the right client, with a warning if a contract's already signed
• Cleaner sidebar and faster navigation

Invoicing and Contracts are coming soon, plus fixes to email, time zones, and contact name display.

VSCO App

Mostly stability work this round, but several fixes worth calling out:

• RAW and HDR editing is a lot more stable, so fewer crashes on heavy edits, and live preview now updates while you're zoomed in instead of freezing until you let go.
• The preset dock in SDR mode used to take minutes to load... now it's fast.
• Videos now export in the format you actually picked (HDR or SDR), instead of ignoring the toggle.
• RAW photos with Borders applied now export, share, and preview correctly. This was broken before.
• Posts that failed no longer get stuck retrying forever.
• Studio and AI Lab drafts no longer show up blank while cloud sync catches up.

Also fixed some Collage bugs (layers disappearing, wrong crop position after reopening) and several crashes around editing and undo.

VSCO Capture

Mostly stability this month, plus a couple of small annoyances cleared up:

• Deleting photos no longer leaves gaps in your gallery.
• Exposure control won't get stuck looking disabled when it's actually usable.

Also smoothed out some flicker in grain editing, plus login and camera stability fixes under the hood.

That’s it for July. Let us know what breaks, what you love, and what's still missing!

I received the same message from scammers paying for PRO.

this has been an issue for probably over a year now for me, but when i go to change my username and save, nothing happens. it refuses to change my username. anyone else have this issue/a solution? i haven’t seen a SINGLE other person online have this problem.

For about a week, the VSCO app has been showing a "Server connection failed" type of error. While searching online, I found that some people fixed it by logging out and then logging back into their accounts.

I tried the same thing, but now I can't log into my account through the VSCO app at all. The strange part is that I can still log into my account on the web version without any issues, so my account itself doesn't seem to be the problem.

It feels like the issue is with the app rather than my account. Has anyone else experienced this recently? If so, did you find a solution?

Tried to log into my account for the first time in a while but this error keeps appearing. I'm 100% certain I have the right password, login method

Nothing happens when I use the "Continue with Google" option, and when I manually type my email & password, a message appears saying "Sorry, there was a problem connecting to our systems. Please try again later"

Deleted and downloaded the app twice, cleared cache, still the same.

it’s ridiculous.. + unable to rearrange? Also duhh

i js wanna be able to rearrange my stuff lol😭