In the last couple of decades there has been impressive growth in applications for dynamic light shaping. The availability of easy-to-address devices, such as liquid crystal spatial light modulators (LCSLM), deformable membrane mirrors (DMM), and digital mirror devices (DMD) has raised possibilities for rapid modulation of various fundamental properties of a light beam such as amplitude, phase and polarization. The modulation can take place at a rate greater than or equal to the standard video rate for truly dynamic processing. Pixelated devices allow the generation of reconfigurable complex scalar or vector beams, in addition to possibilities for aberration correction and parallelization. Applications of dynamic light shaping cut across disciplines into many diverse fields, such as light microscopy, optical trapping and laser microfabrication. This special issue is intended to collect and report recent high quality research across the spectrum of dynamic light shaping applications, comprising both theoretical and/or experimental advances.