![]() You can create simple and extremely complex selections around hair and fur that you can save, and it includes many intelligent tools that let you realistically remove and reposition objects. It supports 8-bit or 16-bit editing (the latter supports more colors) and lets you alter exposure and color using a wide variety of methods -it comes with the full Adobe Camera Raw plug-in that sports nearly the exact same panels, sliders, and tools found in Lightroom. Photoshop is the original layer-based editor and its layer masks let you hide the content of a layer in specific areas (handy for adjusting parts of your image and for swapping heads). It supports many color modes, including CMYK (crucial for printing newspapers and magazines) and ProPhoto RGB (great for pro photographers), it gives you access to the individual color channels that comprise your image-red, green, blue, and so on-and you can create channels for fancy print effects (spot colors, varnish, metallic coatings, etc.). Aimed at graphic designers, web designers, and pro photographers, nothing screams digital status like Photoshop mastery. Pro-level pixel pusher is as powerful (and complex) as it gets. Price: $150 for perpetual license, included in $10/month Adobe Creative Cloud Photography program and the $50/month full Creative Cloud subscription. Instead, hang tight until Photos is released. Apple’s Aperture is nearly identical, and though it’ll also be replaced by Photos in 2015, don’t switch to another program yet-you’ll lose the ability to undo your Aperture edits. ![]() It also lets you create pro-level photo books, printing templates, slideshows, and simple web galleries, plus you can create presets for nearly everything you do in the program (handy for exporting images at certain sizes with watermarks and for uploading to social media sites such as Facebook). You can remove small objects, duplicate pixels, create black-and-whites, create partial color effects, create color tints (split-tones), apply digital makeup, lighten teeth, and apply changes in a linear or radial fashion, or paint them on by hand. Lightroom doesn’t support layer-based editing (think stackable transparencies), but it has several tools that can be used to affect specific areas of your image. You can copy and paste or sync changes across multiple images, and it has a never-ending history panel, so you can always see and undo what you’ve done. Designed for photographers, it sports easy-to-use controls for cropping, correcting exposure, adjusting highlights and shadows, boosting color, adding edge vignettes, reducing noise, correcting geometric and perspective problems, performing precise sharpening, and more. Lightroom’s database lets you import, organize, and edit photos non-destructively, though it uses your file organization structure. iPhoto also squirrels your photos away into its own filing system, so you can’t control the directory structure in which photos are stored.Įnjoy iPhoto while you still can. On the downside, there’s no way edit a certain area in your image (you can’t lighten teeth, for example), adjustments can be copied and pasted only onto one other image at a time, and you can’t combine images or add text. iPhoto lets you share images via email and social media sites, and create gorgeous cards,Ĭalendars, and photo books-you can print the cards yourself, too, which is handy. A rudimentary healing brush lets you remove small stuff, and you can easily create black-and-whites, add a sepia (brown) or vintage tint, and apply a white, black, or blurry effect to a photo’s edges. It works on a variety of file formats, including raw, and its Adjust panel lets you adjust exposure, color temperature, highlights and shadows (independently), remove noise, and sharpen. Instead of editing your originals, it stores your edit requests in a database, so you can always revert to your original. This image database and non-destructive editor will be replaced by a new app named Photos in 2015, though it’s still one of the easiest places to import, manage, correct, and share your photos.
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