Choosing the best image editing software is complicated, not just because there are so many alternatives, but because they all do different things. It all depends on what you look for most in your photo editing software. Here are ten programs with ten different approaches.
Affinity Photo
For a long time Adobe Photoshop has been the only real professional level image-editing program, but software company Serif has launched a professional photo editing software which competes directly with Photoshop at a much lower price – and for a single payment rather than the software subscription system introduced by Adobe. Affinity Photo has been built from the ground up for speed and performance and compatibility with the Photoshop PSD file format.
• Affinity Photo 1.5 review
• Affinity Photo for iPad review
How to add a new sky to a landscape without selections
Very often in landscape photography you get the landscape or the lighting you want, but not the sky. In the perfect world you’d keep going back again and again until everything was perfect. In our not-so-perfect-world, however, it’s sometimes useful to be able to add a new sky later, as the final touch to an […]
Transform tricky shots with tone mapping
Sometimes you get scenes where the brightness range is so great you just can’t bring out all the different tones in the picture. This is lighting problem, not a dynamic range problem. Even if your camera has the dynamic range to capture all the tones in the scene, there’s no way of showing them all. […]
Serif Affinity Photo for iPad review
Affinity Photo, Serif’s professional photo-editing application, is now available for the iPad. It’s not the first time a software publisher has produced a mobile version of a desktop application – take Photoshop Express and Lightroom Mobile, for example – but this time it’s different. Affinity Photo for iPad is not a simplified, cut-down accessory app […]
Serif Affinity Photo 1.5 review
Verdict: 4.5 stars Affinity Photo is basically Photoshop at a fraction of the price and without a subscription. You will have to learn a few new ways of working and some new jargon, but this is no cut-down budget alternative. Affinity Photo does everything that Photoshop does, and sometimes more.