Choose the best photo editing software for you PC and MAC

Adobe Photoshop CC

• It’s the most powerful photo editing application in the world.
• Photoshop is still the go-to image-editing tool for artists, illustrators and designers.
• Photographers have a different bunch of needs that might be better met by a cataloguing/enhancement tool like Lightroom.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC

• Where Photoshop is for detailed manipulation, Lightroom concentrates on image organisation and regular photo enhancements.
• Lightroom CC is super-slick to use, but it’s missing a couple of tools in Lightroom Classic and it doesn’t support plug-ins and external image-editors except for Photoshop.
• Where Photoshop is for detailed manipulation, Lightroom concentrates on image organisation and regular photo enhancements.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC

• Lightroom Classic is the old ‘full’ version of Lightroom.
• It feels a bit more ponderous and complicated than the cloud-based Lightroom CC, but it is more powerful and does support plug-ins.

Serif Affinity Photo 1.6

• Affinity Photo might have a budget price, but it’s a full-on, full-powered Photoshop rival for professionals
• Its layering, masking and retouching tools are as powerful as Photoshop’s
• Its filter effects can be applied ‘live’ and its HDR tone mapping and workspace tools are excellent
• It doesn’t have its own browsing and cataloguing tools and it doesn’t do instant preset effects.

Preview and Photos

• Preview isn’t just a viewer: if you tap on the Markup icon you’ll see tools you can use to edit or add to your image.
• In the Tools menu you’ll find options to adjust the colours and sizes.
• You can remove red-eye and minor blemishes, you can apply special effects filters or adjust the colour parameters, and you can rotate and crop images.