Comments on: Best Photo Editing Software in 2023 (User Tested)

By: Mark Condon

Mark Condon — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 23:36:14 +0000

In reply to Glen Verheye. Try Canva for those simple edits, Glen.

By: Glen Verheye

Glen Verheye — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:41:31 +0000

What is the best program to add titles, comments, captions, names in other words for adding a text box. Along with enhancing the photo cropping or enlarging?

By: HENG NGUON

HENG NGUON — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 08:38:20 +0000

I have 1 laptop and one computer at home so i would like to buy a lifetime for Luminar Neo for both. How much you can offer?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 01:46:37 +0000

In reply to Dave Drain. Great feedback - yes, I should add that in, Dave. Thanks!

By: Dave Drain

Dave Drain — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:18:45 +0000

Great article. One of the negatives you didn’t mention, though, is some products need a reasonably recent operating system. I use an older Mac which runs Catalina 10.15.7. Photoshop Elements, and maybe some others, require Mac OS 11 or 12, version 12.4 or later. As my computer would need to be replaced for the new version, I can’t use this product.
Luminar Neo, however, can run on Mac 10.14.6 or later, so I can use this without a new computer.
Perhaps in future reviews of editing software you could include minimum system requirements for Windows and Mac.

By: Kathy Butters

Kathy Butters — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 11:50:28 +0000

Good Post! I got all top editing software list for 2022 its an amazing blog with full of information. Thanks for the nice blog.

By: Steve Brown

Steve Brown — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 01:48:34 +0000

This article was very informative.
Photoshop is my favourite! I have purchased a XPPen Deco MW tablet and use it with Photoshop.
I can Remove unwanted elements, improve skin tones, brighten eyes and soften features easily with a digital pen.

By: ritu sharma sharma

ritu sharma sharma — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:09:03 +0000

Photoshop is the best software to use when it comes for photo editing

By: Mark Condon

Mark Condon — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:21:31 +0000

In reply to Alan Cotter. No problem, Alan - there's certainly a lot of great options to choose from, including some useful free ones.

By: Alan Cotter

Alan Cotter — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:17:17 +0000

I got started with photo editing with IrfanView. It’s free, quick and it does the basics, probably more than I’ve ever attempted. Thanks for your review of others Mark. It will help me get to the next level.

By: ritusharma

ritusharma — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:52:44 +0000

Photoshop is my favorite software for photo editing.

By: ritusharma

ritusharma — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:50:26 +0000

https://www.graphic-design-institute.com/course/best-adobe-photoshop-master-course/

By: Joana

Joana — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 07:59:19 +0000

I use Photoshop for photo editing. I don’t know if it is the best tool but I am using it for a long time.
There are also lots of free online photo editors. You can also take a look at Mockofun. It is an online photo editor with smart photo filters similar to Photoshop.

By: PorVideo

PorVideo — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 01:32:15 +0000

Excuse my bad english,
Before any other consideration, the image accuracy must be examined. I tested a part of the above softwares on an very scientific way with a Vectorscope and Waveform on images taken with many Sony cameras. The colors and white balance of the 320 colors of the test pattern where firts taken with a high end spectroscope. Then, the colors of the decoded RAW photos where compared with the values given by the spectroscope.
With the free Sony Edit.exe (in the Imagin Edge Desktop suite), the hue of the colors are totaly exact, but not their saturation and lightness. The demosaic is almost perfect. The recovery of overexposure works very bad and there is a lak of tools.
With Adobe Camera Raw, the hue, saturation and lighness are not correct, almost in yellow and between cyan and magenta, with very strong deviations. This issue can not be corrected with the Camera Raw tools. The solution is to make a custom DCP file with the free Adobe DNG Profile Editor. The demosaic is very bad with heavy steps in the diagonal lines on fine details. The correction of the chromatic aberrations and the recovery of overexposed parts are perfect, also the lens corrections. Camera Raw is the best program to get a good result with minimum work.
With CaptureOnePro 21, the hue of the colors is bad between red and blue and catastrophic between blue and magenta: on a gradient from red to pink, there is an horrible magenta zone just after the middle of blue: the ICC profiles made by CaptureOne are not correct. The recovery of over exposition is a lot better with Camera Raw. The lens and chromatic aberrations corrections are almost perfect
With DxO 4, the hue, saturation and lightness of many colors are wrong by default. The correct setting for Color is Camera Body and the rendering choise is often another camera model. The demosaic is far from being perfect and the correction of the chromatic aberrations in auto mode is very bad. The recovery of overexposed parts woks good but alters the other parts of the image, what can be corrected with the RGB curve filter.
Rawtherapee is the most powerfull, with a profusion of highly advanced tools that are not present in the other. There is also a lot of demosaic algorithms that you can try to obtain the best sharpness. The auto chromatic aberration correction is perfect. It takes a long time to correctly tune the many settings of the program (over 100), but once done, you can obviously save this in presets. RawTherapee is intended for very advanced users to get a result near the perfection. The lens distorsion correction is done by comparison with the corrected jpeg that the manufacturer includes in the RAW, so that no lens data base is needed, a very intelligent solution. Furthermore, you can see the full unaltered and not demosaised image as taken by the sensor, which shows how higly an image can be distorded by the lens. There is also an sensor histogram which shows if the sensor was overexposed and thus what you can precisely recover in the shadows and highlights. The program is compatible with the Adobe DCP files and all the ICC profiles. You can even chose if you take only a part of the profile and tune the other manually or use a Hald-CLUT!

By: Mark Condon

Mark Condon — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:45:07 +0000

In reply to Jeremy Lerman (Jez). Yeah I agree - v6 is excellent. We'll be reviewing it in depth soon. Cheers