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Why Photo Editing Software?


Say goodbye to retake after retake trying to get just the right angle and lighting, and to expensive professional developing—photo editing software brings the photo lab to your desktop at a fraction of the cost.

You can import and export using a number of different files and methods. Upload from a digital camera, a removable storage device (CD, zip, flash drive and more), scanner or digital camcorder and easily edit your images with a photo editing program. After you have made the changes, photo editing software will prepare your pictures for print, emails, slideshows, online web galleries and more, so you can conveniently share your photos.

Edit your pictures using a number of different tools like:

  • Red eye removal - resolves red eye issues by changing the color of the eye or taking the color out.
  • Lighting adjustment - How often have you taken the perfect picture but it's just a little dark or little washed out with too much light. You can adjust the light so the photo has perfect lighting.
  • Touch-up scratches and blemishes - All of your photographs and your subjects will look flawless
  • And much more!
In this site, you'll find articles about photo editing, news stories and comprehensive reviews on photo editing software that will help you make an informed decision on which software fits your needs.

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What to Look for in Photo Editing Software

Photo editing software has unlimited applications. Use it to fix family snap shots, create digital art or to perfect images for your company website or marketing material. Below are the criteria TopTenREVIEWS used to evaluate photo editing software.

  • Ease of Use – Photo editing is especially difficult to learn and use because of the many different options available. The software should have tutorials to show you how to use features and many programs have "Wizards" that automatically fix the most common problems with photos, (e.g. red-eye, crooked images, correct poor lighting and so on).
  • Import and Export Formats – There are only a handful of formats the program should definitely support. JPG, GIF, BMP, EPS, PDF, TIF, PICT are among the most common. However, with the ever-changing nature of file formats, more is better.
  • Editing – The photo editing software should have features that allow you to improve or add to your photo like lighting adjustment, effects, text and so on.
  • Photo Sharing Capabilities – Software should give you tools to optimize (file size, resolution and image size) your photos for the specific sharing method you intend to use. Sharing methods include email, web galleries, PDAs, cell phones, print and more.
  • Output Capabilities – The software should be versatile and effective in saving images. It ought to save the images in a number of different ways including printing, emailing, web and more.
  • Organizing – The photo editing program should have organizing capabilities with thumbnails, the ability to search for images by keywords or rating, view EXIF (digital camera data), store your images in permanent albums and image archiving.
  • Help/Documentation/Support – The software should have tutorials to show you how and why you would want to use certain features. Also the manufacturer should provide technical support in the form of FAQs, email and phone.
With the right photo editing software, you could be the envy of all your relatives, scrapbooking partners or business associates. To read about the software our reviewers chose as #1, Photoshop Elements 3, click here.

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Photo Editing Software Definitions
Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS3 Comparison
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Photo Editing NEWS

November 9, 2007
Online-only Photoshop Express Beta Coming Soon
BetaNews
An open beta of Adobe's Web-based Photoshop Express is slated to be available before the end of 2007. Adobe's Photoshop Express is a streamlined, web-based photo editing suite.


November 7, 2007
flauntR Bringing Online Photo Editor to Orkut and OpenSocial Networks
eMediaWire
flauntR has disclosed details and screenshots on their website of the flauntR application suite running in the developer sandbox provided on Orkut.


October 19, 2007
Flickr to use Picnik for online photo editing
CNET News
Flickr plans to expand from photo sharing to photo editing through a deal with start-up Picnik, a major change in the nature of the Yahoo site.


Photo Editing Software News Articles




Photo Editing Software Review - A Review of the top Photo Editing Software products

Enhance Your Images and Fix Your Pics

If you can imagine it, you can create it with photo editing software. Crop, chop, resize, recolor or touch up your images to perfection—no dark room needed.

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Ease of Use
Importing
Editing
Sharing
Output Capabilities
Organizing
Help/Support
Importing
Digital Camera                    
Removable Media (CD, SmartCard)          
       
Scanner          
       
Mobile Phone Camera  

 


 

Screen Capture      
 




Still Images from Video  
 

 
 
 
Automatic edit option  








Sample Images Included
5 3500
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500 5000

Editing
Standard edits                    
Photo Fix Wizard                    
Auto Image Straightening            
   
Cloning Tool            
 
 
Touch-up Scratches and Blemishes                
 
Image Extraction
     




 
Highlights/Shadow adjustment          


   
Adjustment Layers    
   




Lens Distortion Correction
   



 

Layers          
 


Layer Transparency          
 


On Photo Text Entry  
   
 


 
Type Effects        

   
 
Advanced Selection Tools      
 
   

Convert to Grayscale          


   
Automated Batches        
 
 
 
Templates      

100s   7500
 
Border Designs (Picture Frames)      

100s   100s
 
Layer Masks
       




Panoramas      

 
 

Supports Additional Plugins      






Sharing
Email      
           
Printing Projects        
     

Digital Projects  
   
         
Online Gallery  
 
     
 
Export to Online Photo Services      

 

   
PDAs, Mobile Phones  
 



 

Screensavers


 

 

 
Organizing
File Browser      
       

View EXIF Information        
 
 

Advanced Image Search  
 
 

 
 
Archive Images to CD  
 
 



 
Create Albums  
 
 
       
Drag & Drop Keyword Assignment    







Assign Rating    






 
Output Capabilities
PDF  


 




Image Optimizing for Web      
 

   
Animated GIFs          

 

Web Tools (links, etc.)      
 


 
Support/Documentation
Phone Support      
     


User's Manual                
 
FAQ  
       
     
Knowledge Base    
         

Tutorials                

User Forum            

 
Email
             
 
Supported Configurations
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