Graphic editor – a program for creating, viewing, processing and editing digital images on a PC. When processing hybrid, vector and raster graphics, the software is divided into corresponding types. The functionality of the utilities allows you to work with layers, convert images, create gifs and collages, apply effects and batch processing of material.

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Fotor is a free application for working with digital photos, processing them, improving quality, applying effects, creating collages and batch converting pictures. It has a simple operating algorithm, supports RAW format, displays EXIF ​​data, retouches selfies and changes the color temperature of the photo card.

PhotoSHOW PRO is a free, powerful utility that allows you to create high-quality presentations and slide shows using screensavers, titles, effects and music. It has built-in themes for projects, optimizes videos for YouTube and viewing on DVD players.

IcoFX is a convenient free application for editing, creating and extracting icons. It has a large set of tools, more than forty effects, the ability to convert images into icons and vice versa into pictures. It has an intuitive interface with convenient tabs and menus in Russian.

Photoscape is a high-quality free utility for processing photographs, graphics and pictures. It has a large set of tools for working with layers, editing, batch processing, creating gifs, animation and collages. The application has an accessible and easy interface with a Russian-language menu.

Krita is a free program that allows you to create, process and adjust raster graphics using a large set of tools and filters. The cross-platform utility simulates canvas material, emulates real tools and supports photo import.

Picasa is a free Google product designed to organize, edit, and process images on your computer. The application combines tools for editing photos in comparison, as well as using retouching options and other popular image enhancement tools.

Pinnacle Studio is a free compact utility for editing films and clips from ready-made files or video camera footage. It has more than 1000 interesting effects, screensavers, transitions and titles in 2D and 3D modes. Archives, creates copies and restores projects. The utility is optimized for 64-bit OS.

CorelDRAW is a professional graphics editor for creating and processing vector images, applying effects to them and exporting to any format. Creates animated gifs, processes RAW-format material, draws vector images for designing rooms and interiors, and also prints finished images.

Adobe Photoshop is a popular, powerful utility for high-quality editing and working with photos and images using a wide range of tools. The graphics editor supports various modes and layers, adds effects and text entries, creates raster graphics, while having a clear interface.

PicPick is a free application for creating screenshots by capturing the screen and further editing it. Using the “scroll” function, you can create a screenshot of web pages and documents in the form of a single image. The software has a Russian-language interface and a wide selection of editing tools.

Paint.NET is a free application that functions as a graphics editor with the ability to work with layers, noise reduction, stylization and artistic processing. The main options of the program are focused on working with photo editing and vector graphics.

GIMP is a free editor for creating screen and web graphics, high-quality processing and drawing with a large set of tools and a variety of effects. The application supports all popular formats, has batch processing and works with layers. The interface is multi-window and customizable for the user.

If you have an archive of digital photographs, even those taken on a mobile phone, you will need at least a photo viewer. With it you will organize your shots by topic and period, delete the most unsuccessful ones, and select files for printing. To really be proud of the images in the album, you will also need a photo processing program.

One of the most famous photo editors is Adobe Photoshop. Its name has even become a household word: just as “copier” is used to describe any duplicating equipment, so “photoshop” is used to describe any photo editor. The software product itself from Adobe is a professional version, in which, of course, you can transform images fantastically, but you also need to learn how to work well in it.

Therefore, we will describe the best photo processing programs for the average user. Easy to learn, with functions for cropping, changing brightness and contrast, creating collages, and adding effects. Let's divide them into 3 categories - applications for computers, for mobile devices and online services.

Windows Photos

If you have Windows 7 or higher installed on your computer, use the built-in application: Start/All Apps/Photos. It's great for sorting and viewing pictures of all formats. The top panel contains icons of built-in tools. They allow you to perform automatic image enhancement and adjust the parameters of brightness, saturation, and contrast manually. A library of basic effects and standard functions are available - cropping, rotation, red-eye removal.

The best photo viewer – Picasa deserves this title. Unfortunately, in 2016, Google decided to stop further development of this free project. But Picasso can still be downloaded freely on the Internet. The application scans the disk, indexing photos and video files, organizing them into albums. Frame cropping, manual and automatic color balance correction are available, and there is a set of visual effects. There is a tool for creating collages.

A popular feature of Picasa is creating slideshows with music. From the Create menu, select Video. Mark the necessary photographs that you want to use in your film, upload a music file - a sound track. Set the frame style and resolution and create a slideshow.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

What is the best Photoshop for beginners who dream of becoming professionals? Of course, the light version of Photoshop is https://lightroom.adobe.com. A rich library of tools, the ability to process Raw format, but simpler interaction with layers - these are the features of the Lightroom version. It is suitable for you if you want to delve into the intricacies of regulating light and penumbra, and learn how to create unique, high-quality images.

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Creative Bloq, an online publication for photographers and designers, has compiled a list The 16 best photo editor apps excellent programs designed for image editing. It includes both the most popular Lightroom and Photoshop, as well as lesser-known but worthy analogues.

The best free photo editors

Some programs and services in this section have paid versions with additional features or contain optional in-app purchases.

1. Fotor

• Platforms: web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows.

Whether you only work at a desk or not, Fotor has everything you need for basic photo manipulation. The editor is available in the browser, as well as desktop and mobile programs. The rich set of tools is sure to be enough for most of your creative needs.

Fotor makes it easy to quickly adjust photos with one button. But you can also resize, crop, rotate and straighten images, and remove backgrounds manually.

In addition, the editor is equipped with convenient retouching tools that remove red eyes and wrinkles. There is even a function for working with HDR and a Tilt-Shift editor (applies a special blur effect) in case you want to give your photos an epic feel.

2.Pixlr

• Platforms: web, iOS, Android.

Pixlr is billed as "the world's most popular online photo editor," which is probably because it's free. At the same time, the service boasts 600 effects, overlay options and frames. With Pixlr, you can do all the typical photo editing tasks, from cropping and resizing to red-eye removal and teeth whitening.

If you're used to Photoshop, you'll quickly get the hang of Pixlr, as both editors have very similar interfaces.

3. GIMP

• Platforms: Linux, Windows, macOS.

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. This open source photo editor debuted on Unix platforms and is now available on all popular desktop operating systems.

GIMP offers an impressive set of tools. Inside, you can easily find all the usual tools, including brushes, color correction, as well as copy, selection and enhancement tools.

The team that oversees the development of GIMP has done a good job on compatibility: the editor can work with all popular formats without any problems. The program has a built-in convenient file manager, reminiscent of Adobe Bridge.

• Platforms: Windows.

Paint.net is a surprisingly functional and useful free tool. The developers have focused on ease of use and are developing it more as a photo editor than a drawing program.

Still, Paint.net has a variety of special effects that make it easy to change perspective, blend and move pixels on the canvas, duplicate selections, and so on.

A large selection of selection tools, support for layers, and settings like curves and brightness/contrast make Paint.net great for photo editing. Especially if you can live without the latest additions to Adobe's toolkit.

• Platforms: web.

Sumo Paint is very functional. It contains all the basic features typical of desktop programs. And if you subscribe to the paid version for $9 per month, you can also install the Sumo Paint desktop app.

To run the online editor you will need Adobe Flash Player. So you won't be able to use Sumo Paint on iOS.

Sumo Paint's list of tools and settings includes brushes, pencils, shapes, text, cloning, gradients and more. All this is easy to find in a floating toolbar, similar to the similar panel from Photoshop.

At the same time, the editor has limitations that may discourage some users. The most important of them is support for only one RGB color mode. Sumo Paint does not work with the CMYK color model, which is used in printing. Because of this, the editor is only suitable for working with photographs intended for the screen.

• Platforms: web, iOS, Android.

Aviary is a nicely designed app that perfectly balances serious editing capabilities (skin blemish removal, teeth whitening, resizing, and various correction options) and decorative features (stickers, color overlay, and adding text). At the same time, the program does not look tasteless or infantile.

The best paid photo editors

• Platforms: Windows, macOS.
• Price: $9.99 per month.

The latest version of Photoshop CC is, without a doubt, an impressive photo editor. Probably the best of them all. But you have to pay for every month of use.

Photoshop CC users have access to a huge number of brushes, fonts, automatic and manual correction tools, as well as various interface settings. At your service is an advanced layer system, various blending modes and much more.

If you are a hobbyist, then most of Photoshop's capabilities will be simply superfluous for your needs. But professionals will find here everything they need to solve problems of any complexity.

• Platforms: Windows, macOS.
• Price: $9.99 per month.

Adobe Lightroom allows you to concentrate your work in one place, manage it, and share results from any device. Many creatives prefer this editor to Photoshop, because Lightroom makes it easier to make simple routine edits and work with RAW files.

With Lightroom, you can store your photos on your computer, iPad, iPhone, or Android device, and even automatically send them from your phone to apps right after they're taken. Synchronization occurs on its own. So when you make changes in one place, they automatically appear on other devices.

• Platforms: macOS, Windows.
• Price: $69.

If you're looking for a reasonably priced, one-time payment alternative to Lightroom, check out the latest version of Luminar 2018. This photo editor is packed with tools to quickly and easily fix things like distortion, chromatic aberration, and jagged edges. You'll also get 40 non-destructive filters (can be canceled at any time) to transform your photos.

In addition, Luminar 2018 contains a set of professional tools that will allow you to bring your photos to the highest possible quality. These include manual optical correction, layers with different blending modes, masks, a history panel, and best of all, support for Photoshop plugins and the ability to convert Lightroom presets for use in Luminar.

• Platforms: macOS, Windows, iOS (iPad).
• Price: $49.99 (Windows, macOS), $19.99 (iPad).

Availability on Windows, iPad, and macOS, along with no subscription fees, makes Affinity Photo by Serif a Photoshop alternative that anyone can afford.

The latest version boasts a ton of cool features, including HDR photo merging, 360-degree photo editing, macro recording, and batch file processing. And adjusting tone mapping lets you turn any photo—whether it's a regular JPG or an HDR photo—into a dramatic scene with details you never knew existed.

• Platforms: Windows.
• Price: $79.99 (Basic), $99.99 (Premium).

PaintShop Pro has been a profitable Photoshop replacement for the past 20 years and is still going strong. In 2018, the editor looks lighter, simpler and more innovative than ever before. It offers project templates, built-in screen capture, a gradient fill tool, and improved support for graphics tablets and styluses.

You can purchase the more expensive version of PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate to get a few extra features. These include professional tools for working with RAW files, automatic photo correction functions and screen recording.

6. Acorn

• Platforms: macOS.
• Price: $29.99.

The Acorn graphics editor debuted back in 2007 and provided amateurs and professionals with limited funds with excellent photo processing software. Among other tools, the editor supports layer styles, non-destructive filters (which can be canceled at any time), curves, levels, blending modes and much more.

Acorn 6 offers a beautiful filter blending interface that lets you create unique effects. You can even save and modify your filters after you close and reopen an image.

• Platforms: Windows, macOS.
• Price: $99.99.

It's a simplified alternative to Photoshop CC, which is reflected in the Quick and Guided editing modes. But its functionality may be enough for you. Plus, Elements doesn't require a subscription.

In 2018, Photoshop Elements has improved controls and smarter photo editing tools. For example, using the program you can open your closed eyes, print pictures and easily share them on social networks.

• Platforms: Windows, macOS.
• Price: 129 euros (basic version), 199 euros (premium version).

DxO Photolab only does a certain type of task, but it does it well. Its results are impressive, but this editor is too specific and sometimes difficult to use. It's probably the best RAW converter out there, but that's about all DxO Photolab can do.

DxO Photolab automatically corrects varying degrees of distortion, chromatic aberration, blurred edges and vignetting typical of most digital cameras.

You can select images from your computer and specify conversion/correction settings or use one of the presets. DxO Photolab delivers excellent results. However, this program cannot replace a full-fledged editor.

• Platforms: iOS.
• Price: $2.99 ​​(iPhone), $4.99 (iPad).

Camera app pre-installed on iPhone. Yes, it allows you to take good pictures, but it does not give you control over creativity.

In this regard, Camera+ wins. This program consists of two parts: a camera and a photo editor with a huge range of advanced features. Camera+ doesn't limit you to editing new photos. You can also import old photos into it and breathe new life into them.

• Platforms: macOS, iOS.
• Price: $29.99 (macOS), $4.99 (iOS).

Pixelmator is a fast and powerful photo editor. Using macOS libraries, the program integrates seamlessly with iPhoto and iCloud. The editor also has built-in functions for exporting pictures to Facebook and Flickr.

Pixelmator gives you tools to adjust hue, saturation, shadows, highlights, and contrast. The program offers 150 built-in filters. You can open and save images in many popular formats, including PSD, TIFF, and PNG.

When working with Photoshop files, the program recognizes layers. This allows you to collaborate with colleagues who use Adobe products.

• Platforms: iOS, Android.
• Price: $2.99.

The main distinguishing feature of the Handy Photo program is its interface with radial menus located in the corners. It is designed in such a way that it does not occupy the central area of ​​the screen. Effects are controlled using swipes.

Handy Photo is a powerful photo editor. Its interface isn't for everyone, but it's worth the features you get. For example, the Move Me tool allows you to cut objects, move them, resize them, or rotate them.

When choosing the optimal program for working with images from our selection, we advise you to determine the level of your needs and the main purpose of the potentially used software.

• Movavi Photo Editor doesn't make you watch videos on how to use the editor, but it gives you access to all the popular features. Now, in order to remove an unnecessary element from a photo, change the background, adjust colors, apply an effect or redo the makeup or hair color of the character in the photo, you don’t have to turn to the “initiates” for help. Movavi's simple and intuitive photo editor will do everything in two clicks. Give it a try. This is the best photo processing program designed to solve semi-professional tasks. In fact, it is a home photo studio in a convenient design.
• Photo Master does not have the same advanced tools as Photoshop CC, Paintshop Pro and other famous analogues, but it works faster and has all the necessary functions for high-quality photo processing at home. The program was created for beginners and advanced users and contains detailed instructions on all the nuances of editing.
• Home Photo Studio is a symbiosis of Photomaster and FS Lightroom. It supports layers, can save projects, works with Photoshop files, contains built-in tools for editing, cropping, correction, a printing wizard and creating collages. The program will be a good choice for photographers who are not ready to pay for a professional editor, but want to learn how to work with high-quality images.
• The GIMP will be a good free image processing tool, however, the utility does not contain the most accessible interface in terms of simplicity, so if you are a beginner, we recommend choosing the identical and more understandable Paint.NET or PixBuilder Studio, or be patient and learn how to process images in Gimp .
• Picasa will appeal to fans of implementing content for further publication on social networks. If you're interested in a photo editing app that can turn amateur-grade animations into reality, try Photoscape.
• Krita will allow you to realize your creative ideas, but for its comfortable operation you will need at least minimal knowledge of similar software. The free version of the image editor is especially popular among artists and illustrators, along with another well-known product Painttool Sai and the commercial Corel Painter.
• ACDSee will provide you with a professional set of tools; the developer distributes these products for a fee with the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the trial version. If you are only interested in correcting the red-eye effect, applying filters, effects, and other primitive retouching methods, it is better to download a simpler photo processing program. CorelDRAW will be an equally advanced tool for experienced users. Both photo processing programs are demanding on computer resources, but at the same time they will provide you with extensive functionality that is impossible for free analogues to compete with.
• Lightroom will appeal to those who like creating albums from original images and viewing rich slides. Works both on a PC and online to speed up the uploading of your projects to various web resources.
• Adobe Photoshop is the most popular software in its category; there are probably no professional photographers in the world who do not use Photoshop. Here you can not only quickly improve the landscapes themselves, but also implement a complete modification of photographs: eliminate facial defects, background errors and much more.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to review all relevant software in one review, so we also recommend reading ours. There you will find descriptions of such popular tools as Hornil Stylepix, Zoner Photo Studio, Photoinstrument 7.4, Lightbox Free Image Editor. Profile tools for processing presentations and photographs Adobe Illustrator, Photo editor Photoshine 4.9.4, Photoshow Pro 7.0 are presented on the website as separate materials.

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