10 best alternatives to Aviary as of 2018 - Slant

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Snapseed

Top Pro

G+ integration

Google has also integrated most of Snapseeds features into the G+ app as well. See More

Top Con

Limited social integration

Snapseed supports sharing with email, Facebook, and Twitter, but leaves out important networks like Instagram and Flickr. See More

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Clever Interface

Snapseed interface is controlled with swipes, up and down to choose the option and left and right to choose the intensity. It does take a bit of getting used to, but once you have the interface is very nice and easy to use. See More

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Selective adjustments

In order to make adjustments to just one part of an image, tap and hold the box on the top right corner of the screen. See More

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Free

With the acquisition of Snapseed by Google, the app was lowered in price from $4.99 to free. See More

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High quality photo editing

Snapseed includes many features of high end photo editing software, auto correct, image tuning and other effects. Snapseed makes editing your photos easy and gives the photographer many options to choose from in how they present their images. Scrolling up and down lets the user choose from different effects and tools, swiping left to right determines the intensity. This app includes many effects such as tilt shift that are hard to find elsewhere. See More

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Picktorial

Top Pro

Fast

Browsing and editing are very fast. Much better than lightroom and most other competitors. See More

Top Con

No image blending

You can't blend images, like in photoshop. See More

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Fun

This software makes editing fun. See More

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Single-space workflow

No need to move between different slow modules. See More

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Truly non-destructive edits

Every edit is non-destructive, no matter the order. See More

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No need to import

It's catalog free so no need with slow import and backup problems. See More

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Local adjustements

Has many options Lightroom doesn't, like HSL, curves and split tone within local adjustment. See More

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Great value for money

Much better than a subscription to pay every month and very affordable for what it does. See More

Specs

Platforms:Mac OS

Tethered capture:No

DCP Profile Support:Yes

Raw Development :Yes

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Photoshop Express

Top Pro

Great for editing portraits

This app includes blemish removal and easy red eye removal See More

Top Con

No text tool

There is no way to add text to a photo in Photoshop Express See More

Top Pro

It's free!

Restrictions apply, extra features are available with a monthly fee. See More

Top Con

No noise reduction option

As a common feature in image editing apps for Android, you would expect Photoshop Express to have it as well. See More

Top Pro

Shares directly to Facebook

Photoshop Express lets users public their edited photos to Facebook straight from the app. See More

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Autofix feature

With one touch, adjust contrast, exposure, and white balance.   See More

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Supports multi touch gestures

Multi touch gestures include rotating images, or swiping to flip the image See More

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Lightroom

Top Pro

Excellent asset management capabilities

Lightroom allows, for example, organizing images based on folders, color labels, flags, rating, keywords, GPS location, it can automatically create smart albums (albums that automatically update based on set rules) and it can be set to automatically backup, rename based on set rules, apply default processing, add keywords to images on import. It offers that functionality in an intuitive way and allows extensively customizing layout, behavior and workflow of managing assets to better suit your needs. See More

Top Con

No layer-based image editing capabilities

There are no layers removing any ability to blend images, create composits, overlay text, etc. See More

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Facial recognition helps find and tag people

Lightroom has built-in facial recognition support that can be used to find the same person in any collection of photographs. See More

Top Con

Hot folder option could be better

It can take a couple of seconds for Lightroom to check the folder for incoming images and that can noticeably slow down the workflow. Additionally, only the last image is imported as active. See More

Top Pro

A good number of cameras have built-in lens profiles for lens distortion correction

Lightroom has over 900 lens profiles from all kinds of manufacturers, including major lens brands like Canon, Nikon, Leica, Pentax, Ricoh, etc. You can see the full list of supported lenses here. Lens profiles will in most cases speed up the process of correcting lens distortion down to 1-2 clicks. See More

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Intuitive interface that's streamlined for a photographer's workflow

At a high level the interface is organized into broad groups of tools called workflow modules. Modules like "Library" for asset management and "Develop" for manipulating the photos. Each module displays only those tools that are needed for that task. This allows you to separate concerns between tasks and reduces interface clutter. When you're, for example, developing the image, you're not bothered by interface tools relating to exporting it. Within each module tools are grouped in a logical manner. Develop module, for example, will group tools relating to basic image adjustment, lens correction, and effects. And there are a plethora of keyboard shortcuts that improve the workflow speed even further. At all times you can easily navigate between images you're working via arrow keys, quickly compare images before and after making edits with \, or see side by side comparisons with y. See More

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Supports tethered capture

You can connect your camera directly to Lightroom and have Lightroom display images as soon as they are captured. See More

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HDR support

Can merge multiple shots into one in order to expand dynamic range. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows OSX

Tethered capture:Yes

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Pixelmator

Top Pro

Beautiful, easy to use UI

Pixelmator's interface is pleasant to look at, easy to use and specifically optimized for OS X users, making it very intuitive for long-time Mac users. See More

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Feature rich

Not only does Piexelmator provide easy to use tools that you should expect in any image editor, it also has rare tools such as layer styles, liquify tools and OS X optimized, fast image manipulation engine among others. See More

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Inexpensive

Pixelmator costs just $30 on the App Store. Additionally, it often comes bundled with other software that you might also find useful bringing the price down. See More

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Supports layer styles

Layer styles allow non-destructively applying effects to a layer. See More

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Great performance

Pixelmator's image engine is specifically optimized for use with Macs, providing one the best performance results available on OS X. See More

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Powerful effects

Dozens of visual effects available, easily discovered from the visual Effects Browser, broken into categories. Effects have interactive dialogs and live preview. See More

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Loads quickly

Gives you common image editing capabilities almost instantly. See More

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Multiple-display support

Pixelmator can be used across any number of monitors. See More

Specs

Tethered capture:No

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Photoshop Fix

Top Pro

Integrates with Creative Cloud

You can save all projects directly to the Creative Cloud allowing you to access them from any device and with any relevant Adobe software. See More

Top Con

Moving projects between Adobe apps could be easier

Projects can't be moved directly between apps, they first have to be saved to the Creative Cloud. This also means that if you're disconnected from the Internet, you can't share projects between applications. See More

Top Pro

The app works exactly the same on an iPhone as it does on an iPad

All functionality and navigation is the same on the iPhone as it is on the iPad. See More

Top Con

Covers just retouching tools

Top Pro

Syncs with Lightroom mobile

The app allows easily accessing all Lightroom mobile assets saved on the device. See More

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Photo Editor

Top Pro

Offers an extensive array of effects

"Adjust color, add effects, rotate, crop, resize, frame, clone, and draw on your photos" See More

Top Con

Extremely generic name

This makes it very difficult for users to accurately research "Photo Editor" on the internet. See More

Top Pro

Supports "draw mode"

You are able to add a personal touch by drawing on your photos using your Android See More

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Supports multiple languages

Supported languages include: English, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, German, French, Japanese, Portuguese(Brazil), Italian, Catalan, Traditional Chinese, Hebrew, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Swedish, Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Bengali, Indonesian, Persian, Vietnamese, Malaysian See More

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Makes EXIF data available to see and manipulate

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Save images in multiple formats

Formats include: JPEG, PNG, GIF, and PDF. See More

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Affinity Photo

Top Pro

Lifetime updates

Pay once, get updates forever. See More

Top Con

Limited selection of plugins

Plugin support was only recently added to AP and not many plugins have been created for the program so far. See More

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Compatible with Photoshop PSD files

Affinity Photo can import and export .psd files. See More

Top Con

Can not import gimp or krita files

Free alternatives like gimp (and krita) are sort of "go to" apps i can allways install and use for simple image editing or graphics on any computer. I find affinitys support for photoshop is great, but having support also for opening and editing gimp and krita would make the versatility and use of this program absolutely superb. See More

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Interface will be familiar to those coming from Photoshop

The interface, especially the Photo persona, is laid out in way that's very similar to Photoshop - a panel for icons for tools on the left, a panel for information and settings on the right. See More

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Supports layer styles

Layer styles allow non-destructively applying effects to a layer. See More

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Personas allow separation of concerns

At a high level the interface is organized into broad groups of tools called Personas. Personas like Photo for in-depth image manipulation, Liquify for warping the image, Develop for basic RAW photo development and Export for exporting. Each persona displays only those tools that are needed for that task. See More

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Great performance

Uses the GPU extensively for fast speed on any platform. See More

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Powerful effects

Dozens of visual effects available. All run extremely fast with live previews See More

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Non-destructive adjustment layers

extensive adjustment layers are non-destructive. See More

Specs

Platforms:OSX, Windows

Tethered capture:No

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