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Photoshop

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Industry standard

Photoshop is used by professionals everywhere. It is taught in classes, used by artists and is even used by medical professionals. If you've seen a magazine ad featuring a model, you've probably seen the effects of Photoshop. You won't be alone when using Photoshop. The internet is full of tutorials and videos on how to use Photoshop. This fact, coupled with the trove of plugins available for Photoshop means you can use it it to make the professional looking or artistic images you need. See More

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Expensive

For a high-quality product, the price is high enough to match. With the new Adobe model, all Creative Suite Products are subscription based only. This means that for the complete "Creative Cloud" you are required to buy a year subscription for about 600 USD. In order to use just a single product, its a $20 monthly subscription. The cheapest option would be Photoshop Elements 12 which is a single time payment of less than 100 USD depending on where you look. See More

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Fully featured

Photoshop is the most fully featured image editing software available today allowing you to perform highly advanced image manipulation. On top of that it offers features beyond the realm of typical image editing software tools such as support for video editing, 3d elements and 3d printing among others. See More

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A cheaper version called Photoshop Elements is available

A stripped down version of Photoshop, called Photoshop Elements can be bought as a standalone application for $100. See More

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Content-aware tools

Photoshop includes content-aware tools such as content-aware fill that can fill in a select area based on what surrounds it. See More

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Reasonable UI

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Creative Cloud Photography subscription includes Lightroom

Lightroom is another image editing software from Adobe that's specifically designed for photo editing and managing of large quantities of digital images. See More

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Mobile companion apps available

There's a free mobile app available for iOS, Android & Windows Phone. See More

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Lots of tutorials

There's a huge number of both free and paid tutorials available online. Websites like Lynda.com offer premium high-quality, in-depth tutorials, but there are plenty of free alternatives to be found on YouTube, blogs and specialized sites on the Internet. See More

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Support for vector shapes

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Non-destructive blur

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Pixelmator

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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

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Tethered capture:No

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AppleMacSoft Graphic Converter

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Converts images in batches

Bulk image conversion works with the most popular formats, which means you can easily convert PNG to JPG or TIFF to JPEG and vice versa, as well as create GIF files. See More

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resize images

A handy resize option to make the photo smaller See More

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Supports 60+ image formats

Supports TIFF, JPEG, RAW, PNG, BMP, PSD, TGA, and many other image formats See More

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Supported OS:Windows, Mac OS X

Supports import images:.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .tga, .jbg, .jbig, .jb2, .k25, .kdc, .dcr, .pcd, .pct, .pict, .pic, .mrw, .mtv, .mng, .nef, .orf, .pef, .pdb, .pbm, .pnm, .ppm, .pnm, .pam, .pfm, .pgm, .arw, .srf, .sr2, .sun, .ras, .rle, .vic, .vicar, .rla, .wbmp, .wbm, .wpg, .x3f, .xcf, .xpm, .mat, .vst, .vda, .icb, .tpic, .ico, .jpe, .jfif, .jp2, .jpc, .j2k, .jpx, .j2c, .bmp, .vga, .rl4, .rl8, .sys, .dib, .rle, .dng, .pcx, .psd, .pdd, .pix, .cr2, .crw, .dpx, .dcx, .dcm, .dicom, .dic, .acr, .dds, .cut, .cur, .ico, .raf, .g3, .jng, .sgi

Supports output images:.jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .j2k, .jpx, .j2c, .bmp, .vga, .rl4, .rl8, .sys, .dib, .rle, .tga, .vst,.jpe, .jfif, .jp2, .jpc, .vda, .icb, .psd, .pdd, .tpic, .pcx, .dpx, .dcx, .g3, .jng, .jbg, .jbig, .jb2, .pcd, .pct, .pict, .pic, .cur, .ico, .mtv, .mng, .vicar, .sun, .ras, .wbmp, .pdb, .pbm, .pnm, .pam, .pfm, .pgm, .vic, .wbm, .xpm, .mat, .sgi, .svg, .svgz, and etc.

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GIMP

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Unintuitive interface

GIMP doesn't embrace OS X application design, thus Mac users might have a hard time wrapping their heads around GIMP's interface. See More

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Free, open source and cross-platform

GIMP is completely free and open source, meaning you can use GIMP and all of its features without spending a penny. This makes it an excellent case for artists or designers who may not have the budget to spend over 700 USD on Photoshop. It is also available for free on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. It's licensed under GPL with source code available here. See More

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Poor performance

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Powerful

GIMP is the most feature rich free image editing tool. It has most image manipulation and workflow tools that you would expect from an image editing software and what it lacks it makes up with plugins. See More

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Less features than other programs

Being a free program, it shouldn't be surprising that it has limited features. For those needing more advanced features for something more professional, GIMP just isn't for you. See More

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Content-aware tools with a plugin

There's a content-aware fill plugin available for GIMP. See More

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Lacks adjustment layers

Adjustment layers offer a non-destructive way of combining different photo manipulations. Without adjustment layers the only way to see changes is by irreversibly editing the image. They are promised in future updates. See More

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Modular & single-window interface options

By default GIMP splits out each window, but you can check to use the one screen mode in options if you prefer. See More

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Lightweight

Compared to to other photo editing software, GIMP is very light weight. In addition it isn't very resource-intensive, meaning you can put it on a flash drive and have it with you to load up on just about any computer. See More

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Beginner-friendly

Gimp has less features than programs like Photoshop, but for a beginner, or someone not needing complicated options, Gimp is the perfect choice. It allows you to quickly do basic photo manipulation so you can easily get the product you need without having to worry about complicated features getting in the way. See More

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Full channel support

Specs

Platforms:Windows 10; Linux

Tethered capture:No

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