20 best alternatives to Snapseed as of 2018 - Slant

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VSCO

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In-camera professional photography tools

You can set up exposure, aperture, focus, warmth, brilliance, shutter speed, etc. before taking the shot. In other words, while there are great photo editing tools and filters available with maximum customization for creating great pictures, this is one camera app that is actually more of a camera app than a filter app. See More

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Lack of direction

Instead of doing a great job at one thing, this app spreads the focus over a number of mediocre features. Overall, everything is good, but this app doesn't stand out. See More

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15 in app tools

This app has many of the tools users expect and more. These include exposure, temperature, contrast, saturation, sharpening, and more. See More

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Option to tap any part of the screen to take a photo

With VSCO cam, a mode can be selected where a photo can be taken by touching anywhere on the screen, not just one specific button. See More

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In-app camera roll

The VSCO camera roll can be kept separate from the primary one, or combined. See More

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Adjustable filter intensity

Any filter can be applied on a scale of 1-12 and filters can be applied in layers over each other. See More

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Very clean feeling interface

The VSCO cam has a minimalistic approach to the interface. The color scheme is mostly black and grey, and many buttons don't have labels. See More

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Optional social network

VSCO Cam has an in-app sharing platform, but it doesn't force users to join. For those who opt in, the experience is much like Instagram but without spammy likes or ads. See More

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Social media integration

VSCO Cam integrates with Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and G+ for quick sharing. See More

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Camera ZOOM FX Premium

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Mix of dSLR features and standard app features

These features include white balance, night shooting mode, ISO adjustment, focus adjustment, exposure, contrast, saturation, and more. See More

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Missing important features

This app doesn't support HDR mode or panoramic shots. See More

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Stable-shot mode

The stable shot mode is a feature that will only let a photo be taken when the camera is still. This feature is used to eliminate motion blur. See More

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Voice-activated shooting mode

A voice activated shooting mode takes a picture when there is noise. See More

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Can be extended with filter/frame/effects packs

This app has over 40 filters and effects. See More

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Prevents tilted photos

The horizon level indicator helps users make sure their shots are level. See More

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Time lapse and long exposure

This app supports time lapse and long exposure shots. See More

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Overlay grids

The grids can either represent the rule of thirds, golden ratio, or other similar grids. See More

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Burst shooting

Camera Zoom FX supports burst shooting of up to 20 shots per second. See More

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Tap to shoot

Instead of pressing one specific place on the screen, this app lets users tap anywhere. See More

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Tap-to-focus or auto focus

This app has auto-focus and manual focus. See More

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ProShot

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Full manual control in Photo, Timelapse, and Video modes

On devices with Camera2 API support (currently LG G4, Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 Edge), ProShot offers full manual control over ISO, shutter, white balance, and focus, in any mode, even during video recording. See More

Top Con

Requires Android 5.1

ProShot requires that the Android OS is on version 5.1 or higher in order to install and work. Considering there is only a developer preview for this version to date, it basically can not yet be installed. Even when 5.1 comes out there will not be many devices using it. Developer's note: there are many camera bugs in 5.0 that are only fixed in 5.1. Support for 5.0 may come in the near future, with some features locked until the upgrade to 5.1. See More

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Supports multiple aspect ratios

ProShot has options for 4:3, 16:9 and 1:1 aspect ratios allowing the shooter to choose what best suits their intended shape. It also has support for custom aspect ratios, so 3:2, 21:9, 50:3, and more are all possible. See More

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RAW and other format support

ProShot can shoot in RAW, RAW + JPEG and JPEG formats, giving ample options for one to shoot in. See More

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Camera360 Ultimate

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Free unlimited cloud storage

This app automatically syncs an unlimited amount of images to the cloud. See More

Top Con

No rotation for image cropping

When cropping images, the size of the image can be narrowed, but users cannot choose the angle at which the image is cropped. See More

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Over 100 filters

This app boasts over 100 filters. In addition to these filters, additional settings show up for each filter. For instance, HDR mode has 4 different settings in order to be situation appropriate. Each filters's intensity can be adjusted on a scale of 0 to 100. See More

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Dedicated selfie mode

The selfie mode ensures that all flaws and blemishes are minimized. See More

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Tons of social integrations

Camera 360 Ultimate lets users share through Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google plus, Instagram, and more. See More

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Captures sound with images

Using the Audio mode, 5 seconds of sound are captured with the image to "capture the moment". It's hard to tell how this could actually be useful, but it's a cool feature. See More

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PhotoFlare

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User friendly

An easy to use GUI, inspired by the equally great PhotoFiltre editor. Very suitable for beginners to add that special touch to photos/images. See More

Top Con

Feature maturity can be low

Some features lack polish or still require more development to make them more useful. Looks like not all features have been given the same development time. See More

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Open Source

Offers a Community Edition which is free and the full code is available on Github. See More

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Very fast

Starts up very quick and most editing features run at a high speed. See More

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RAW support

This program can open most RAW formats produced by high quality DSLR cameras. Great feature to have if you own a high end Nikon or Canon camera. (other brands supported too) See More

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Cross Platform

Runs on all major platforms such as Windows, Linux and Mac. See More

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Picktorial

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Fast

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

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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

Blending Modes:Yes

Non-destructive:Yes

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Camera FV-5

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Control over ISO, exposure times, and f-stop

Much like a dSLR, Camera FV-5 gives users control over light sensitivity, time that the shutter is open, and f-stop. See More

Top Con

Menu is stuck on landscape mode

Even when the device is held in portrait, the app's menu is stuck on landscape. This bug makes it more difficult to read whatever is displayed. See More

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Exposure compensation

In order to reduce the chances of over exposure, there is an option where exposure compensation can be activated. See More

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Exposure bracketing

Camera FV-5 has a setting where several pictures will be taken in rapid succession at different exposures. See More

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Night HDR timelapse

This app takes lets users take long exposure shots and stitches them together in order to produce bright time lapses taken at night. See More

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Free version

There's also a free Lite version. See More

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Snap Camera HDR

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Zero unnecessary bells and whistles

While this app is loaded with features, all of them are called for. See More

Top Con

Doesn't let users choose where to save photos

By default, this app makes sub folders to save photos in instead of letting users choose whether or not to store photos in the default library. See More

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Minimalistic/easy to use interface

The interface starts with three different buttons (pictures, videos, settings) and each level umbrellas in order to access the huge amount of features. While using the interface, there are many features that make operation simple. In order to access recent pictures from the camera, swipe left. In order to delete pictures, swipe left again. Tapping a photo reveals the effect menu. Pinching zooms in. See More

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Many options and settings

While taking a picture, the options include: HDR, flash, white balance, exposure, contrast, saturation, additional camera settings, burst mode, fast mode, front/back toggle, silent shutter, stable shot, panorama, self timer, and grid. Additional settings include: picture and video size, scene mode,self timer, burst mode, time lapse, JPEG quality, effects, ISO, anti-banding, scene detection, video bitrate, and audio settings. See More

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Instant movie recording button

In order to start recording quickly, the record button is located on the first screen displayed. See More

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Frequent updates

This app is updated regularly. See More

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Camera+

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Macro mode

Allows more close-up shooting of focused subjects than default iPhone camera. See More

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Does not detect faces or zones

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Manual controls

Manually adjust focus, as well as aperture, ISO, and shutter speed to a certain extent. See More

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No video recording mode

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Can save as lossless TIFF images and other high quality formats

Those interested in lossless formats will be able to save as a lossless TIFF. Alternatively one can save as more standard high normal or optimized quality JPEG formats. See More

Top Con

No panorama mode

There is no panorama mode offered in the app, meaning if that is a needed feature a different app will need to be used making this not an all in one solution. See More

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Extensive editing suite

Lots of filters and other editing features (brightness, contrast, saturation) built in. See More

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No HDR

There is no way to do HDR in this app asides from manually doing it yourself and processing it in a 3rd party app, which can cause alignment and ghosting as problems. See More

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Features presented as exclusive modes cannot be used together

For example burst is a mode, and so is the timer, but you can't do burst photos with a timer, or burst mode with a stabilizer. None of the following may work with each other in tandem: Normal, Stabilizer, Timer or Burst. This limits the functionality of the app, which may not be understood before purchase. See More

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Not free

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LightZone

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Allows users to create and edit RAW profiles

Unlike most other RAW editors, LightZone supports user-created RAW profiles and allows editing existing RAW profiles. See More

Top Con

Asset management is basic

Browser module includes a file browser, metadata viewer and a really basic metadata editor (allows editing just 6 fields), and allows you to give images a rating, but no advanced asset management is supported. There's not even a way to assign keywords to files. See More

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Allows changing the order in which adjustments are applied

You can change in what order sharpening, saturation, tone, etc adjustments are applied simply by switching around their order in the tool stack. See More

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Aviary

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Easy to use

The app doesn't overwhelm you with functionality or hide it behind unlabelled icons. It displays about 5 tools at a time beneath the image and allows you to swipe through the complete list of tools horizontally. Most interactions with the software are kept in that bottom row so you can always see the results of your image manipulations. See More

Top Con

Covers just the basics

There are 20 tools for image manipulation. They allow you to change the sharpness, crop the image, apply filters to it, add frames, etc. There are also tools for one tap redeye and blemish removal. See More

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Free

The core functionality of the app is offered for free without any ads. You can optionally purchase additional effects. See More

Top Con

Not all effects are free

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Photoshop Express

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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

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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

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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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Google Camera

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Lens Blur

A recently added feature to Google Camera, Lens Blur gives you the SLR like function of creating images with shallow depth of field, or limited areas of focus. Basically, lens blur will only blur the background in order to put more emphasis on an object. See More

Top Con

Limited device support - Only available for Google Nexus and Pixel

In 2016 they stop providing Google camera for non google devices. You can download APK and install. But it crashes and most likely the video camera will not work. See More

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Simple clean interface

Google Camera has a very easy to use and simple interface, with the most important controls right at your fingertips. Google has redesigned the Camera app for every skill level of user, making photography more accessible to everyone. See More

Top Con

Photo Sphere does not work on all CPUs

For example, Android-Lenny 4.4 does not support this. See More

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HDR mode

HDR can be activated or deactivated with one swipe of the thumb. See More

Top Con

Requires Android 4.4+ (KitKat)

The Google Camera app system requirements do require Android 4.4 (KitKat) or better, as a result this does leave out a lot of older phones and tablets. The app does take advantage of features of higher end phones, so you will need to upgrade if your device has an older version of Android. See More

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Photo Sphere

Use Photo Sphere and Google Camera to create three hundred and sixty degree panoramic photos easily. Photo Sphere photo images allow the viewer to move around within the world you have created, move up, down, left or right to see everything. Photo Sphere also gives you the tools to create your own Google Maps street view and share it with other Maps users. See More

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It is free

It's free if you have one of the supporting devices (Google Nexus or Pixel). See More

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Support panorama shots

Which is also supported by the Android stock camera. See More

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Capture One Pro

Top Con

Doesn't support color checkers

Unfortunately, there's no way to create color profiles using the Color Checker Passport. See More

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Well thought out tethered capture implementation

Once you hook up your camera to Capture One, the program offers a bunch of useful tools and workflows based on your needs. For example, it has Composition Mode that allows setting up the shot without taking up hard-drive space by replacing the last image taken with the a one as soon as you take it. It has Hot Folder functionality that will keep an eye on changes in a set folder and as soon as any new images appear in that folder they will be added to Capture One; great for cameras that are not supported by Capture One natively and unlike other Hot Folder functionality in other programs C1 captures everything coming in quickly and imports all images as active. Many cameras can be controlled via the program and if the camera has live view, similar functionality can be enabled in Capture One. Plus, live view allows superimposing an overlay; great for cover shooting. There's also a overlay mask that shows wether a shot is in focus or not. And many other functions and design decision that help with ease of use. See More

Top Con

Asset management could be better

While it does have asset managment, it isn't as robust or intuitive as some of the competition, like Lightroom in particular. See More

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Capture Pilot enables using Capture One collaboratively during a shoot

Capture pilot is a feature that allows any web-enabled device to remotely connect to Capture One and use a subset of its functionality like view a selected catalogue, rate images and even make minor edits to photos. An iOS app for Capture Pilot is available as well that in addition to default functionality also allows controlling a tethered camera though that functionality has to be purchased separately. See More

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Clean and sharp default processing

Straight imports seem a bit sharper and more dynamic than many other RAW editors. See More

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Extremely robust color editing

A huge amount of color editing options, with the ability to modify overall, to extremely targeted ranges. Especially robust support for editing skin tones. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows OSX

Tethered capture:Yes

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Krita

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Free and open source

Krita is completely free and open source. They have raised a couple of successful Kickstarters in the past to get the initial financing and now they are accepting donations. See More

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Poor Touch Controls.

They are still pretty much a WIP. But they are getting there. See More

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Easy to use layout

All the most used and useful tools are easy to find in Krita's UI and are often just one click away. They are not hidden behind menus or dropdowns. See More

Top Con

Working with text is not that pleasant

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Amazing support for displaying brushes

Krita's preset brushes are one of the default dockers. Each brush has a preview on mouseover that shows a detailed view of the type of brush involved. All the brushes also have useful and descriptive names such as "HP Pencil" or "Textured Fuzzy". See More

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Documentation is lacking

Krita's official documentation is incomplete in some areas, especially for new features that are constantly added. But this is compensated with it's great design and usability which makes it easier to understand how things work. See More

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Very customizable

Although the UI is rather busy, Krita is very customizable. The editing window can be themed and the sidebar can be customized extensively throw many dockers or panes. See More

Top Con

New features are not tested thoroughly

Since releases are so often and with little time between them, usually new features are not tested a lot and this can bring a lot of bugs with them. Which fortunately are quickly patched in the next release. See More

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Easy editing in a tiled view

Tiled view that shows your image tiled in the editor, and permits you to edit it as you are seeing it tiled. If the brush passes out of your texture, it will just automatically wrap back the painting to the other side of the original texture, while permitting you to paint and see the results on any of the tiled "clones" (the shortcut key to activate this is w by default). See More

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Constantly updated

Krita is getting constant releases with updates and bug fixes. New features are added at a pace that far surpasses the other alternatives. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; Linux; OSX

License:Open source

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Paint.NET

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Lightweight

Paint.net provides a streamlined but effective core tool set. Support for advanced and niche features is provided through modular plugins, allowing the user to install only what's needed. See More

Top Con

Only available on Windows

Paint.NET is only available on Windows. See More

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Free software

There is no charge for this software; but donations are welcomed. See More

Top Con

No project-based interface

You can only edit a single image at a time in Paint.NET. For example, in other tools you can open 5 or a 100 images at the same time, and stack those windows in all directions. Furthermore, when you are editing in Paint.NET you can only "view" a single image at a time, even though you can have multiple images open. This limits your zooming ability, as the image will go fullscreen quite quickly, and hide parts of it behind the floating toolbars which can not be embedded anywhere on the screen. See More

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Easy to learn and use

Unlike most photo editing software, Paint.NET is simple to learn and easy to use. This means less time is spent learning the in's and out's of Paint.NET and more time on photo editing. For those who only edit photos sporadically and don't have time to invest in learning complicated tools for editing, Paint.Net will suit your needs. See More

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Plugins allow extra functionality

Plugins can be made by anyone in the community, and are offered for download on the forum. They extend the capabilities of Paint.NET to cover most tasks. See More

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Active and friendly community

The forums are filled with tutorials, as well as people who are friendly and eager to help. See More

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HiDPI support

Paint.NET supports fully HiDPI displays, with no scaling problems. See More

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Actively developed

The project is active and being continually expanded and refined. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows

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Lightroom

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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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