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score 19 · Answer 1

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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score 9 · Answer 2

Instagram

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Good platform for exposure

Instagram is the photo sharing app with the most users. See More

Top Con

Awkward framing

Photos shot in Instagram must be in a square format. Uploaded photos must be cropped to be square shaped. See More

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Great photo filters

Instagram's adjustable filters can completely change the way a photo looks. See More

Top Con

Filled with children

Instagram is extremely popular with middle school and high school kids. See More

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Tons of editing tools

Instagram lets users adjust brightness, temperature, saturation, highlights, shadows, and sharpening. See More

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score 13 · Answer 3

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

Top Con

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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score 1 · Answer 4

VSCO Cam

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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

Top Con

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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Easy and polished UI

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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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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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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Social media integration

VSCO Cam integrates with Titter, Instagram, Facebook, and G+ for quick sharing. 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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High quality filters

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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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score 7 · Answer 5

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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score 6 · Answer 6

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

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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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score 6 · Answer 7

Pho.to Lab

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User friendly

The interface is clean, simple, and easy to navigate. See More

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Users must pay for ad-free version

For the ad-free version, it costs $3.99 for Android users. See More

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Very stable

This app is much more stable than other apps of similar nature See More

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Over 620 frames, effects, and montages.

Although Photo Lab is a little more expensive than other apps, but the variety of features makes the price well worth the benefit. See More

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score 24 · Answer 8

Photopea

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Can save as PSD

This means you can open these files in Photoshop, so if you don't have Photoshop on one device, you can still export your Photopea project and continue editing on Photoshop on another device See More

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Has only basic filters and operations

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Requires no browser plugin

As it is an HTML5 application, running it requires no additional plugins on modern browsers. See More

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Fast to load

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Drag and drop support

Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene. See More

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Very reactive on feedbacks

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Uses Photoshop standard shortcuts

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Platforms:Web (in a browser)

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score 22 · Answer 9

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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score 5 · Answer 10

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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score 3 · Answer 11

Camera+

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Macro mode

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

Top Con

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

Top Con

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

Top Con

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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score 26 · Answer 12

LightZone

Top Pro

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

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

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score 43 · Answer 13

Google Camera

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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

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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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

Photo Sphere does not work on all CPUs

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

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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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score 2 · Answer 14

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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score 2 · Answer 15

BeFunky Photo Editor

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No sign up required

In order to use this app, you don't need to sign up! See More

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Free with no ads

"Free" includes no limitations. See More

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Offers photo frames

The frames include: instant, Filmstrip, Halftone, Grunge, Classic frames, and more. See More

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Stack unlimited effects

Apply filter after filter after filter. Add as many filters and effects as you want! See More

Specs

Platforms:Web Android

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score 6 · Answer 16

ProShot

Top Con

Aspect ratio function is broken

Top Pro

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

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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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score 48 · Answer 17

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

Top Pro

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

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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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

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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

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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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Very intuitive Irs, easier to use and raw conversion using Sony seems better

Specs

Platforms:Windows OSX

Tethered capture:Yes

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score 5 · Answer 18

Picktorial

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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

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score 13 · Answer 19

Corel Draw

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Efficient and intuitive UI

Top Con

Expensive

In US it costs $499, and although it's worth the money for advanced users, for ordinary users it's too much. See More

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Great for large scale prints

Corel Draw can handle large sized printing projects. You can use the feet as the unit for output size and it can still export the graphic without problems to your computer's system resource. See More

Top Con

UI can be confusing for users coming from Adobe

It might need some time to adjust. See More

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Advanced tools for a fast workflow

Symmetry tool, pages, copy attributes, etc. See More

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Price is good

The no-subscription option is $449.00 and subscription is $198.00 per year. See More

Specs

Initial Release:1989

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score 52 · Answer 20

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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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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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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Actively developed

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

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HiDPI support

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

Specs

Platforms:Windows

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