Photo Editing Software

Photo Editing Software Review

A number of photo editing software solutions are available in the market now a days. In order to help the customer choose the best photo editing software, we present a brief photo editing software review of all the major solutions that are available in the market. The solutions covered here include Adobe Photoshop for Windows, Apple Aperture for Mac OS X and GNU Image Manipulation program for Linux.

Adobe Photoshop is the most popular image editing software solution available for Windows platform. Since the penetration of Windows platform is very deep in the IT sector, Photoshop has become an industry standard in itself. A number of features make Photoshop beat all other Windows based photo editing software solutions. The software has a layer and mask based editing system which allows non destructive image editing.

Furthermore, the software has a number of effects and filters which allow you to bring instant changes to the image. The software allows you to adjust almost all the parameters of an image. You can change the hue, saturation, brightness, color levels, contrast and a lot of other attributes of the image. New versions of Photoshop even allow the user to do integrated image management using Adobe Bridge.

Coming to the Mac OS X, we notice that Apple has launched its own Aperture image manipulation solution. Keeping up its best traditions, Apple has not abandoned the traditional Power PC based users. Aperture is a available as a universal binary and you can easily install it on Power PC based Macs and the new Intel x86 architecture based Macs. Aperture is designed using the native OSX API. It can seamlessly integrate with the native features of OS X.

Aperture is also able to integrate with iPhoto application and both the software solutions can be made to share the same album hierarchy with a few tweaks. This eliminates the need to create separate albums for both the solutions. Aperture is also a very affordable. It retails for just $299 as compared to the $999 that you have to pay for the new Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Keeping up the free and open source software spirit, GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is available in both source form and pre-compiled binary. The main benefit with the software is that it is available free of cost to everyone. There are a number of features and because the software is open source, new features are regularly added to it as well. The software is available for Windows as well as a number of POSIX family operating systems like BSD, Linux and OS X.

The only drawback with GIMP is that its interface is stone age. A fork of GIMP called GIMPshop is in works to make its interface more up to date.

This photo editing software review has introduced you to common image editing solutions for three major platforms. Please visit the official website of these software solutions for detailed information.