194 Photo Editing Tools and Apps You Should Know
Hello, photographers. Here’s a giant list of 194 photo editing tools and photography apps you can use in your photography.
I want to say thank you, photographers, both here and on Reddit. At the beginning, there were only 61 photo tools, and I thought that was a huge list! Now we have 194.
Table of Contents
- Photo enhancers (1-9)
- Online editors (10-28)
- Free Desktop editors (29-37)
- Paid desktop editors (38-57)
- HDR Photo Editors (58-72)
- Cross-platform image editors (73-76)
- Photo Filters (77-85)
- Photo editing mobile apps (86-119)
- RAW Processors (120-137)
- Face retouching software (138-141)
- Photo Fix (142-153)
- Photo viewers and managers (154-167)
- Other (168-194)
Photo enhancers
1. Photolemur – The world’s first fully automated photo enhancement solution to make all photos perfect. It is powered by AI algorithm that fixes imperfections on images without human involvement. Single License $30.
2. Photosense – Quick and easy batch photo enhancement software for Mac & iOS. $18.97.
3. Perfectly Clear – Photo editor with a set of automatic correction presets for Windows&Mac. $149.
4. Akvis Enhancer – The program offers a fast method to fix a dark picture, improve detail on an image, increase contrast and brightness, and adjust tones. $69.
5. Enhance Pho.to – Online photo enhancer. The service is easy to use and lets to fix the most such problems of digital pictures: fix dull colors and bad color balance; remove digital noise; fix poor sharpness / blurriness; remove red eye in photos of people.
6. Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 6 – Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 6 for Windows revitalizes photos at the click of a button. Optimize colors and contrasts, adjust the sharpness, remove scratches and noise and realign photos. Fast, simple, no prior knowledge required. $20.
7. PhotoEQ – SoftColor PhotoEQ makes digital image improvement simpler on your PC. PhotoEQ works with a variety of photo formats, including RAW files. It does a good job of combining an extremely easy interface with the most helpful tools for fixing common problems and providing just enough flexibility for users to make their own fixes. In addition to correcting individual photos, you can batch resize and batch save more than one photo at a time ($69)
8. Algorithmia – Use Deep Learning to Automatically Colorize Black and White Photos. Paid packages start at $20
9. Fotojet – Simple and basic subscription-based online photo enhancer. $4.99/mo, $34.99/year
Online editors
10. Pixlr – High-end photo editing and quick filtering – in your browser (free).
11. Fotor – Overall photo enhancement in an easy-to-use package (free).
12. Sumopaint – The most versatile photo editor and painting application that works in a browser (free).
13. Preloadr is a Flickr-specific tool that uses the Flickr API, even for account sign-in. The service includes basic cropping, sharpening, color correction and other tools to enhance images.
14. Lunapic – Just a simple free online editor.
15. Photos – Photo viewing and editing app for OS X and comes free with the Yosemite operating system (free).
16. Picture2life is an Ajax based photo editor. It’s focused on grabbing and editing images that are already online. The tool selection is average, and the user interface is poor.
17. Pics.io – Very simple online photo editor (free).
18. Ribbet – Ribbet lets you edit all your photos online, and love every second of it (free).
19. PicMonkey – One of the most popular free online picture editors.
20. Befunky – Online photo editor and collage maker (free).
21. pho.to – Simple online photo editor with pre-set photo effects for an instant photo fix (free).
22. pizap – Online photo editor and collage maker ($29.99/year).
23. Fotostars – Edit your photos using stylish photo effects (free).
24. Avatan – Free online photo editor & collage maker.
25. FotoFlexer – Photo editor and advanced photo effects for free.
26. Canva – Online photo editor to filter, resize or adjust the images. Free
27. Image Enhancer by Canon – Free online image editor to crop, add filters, adjust brightness and adding signature to the images. RAW not supported.
28. PicsArt – PicsArt for Android, iPhone and Windows is an incredibly robust photo editing, collage and drawing app with over 3000+ advanced editing tools. Think the capabilities of a Photoshop, but free and easy to use.
Free Desktop editors
29. G’MIC – Full featured framework for image processing with different user interfaces, including a GIMP plugin to convert, manipulate, filter, and visualize image data. Available for Windows and OS.
30. Pinta – Pinta is a free, open source program for drawing and image editing.
31. Photoscape – A simple, unusual editor that can handle more than just photos.
32. Paint.net – Free image and photo editing software for PC.
33. Krita – Digital painting and illustration application with CMYK support, HDR painting, G’MIC integration and more
34. Imagemagick – A software suite to create, edit, compose or convert images on the command line.
35. Picture.st – Edit, crop and share your photos. Free.
36. Vintager – Easy-to-use software for Windows that provides a number of special effects that can be applied to photos to give them a retro/vintage style. Free
37. Photodemon – Free portable photo editor for Windows.
Paid desktop editors
38. Photoshop – Mother of all photo editors ($9.99/month together with Lightroom)
39. Lightroom – A photo processor and image organizer developed by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X ($9.99/month together with Photoshop)
40. Capture One – A professional raw converter and image editing software designed for professional photographers who need to process large volumes of high quality images in a fast and efficient workflow. €279.
41. Luminar – Powerful photo editor for Mac and Windows with more powerful controls than in Lightroom and the world’s first AI-powered photo filter. $69 for the License.
42. Radlab – Combines intuitive browsing, gorgeous effects and a lightning-fast processing engine for image editing ($149).
43. Affinity – Professional photo editing software for Macб Windows and iPad ($49.99).
44. DXO Photo Suite – Powerful photo editing software for ($189).
45. Pixelmator – Pixelmator for Mac is a powerful, fast, and easy-to-use image editor ($29.99).
46. On Photo 10 – Professional photo editor with easy-to-use interface. $90.
47. Corel AfterShot Pro 3 – Professional photo editor with the world’s fastest RAW photo processor. $80.
48. Zoner – Everything from downloading onto your computer to editing and sharing, all in one place. For Windows only ($99)
49. Acorn 5 – An image editor for macOS 10.10 and later ($29.99)
50. Photo Plus – Easy-to-use professional photo editor for PC ($99.99) – Acquired by Seriff
51.Pictorial – Picktorial presents an impressive array of powerful professional tools, such as nondestructive RAW editing, highquality retouching and features like local adjustments, rivaling the leading players in the field. At the same time, Picktorial prides itself on an easy and intuitive user experience. ($24.99)
52. Photomizer – Optimize and repair digital photos (from $34.99)
53. Picture Window Pro – Powerful photo editing tool for Windows, designed for serious photographers with demanding creative and quality standards. Its comprehensive set of photo manipulation and retouching tools allow you to control and shape every aspect of your images ($89.95).
54. PhotoLine – PhotoLine is a raster and vector graphics editor for Windows and Mac OS X. Its features include 16 bits of color depth, full color management, support of RGB, CMYK and Lab color models, layer support, and non-destructive image manipulation. €59.
55. Inpixio – A set of tools for photo editing including Photo Clip, Photo Editor, Photo Focus, Photo Maximizer, Photo Eraser. The software helps photo enthusiasts to delete, cut out objects, create photo montages and optimize images. Photo Editor has two pricing plans: Home – $19.9; Premium – $39.99
56. Photo Lab 4 – Easy photo editing software for Windows. $49 for the License.
57. Home Photo Studio – Desktop photo editing software for Windows. The program includes photo editing options, such as auto enhancement, retouching, red-eye removal, etc. Also, it includes more than 100 special effects that can be applied to the images for a different look. Standard License $29; Deluxe $39; Gold $49.
HDR Photo Editors
58. Aurora HDR – The easiest and the most advanced HDR photo editor for Mac ($39)
59. Photomatix – One of the first HDR photo editors in the world for Windows and Mac. The Photomatix Essentials app is particularly easy to use and costs $39. The Photomatix Pro app includes advanced HDR features and costs $99. Both apps run on Windows and Mac.
60. HDR Darkroom – Fast and easy-to-use software for Mac and Windows for creating impressive landscape images. $90.
61. Photo-kako – The free online photo editor, a photo-like composite can be processed into HDR images.
62. Light Compressor – Simple post processing app that lets you combine multiple exposures into a high dynamic range image for Mac ($3.99)
63. Hydra – Hydra lets you create beautiful high-dynamic-range (HDR) images by merging multiple exposures, effectively capturing both dark and bright subjects to make it more natural or to enhance scene drama. $60.
64. Oloneo – Professional HDR Imaging, RAW Processing & Dynamic Relighting. Application to offer digital photographers full control over light and exposure in real-time, as if they were still behind the lens. €124.50.
65. EasyHDR – HDR image processing software for Windows and Mac ($39)
66. HDRExpress – Easy to use HDR processing software for Mac and Windows ($79)
67. Fotor HDR – Free online HDR photo editor
68. Dynamic Photo HDR – A next generation High Dynamic Range Photo Software with Anti-Ghosting, HDR Fusion and Unlimited Effects for Windows ($65)
69. LuminanceHDR – Free application to provide a workflow for HDR imaging, creation, and tone mapping.
70. HDRMerge – Free software, that combines two or more raw images into a single raw with an extended dynamic range.
71. EnfuseGUI – Enfuse is an Open Source command-line application for creating images with a better dynamic range by blending images with different exposures (free)
72. Machinery HDR – Easy and powerful HDR photo editor. $39 for the License.
Cross-platform image editors
73. polarr – Pro photo editor designed for everyone (pro version – $19.99)
74. Pixlr – High-end photo editing and quick filtering.
75. Fotor Pro – Cross platform editor and designer, available on every major mobile device, desktop computer and online with One-Tap Enhance’ tool and RAW file processing
76. GIMP – A cross-platform image editor. Free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.
Photo Filters
77. Creative Kit 2016 – 6 powerful photography apps and over 500 creative tools inside a single, easy-to-use pack. For Mac only ($129.99)
78. On1 Effects – Selective filtering for advanced photo effects (free)
79. Rollip – High quality photo effects. 80+ effects (free).
80. Vintager – Vintager is fun, creative and easy-to-use software that provides you with a number of special effects that can be applied to your photos to give them a retro/vintage style
81. TheNick Collection – A professional-level filter selection for Windows and MacOS, now made free (by Google)
82. Noiseware – Award-winning plugin and standalone for photo noise reduction ($79.95).
83. Topazlabs – A lot of photo editing plug-ins that works with software that you already own. Including Photoshop, Lightroom, and many others (from $29.99)
84. Eye Candy – Eye Candy renders realistic effects that are difficult to achieve in Photoshop alone, such as Fire, Chrome, Animal Fur, Smoke, and Reptile Skin ($129).
85. BlowUp – Blow Up keeps photos crystal clear during enlargement. Especially in large prints hung on a wall, the difference between Blow Up and Photoshop is astounding. Version 3 makes pictures even sharper without computer artifacts ($99).
Photo editing mobile apps
86. Instagram – Instagram is a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures. Snap a photo with your mobile phone, then choose a filter to transform the image into a memory to keep around forever. One of the most popular mobile photo apps (free)
87. Lifecake – Save and organise pictures of your children growing up with Lifecake. In a timeline free from the adverts and noise that clutter most social media channels, you can easily look back over fond memories and share them with family and friends (free)
88. Qwik – Edit your images in seconds with straightforward hands-on tools, and share them with Qwik’s online community. With new filters and features being added every week, Qwik is constantly keeping itself fresh and exciting (free).
89. VSCO Cam – VSCO Cam comes packed with top performance features, including high resolution imports, and before and after comparisons to show how you built up your edit. Free (with paid filters $57/each)
90. 99 Filters – All types of filters and overlays for Instagram and Facebook ($0.99)
91. Photo Lab Picture Editor – Effects superimpose, pic collage blender & prisma insta frames for photos (free)
92. Avatan – Photo Editor, Effects, Stickers and Touch Up (free)
93. Retrica – Camera app to record and share your experience with over 100 filters (free).
94. Aviary – Photo editing app (bought by Adobe) Make photos beautiful in seconds with stunning filters, frames, stickers, touch-up tools and more. Provide SDK for app developers (free)
95. Snapseed – A photo-editing application produced by Nik Software, a subsidiary of Google, for iOS and Android that enables users to enhance photos and apply digital filters (free).
96. LightX – Advanced Photo Editor to make cut out,Change background and Blend photos ($1.99)
97. Afterlight – The perfect image editing app for quick and straight forward editing ($0.99)
98. File New – The Ultimate Photo Editor ($0.99)
99. Pixomatic – Blur, Remove Background, Add Color Splash Effects on Pictures ($4.99)
100. Camera MX – The Android exclusive photo app Camera MX combines powerful enhancement tools with a beautifully simple user interface. Thanks to intelligent image processing you can take visibly sharper snaps, as well as cutting and trimming them to perfection in the edit. Free
101. Lensical – Lensical makes creating face effects as simple as adding photo filters. Lensical is designed for larger displays and utilises one-handed gesture-based controls making it the perfect complement to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S Plus’s cameras (free).
102. Camera+ – The Camera app that comes on the iPhone by default is not brilliant: yes, you can use it to take some decent shots, but it doesn’t offer you much creative control. This is where Camera+ excels. The app has two parts: a camera and a photo editor, and it truly excels at the latter, with a huge range of advanced features ($2.99).
103. PhotoWonder – Excellent user interface makes Photo Wonder one of the speediest smartphone photo apps to use. It also has a good collage feature with multiple layouts and photo booth effects. The filter selection isn’t huge, but many are so well-designed that you’ll find them far more valuable than sheer quantity from a lesser app. Free.
104. Photoshop Express – As you would expect from Adobe, the interface and user experience of the Photoshop Express photo app for Apple and Android devices is faultless. It fulfills all the functions you need for picture editing and will probably be the one you turn to for sheer convenience. ‘Straighten’ and ‘Flip’ are two useful functions not included in many other apps (free).
105. layrs – Multi-layer photo editing on the go. It enables quick separation of a photo into layers on the exact boundary of objects. ($1.99)
106. Pixtr – Mobile app for making selfies perfect. Pixtr understands content of photos and automatically perfects them. ($3)
107. Filestorm – Filterstorm has been designed from the ground up to meet your iPad and iPhone photo editing needs. Using a uniquely crafted touch interface, Filterstorm allows for more intuitive editing than its desktop counterparts with a toolset designed for serious photography. $5.99
108. Camera360 – Camera360 auto detects photographic scenes and incorporates dynamic effect application to your images. Free
109. InstaSize – InstaSize is an Instagram companion app and a seamless method to transfer photos to Instagram without cropping. Free
110. Photo Editor – Photo Editor is a robust photo manipulation tool that includes gamma correction, auto contrast, blur, sharpen, and more! Free
111. Photo Studio – Photo Studio is used by both amateurs and professionals alike who need simple, yet efficient photo editing tools on the go. Free
112. Photo Editor by Inpixio – The whole range of professional tools at your disposal to touch up your photos and turn them into magnificent works of art: filters, effects, frames, borders, textures, stickers, text and a drawing feature. For iOS only. Free.
113. Preset – iOS app for creating own reusable photo filters by mixing, matching 27 adjustments from the library. $0.99
114. Magic Picture – Photo editing app for iOS to enhance photos and images, while reducing the space they take on your phone. Free
115. TouchRetouch – TouchRetouch is a wonderful app designed to deal with unwanted content in photos. Fast, flexible, and easy to use – TouchRetouch is just what you need to quickly turn your photos into “perfectly clear” stories. Available for iOS and Android. $1.99
116. Over – Free iOS app. With Over, choose from millions of images, graphics and fonts to overlay, add and edit text and design photos to boost your social media profile.
117. Picsaypro – The award winning photo editor for Android. Improve your photos with color corrections, sharpen, and red-eye removal. $3.99
118. Darkroom – Free and powerful photo editor for iPhone.
119. Enlight Photofox – The next generation of the lauded iOS photo editing app Enlight, the most powerful suite of image processing tools on mobile. It was Apple’s App of the Year for 2015, the #11 best-selling Paid iOS app in 2016, and was recently announced as the recipient of Apple’s prestigious Apple Design Awards of 2017. Free
RAW Processors
120. RAW Pics.io – The most popular in-browser RAW files viewer and converter. Support the most DSLR RAW camera formats. ($1.99/month with free trial).
121. Rawtherapee – Is a cross-platform raw image processing program, released under the GNU General Public License Version 3 (free)
122. Darktable – An open source photography workflow application and RAW developer
123. UFRaw – A utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras. It can be used on its own or as a GIMP plug-in.
124. Photivo – Handles your raw files, as well as your bitmap files, in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipeline.
125. Filmulator – Streamlined raw management and editing application centered around a film-simulating tone mapping algorithm.
126. PhotoFlow – Raw and raster image processor featuring non-destructive adjustment layers and 32-bit floating-point accuracy.
127. LightZone – Open-source digital darkroom software for Windows/Mac/Linux
128. RAW Photo Processor – A Raw converter for Mac OS X, supporting almost all available digital Raw formats
129. Iridient Developer – A powerful RAW image conversion application designed and optimized specifically for Mac OS X. Iridient Developer supports RAW image formats from over 620 digital camera models ($99)
130. Photoninja – A professional-grade RAW converter that delivers exceptional detail, outstanding image quality, and a distinctive, natural look ($129)
131. RawDigger – Raw Image Analyzer ($19.99)
132. Fastrawviewer – WYSIWYG RAW viewer that allows to see RAW exactly as a converter will “see” it, and provides RAW-based tools to estimate what a converter will be able to squeeze from the shot. (from $19.99)
133. Silkypix – RAW development software for professionals to enable a partial color correction by circular / gradual filter, or equips with completely new sharpness from superior outline detection algorithm. ($213.90)
134. Exposure – Exposure X2 is an advanced creative photo editor and organizer that improves every step in your editing workflow. ($149)
135. Canon Digital Photo Professional – Digital Photo Professional (DPP) is a high-performance RAW image processing, viewing and editing software for EOS digital cameras and PowerShot models with RAW capability. Free
136. Hasselblad Phocus – Free image processing software, which delivers the best quality RAW file processing, has been updated and expanded with new features that work seamlessly with the Hasselblad cameras.
137. DxO OpticsPro – RAW processing software from DxO for Windows and MacOS. Essential Edition – $129; Elite – $199.
Face retouching software
138. Portraiture – Professional skin retouching software. A Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture plugin that eliminates the tedious manual labor of selective masking and pixel-by-pixel treatments to help you achieve excellence in portrait retouching. It intelligently smoothens and removes imperfections while preserving skin texture and other important portrait details such as hair, eyebrows, eyelashes etc. ($199.95)
139. PortraitPro – PortraitPro is the world’s best-selling retouching software, that intelligently enhances every aspect of a portrait for beautiful results. $80.
140. Pinkmirror – Online photo retouching app that automatically slims the face, lift cheeks and cleans the skin. Premium subscription has two options: $30/6 months, $40/12 months.
141. ImprovePhoto – Basic automatic free online face retouching software.
Photo fix
142. Photoshop Fix – Adobe’s simple app for iPhone, iPad or iPad Pro to liquify, heal, lighten, color and adjust your images to perfection — then easily share them across other Adobe Creative Cloud desktop and mobile apps. Free.
143. Smartdeblur – Simple desktop app to fix blurry and defocused photos. Powered by Blind Deconvolution algorithm, the program works efficiently and doesn’t require specific skills. Home License – $49; Pro License (with RAW support and additional features) – $98
144. Zerene Stacker – Zerene Stacker is “focus stacking” software designed specifically for challenging macro subjects and discerning photographers (starts from $39).
145. Helicon Focus – Helicon Focus is designed to blend the focused areas of several partially focused digital photographs to increase the depth of field (DOF) in an image (from $30/year).
146. Vivid Fix – Photo editing software for Mac and Windows to fix underwater pictures and restore old photos. License Price $50
147. Snapheal – The most popular app to remove unwanted objects from photos. License Price $49 (available for $19)
148. Focus Magic – Focus Magic uses advanced forensic strength deconvolution technology to literally “undo” blur. It can repair both out-of-focus blur and motion blur (camera shake) in an image ($65).
149. Webinpaint – Online editor to Remove Elements From Photos (in Beta). To download the image you should buy the credits. 1 downloaded image = 1 credit. 10 credits = $4.99. Also you can purchase desktop version for Windows or Mac for $19.99.
150. Magic Picture – Sharpening tool and file size shrinking solution. Available as website application, smartphone application, server-based application. Subscription Plans: Starter – $9.90/mo; Professional $14.90/mo; Enterprise – $29.90/mo.
151. TouchRetouch for Mac – Desktop software for Mac. A great way to give a clean look to photos that are full of unwanted elements. Using the app, you can retouch your photos with ultimate ease and fun. $9.99
152. PhotoAcute – PhotoAcute Studio corrects geometric distortion, reduces noise, corrects chromatic aberration. Temporary unavailable for selling.
Photo viewers and managers
153. Digicam – Advanced digital photo management application for importing and organizing photos (free)
154. gThumb – An image viewer and browser. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras (free)
155. nomacs – Nomacs is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including raw and psd images.
156. Google Photos – All your photos are backed up safely, organized and labeled automatically, so you can find them fast, and share them how you like. Free
157. FastStone – Fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. Free for Home Users ($35 for commercial use)
158. Acdsee – Photo manager, editor and RAW processor with non destructive layer adjustments all in one. Quick straighten /rotate, rename, dup finders, batch tools etc ($50)
159. Clarifai – B2B solution. Image recognition API for automated organization of the images. From $19/month
160. Auslogics – Software for finding exact duplicate images. Free
161. GraphicsMagick – A free collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats for Mac Windows and Linux.
162. Irfanview – An image-viewer with added batch editing and conversion. rename a huge number of files in seconds, as well as resize them. Freeware (for non-commercial use)
163. Cometapp – Smart mobile photo management app powered by AI. Available for iOS and Android. Comet aims to revolutionize the entire mobile photo experience from capture to memories and to become the universal photo management application on every smartphone. Free.
164. Pixbuf – Online service for easy photo sharing, selling and analysis of the photos. Free Subscription and Premium Subscription $48/year
165. XnViewMP – Free software for for reading, viewing, and processing all your images on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.
166. Prodibi – The professional image platform to display, embed, share and transfer photos. A unique image display solution that allows you to showcase and share your pictures in full quality and full speed on the web and mobile. Subscription plans: Free; Starter $11/mo; Ultimate $24/mo.
Other
167. Photo Mechanic – Photo Mechanic, from Camera Bits, is a speed processing platform, rendering previews and working with metadata. Used as a culling platform for sports shooters, or anyone trying to take thousands of photos and finding the perfect. $150.
168. Lucid – Stand-alone desktop software that makes it easy for lifestyle photography enthusiasts to improve pictures. $49.
169. StarStaX – Fast multi-platform image stacking and blending software, which is developed primarily for Star Trail Photography. It allows merging a series of photos into a single image, where the relative motion of the stars creates structures looking like star trails. Free
170. BatchPhoto – BatchPhoto is designed to make batch editing simple and efficient. It allows you to automate editing for your massive photo collections. If you need time/date stamps, image type conversion, size changes, basic touch-up, or watermarks applied to your photographs, BatchPhoto will allow you to do this simply. $35.
171. Hugin – Panorama photo stitcher. With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more (free).
172. Image Composite Editor – An advanced panoramic image stitcher created by the Microsoft Research Computational Photography Group. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the app creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. For Windows only. Free
173. Svenstork – Adobe Photoshop extension for creating luminosity in a more efficient and user friendly way. Free
174. LRTimelapse – LRTimelapse provides the most comprehensive solution for time lapse editing, keyframing, grading and rendering. No matter if on Windows or Mac, or which Camera you use: LRTimelapse will take your time lapse results to the next level. €99.
175. Pixinsight – An image processing platform specialized in astrophotography, available natively for FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. PixInsight is both an image processing environment and a development framework. It is the result of a dynamic collaboration between like-minded astrophotographers and software developers, who are constantly pushing the boundaries of astronomical image processing with the most powerful toolset available. Commercial license is €230.
176. DeepSkyStacker – DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures.
177. PixaFlux – PixaFlux is a powerful PBR Texture Composer. A node-based image editor that allows you to create and edit images in a nondestructive way, using a node graph to organize the workflow without restrictions of size, position or color mode. PixaFlux is currently in Beta testing.
178. Gigapan – Software for creating huge panoramas.
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180. RNI Films – A film app. Simple but powerful one. With its streamlined workflow and state of the art filters born from real film, RNI Films is designed to do what only film can do just in a few taps. Free
181. StereoPhoto Maker – StereoPhoto Maker(SPM) functions as a versatile stereo image editor\viewer and can automatically batch-align hundreds of images and mount them to the ‘window’. Free
182. Imagej – Java-based image processing program developed at the National Institutes of Health. ImageJ was designed with an open architecture that provides extensibility via Java plugins and recordable macros. Free
183. NEFPreviewExtractor – Instant NEF to JPG Converter for Mac. $5.99
184. RAFPreviewExtractor – Instant Fujifilm RAW to JPG Converter for Mac. $5.99
185. CopyrightToExif – Simple retouch app for Mac to remove copyright information from image but not from metadata. $5.99
186. Fluidmask – The most advanced professional photo software for Mac and Windows to remove backgrounds and create cutouts fast. Works as a freestanding application and as a Photoshop plug-in. License Price $99
187. VirtualRig™ Studio – Professional software for realistic motion blur simulation in traditional photography and CGI. License Price $49
188. Unfade Photo Scanner – Free photo album scanner app for iOS with iCloud sync and support for dates, locations and titles.
189. PhotoMarks – A fully-featured solution for visually watermarking images in batch mode for Windows, Mac or mobile devices. License Price $30.
190. Phatch – Free, user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface.
191. OpenDroneMap – An open source toolkit for processing aerial drone imagery for Linux only.
192. 3D LUT Creator – The program with unique tools for professional color grading of digital images and video and creating 3DLUT-files that can be imported into many programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, FinalCut Pro. Grading Edition $99; Standard $199; Pro $249.
193. Piccure+– a reliable choice for photographers for correcting optical aberration,, camera shake and blur from optical low-pass filters. It integrates seamlessly as a plugin (filter) into Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Lightroom. It can also be called directly from within DxO Optics Pro and PhaseOne CaptureOne. Currently Free.
194. Pixeluvo – A Beautifully Designed Image and Photo Editor for Windows and Linux. $34
If you’d like to suggest any photo editing tools and apps for a future list, please share them in the comments below!
About the author: Nazar Begen is a photography enthusiast based in Ukraine and one of the people behind Photolemur, an AI-powered auto-enhancement tool for photos that’s currently in beta. You can connect with Begen through Twitter and Facebook.
