Our guide to the best editing accessories
Your choice of software and accessories that you use when you’re editing images can hugely affect whether you love or loathe working on your photographs on a computer. Overcomplicated software, slow storage drives and a ‘sticky’ mouse are a recipe for a frustrating experience while streamlined software that you understand, quick access to your images and a responsive interface can make image editing part of the fun of photography.
Over the following pages, I’ll take a look at some of the best editing accessories around to help you get your digital darkroom on track.
Software
Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom are the best-known image-editing software packages around, they are extremely capable and often used by professional photographers; but not everyone appreciates Adobe’s subscription model and Photoshop in particular is complex. So what are the alternatives?
Affinity Photo by Serif is at the top of the list for many photographers because for £47.99 for the desktop version you get many of the features seen in Photoshop, including Layers, Adjustment Layers, Masks and Filters. It’s particularly good for making complex edits, compositing, cutting out selections, applying effects and exposure blending with powerful HDR tone-mapping tools.
Many photographers are interested in correcting the ‘flaws’ in their images and that’s where
