Photo editing is a hugely important part of most digital photographers’ workflows – and that means it’s important to pick the best photo-editing software for you. While you might have been led to believe that photo editing starts and ends with Adobe’s Photoshop and Lightroom, in truth there are loads of great tools worth considering for photo editing, and depending on your needs, some of them might be better suited to you than others.
At AP we’ve extensively used many different photo-editing programs, and all of our writers and photographers have their preferred editing workflows. This piece is a run-through of the best photo-editing software we’ve used and tested, with options for different operating systems and budgets.
We’ve split this guide up into sections, covering the best subscription services, best subscription-free software, best free editing software and the best photo-editing apps for mobile.
BEST SUBSCRIPTION PHOTO-EDITING SOFTWARE
Adobe Photoshop
At a glance
● Photo editing and graphics program
● Windows and Mac
● £9.98 monthly with Lightroom (20GB storage), or £19.97 monthly (1TB storage)
● adobe.com
Adobe Photoshop is a superb piece of photo-editing software. Whether you need to clone out distractions, rescue blown-out highlights, convert to monochrome, process raw
