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The Five Best Photography Software Programs Out Today

It used to be that you needed to go to a professional photographer if you really wanted to capture moments in your life in picture form. However, the advent of the digital age has now made it increasingly possible for just about everyone to edit and publish their own photos. The results and the possibilities are actually quite amazing. No matter if you take a picture with a smartphone or a fancy digital camera, you will want to do some editing on your computer. This is also a great place to store your photos for a lifetime. To get you started, here are the top five photography software programs available on the market today.

Adobe Lightroom

You have almost certainly heard about Adobe. They are perhaps the best known graphic design and photo editing software ever developed. Many people have tried in the past to use an Adobe product, only to find that it was too complex. This is because many of the software products are designed for professionals in the field. If you want something a bit more simplistic, but something that still gets the job done, then you will want to look Adobe Lightroom. It provides you with a straightforward and easy to use interface that makes it simple to edit all of your pictures in a myriad of ways.

Skylum Luminar

One of the advantages associated with Luminar is that you only pay a flat one-time fee to be able to use the software, whereas you will typically pay monthly with Adobe. You can use this as a finishing point to edit all of your photos, or you can use it is a plugin with other products. One of the cool features that this program has is an AI slider that can automatically fix many things with any given photo, from brightening up the background and clarifying an image. There are also filters that are exclusive to Luminar, adjustment and image layers, and some dedicated presets to take of those DJI drone photos that are becoming popular these days.

Adobe Photoshop

This product almost has to be included on any list of best photography software on the market, no matter when the article is written. This product keeps getting better with each and every release. Nearly any type of photograph can be edited with this product and then used in a variety of publications. You will find that it has professional editing tools that enable you to get the job done right. There are also a number of features that will allow you to touch up and refine certain components on a picture. There are also a bunch of different filters and brushes that you can choose from to further edit an image. On top of all of this, it is perhaps the most well known photography software product available on the market, so you can almost anybody in the business for help.

Capture One

This is a software product that is actually made by a camera company, it is designed to be a raw image editor. While it has many of the features that you will notice with almost any other software product, there are some key additions. You will find advanced color editing with this product, which allows you to use sliders to adjust the granules inside the color on each layer of the picture. You can also choose to buy this product outright, or pay a monthly fee for the rights to use it.

On1 Photo RAW

The last software product on our list is a raw image editor as well that also comes with the option to try it out for free before you decide to purchase it. You will find it is a complete photo editing package with many features built into it. These include custom presets, the ability to add textures and border, and the option to make live adjustments and preview the changes before accepting them.

While there are certainly other photography software programs available on the market today, these five warrant your serious consideration. You will find them each to appeal to a variety of different users, and each is easily available online at Amazon. Just take your time in deicing which one best suits your needs and then make the purchase.

Benjamin Smith

Written by Benjamin Smith

Benjamin Smith is one of the managing editors of Moneyinc. Ben's been focusing on the auto and motorcycle sector since 2005. He's written over 1000 articles in the space and continues to learn about it each day. His favorite car is "any Bugatti" and he's a die hard Harley Davidson fan.

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