| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Elements | Reasonably priced and popular basic editing software, aimed at home users. |
| Photoshop | The 'standard' photo editor for professionals. Note: CC version has monthly charge. You can't get the desktop version any more (although see here). |
| Lightroom | Professional photo software. Note: CC version has monthly charge! You can still get the standalone version for about £100. |
| Paintshop Pro | Similar in many ways to Photoshop, but much cheaper. Not being updated very often these days. |
| Smart Photo Editor | Interesting, cheap and different editor. Aimed more at the beginner, with loads of presets, but still has lots of capability. |
| On1 Photo Raw | Decent, modern and comprehensive editing suite from On1 with non-destructive editing, layers and lots of presets. Made to work seamlessly with other editors such as Lightroom. Very usable. |
| Affinity Photo | Excellent and powerful alternative to Photoshop at a very good price. Strong use of layers, masks, etc. Needs more effort than On1 but worth the effort and has strong help system and videos. |
| ACDSee | Relatively inexpensive editing suite. Fair set of option but not as comprehensive as some other editors. |
| DxO Optics | Good quality software, popular with professionals. |
| Capture One Pro | Professional software for tethered studio work from Phase Eight. Strong but limited editing capability. |
| Nik Filters | Very good plugin filter set that works with Photoshop and any other software that accepts Photoshop plugins (eg. Paintshop Pro). Used to be hundreds of pounds. Now free! |
| Topaz Labs | Popular plugin filters. Not as popular with some as Nik. Very good de-noiser. |
| Photomatix | Classic software for doing HDR. Beginning to age now. |
| Portrait Professional | Specialist software for cleaning up and morphing portraits. Cheap for what it does. |
| Landscape Pro | Designed more for beginners to make dramatic changes to outdoor photos. Has many useful controls as well as 'magic' improvements. |
| Photo Ninja | Smart RAW editor with clever auto corrections, including decent noise reduction. Limited functionality compared with some other editors. |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Raw Therapee | Oddly-named but comprehensive open software RAW viewer and editor |
| The Gimp | The best free alternative to Photoshop. |
| Paint.net | Ageing but free paint programme. |
| Fusion | Decent free HDR software. |
| Luminance | Alternative free HDR software. |
| PicMonkey | An easy, free, online editor. Useful at least in the internet cafe on holiday. |
| Tufuse | Free software to blend multiple images (dynamic range and focus stack). See also TuFusion GUI (basic Tufuse is command line). |
| Enfuse | Free software to blend multiple images (dynamic range and focus stack). See also Enfuse GUI for a GUI (basic Enfuse is command line). |
| StarStax | Best free software for doing star trails. |
| Raw Image Analyzer | For the super-serious, perchance, seeking to squeeze every last detail from your shots. |
| Easy Panel | Plugin for Photoshop that creates a useful range of luminosity masks. |
| Algorithmia | Upload your monochrome image. Algorithmia uses AI to colourise it. Magic!! |
| Diffractor | Fast viewer, including of Raw files. Lets you skim through pics after taking them to quickly delete and pass images to your favourite editor. |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Artist's Viewfinder | Handy IOS tool for framing shots. |
| Irfan View | Very comprehensive programme for viewing images. |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Optical Limits (formerly Photozone) | Detailled analysis of many lenses. |
| Photography Life Lens Database | More lenses but not as detailed as Optical Limits. |
| Free Stock Photos | Lots of free images. |
| Pixabay | Lots of free images. Useful for ideas, editing experiments, etc. |
| Free Stock Photos | Lots of free images, like Pixabay. |
| Free Stock Textures | Lots of textures, free. |
| Website | Notes |
|---|---|
| Magic Lantern | For Canon SLRs only. Extends the Canon firmware to do all sorts of additional tricks, such as intervalometer, motion detection, advanced bracketing, advanced focus, etc. Also enhances video modes. |
| Reikan Focal | Autofocus fine calibration and other stuff for higher-end cameras. |
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