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The original photo editor, Photoshop has morphed into the industry standard and has a huge range of abilities and of course the complexity that goes with it. For many people it is overkill, and is aimed squarely at professional use more than adjusting a few snaps, however is you need the wide range of features and are serious about your photography this is the best option available to you. Photoshop is available only through a subscription service meaning you never actually own it, but rent the software. Stop paying and you will lose the ability to open any in progress work as well.
This is another comprehensive editing package, with a focus on noise reduction and lens correction. This latter feature is connected to the vast library of lens tests that DXO themselves carry out, enabling the software to automatically correct optical flaws in your images based on the lens used to take that photo.
With presets and automatic analyzing, everything from adjusting light levels to color is easily accomplished, making this a good choice for intermediate users looking to step up from the basic options. Very much at the budget end of the market, however it remains well featured for most people allowing a multitude of editing and adjustments to be carried out easily and quickly. The interface is designed to enable anyone to quickly achieve impressive results and can be mastered very quickly.
Whether it is cropping photos, creating a composition of several of your favorites or adjusting and enhancing them, Pixelmator enables consistently high quality results without the steep learning curve of some here. This software brings a wealth of features that follow those of the other professional packages here, including the ability to process RAW files from cameras, non-destructive editing and plenty of options for color, light and noise adjustments as well.
With built in library features it also allows you to keep track of your photos quickly and has a preset feature that allows adjustments to photos in batches for very quick editing should you need. ACDSee Mac Pro is a fine package with everything for the photography enthusiast, enabling fast, easy and quality adjustments to your photos. This is something a little different, an open source and completely free software package that provides a core set of features that are added to with plug-ins. As with most open source software, there are plusses and minuses, the plus is not only the price, but the sheer amount of features available, GIMP can, and does, stand as a serious competitor to Photoshop itself such are the options available, and with endless plug-ins there really is very little that cannot be accomplished with this free program.
This breadth of ability comes at a cost however, and that is complexity. GIMP can be daunting for new users, and indeed for those who do not need the advanced image editing features presented one of the other options would offer a shallower learning curve. Its free, very well featured and has everything you could possibly need, but for many it will simply be too complex to make the best use of.