If you are a social media freak and your life’s an open book, then every time when you click a photo or selfie, you tend to share it with friends and family. But not every photo you captured would turn out to be perfect. That’s why it would be wise to use a simple photo editing app that can make your average clicks look presentable. Whether it is your phone or computer, you get photo editing tools for every platform. However, not every app has all the features that you need or not every app works on all platforms, one of them is.
To reduce the hassle of choosing the best, we have shared a list of the best photo editing software for Mac. 15 Best Image Editing Apps on Mac 1.TWEAK PHOTOS: Tweak Photos is the best photo editing App for Mac available on Mac store.
We’ve picked the best paid-for mainstream photo editing programs that will work on both Mac and PC, and we’re looking for ease of use, quality of results, versatility or pixel-crunching power. You need the best photo editing software, either for Windows or for Mac, which wins in its ease of use, powerful editing capabilities, abundant image effects/patterns, and amazing photo output quality. Sometimes you get photos with several mistakes, like red eye, image noises, etc.
It is a useful software that lets you brighten thousands of photos with a single click. It enables you to rename and resize the entire batch of photos to save you from the hassle. You can apply filters, denoise a photo, watermark a photo and you can also use more than 20 frames & borders. The tool is available on Mac store for $4.99. 2.Aurora HDR 2017: Aurora HDR is the first HDR software and is one of the best Mac Photo Editor tool. This image editing app works on both Mac and Windows. It has various features like HDR enhancer, image radiance, custom textures, advanced tone mapping technology, polarizer filter, HDR denoise and more, which makes it a perfect software to edit and make them more beautiful and vivid photos.
In addition to this, it supports JPG, PNG, JPEG, NEF, TIFF, CR2, RAF, ARW formats. See Also: 3.PIXELMATOR: Pixelmator is the best photo editing software for Mac that lets you touch-up your digital images.
It enables you to draw or paint, apply filters and effects, select and remove unwanted parts from the photos, and retouch the photos to make them vivacious.In addition to this, you can adjust exposure, hue, saturation, shadows, brightness, contrast, and more. It allows you to save your images in different formats like PSD, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PDF and share them with your friends and family. ACORN: Acorn is a Mac photo editor tool which has a feature to make your beautiful photos perfect. The app supports many features such as Shape Processor, Improved Crop, smoothen your pictures with Soft Brushes for Clone, Burn and other tools, Circle Text Tool, Non-destructive levels, and curves, snapping and lot more. This image editor app has a simple user interface which makes it intuitive. See Also: 5.PHOTOPAD PHOTO EDITOR: Photopad Photo Editor is a simple photo editing tool for Mac.
The software is available in a free version for non-commercial use. It has different features including crop, noise reduction tools, sharpening, photo effects, collage, filters to enhance your photos, add text and captions to photos and photo stitching to get the panorama effects. Moreover, it allows you to adjust the color balance, exposure, brightness, contrast and more. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (FREE) Let your photos shine with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Mac. With this software, you can analyze your images, correct details, adjust balance and exposure, change their calibration levels, label and enhance your pictures, and work with any photo digital format. Affinity Photo (49.99$) Affinity is one of the best photo editing software for Mac. It is good software for professionals to edit photos on Mac.
It has tools to enhance, edit and retouch the photos to give them a new life. It works with standard formats like PNG, JPG, TIFF, GIF, EPS, SVG, HDR, EXR, and PDF. It allows you to adjust black point, white balance, exposure, shadows, clarity, vibrance, highlights and more to make your photos more beautiful. Pixlr (FREE) Pixlr is a free Mac photo editor tool. You can capture your memories and make them more beautiful with free effects, filters, and overlays and you can also make collages. You can make your image look like a sketch, pencil drawing, ink sketch and more. It helps you to make your selfies breathtaking by removing blemishes, red-eye effects, whitening your teeth.
Moreover, you can add text or overlay to your photos and resize them according to your preferences. GIMP (FREE) Gimp is one of the best image editing software for Mac which is free and open source application. It is cross-platform software available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. No matter, what your profession is, graphic designer, illustrator or a photographer, this software will get the work done for you. Whether it is retouching or restoring, the software can do it all and it transforms your beautiful memories into a perfect picture. Simply HDR (3.99$) An easy to use, lightweight photo editor tool, Simply HDR is an app that brings out the best of your photos.It can give your images a look of paintings.
It has smoothing brush which denoises the picture and has HDR controls and various filters. Moreover, you can adjust brightness, contrast and it can create custom presets and quick preview. With the mobile version, it also lets users post photos directly to Facebook, Twitter and more. ColorStokes (2.99$) ColorStrokes is an intuitive photo editing software with the simple interface. The tools with color strokes will make your photos look more beautiful.
It has a set of portable tools that help you to enhance the look of the image and make it more lively. The most important feature is the ability to remove color from selective areas of an image in order to highlight the subject in the frame.
Google Photos (FREE) According to various sources, Google Photos is considered to be the best image editing tool for Mac. Besides editing, it can be used to store your unlimited photos.
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With the app, you can create GIFs, collages, panoramas and more. You can adjust and transform the photos with powerful photo and video editing tools. Furthermore, you can share up to 1500 photos with anyone easily making this a great tool for selfie addicts. Pixa (24.99$) Pixa is not only an image editing software but also helps in organizing your photos in a neat collection. You can deal with PSD, AI, SVG, GIF, TIFF, BMP and more formats.
Searching and exporting of photos becomes easy due to the organized collection. Polarr (19.99$) Polarr is the choice for world’s most professional photographers. With the advanced tools, it lets you enhance every bit of your photo. This image editor app allows you to adjust skin tones, eye sizes, face width and more. It enables you to draw and edit watermark. It supports batch export, copies and pastes adjustments with numerous filters. It helps you to adjust colors, brightness, contrast and more on your photos to make your photos spectacular.
Image Tricks Lite(FREE) Last but not the least, Image Tricks Lite is the best photo editing software for Mac which not only adjusts colors, blurs images but also distorts faces and more. It has an extensive collection of borders and frames for your photos along with 42 filters to choose from. It’s built-in Image Generator creates random images to beautify your photos quickly. See Also: These are some of the best photo editing software for Mac. Choose any of them and make your photos more lively than ever.
For many years I've been using ArcSoft PhotoStudio v.2.0 (don't laugh!) I used it to crop photos and change contrast and brightness, and that's about all. When I replaced my PC this summer, it came with Windows 7 which doesn't support PhotoStudio 2.0, and this version is so old that ArcSoft isn't supporting it anymore. I'm hoping you can recommend a basic photo editing program for Windows 7 that does just a few things and won't take me a year to figure out. Thanks very much for your help! CNET Forum members are the BEST!
I've downloaded Irfanview and spent the last hour using it to practice editing and try out all of the buttons. You're right that it does a lot more than what I need, but I can happily ignore those features for now and stick to the basics - right there, easy to learn, easy to use-for my various projects. And yes, it's free! I am always grateful that people are so willing to share their programs with the world for free, and I'm a little curious as to why they do it as well.
But I did see the 'make a donation' icon so will definitely do that. Mark, thank you again for your alacrity in replying and for suggesting that I try Irfanview. As I said in my first post, CNET Forums and their members-especially Mark-are the BEST! (Sorry, Mark, but I'm too old to say, 'You ROCK!' My Canon camera came with software to copy pics from the camera to the hard disk of my PC (either all or only the one not copied earlier, that's just clicking the right button).
That's not standard Windows, however, so you'll have to look into the documentation of your camera how to do that. That's comparable to mp3-players: with some you can use Windows Explorer to copy mp3's to, with others you need the makers software (like iTunes for an iPod). Once these pics are on the hard disk, in the folders you prefer, they are 'kept' there (unless you delete them) and are as easy to mail as all your other pictures and documents. You don't need any special software for that. I agree with the person who suggested Irfanview for the most basic photo editing tasks. It's a good, solid, capable program that is primarily a photo viewer (the best photo viewer, in my opinion), with editing added sort of as an afterthought. I have had my photo files default open in Irfanview for years because it is the fastest and most tailorable viewer out there.
But if you actually want to get into a little bit of actual photo editing (what is generally referred to as 'Photoshopping' your pictures) and don't want to pay through the nose, then I recommend the freeware open-source GIMP. It's been around for years and years and years, with programmers around the world continuously tweaking it, and is very nearly as capable as Photoshop itself. Indeed, it comes with a set of filters that even Photoshop can't match. I use Photoshop and Paintshop Pro (Paintshop Pro is particularly tailored to optimizing digital photos and has very useful batch functions) and GIMP.
Hello, Thank you for the additional suggestions! I'll look at both of those.
I've heard about Picasso but didn't know what it was used for, and I have seen many references to GIMP over the years but also didn't know what it did. I am really looking for a simple program. I take pictures of stuff to sell on EBAY and pictures of family, friends, and so on. I really need the crop, change brightness and contrast features. Very basic stuff!;o) And Flatworm, thanks for the new word for my vocabulary - 'Photoshopping.'
I guess it's better than saying I'll be GIMPing my pictures.right? Thanks again for your help. I really LOVE these forums!
I am a budget friendly wedding photographer in phoenix, AZ that uses paint shop pro x3. It costs less than $100 bucks. The feature that makes it so easy is the batch edit feature. The software will edit, rename, and file hundred of pictures with just a couple keystrokes.
It literally saves me hundreds of hours worth of editing. The pictures look good too.
If you want to see some just check out my webpage at Every picture on my site is edited with paint shop pro. They have a free trial version too. That is what I started with. It has to be easy as I am very impatient and couldn't handle photoshop as I couldn't figure it out.
Hope this helps! Thank you Mark I'm an Adobe person who change to a CPU without Adobe. Scary world outside a program I've been using for years.
I haven't removed all the photos from the old CPU to deleted Adobe and install on the new CPU. I use the free photo editing on picnik.com. Its a great site, but I need something to use when I'm not online. About Google's Picassa.there's something about the interface with blogger I don't recall the details of. I think when I deleted photos in Picassa that were on a blog, the blog photo disappeared as well.
Blog photos automatically were going to my Picassa album. That was over a year ago.