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Photoshop is the world's best-known but always the best photo editing software – as Adobe's subscription-based software plans are not popular with everyone. Fortunately there are lots of non-Adobe alternatives which take a different and often more innovative approach to photo editing.
Photoshop is the world's best-known but always the best photo editing software – as Adobe's subscription-based software plans are not popular with everyone. Fortunately there are lots of non-Adobe alternatives which take a different and often more innovative approach to photo editing.
Adobe's Photography Plans are probably still the best choice for enthusiasts and pros who want or need to use the same tools as everyone else, but there's an increasing number of alternatives which can work alongside the Adobe mainstays and even replace them.
1. Adobe Photoshop CC
Photoshop is the best at what it does, but it doesn't do everything
PC: Intel Core 2 or AMD Athlon 64 processor 2 GHz, 2GB RAM (8GB recommended), Windows 7 to 10 | Mac: Multicore Intel 64-bit, 2GB RAM (8GB recommended), OS X 10.11 or later | Hard drive: 4GB | Minimum screen resolution: 1024x768 pixels
Immensely powerful
Clean, intuitive interface
Subscription-based
Needs Lightroom or Bridge
Adobe’s decision to make Photoshop CC a subscription-only product remains controversial. Nevertheless, Photoshop is slick, powerful and constantly improving. Its support for selections, masks and layers is unmatched, making it the tool of choice for complex composite images. Despite its reputation for complexity, Photoshop actually offers a very clean, slick interface. There are no ‘novice’ modes, but the tools panel does offer fly-out animations that show you how the tools work and what they do. There are no image browsing or cataloguing tools in Photoshop itself, but since Lightroom is included in the same Photography Plans as Photoshop, that’s not an issue. On its own, Photoshop is powerful but limited; with Adobe Lightroom it’s half of the world's most popular image editing double-act.
2. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic/CC
The perfect Photoshop companion, but in two quite different versions
PC: Intel Core 2 or AMD Athlon 64 2 GHz or faster, 2GB RAM (8GB recommended), Windows 7 SP1 to 10 | Mac: Intel 64-bit, 2GB RAM (8GB recommended), OS X 10.12 or later | Hard drive: 2GB (10GB for CC) | Minimum screen resolution: 1024x768 pixels
3. Affinity Photo 1.7
An affordable alternative that goes toe to toe with Photoshop
PC: Processor not quoted, 2GB RAM (4GB recommended), Windows 7 SP1 to 10 | Mac: 64-bit Core Duo 2 or better, 2GB RAM, OS X 10.9 or later | Hard drive: 670MB | Minimum screen resolution: 1280x768 pixels
Cheap to buy
No cataloguing tools
Quite technical
We complain that there's too much Photoshop doesn't do, but the fact is for many photographers this kind of old-school image-editor is exactly what they need. And Affinity Photo gives you exactly the same thing subscription-free, via a single extra-low payment. Affinity Photo is sold at a budget price point, but it has the tools and the features and the power to compete with Photoshop head-on. Serif has focused particularly heavily on the retouching market, with cloning, healing and retouching tools, an Inpainting tool for automatic object removal and a dedicated Liquify persona (workspace) for localized image distortion effects. Affinity Photo is an extremely powerful photo editor with more tools and features than there’s space to list here, from focus stacking to high-end frequency separation – and version 1.7 has brought improved performance and raw processing.
4. PhaseOne Capture One Pro 12
It's like a high-end Lightroom, with beautiful editing tools and raw output
PC: 2-core CPU or better, 8GB RAM, Windows 7 SP1 to 10 | Mac: 2-core CPU or better, 8GB RAM, OS X 10.12.6 or later | Hard drive: 10GB | Minimum screen resolution: 1200x800 pixels
Excellent raw processing
Layers based adjustments
Great tethering tools
Expensive
works both as tethered capture and editing tool for studio photographers with a 'sessions' based workflow and as a Lightroom-style image cataloguing, searching and non-destructive editing tool. Capture One Pro works in a single window rather than in Lightroom-style ‘modules’ and has a highly customizable set of ‘tool tabs’. One of the key differences is its layers-based local adjustment system which makes it much easier to see and edit your changes to your work, and this now includes 'parametric' linear and radial gradient masks which you can edit later. Capture One’s conversions look smoother and sharper than Lightroom's, and Phase One's new co-operative arrangement with Fujifilm means it can produce arguably the best Fujifilm processing you'll see and also recreate Fujifilm's Film Simulation modes. Capture One doesn't offer Lightroom's cloud-based 'mobile' synchronisation, but it does have superb tone, colour and image adjustment options.
5. DxO PhotoLab 3
PhotoLab 3's raw processing and lens conversions are second to none
PC: Intel Core 2 or AMD Athlon 64 X2, 4GB RAM (8GB recommended), Windows 7 SP1 to 10 | Mac: Intel Core i5 or higher, 4GB RAM (6GB recommended), OS X 10.12 or later | Hard drive: 4GB | Minimum screen resolution: Not quoted
Superb raw processing
Excellent lens corrections
Doesn't support Fujifilm cameras
PhotoLibrary improving slowly
DxO PhotoLab is the replacement for DxO Optics Pro, adding local adjustment tools from DxO's acquisition of the Nik Collection software to make it a more powerful all-round photo-editing solution. You use the new PhotoLibrary window to browse your image folders, create Projects and carry out basic filtering and housekeeping tasks. It offers folder browsing and searches, and PhotoLab 3 brings support for keywords – but PhotoLab's real strength is its superb raw processing, amazingly effective PRIME denoise tool, excellent local image adjustments and highly effective (and automatic) lens corrections. The image quality produced by PhotoLab is second to none. On the downside, you’ll need the more expensive Elite edition to get the PRIME denoise and DxO’s ClearView Plus feature, and if you want to apply perspective corrections (once built into Optics Pro) you’ll need the DxO ViewPoint plug-in. Other advances in PhotoLab 3 include a new, powerful ColorWheel tool, more advanced cloning and repair tools and easier management of its extensive local adjustment tools.
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