Best Photo Editing Software to Deliver Beauty to the World

Using artificial intelligence technology, you will be able to enhance the contrast and optimize colors, restore old images and even colorize them in mere seconds. Removing a background behind your image and adding a new one is also a breeze. You will get access to over a hundred effects and filters to make your creativity run wild.

Making your images sharp and crisp is also a snap with Picverse. The editor will allow you to make blurry pictures clear and emphasize texture. It will also help to remove unwanted objects as if they have never existed. Finally, it is ideal for enhancing portraits. You can make skin look smoother and teeth whiter and make-up more flattering; with that, the edited pictures always have a realistic look.

Surely enough, basic editing tools, light and color correction, text insertion, noise reduction, and other commonly-used features, are also included.

Last but not the least, Movavi Photo Manager software will help bring editing to a whole new level. It features an innovative program that recognizes faces in pictures and creates a separate album for each person. The software will help you quickly find and delete duplicates saving space on your hard drive. Moreover, you will be able to make some editions to multiple photos simultaneously, which is a great time-saving option.

Creating backup copies will allow you to easily restore the lost data. Based on GPS coordinates and the shooting date, a smart photo organizer will sort your images into albums automatically. The editor will allow you to work with images in RAW, JPEG, PNG, and other formats.

In a word, Movavi editing tools are ideal for both aspiring and seasoned designers and photographers. They will help you create stunning slideshows and edit pictures for social media and manage bigger projects in the shortest time possible.

Corel PaintShop Pro 2021 offers professional tools for your creative projects. Layers and masks will come in useful for advanced image editing and graphic design. The workshop also offers a complete set of typography tools that will help you add text to your images with ease. Drawing, painting, and fill tools will come in useful for creating unique digital designs. With that, you can either use the built-in tools or import Adobe Photoshop brushes. Built-in templates will allow you to quickly create greeting cards, collages, social media images, and more.

The time-saving software will allow you to edit several photos with the same effects (for example, a series of photos in the same color scheme and with similar contents but at different angles) by creating a script with the necessary changes and apply it to all the photos. You can create a script for almost every task you do often, or not often but sometimes it's just the best. There is, by the way, a batch processing option as well. With these two possibilities, editing becomes much easier and faster, which can be extremely useful at times.

The Ultimate is in fact not a single app but a collection of professional photo editing software, it includes everything that you can find in PaintShop Pro plus new AI HDR Studio, Sea-to-Sky™ Workspace, Painter® Essentials™ 7, as well as PhotoMirage™ Express, Corel® AfterShot™ 3, and Corel® Creative Collection.

With the AI HDR Studio, you will be able to give your projects a professional HDR effect. The Sea-to-Sky™ Workspace was specially created for editing underwater photography. If you want to turn your photos into true works of art or to make fantastic projects from scratch, try the Painter® Essentials™ 7. Or, you can transform your images into creative animations with the PhotoMirage™ Express. The Corel AfterShot 3 is an app designed for RAW editing, it makes photos from your camera look professional and it also supports batch processing, you can apply the changes to up to 1000 photos.

Finally, if you are also interested in video editing software, get a Photo Video Bundle Ultimate that, in addition to the new PaintShop Pro 2021 AI-powered tools and features, includes Corel VideoStudio software.

Aurora is Skylum's dedicated photo editing software for HDR photography. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range imaging, the type of photo where to achieve top-quality image the photo is taken several times with different exposure and then all shots are layered one over the other and mixed automatically. It is a technology that works magic on landscape-in-the-sunlight photos and low-light scenes. At the same time, HDR is not a recommended option for photos where something moves as any difference between the shots makes the resulting image blurry at best and utterly indiscernible at worst.

Aurora HDR was developed completely by Skylum in collaboration with a famous HDR photographer Trey Ratcliff and it works not only with Mac computers but also with Windows ones. The number of tools in the app is really large, from the basics like cropping and histogram to HDR denoise and details enhancer, advanced tone-mapping, and lens corrector. It is also possible to process several images simultaneously with batch processing.

Being the first photo editor powered by artificial intelligence, Luminar AI has a faster and smarter AI engine that provides excellent results in less time. For example, Sky Enhancer and Accent tools perform 30% faster than those of Luminar 4. Moreover, the software will recognize 7,000+ objects for enhanced editing. It offers a whole set of new tools for bringing portraits to perfection. Its Body AI tool will make shaping subjects a snap and its Iris AI tool will help to experiment with eye color. In a word, Luminar AI will help you to create professional visual content with minimum time and effort.

All in all, Skylum editing software will allow you to create true masterpieces in any photography genre. The company offers no monthly or yearly subscription, but a lifetime license with 24/7 technical support. You can get a Master package that comes with Luminar 4 software, an Expert package that includes Luminar 4 and Luminar AI, or a Guru package that comes with Luminar 4, Luminar AI, plus an Aurora HDR. Existing customers can upgrade to the newer Luminar version at a discounted price.

PhotoDirector by CyberLink offers features for just about any kind of photos that professionals and amateurs alike will appreciate. Forget about blurry images; an intelligent deblur feature will help to fix up photos taken on the move. Use a Dehaze slider to remove haze and smog and get crystal clear images every time. When you work on pictures of people, there are so-called beautification functions that will enable you to correct skin tone, retouch wrinkles or little pimps, slightly correct face and body shape. Landscape photos will look immensely better after you apply Express Layer Templates to them—the feature that has all the necessary elements already set so you don't need to tweak it much. The number of blending modes is also being increased constantly, the way to make stunning mixes that will look good in your header on Facebook, YouTube channel, or work/travel blog. PhotoDirector offers an easy-to-use GIF creation tool and pro-level effects for you to make magic images to catch the eye of every single person seeing them. It also supports all professional file formats. There is not much that a photo editor needs that is not included here.

There are even more stunning AI features that can give your photos a whole new look. Designed to analyze every detail of your image, the AI Style Engine will identify every aspect of the shot. It will then apply brushstrokes transforming your pictures into painted works of art. Or, you can use layer-editing tools to compile your images giving them a new depth. Outlining and editing any object has never been so easy. With that, all the changes will be saved in the history, so you can easily rewind to the previous edits.

What else you need? We didn't cover everything, chances are the feature you're looking for is right there too. If you're not sure, before buying the license, you can just use the 30-day trial. A whole month should be enough to explore.

The selection of templates offered by PicMonkey is a great choice when it comes to making designs for social media, beautifying your profile and posts. There are options for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, etc. If you need a business card or an invitation to just about any event, PicMonkey can help with it, too. Announcement pictures, postcards, collages—it is simple and fast to get. You can even select a size to print it right away, then order it with PicMonkey Print Shop, and they will deliver the completed item to your mailbox.

Up until recently, PicMonkey had a policy similar to the majority of Freemium services on the net. That is, you could use a limited number of features for free and obtain access to the whole list by buying one of three paid options: Home, Pro or Team. Now, all the features for image beautification are available for free users as well, you can go wild as much as you want. However, to save the edited picture to your computer or post it via the share option, you will need a paid account. This controversial change has brought up quite a commotion among the users, of course, but the PicMonkey team has issued their justification for such a drastic move on their blog. Whether it will be for better or worse is yet to be seen but for now, you can just go check out the whole scale of offered options to see if you want them all at the tip of your fingers or you can try Premium for free for 7 days to assess the quality of saved pics (we think it's good) and make your decision.

In the meantime, the changes have not yet been applied for any of the two available mobile apps (Android and iPhone). There, you can still use the limited number of features but you can save those pictures freely.