In this article, I’ll be reviewing the highest rated, most commonly recommended free and opensource software for photo editing. In fact, regardless of how nice your camera is, I believe processing is every bit as important, if not more important, than capturing the right shot with the right camera. In fact, regardless of how nice your camera is, I believe processing is every bit as important as capturing a shot with the right camera.įor the sake of simplicity, I’m going to break the software I’m reviewing into 3 categories – post editing software (software used to manipulate images like Photoshop), digital darkroom software (software used in place of the traditional dark room in analogue photography like Lightroom), and after effects software (software used for adding effects, color filters, and other adjustments that add atmosphere and a finishing sheen to your images – stuff like Google NIK, Topaz Labs Photography Collection, and ON1 Photo 10).As some of you may know, I’m a part time pro photographer and I take the image processing side of my work very seriously. As some of you may know, I’m a pro photographer outside of my IT job and I take the image processing side of my work very seriously.
