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We all try to take the perfect image, but that really happens, there is always some improvement that can be made via Photo editing software. The question is which of the many products available are the best and which one would best suite you as an individual, because each one has both advantages and disadvantages, and some even work together with other products, which than add to the power of the product.
Let's have a look a the 3 most popular products used by photographers around the world.
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Photoshop - The primary software that pretty much every photographer uses at some point is Adobe's Photoshop. It's the standard in photo editing, however it can be fairly difficult to learn and usage to today is governed by cloud services and a monthly licence fee. Which depending in which country you reside, in can be fairly expensive, as the cost is in US Dollars. One must bear in mind that this is a destructive edit of RAW files, thus an additional copy should be kept for all RAW files.
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Adobe Lightroom -Unlike Photoshop, Lightroom's edits are always non-destructive by keeping the original image and the edits applied to it saved separately. Despite sharing its name with Adobe Photoshop, it cannot perform many Photoshop functions such as doctoring (adding, removing or altering the appearance of individual image items), rendering text or 3D objects on images, or modifying individual video frames. Lightroom is not a file manager like Adobe Bridge. It cannot operate on files unless they are imported into its database first, and only in recognized image formats.
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DxO PhotoLab 6 - DxO PhotoLab is image processing software developed by the French company DxO Labs. It was formerly called DxO Optics Pro. DxO PhotoLab offers: The U Point technology of Nik Software, automatic masking brush, degraded filter and a correction tool. This software is like Lightroom, non-destructive. DxO PhotoLab can also be used as a plug-in for Lightroom. This software is purchased as a once off, thus no monthly subscription. All minor updates are free.