Creating great graphic designs and editing photos have never been easier than it is today thanks to some sweet new technology.
In this post, you’re going to learn about the best new photo editing software tools available for graphic designers and folks who have zero graphic design skills (like me!).
Whether you’re looking for great book cover designs, images for your blog or website, or beautiful marketing materials, you’re going to need some kind of photo editing software to create, design, edit, or enhance digital images.
So here’s our team’s list of the 10 best photo editing tools and photo design software.
1. Canva
Canva is an online design tool that is widely praised and used by non-designers as well as professional graphic artists. It can layout designs for posters, logos, banners, flyers, infographics and more. It can access over a million graphics, fonts, and photographs. It can create beautiful designs with its simple drag and drop tool.
This tool is both available on your computer and Android device, so you can create, edit, design, and share photos anywhere and anytime you want. Select your template to over 60,000 free designs and ready-made templates. You can choose from 100+ fonts for adding text or captions to your images.
You can also share images you create directly to your social media accounts like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, or simply save your image to your device.
It is free to use. If you want to upgrade for more features, you can choose the plan for you here.
2. Snappa
Snappa is a website tool that has hundreds of templates that look professional. It is easy to use—you can create an image in just a minute. You can choose from over 500,000 photo templates, 70,000+ graphic designs, and 200+ font styles. It can connect and share to social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
It is a free online tool. If you want to enjoy more features, you can check plans here.
3. Fotor
Fotor is an online tool that works in the cloud. You can easily access and edit your work anywhere you go. Its photo editor feature can easily adjust size, light, color and many more. It can also retouch a photo, put highlights, add radiance, and do a makeover.
This tool is free to use. For more features, get your plan upgrade here.
4. Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is one of the world’s leading photo editing software tools. It is a tool for both mobile and web design. You can choose from millions of templates, images, and graphics. This tool is one of the best PDF tools used by professional photographers and designers around the world.
Photoshop is a classic design tools for graphic design professionals, so if you’re serious about becoming a better designer, it’s a great tool to learn and use.
You can choose products and plans here.
5. Pixlr
Pixlr is a free editing tool that can use in both web and mobile design. It has four editions including Pixlr Pro, Pixlr Editor, Pixlr Express, and Pixlr Today.
It offers free graphics, free fonts, and free vector editing. You can choose from over 2 million combinations of filters and free effects.
You can start for free here.
6. GIMP
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor that can use to edit, retouch, and draw.
It provides high-quality image manipulation. It can create, restore, and retouch images. This software provides a high level of customization as demonstrated by a large number of scripts.
You can download it for free here.
7. CyberLink PhotoDirector
Cyberlink PhotoDirector is a photo editing software that enables you to make fantastic images for social media, blogs, and anything you need a great image for. This software edits audio and videos as well. It has features that can blend modes, beautification tools, and video, audio, and photo editing tools.
You can download and try a 30-day free trial here.
8. PicMonkey
PicMonkey is an online photo editor that can edit, collage, and retouch a photo. It offers a selection of templates, fonts, effects, and features that can help in editing. It also helps you organize your photos in a flexible layout.
Start your 7-day trial and unlock unlimited features. Check it out here.
9. Magix Xara Photo & Graphic Designer
Magix Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is a multimedia software that is one of the best options for advanced web designers. Its features include a wide selection of symbol shapes, social media templates, stock illustrations and photos, vector tools, and creative filters. It offers video, music, and photostory editing.
If you’re looking to become a website graphic designer, this is a great tool to use.
Check out their site for products here.
10. PaintShop Pro Photo
PaintShop Pro Photo is a photo editing software that is the best option for beginners. It can edit, paint, restore, and retouch photos. Its features include social media features, crop composition guides, and over 100 royalty-free backgrounds.
You can download 30-day free trial here. Check business plan here.
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Way Cool! What a classic and informative article. Your article is very helpful for my upcoming and ongoing projects. Thanks for finally sharing this post.
Thanks for sharing great things.
Photoshop is nice when it actually works! I have used with several versions of Photoshop.
I recently got a XPPen Deco MW bluetooth drawing tablet for editing photos in Photoshop, and plan to try it in Lightroom as well.
From personal experience, any version of Photoshop needs a bit of getting used to. And it does get complicated sometimes. Good luck on your drawing!
Photoshop is the best software to use when it comes for photo editing
I have to admit, Photoshop does have a lot of advantages over other photo-editing softwares. Thanks for sharing :)
Photoshop is my favorite software for photo editing.
thanks for sharing your favorite! :)
Hi,
I’m looking for a software where I can upgrade picture of before & after to present. I’m trying to get the city of Compton ca. To turn the court house area into a place where the community can get together & enjoy the weekend with vendors with good food & live bands. At this time their is a lot of homeless living in parts of the court house. So I want to take picture & be able to paint, add beautiful landscape, vendors,table & chairs with individuals walking around & enjoying the day.
Hi George, I don’t know of any specifically for that purpose, but I would recommend simply using a Photoshop tool of your choice (any on this list are good), saving the original, then showing them side by side. Lots of these tools have a “collage” feature where you can put two images side by side in one square or rectangle. P.S., as a resident of Southern California I really admire your mission to help your community! Let us know how it goes :)