Best Digital Photography Software

I have put together below a selection of the best digital photography software currently on the market. I have three pieces of software which I use virtually all the time: Corel (Photopaint and Draw); Adobe Photoshop CS3; and ACDSee Pro. They all do different things although there is an overlap.

PhotoShop is the industry standard with regard to photo editing and is a worth while investment which you will last for years. If you want to start with something less expensive, PhotoShop Elements is an excellent program with a smaller learning curve. Also, there are so many books written about how to use both of these programs, and there are plug-ins, tutorials and so on, available freely on the internet. Owning PhotoShop or Elements means you have years of discovery and fun ahead.

Corel was the first editing software I ever used and I swore I wouldn't ever switch to Photoshop. In fact they both do pretty similar things and Photoshop plug-ins work with Corel. Most tutorials on the internet are geared to Photoshop however. But I still like Corel partly because I know so many of the hot keys instinctively but also because I like working with Draw and Photopaint together to create photo montages, and they work so well together for this kind of task. I do love Photoshop too particularly for editing and tweaking photographs and tend to switch between the two depending on the task in hand.

ACDSee is high on my list of the best digital photography software around partly because of it's low price but really because it's such a great program for organising and viewing your images and for creating databases of information so you can always find the photo you're looking for, rapidly and efficiently. I have the Pro version but the non-Pro version is inexpensive and very good. Previous versions of ACDSee had stability problems and tended to crash but I think they have ironed out most of these bugs now.

You'll find all three of the programs I use plus others in the selection I've made below. Have fun!

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