Digital photo editing software is just the tool you need if Uncle Bob missed the family photo. These software packages allow you to manipulate your photos, as well as perform standard editing, organizing, formatting and printing tasks. Today's sophisticated photo editors allow all organizations and individuals to produce professional results without professional assistance. Built in wizards will make the tasks easy to learn.
There are some pretty robust free photo software products on the market. Photo editing software also comes standard with most office suites, digital cameras and photo printers. If a user is interested in doing more image editing or formatting than their standard product allows, specialized digital photo editing software applications may be just what they are looking for. Many of these products come with built in wizards that make the tools easy to learn and use.
Common features included in picture editing software include:
- Photo storage and organization
- Drag and drop technology
- Interfaces to word processing, publication and communication software
- Picture viewer options
- Photo editing
- Red eye correction
- Cropping
- Color correction
- Picture art tools
- Picture resizing
- One click slideshow preparation
- Custom and standard photo printing
- Export to photo processing sites
- Archiving assist to CD or DVD
Major providers of this software include:
- Picasa
- Adobe
- Microsoft
- Shutterfly
- Corel
Factors to consider in purchasing your photo editing applications include:
- Do you really need to purchase additional software, or do you already have the tools you need in your Office suite?
- Use of images - used in documentation, support or to show on web
- Use of images – used in database or management within file structure
- Types of images you typically deal with (tif, jpg, img, etc.)
- Interface to your other office software applications
- System resources: Not usually an issue, but sometimes small business environments are on over-taxed hardware already.