Photo editing software allows the user to edit and format photographs. This software is usually sold as part of office software packages, but more robust products are available on the market. These products can be used to do all kinds of photo editing, and includes organizing and printing tools as well. 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.
Common features included in picture editing software include:
- Image 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
- 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.