Photo software provides organizing, editing, formatting and printing tools for your digital photographs. This software is usually sold as part of office software packages, but more robust products are available on the market. 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.
The user will need to try out the standard photo editing software included within their office suite, digital camera software, or printer software to see if it meets there needs. There are also other free photo software products available. If they are interested in doing more image editing or formatting than their standard product allows, a specialized Photo editing software application may be just what they are looking for.
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
- slideshow preparation
- Custom and standard photo printing
- Export to photo processing sites
- Archiving assist to CD or DVD
Some providers of this software include:
- Picasa
- Adobe
- Shutterfly
- 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, presentation or in databases
- 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.