Software Reviews

An automated photo enhancer that uses Artificial Intelligence to improve digital images and includes raw file support for many popular cameras.

A second generation update to a software suite designed to make it easy for novice photographers to enhance landscape photos.

The latest version of Adobe’s consumer-level image editing software adds touch-screen support, new Guided Edits and more tools for finding and sharing pictures.

A popular application for touching up portrait photographs gains new features and performance improvements in its latest update.

A quick, easy and affordable application for touching up portrait photographs.

An imaging workflow solution from Corel based on the Bibble raw file processing engine. which competes with similar products from Adobe and Apple.

A basic image editor with an attractive interface and good facilities for online image sharing. Zoner Software in the Czech Republic has been developing imaging software since 1993. It was the first to introduce support GPS (Global Positioning System) location data and 3D picture making and these features are included in its latest offering, Zoner Photo Studio 13. The application is available in three ‘editions’ : Pro, Home and Free.

A useful application that combines image editing, drawing tools, web graphics, Flash animation and desktop publishing.Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 is an update to an application that has been popular in Europe and North America because it combines a suite of useful functions at an affordable price. Providing integrated bitmap and vector handling, it enables users to edit image files, create publications for printing (cards, calendars and photo books for example), develop Flash photo galleries or multi-page websites and produce simple animations for exporting as GIFs, SWF or AVI video files.

The latest version of a popular and accomplished image editor for photo enthusiasts.Adobe’s Photoshop Elements is now in its ninth edition and each version has provided incremental improvements on its predecessor. In Photoshop Elements 9, Mac users gain access to the Organiser cataloguing function, which Windows users have had since Elements 8, while users on both platforms benefit from additional functions and special effects.