12 best photo retouching softwares

• Easy Editing – Create professional images in less time with Luminar Photo Editing software’s sleek UI. No subscription or monthly payments: Luminar 4 is a one-time charge and works on both Mac
• AI Sky Replacement- Replace the sky to change the mood of your photo instantly. Thanks to the intelligent algorithms of this photo software, such a challenging task is now automated
• AI Skin Enhancer- Enhance your portraits faster than ever with revolutionary human-aware technology. Get super realistic results on studio portraits or outdoor shots with easy photography editing
• Photo Wall View– With Luminar Libraries’s picture software, your photos will be the center of attention. A beautiful interface lets you enjoy all your images without extra distractions
• Save Time– Instant Looks provide one-click Image Editing. Synchronize one photo’s adjustments to them all. Used to Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop software? Luminar by Skylum Software is also a plugin

User questions & answers

Question:	Will it work on a laptop
Answer:	Yes. Once you're ready to send your photo to SmugMug, go to the File menu > Share to... > SmugMug (or click on the share icon in the upper right corner of the Luminar window). A small dialog box will appear and ask you to log in using your SmugMug account details. From there, you can select an Album, name your image, caption it and so forth before you click the Upload button. If you don't have a SmugMug account, you can also sign up for one from the dialog box.
Question:	does this have a "stitch" feature
Answer:	Yes you will see two options windows or mac
Question:	Is this a good choice for making cutouts of objects
Answer:	You can subscribe to the MAC version, but Adobe wants to sell its product, so, there is no free Photoshop.
Question:	Is Luminar 4 compatible with a 4K monitor
Answer:	Yes.

Product features

Luminar 4 is an innovative editing app that makes creating photo art simple and enjoyable. Artists all over the world use Luminar 4 to elevate their photography. Join them and discover one-click adjustments, an intuitive interface, and creative tools powered by Artificial Intelligence. Spend less time editing and focus on what you really love.

Replace Dull Skies in One Click

The smart AI Sky Replacement tool precisely detects the sky in your photo. Replace boring skies with a collection of custom skies provided in Luminar, or upload your own. Your sky can be cloudy, sunny, or even star-filled — now you’re in charge of the weather!

Enhance the Beauty of Portraits

Enhance the natural beauty of your portraits with AI Portrait Enhancer. Now you can lighten and slim faces, remove dark circles and red eyes, improve lip color, and define brows in one easy move, all without complex manual selections.

Improve Your Image in Seconds

Make dozens of essential adjustments in one move of a slider. Instantly improve a photo with Accent AI and get realistic, natural results.

Brighten a Photo with Sun Rays

Add a realistic source of sunlight and move it around your image. Watch volumetric sunbeams magically seep between objects such as trees and buildings.

Bring out Details in a Smarter Way

AI Structure detects areas in your image that can benefit from detail enhancement. Get a rich background and add drama without masks and without affecting the people in your photos.

Create a Mood with Instant Looks

Luminar provides a variety of built-in styles. Choose from 60+ Looks for any genre to fulfill your artistic vision. Or download hundreds of Looks to instantly create a unique mood in your photos.

Synchronize your Edits

This tool is a real time saver. After editing one photo you can synchronize all your edits across photos, folders, and collections. Spend time on creativity, not on tiresome editing!

Browse beautifully

Luminar 4 has an elegant, immersive UI. Explore, rate, sort & enjoy images from all your folders with ease and pleasure.

• Work with RAW images (support for 1000+ cameras)
• Import and export all standard formats including PNG, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PSD, PDF
• Share to Mail, Messages, and SmugMug
• Adjust exposure, clarity, contrast, highlights, and shadows
• Use masking options to retouch specific areas
• Save and modify your own Looks
• Erase unwanted objects
• Organize and rate your photos for easy management

Product description

Developed by like-minded users, trusted by professional photographers, PaintShop Pro 2020 delivers a powerful, all-in-one photo editing and graphic design experience. Choose from multiple workspaces and tool sets, perfect for any level of expertise, and all types of workflows. Whether you're a professional photographer or new to photo editing, you can easily select and customize your desktop according to your needs. With user-inspired features, you can edit, retouch, and enhance photos with ease, all with creative design power that exceeds expectations. Experience the remarkable performance and speed of PaintShop Pro 2020, the photo editor you'll be proud to own and use.

• All in one photo editing and graphic design experience with mind blowing results
• Choose and customize your workspace to suit your photo editing needs and style
• Pro level photo editing with high precision depth of field, selection, and cloning tools; save time with faster text editing and scripts
• Powerful raw image editing is at your fingertips in PaintShop Pro’s RAW Lab, including before and after preview options
• Built in algorithms to fix, crop, straighten or correct any image with a few simple clicks

User questions & answers

Question:	Can I load this on 2 different computers
Answer:	I think you can
Question:	I am looking to be able to arch my text around a circle can I do this with this program
Answer:	Yes, with PaintShop Pro 2020 you can create text that fits any vector object-line or shape.
Question:	Can i make my pic look like a sketch? and make something’s b/w in a picture
Answer:	Yes, with PaintShop you can make any picture, its all based on your editing capabilities.
Question:	Why is internet explorer a requirement for this product
Answer:	Internet Explorer is not required. Any browser will work, Firefox, Chrome, etc. The product has to be registered over the internet before you can use it.

Product features

See the World Through a New Lens

Capture life and ignite your imagination with PaintShop Pro 2020. Transform your photos into something amazing, original and personal. Enjoy high precision tools, user-inspired features, faster editing, and new touch-ready Photography Workspace. Create stunning design projects with a wide range of innovative graphic design tools, layers, masks, and brushes.

Get the power, versatility and intuitive tools you need for any photo or design project—all affordable and subscription-free.

Start editing photos and creating impressive design projects -- like a Pro.

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

● Windows 10 / 8/8.1 / 7 with the latest service pack (64-bit or 32-bit editions)

● Intel Core i-series or AMD Phenom II and above (Intel SandyBridge or AMD Fusion and above recommended)

● 1366x 768 resolution with 16-bit color display (1920x1080 resolution with 24-bit or higher color display recommended). Up to 250 DPI supported with appropriate resolution display

● DirectX 9 or higher compatible video adapter with the latest driver

● Internet Explorer version 10 or higher

*Internet connection required for installation, registration, online features and tutorial videos

Multiple Workspaces

Every photo is unique, and so are you. So, also, is the way you like to work. Take your pick of three different adaptable and intuitive workspaces to complement your project workflow. Each workspace features a custom toolset and features to simplify everything from quick edits to complex compositions.

Precise Retouching & Adjustments

Make your photos stand out with powerful adjustment tools, including crop, resize, restore, straighten, and noise removal. Touch up and enhance your favorite images with high precision selection and intelligent, content-aware tools.

Painting & Drawing tools

Use a wide range of painting and drawing tools to create spectacular design projects, collages, greeting cards, social media images, web banners, brochures, and more. Color palettes, gradients, textures, and picture tubes are all built into the application and ready for you to master.

RAW Editing

PaintShop Pro’s RAW Lab is your digital darkroom and arms you with powerful RAW image editing capabilities, including before and after preview options. Manage and edit RAW photos taken with some of the latest cameras. Over 100 new cameras are supported.

Layers & Masks

Non-destructive layers let you create composites with ease. Use masks to hide or show parts of a layer and to create sophisticated effects. You can now replicate style settings from one layer to another with one simple click.

HDR Tools

Eliminate noise, chromatic aberrations, and dull colors. Combine multiple exposures of the same scene to achieve a single stunning HDR (High Dynamic Range) image with amazing clarity and visual contrast.

360° Photo Editing

Edit photos from a 360° camera. Straighten a 360° photo with rotation or make it appear level. Remove and automatically replace the tripod in the image with PaintShop Pro's Magic Fill, or produce an interesting ‘planet-like’ effect.

Pic-to-Painting

Create a masterpiece with the help of Artificial Intelligence. Choose from several creative presets that apply Deep Neural Networks to analyze your photo and turn it into a work of art that replicates the style of iconic artists.

Product description

Mastering Lighting includes 1 DVD (computer playable) and Lighting Journal.

Mastering Retouching includes 7 DVDs & Mastering Compositing includes 5 DVDs (computer playable) each featuring it's own self-contained training level.

All Videos are HD-quality, playable through our unique interface. Custom HD Player allows you to Zoom In for a closer look while the video is playing!

Each Level contains several Video Lessons, Key Concepts, Level Notes, and a Quick Reference Guide to related lessons in other levels.

Methods can be applied to Fashion, Glamour, Headshots, & Bridal/Wedding photography.

All techniques can be mastered with either a tablet or a mouse. Works with any version of Photoshop. Works on a Mac & PC.

Also search for SlickforceSoftlights to add to your collection!

• Special Trilogy Pricing! This trilogy bundle contains Mastering Lighting, Mastering Compositing and Mastering Retouching Collector's Edition DVD Box Sets. Take advantage of reduced pricing! Works on a Mac & PC.
• Mastering Lighting: Volume One teaches advanced lighting techniques by giving you the feeling of being right on set, lighting like the pros in real time. It creates an exciting, yet intuitive learning experience that allows for the easy absorption of difficult lighting concepts.
• Mastering Retouching is a complete system that teaches you step-by-step how to quickly spot problem areas and eradicate even the most difficult flaws. Our signature approach to non-destructive image editing allows you to dial-up or scale-back the intensity of your retouching even after the shot is completed! Armed with the ability to correct any issue, you'll never look at your photos the same way!
• Mastering Compositing is a complete system that teaches you step-by-step how to believably place your models in any environment you wish. All of the hi-res elements, environments, and custom brushes you'll need are included in this package. Follow along with Clint as he walks you through the tools and methods used by master compositors to create mind-blowing yet realistic final images, in a friendly and easy-to-understand teaching style.
• The Slickforce System Trilogy is the ultimate system because it takes the artist to the next level from concept to post. From concept through production, you will learn to reverse engineer your shooting process, learning to avoid the pitfalls that many photographers fall into. In post, you will learn countless methods and shortcuts for maximizing your retouching and compositing speed, while increasing the believability and precision of your final images.

Product description

• Over 100 Filters
• Retouch and Correct Images
• Create Panoramas & Collages
• Straighten & Adjust Image Perspective
• Retouch Images

Product description

PortraitPro 17 from Anthropics Technology allows anyone to improve portrait photos with ease. All aspects of a portrait can be enhanced with intuitive and simple controls.

PortraitPro:

• Detects the face, age and gender.
• Automatically retouches the photo with customizable presets.
• Sliders to adjust the results.
• Make-up, lighting and background tools for complete creative control.
• Over 600,000 PortraitPro users around the world.

Using advanced techniques, PortraitPro understands how physical appearance can be improved. PortraitPro identifies hundreds of areas for improvement - all you have to do is choose how subtle or dramatic to make each change. Get great results in minutes.

What can it do?

• Fix skin blemishes
• Reduce wrinkles
• Change the lighting on the face
• Full makeup controls. Apply lipstick, eyeshadow, blusher and more
• New in V17 - Background Controls
• Face reshaping
• Advanced skin coloring controls
• Brighten and recolor the eyes
• Whiten teeth
• Lighten, thicken, recolor and tidy hair
• Correct lens distortion
• Works on men, women and children
• Fully automated age and gender detection

Multi-Award Winning Software

Buy with confidence: PortraitPro has won awards from Digital Photo, Professional Photographer, Macworld, MacUser, the Society of Professional Imagemakers and many more.

PortraitPro Editions

PortraitPro comes in two higher editions. PortraitPro Studio can be used as a plugin for Photoshop or Lightroom and handles RAW files, color profiles and images with 16 bits per color sample. The top level edition, PortraitPro Studio Max, has a full Batch Mode to process multiple images in one click.

Languages

English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español, Português / 한국어/日本語

System Requirements

Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, XP

Mac OSX 10.7 or later

• Dedicated Portrait Retouching Software
• Clearskin Technology For Beautiful Skin Enhancement
• Accurate, Automatic Face Detection
• Slimming, Reshaping, Lighting And Makeup Tools
• New In Version 17: Background Controls

User questions & answers

Question:	How many computers can it be downloaded on
Answer:	I believe just one.
Question:	does this version process RAW files
Answer:	No, you will need to purchase the Studio or Studio Max edition if you wish to work with RAW files.

Product description

PortraitPro 17 from Anthropics Technology allows anyone to improve portrait photos with ease. All aspects of a portrait can be enhanced with intuitive and simple controls.

PortraitPro:

• Detects the face, age and gender.
• Automatically retouches the photo with customizable presets.
• Sliders to adjust the results.
• Make-up, lighting and background tools for complete creative control.
• Over 600,000 PortraitPro users around the world.

Using advanced techniques, PortraitPro understands how physical appearance can be improved. PortraitPro identifies hundreds of areas for improvement - all you have to do is choose how subtle or dramatic to make each change. Get great results in minutes.

What can it do?

• Fix skin blemishes
• Reduce wrinkles
• Change the lighting on the face
• Full makeup controls. Apply lipstick, eyeshadow, blusher and more
• New in V17 - Background Controls
• Face reshaping
• Advanced skin coloring controls
• Brighten and recolor the eyes
• Whiten teeth
• Lighten, thicken, recolor and tidy hair
• Correct lens distortion
• Works on men, women and children
• Fully automated age and gender detection

Multi-Award Winning Software

Buy with confidence: PortraitPro has won awards from Digital Photo, Professional Photographer, Macworld, MacUser, the Society of Professional Imagemakers and many more.

PortraitPro Studio Max

PortraitPro Studio Max is the top level edition of PortraitPro with a full Batch Mode for processing multiple images in one click. It can run as a standalone or as a plugin for Photoshop or Lightroom and handles RAW files, color profiles and images with 16 bits per color sample.

Languages

English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español, Português, 한국어, 日本語

System Requirements

Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, XP

Mac OSX 10.7 or later

• Dedicated Portrait Retouching Software
• Clearskin Technology For Beautiful Skin Enhancement
• Accurate, Automatic Face Detection
• Slimming, Reshaping, Lighting And Makeup Tools
• New In Version 17: Background Controls

Product description

• Over 20 Hours of Video
• Comes with Practice Exam

Product description

• Enhance your photos with DxO OpticsPro, the image-processing software of reference for all demanding photographers.
• Efficiently eliminate noise with the revolutionary new PRIME denoising technology.
• Optimize exposure and contrast DxO Smart Lighting.
• Instantly remove haze with DxO ClearView.
• DxO Optics Modules provide corrections that are perfectly adapted to your equipment.

Product description

• DxO FilmPack perfectly restores the quality, the style, the colors and the grain of the most famous analog films.
• Bring out the best in your photographs by applying original effects in color or in black & white.

Product description

• DxO FilmPack perfectly restores the quality, the style, the colors and the grain of the most famous analog films.
• Bring out the best in your photographs by applying original effects in color or in black & white.

Product description

• Enhance your photos with DxO OpticsPro, the image-processing software of reference for all demanding photographers.
• Optimize exposure and contrast DxO Smart Lighting.
• Magnify colors and boost details.
• DxO Optics Modules provide corrections that are perfectly adapted to your equipment.