Photo Editing Software: Which One is Best for Your Needs

If you are like me you take many digital photos with your camera. Sometimes though the photos that you take need just some minor adjustments to make them really stand out and become awesome photos. Most camera software doesn't include the software that you need to make the adjustments that you need. They mostly only have software that will crop and rotate photos. But if you want to do more than that you will have to find software on your own. Here are some of the best software out there that you can use to manipulate your photo files.

Adobe Photoshop Elements is one well known photo editing software. It is easy to use and you can do many things with it. You can do allot of editing of your photos with this. You can import photos directly from your camera or Removable media. You can reduce red-eye, crop, rotate and adjust the color on the photos. You can touch up scratches with this and make the photo a smoother finish. You can do adjustments with this also.

For more advance photo editing capabilities get the regular Adobe Photoshop. You would have many more options with that and with the plug-ins available for Photoshop you can make major adjustments to photos. Photoshop is used by many professionals.

Google's Picasa is free and may just be what you need. You can download this from the website. You can import photos from your digital camera and Removable Media card also. It will do all the standard adjustments you can save these files to the computer. You can also upload to the web with the software with ease. With Picasa you can make a photo black and white, and write captions on the photos. They also allow you to zoom in closer on photos.

Corel Paint shop Pro is another great program to use. This one is most like Adobe Photoshop. It's easy to use and will allow you to make the adjustments to your photo to make them the perfect shot.