


They include Adobe Photoshop, NCH PhotoPad, Skylum’s Creative Kit and others. There are several thousands of Mac photo editors since the discovery of the technology over two decades ago. So long you’ve got a keen interest, the apps simply puts you on ‘auto-pilot’, and, Boom! You’re there! Smiling at an amazingly transformed work which you probably never would have dreamt of accomplishing all by yourself –at least not anytime soon. Interestingly, there are now photo editors that do not require any significant “art or science of photo creativity” from you all that’s required to operate such apps is summarized in interest. With a sound knowledge of the science and art of photo editing/creativity, and a good photo-editing app, there’s virtually nothing that’s beyond your reach. The birth of digital photography has brought along with it a whole new world of possibilities. In which case, it was exceptional or beyond the ‘norm’ to do so. Only on a few occasion was it deemed necessary to make some manipulations. Back then in the era of film photography, most captures went from being on the film, into the darkroom for processing, then to the client. Science because it does require some very specific knowledge as to what you’d like to accomplish as well as a well-defined roadmap art because photo editing is creativity on display –the dynamism and beauty of your result being to the extent of your imagination.Ĭontrary to the predominant thought about photo editing, several years ago, as being an optional or unnecessary photography technique, photo editing is, as a matter of fact, fast becoming a synonym for digital photography.

Photo editing is both a science and an art.
