

And those tools make it easy to apply edits to multiple photos or save them as presets.Ī tool like Pixelmator, Photoshop or Affinity can do a lot of those things too, but it's really only intended for editing and manipulating a single photo at a time.

These are very powerful tools for editing photos especially in terms of color, exposure, everything you need to do to make a photo look like you want it to look. You use it to catalog, sort, pick your favorites, apply styles, do all kinds of corrections that are usually necessary for any photo you take. For simply turning your raw files into something you like and can share I personally would recommend looking into a tool like Lightroom or Capture One first.Ĭapture One or Lightroom are the kind of tools you dump all your raw files into after a photo session.
