So, you’ve finally upgraded to Windows 11 or unwrapped a brand-new Windows 11 PC? Awesome! Windows 11 can help you keep in touch with your family & friends, share photos, stream movies, listen to your favorite songs, running Android apps to juggling with your stock updates.
If you’re regularly dealing with a lot of photos or looking for cool apps to edit and organize your photos, we’ve made your task incredibly easy. Read on.
Luminar AI
Luminar is one of the most popular image editors powered with Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI makes photo editing incredibly easy, and has completely changed the way photos were edited traditionally. In contrast to traditional photo editors, editing photos with Luminar AI gets outstanding results with minimal effort.
Besides AI, Luminar also offers so many handy templates to choose from. Beginners can quick start using predefined templates from different categories and apply edits to their photos. Luminar automatically recognizes the orientation of your photo and recommends templates suitable for that orientation. For example, if you’re working on a portrait image, Luminar will automatically recommend templates suitable for the portrait orientation. The best fact about Luminar AI is there are no subscriptions. It’s a one-time purchase, yay!
Features:
- Face detection
- Add canvas
- Dodge, burn, change image contrasts and add effects
- Advanced gradient customization
- Orton effect
- Simplified post-processing with Artificial Intelligence
Drawbacks:
- Luminar provides limited options for exporting your files.
- Lack of broad layer-based photo editing support.
Adobe Photoshop CC
Even after being in the field for 3 decades, Adobe Photoshop continues to remain invincible as a leading image manipulation tool for graphics designers, photographers, students, among others.
Adobe Photoshop CC, true to its reputation, includes a diverse number of tools for manipulating and enhancing your photos. The application has a slick interface, better typography features and supports compatibility with Web and mobile. If your job requires 3D image designing, you won’t be disappointed either. When you buy a subscription to Photoshop CC, you get access to the Adobe cloud account. You can sync your edited images online with ease.
Drawbacks:
- Subscription-based service, as like other Adobe-family products. No lifetime license is available.
- You’ll have to purchase expensive premium assets to polish and fine-tune your photos.
PictureEcho
PictureEcho is a duplicate photos finder and organizer for Windows 11. With PictureEcho, you can find & delete hundreds of thousands of duplicate photos and reclaim your lost storage.
Here are some prominent features of PictureEcho:
- Exact match: This scan mode lets you find images that are byte-to-byte similar in nature. This means that PE will only show fully identical images found on your hard disk/ SSD.
- Similar match: Similar match scan mode lets you find images that are visually-similar in nature. The benefit of choosing this scan mode over Exact Match is that it helps you get back larger storage space.
- Similarity Threshold: PE does not restrict you to one similarity level. You can choose your desired similarity level to get relevant results. For example, Level 1 considers all photos that were taken within a 30 second timespan. Level 2 and 3 consider all photos that were taken between 1 minute and 1 hour timespan. Level 4, on the contrary, does not consider the time factor into consideration.
- In-house file previewing: PE shows thumbnails of your images so that you don’t have to open them separately each time while reviewing. It simplifies the way you review your files.
- Lightroom Classic & Lightroom CC Scan: If you’re using Adobe Lightroom products, scanning and removing Lightroom duplicates become incredibly easier. PE scans your Lightroom database for duplicates and optimizes it to improve the performance and stability.
- Image Organizer: Image organizer is a unique feature of PictureEcho. With few clicks, you can re-organize your images into multiple folders of your choice, based on dates. Moreover, you can customize the folder structure with your own pattern.
- Clean empty folders: Usual file copying/ moving operations can lead to a lot of empty folders. PE lets you eliminate empty folders and make browsing folders easier.
Paint.NET
Paint.NET was developed by a Washington State University student. Thanks to the beginner-friendly user interface, unlimited undo and a wide array of photo manipulation features, it has become a strong alternative to Microsoft Paint. The application is completely free-of-cost. It supports hotkeys, it’s fast and was developed keeping in mind those who don’t have knowledge about photo editing.
With Paint.NET, you can change the brightness, contrast, hue of your photos. Just like any other image editor, it supports multiple layers, levels. The best feature about Paint.NET is its ability to perform unlimited undo oprations. You can undo your changes for an unlimited period of time, should anything go wrong while editing photos.
PhotoScape X
PhotoScape X makes it easier for beginners to improve the quality of their photos using the enhancement tools. Moreover, the website provides plenty of video tutorials to help you get started easily and learn about the diverse photo editing features it offers.
PhotoScape X has a massive library of hundreds of filters, brushes, shapes, clone stamps and frames. PhotoScape X offers good compatibility with RAW images processed by your digital camera, and offers professional batch editing features in one suite. With a few clicks, you can resize images, rename them or convert them to another format.
