Image Editor

Long gone are the days of image editors being cumbersome and design for professionals. Now anyone can edit images quickly and with high quality.

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The Galaxy S26 Ultra on a table.
Every Galaxy phone should have this app preinstalled

Once you try this, editing photos the old way feels pointless.

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Graphite running on Windows 11 laptop.
I found a browser-based creative suite and it being open-source is only part of the appeal

Open-source is nice, but that’s not the interesting part here.

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Photopea tool
This free app does what Photoshop does for most people

A browser tool covering everyday Photoshop tasks seamlessly.

Laptop showing IrfanView image viewer
I'm still using this Windows XP tool on Windows 11, and it's perfect

This little graphic viewer is free and can-do things that other sophisticated apps can't.

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Person holding the Google Pixel 8a showing the apps menu
I can’t believe Google doesn’t preinstall this app on Android

A hidden Google gem your Android phone is missing.

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GIMP Text Tool
4 GIMP plugins that make it feel like a professional tool

I stopped explaining that I use GIMP after installing these.

Snapseed launching on Android.
Google hasn’t updated this photo editing app in years, but it’s still the best

This ancient photo editor is still as powerful as it was back in the day.

Using Pinta for image editing
I replaced Paint.NET with this free open-source tool and I love it

A calmer, smarter middle ground for everyday image editing

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Android and iPhone showing built-in photo editors
These 3 mobile photo editors are genuinely better than the built-in tools

When default tools stop being enough, these step in.

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Darktable running on Windows 11.
This photo-editing app is so good, I finally stopped using Lightroom

After years with Lightroom, I switched to a deeper, free, and more powerful tool.

Imagemagick running in a terminal window on Windows 11.
This command-line tool edits images faster than any GUI I’ve used

This command-line tool might look simple, but it's more powerful under the hood than you think.

Android phone showing Google Photos app
Google Photos’ most useful feature isn’t search — it’s this one

The real magic of Google Photos isn’t finding pictures, it’s transforming them.

An iPhone with the ChatGPT app open on a book
ChatGPT’s latest upgrade makes image editing easier than ever

Creative tasks just got simpler.

Closup of Exiftool running on Windows 11.
This tiny utility saves me hours when batch-editing photos

Turn your slow, manual photo-editing tasks into one-line commands that process thousands of images in seconds

digiKam running on Windows 11 laptop.
This photo-organizing app is so good it made me ditch Lightroom’s library

A smarter library tool finally cured my Lightroom chaos.

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paint dot net gmic plugin browser editing photo on computer screen.
Don’t use Paint.NET without these essential plugins

I've used Paint.NET for years, and know that these plugins are the key to quick and easy editing.

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A laptop displaying the MiNi PhotoEditor interface.
This free browser app makes photo editing so fast you won't miss Photoshop

Your next great edit could happen in your browser.

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Hands holding an iPhone horizontally with the Project Indigo camera on the screen
These underrated photography apps are free and you probably haven’t tried them

Fresh picks to level up your shots for $0.

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A person holding an iPhone, showing a photo in Markup mode, where one face is covered with a heart-eyes emoji.
Your group photos need a privacy filter and markup has one

The easiest way to keep your friends’ faces private.

GIMP website on a monitor.
I added these 7 plugins to GIMP and they made it more powerful than Photoshop

These plugins will make you wonder why you used Photoshop in the first place.

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