Software

Pic Monkey


PicMonkey is an online photo editing site created by two engineers that used to work for Picnik.com engineers in 2012. When Google shut down Picnik two years after it was created engineers Brian Terry and Justin Huff decided to leave to build PicMonkey as a replacement.

The service is free, with ad-supported free features and premium features through a membership known as "Royale”. Membership is available on either a monthly or annual basis paid via credit card or PayPal.

PicMonkey has a similar feature set to Picnik including basic editing tools like:


Cloning: A tool once only available for professional editors, cloning is the most likely best tool for photo editing. This tool can also work to make clothes, or help you blend faces.


Sharpness and Clarity: Upload your photo to PicMonkey to quickly fix the photos the way that want them weather sharp or a high or low clarity . Play with brightness and contrast till you've got something that doesn't make you squint.


Eye Brightening & Wrinkle removing: Both these tools work with a click of a button. Click on each eye to see the brightening effect. It's fairly subtle and almost always looks better than without. The wrinkle remover is better than air brush. It disappears wrinkles with just a click.


Cropping & Re-Sizing: to make photos look their best, you have to crop and re-size them. , It is a very quick process that's intuitive and accurate on PicMonkey.​

 Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop is a popular image changing software package. It is widely used by photographers for photo editing (fixing colors, reducing noise, adding effects, fixing brightness/contrast) and by graphic designers and Web designers to create and change images for web pages. Version Photoshop CS6 was launched on April 23 2012.
Photoshop works on computer systems like Windows and Mac. The software is made by the company Adobe. A simpler version named Photoshop Elements is made for home users who do not want to buy the more powerful, more expensive full version. Photoshop Express, a free version, is even more limited.

Photoshop has a range of editing tools for example:

Pen Tool

Photoshop includes the pen tool. The pen tool creates precise paths that can be manipulated using anchor point. The freeform pen tool allows the user to draw paths freehand, and with the magnetic pen tool, the drawn path attaches closely to outlines of objects in an image, which is useful for isolating them from a background.

Measuring and navigation

The eyedropper tool selects a color from an area of the image that is clicked, and samples it for future use. The hand tool navigates an image by moving it in any direction, and the zoom tool enlarges the part of an image that is clicked on, allowing for a closer view.

 

Slicing

The "slice" and slice select tools, like the crop tool, are used in isolating parts of images. The slice tool can be used to divide an image into different sections, and these separate parts can be used as pieces of a web page design once HTML and CSS are applied. The slice select tool allows sliced sections of an image to be adjusted and shifted.

 

Magic Wand

The magic wand tool selects areas based on pixels. The user only needs to click once, and this tool will detect pixels that are very similar to each other. If the eyedropper tool is selected in the options bar, then the magic wand can determine the value needed to evaluate the pixels; this is based on the sample size setting in the eyedropper tool. When the image requires more than a few clicks, this tool becomes a disadvantage. The user must decide what settings to use or if the image is right for this tool.

 

Quick Selection

The quick selection tool selects areas based on edges, similarly to the magnetic lasso tool. The difference between this tool and the lasso tool is that there is no starting and ending point. Since there isn’t a starting and ending point, the selected area can be added onto as much as possible without starting over. By dragging the cursor over the desired area, the quick selection tool detects the edges of the image. The “marching ants” allow the user to know what is currently being selected. Once the user is done, the selected area can be edited without affecting the rest of the image.