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Auto crop, toning and colour options will work well for photographers in a hurry and needing to edit quickly
ON1 Photo Raw
Price: £92 (currently discounted to £46)
This all-in-one photo solution can be used as a plug-in or as a stand-alone app on up to two different computers – Mac or Windows. This is a software well suited to landscape and portrait photographers thanks to both the Raw conversion elements, which are available as global or local adjustments, and the Portrait AI features, which include auto retouching to help your subjects look their best. Auto crop, toning and colour options will work well for photographers in a hurry and needing to edit multiple frames quickly, and the intelligent masking features will deliver for those who want to drill a little deeper and spend more time editing frames to get the most out of every pixel. A well-rounded photo editing solution, the AI-aided noise reduction will help clean up files captured at high ISO levels, and there is even an upscaling feature to help you make files bigger in size. on1.com
Excire Foto 2025
Price: £109
Excire Foto 2025 helps you take total control of your archive. It’s a stand-alone, AI-powered photo organisation tool designed to turn folders full of work into a fast, searchable and usable library. It works with both photo and video files, supports MacOS and Windows and takes full advantage of AI. Search is where Excire shines. Its free-text, natural-language search allows you to find images simply by describing them. Type phrases like ‘bride holding bouquet’, and Excire retrieves the relevant photos with no manual keywording required. With AI-assisted photo selection, automatic keywording which runs quietly in the background and people and face recognition, it’s certainly a powerful tool. If you are a committed Lightroom Classic user, try Excire’s £199 Search 2026 plug-in that brings a new level of speed, intelligence and automation to your photo and video catalogue. excire.com
Google Photos
Price: Free
It’s easy to overlook the free Photos app. With one-click buttons to add a stylised filter to your imagery, you can transform a frame, but your standard free Google platform comes with up to 15GB of free cloud storage, providing an additional free backup. While you can store Raw files, any editing will convert the file to a JPEG, where you can make global adjustments (brightness, contrast, white point, highlights, shadows and more) via simple sliders to fine-tune your frame. You’ll find a feature to stylise the sky along with an advanced cropping feature that will reformat your image into a number of picture ratios (16:9, 9:16, 4:3 etc) while also enabling you to level horizons with the aid of a grid overlay. google.com
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