All of us want to capture those precious moments so that we can relive them at a later point in life. However, there are many times when we do not find that the photo captures exactly what we want due to lighting, insufficient color contrast, background disruptions and such little things. This is when photo editing apps come to the rescue. Here is an overview of the 20 top photo editing Mac apps.

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By Sally Wiener Grotta 02 January 2020 Here's a guide to the best photo editing software and apps available for amateur photographers, enthusiasts and professionals.

ColorStrokes

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With this app, you get a whole new color palette that you can add to your photos to enhance them using the unique color splash tool with dramatic effects. Another great feature is that you can go for various monochrome backgrounds. The editing tools are very handy and are exactly what you need.

Snapheal

This app is for making professional photo edits and enhancements and can fix just any photo in a matter of seconds. There are options to delete unwanted objects, erase watermarks, tune images, fix skin spots, adjust colors and lighting and a lot more without the advanced know-how of photo editing.

Fotor Photo Editor

The flexible collage feature in this app gives it a unique edge. There are 80 templates and 16 backgrounds for you to select among. Also, you can edit photos with regard to contrast, brightness, sharpen or blur, crop, exposure, white balance and much more. You can add borders and add tilt shifts too for all image formats.

Image Tricks Lite

This app uses Mac OS X Core quartz compositions and image filters to edit your photos. You can adjust colors, create photo art, tile images, distort faces, add borders and frames, zoom into photos, apply shadows, blur images and do a lot more. Also, you have image generators that generate random images based on mathematical

Photo Effects(Lite)

Using Photo Effects (Lite), you can easily add cool effects to your photos right from your iPhone by simply choosing your effects and photo to which it is to be applied. Once these photo effects have been applied, they make for great wallpapers.

iSplash Color Photo Editor

With iSplash, you can convert just any photo to grayscale, select a part of it and convert just that to its original color. This way, you can emphasize on certain parts of pictures by selectively coloring them.

Photo Glamour

Helps add glamorous effects to your photos of all formats with a magazine-style look. There are excellent glamour effects, vignetting and visual effects- with the option to mix these together with the Mixer. Compare with original image, copy or paste to the clipboard and alternatively share on social networks or print.

LiveQuartz Photo Edit

Based on special non-destructive layers and image filters, editing photos with this app is easy. Has tools including brush, drawing, gradient, lasso, magnifier, background eraser, layer mover, duplication, rich text, selection, hand and filter effect- all of them working flawlessly

FX Photo Studio Pro

Make your photos look extraordinary and stunning with this artistic photo-editing app. There is an extensive variety of filters, photo effects, editing tools and frames to choose from. You can control colors and integrate with iPhoto, Aperture, Photoshop and Lightroom and share o popular social networks.

Flare

Adding textures and effects to your photos is just effortless with this app. There are built-in presets to choose from or you or you can go for customization. There are many color effects, lens effects, creative effects, and edits to fine tune your photos. This app is easy for beginners, while also providing the tools that a professional would require.

Analog

With Analog, you can impart some soul to your photos with stunning borders, filters and effects. There are tools for image rotation, cropping and round-tripping. Edited images can be shared on Picasa, Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr, and Cloudapp with only two clicks.

Diptic

Diptic is the app for creating splendid photo collages. Put together multiple photos and apply numerous effects to them. There are 56 customizable layouts and rounded borders that work on full screen. Also has an aspect ratio slider to give you your desired canvas size. Photos can be imported from Aperture and iPhoto and shared on social networks.

Photo Effect Studio Pro

This app has been developed under graphic designers and professional photographers so that you can edit images in any way you like. There are 30 textures and 20 custom frames to choose between along with vignettes and effects with layers. Share photos, save them or even print them with ease.

Great Photo Pro

The photo-editing tools are superb and include DSLR Depth-of-field effect, FX effects, auto enhancement, comprehensive tools, Color splash and many more. Create collages of 3 to 9 photos with patterns, design templates and colors. Flip, rotate, crop, zoom and snapshot images with the user-friendly UI and real-time process.

BlackWhite Studio

This app has been designed for both professionals and beginners and helps create multi-tone and black and white images. With over 150 available presets, you can select your effects from the special panel. There are vignettes, borders and also finishing touches to be added. Also experiment with DuoTones, TriTones, Silver Plates and new image tones.

PhotoMagic Pro – Photo Editor & Photo Effects App

Cool effects and filters along with adjustment options for saturation, brightness, contrast, sharpness, exposure, vignette and noise. Add text to your images with many fantastic effects too. You can share, save or print your photos using this app as well.

Splash Colors FX

With Splash Colors FX, you can convert images to black and white and then highlight parts of it using a brush to reveal its original colors. The blur and opacity of the brush can also be adjusted for more. For more accurate editing, you can increase or decrease brush size or zoom the photos. Compatible with Aperture and iPhoto and allows sharing on social networks.

PanoEdit

PanoEdit, as the name suggests, is a panorama stitching app. There is automatic multi-row, vertical and horizontal stitching and handling of animated objects. There is a projection editor exclusively for panorama straightening. Automatic crop and exposure difference compensation available too.

Photo Focus Pro Lite

Add depth and splendid effects to photos with this app. Customize effects so as to focus on a particular subject. There are color effects, focus effects and image effects and all edits automatically get saved. Allows sharing on popular social networks.

Photo Edit Studio

Edit photos using multiple layers and your creativity. Over 60 effects available along with edit options. The tools are quite a bit like those of Photoshop. There are layer boundaries too for graphic designing.

Editing your photos on your iPhone is one thing, but editing your photos on your Mac can take your photography skills to a whole 'nother level.

Many of us still keep our main libraries on our Macs because of its faster processors, larger storage, and all-around bigger computing power. The Mac is still the best device for serious photo editing, so you need some serious photo editing apps to make an impact.

The built-in Photos app on Mac offers several useful photo editing tools. You can crop, adjust lighting and color, set the white balance, add filters, remove unwanted blemishes, and a few more things. However, in all honesty? It's not really meant to be a robust editing app, so If you are looking for something to really finish your photos right, we've got a list of the best photo editors for Mac right here. Let's go!

Affinity Photo

If you're looking for a photo editing app that goes above and beyond for the pricetag, while still allowing you complete creative control over your images, then it might be worth it to take a peek at Affinity Photo.

Affinity Photo supports unlimited layers, groups, layer adjustments, filters, masking, and more: you also have access to tools like dodge, red-eye fix, burn, blemish, clone, and patch (so pretty much Photoshop without all the convoluted bells and whistles). Nondestructive auto-saving makes undoing everything you've done easy, so if you need to start from the beginning, the option is there.

Play, manipulate, edit, and get hella creative with Affinity Photo whether you're a serious graphic designer or someone who's just looking to do some basic editing. Your photography will seriously thank you.

• $49.99 - Download now

Fotor Photo Editor

Searching for a super simple, straight-forward photo editing app that's there to help you edit and not confuse you to the point of ripping out your hair? Then check out Fotor Photo Editor!

With this photo editor, you can easily adjust contrast and color of more washed-out photos, add borders, tilt and shift your images, add different text, slap on a few filters, and so much more, all from the easy-to-find toolbox on the right side of the app. You can even create collages of your photography masterpieces!

The BBC once called Fotor Photo Editor 'light Photoshop', and they're kind of right! You can go above and beyond editing your images with Fotor Photo Editor without getting bogged down by more complicated editing buttons and tools.

• Free - Download now

Lightroom

When you look into photo editing software, one of the first things that'll pop up is Adobe's Lightroom, and for good reason! It's essentially a staple in the photo editing community.

Lightroom is great for photographers who need to manage a large image library, and who are prepared to commit to (and pay for) Adobe's cloud storage space. But it is purely a photography tool that's a little outside the regular Adobe design ecosystem. (Creative Bloq)

Pretty much anything you want to do with your photo, you can accomplish with Lightroom. You can blend and merge shadows and highlights, sharpen dull, blurry images so they look crisp and clear, add details and tint colors to make a photo stand out, and so, so much more.

While it is a bit more on the complicated side, people who use the program and know how to navigate it are hooked. Keep in mind, there are two versions of the app — there's the Classic version, which is more preferred, and the 2018 CC version.

If you're hesitant about the program and paying for it, you can download Lightroom free for 30 days as part of a trial period. After that, you can add it to your Photoshop CC subscription for $9.99 per month.

• Free trial - Download now

Pixelmator

Amp up your photo editing skills with a little bit of help from Pixelmator!

This particular photo editing app allows you to combine two different photos into one (while still allowing you to edit over each layer), add shapes, gradients, filters, tints, and more, and completely change and edit your photography to make it fit perfectly to your aesthetic. You can even mask and cut off certain areas of the photo, giving you more creative control over your final image.

Similar to other photo editing apps, you can also adjust contrast, color, saturation level, definition, and so much more.

It's another great alternative to Photoshop, at least according to our managing editor Lory Gil.

• $29.99 - Download now

GIMP

Love Photoshop (or the idea of Photoshop...) but don't want all the complicated components and nonsense that comes along with it? Then it might be worth it to take a peek at GIMP.

Similar to Photoshop, GIMP allows you full control over editing your photos: it's an advanced image manipulation program with detailed customization for color reproduction.

You can add layers to your photos, edit and tweak colors, adjust contrast, crop, adjust saturation, and so much more. If you're someone who admires Photoshop but is terrified of the price (or just thinks it's not worth it) then GIMP might be the perfect pal for you.

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• Free - Download now

Snapheal

Say 'bye-bye' to nasty photobombs, zits, perky distractions, and so much more in your photos thanks to Snapheal!

Snapheal is a little bit unique in the sense that it's more of a 'delete now, ask questions later' app. It's more about cleaning up a photo than it is editing it and adding a whole bunch of layers. The tools can either remove large objects or smaller imperfections depending on the mode. You can even adjust the masking tool, use a magic rope, or clone stamp your way to a new photo.

If you're someone who's a perfectionist when it comes to your photography and you just can't stand that one stupid, distracting blur in the background, then Snapheal is the guy for you.

• $7.99 - Download now

Preview

I know what you're thinking: 'Preview? Really, Cella?'

To which I respond: 'Uh, yeah. Duh, my dude. You use it every day!'

Sure, you can't do a bunch of fancy things with Preview like add filters, adjust contrast, and fix saturation, but you can quickly crop a photo, adjust the color, rotate it, add shapes, texts, and a signature, export as a different format, and more.

Yes, Preview isn't perfect, but it is easy to use and fantastic for making small, fast changes to your photography.

• It's already on your Mac.

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What is your favorite photo editing app for the Mac? Why does it work the best for you? Let us know what your top picks are in the comments down below!

Updated August 2018: All the choices on this list are still the best of the best!

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