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Best consumer photo-editing software for Mac

Even the cheapest iPhone models now include a really high-quality camera, and there are dozens of free and affordable iOS apps available that will allow you to quickly add a variety of filters and effects to your photos.

That’s fine for uploading a few selfies to Instagram, but if you’re a keen photographer and want to have more creative control over your work, then it’s worth looking at some more advanced apps that provide a wider and more powerful set of photo-editing tools. And if you really want to edit your photos in fine detail, then it makes sense to do it on the larger screen of a Mac.

Apple does include Photos on all new Macs, but this app is primarily intended for organizing your photo collection, and only has a limited selection of editing tools. In this article we round up the alternatives: the best budget photo-editing programs for the Mac. Several are free, and several more offer free trials, so you can check them out before deciding whether or not to break out your credit card.

Pixelmator

Price: £28.99 from fave.co/2S4SyVr

Pixelmator is one of the most popular photo-editing apps on the Mac,

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