Apps and websites you can use to edit your product photographs.

All photographers, bloggers, and photogenic individuals will agree with me that editing is a crucial part of photography. Even though there is adequate light and you feel that the colors are perfect, not editing your pictures is a big mistake.

Editing brings the best out of your pictures. You can enhance the color, brightness, contrast, resolution, sharpness, and so much more. Proper editing can make a dull picture beautiful. It has the power to reshape your photography.

Well-edited pictures are a treat for the eye, and it attracts people to purchase your products and services. If you are a small business owner or a freelance photographer, this blog will help you grow your business and boost sales.

Why is editing necessary for a freelance photographer?

The job of a freelance photographer is not only to click photos. You have to edit them and make a hardcopy or softcopy and deliver it to the client. If you are just clicking and directly sending the photographs without editing them, you make a big mistake.

Editing may take a lot of your time, but it will improve your quality of service and give you an upper hand over others. You can charge a premium for your services and make your clients understand how professional your edited photographs look!

Why is editing important for small business owners?

Photography is everything for promoting your small business, especially your online store. With online shopping, people purchase what they see. Editing makes sure what they see is aesthetic, eye-catching, and beautiful.

You can make your products looks 10x better with editing!
Now let's dive into the popular apps that can be used for editing photographs.

1. Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom is a simple and effective app for editing. You have to import the pictures you want to upload and then edit them.

At the bottom, a control panel is located. All the features are down there. You can select what you want to edit and then increase or decrease the settings.

A quick hack here is that if you have a specific way of editing, you can save the setting as a 'preset.' Then, on your other unedited pictures, you can directly add your preset and adjust it if needed. This will save a lot of time and make editing easier.

This app is fairly easy to use. Various YouTube videos provide you with tips and tricks on making the best use of the app. When you use these apps with time, you will master them!

2. Snapseed
Snapseed is an excellent app for editing the structure of the photograph. You can edit the background, the sharpness, and the clarity of the image. This app, along with Adobe Lightroom, is available for free on the app store. They are both mobile-friendly and laptop friendly. If you want, there is a premium version of it available too.

3. Inshorts
Inshorts is a video editing app that is great for both editing videos and photos.

With multiple photos, you can create collages with the various templates available. You can add colorful backgrounds to the images and can even paste one photo on top of another. It has Instagram templates, too, so it can reshape your pictures so that you can easily upload them.

There are some amazing features in the video editing section, such as adding music, merging various small clips into video, converting pictures into a video, trimming, rotating videos, and so much more.

This app is the best video editing as it has a wide variety of tools for free!

4. Adobe photoshop
This is a very famous photo editing platform, but it does not have a free version. Its free trials are up to one week only, and after that, you will have to purchase the software.

It is excellent for freelance photographers are it has a wide variety of tools and features. You can erase unwanted things from the pictures, change the shape of the photograph's different elements, and so much more.

If you are entirely into the photography business, this app is a must-have. It is like an investment for you!

These are 4 of the most user-friendly, economical, and efficient apps for editing.

Use them now and let me know which one you think is the best in the comment section below!