Would you like to see the 10 Best Free Professional Portrait Editing Software...In The World?
You have this itch you can't scratch, it's been there for days, months, maybe even years, and it's this...
Showcasing your creativity and talents to the world but ONE thing is standing in your way right now.
You can't find the RIGHT professional portrait editing software. There are so many to choose from and you're asking yourself this question...Which one is the right one for my needs?"
Luckily for you, I "Michael Granados", a long-time creator and professional portrait editing software user myself will show you the 10+ Best ones you can get your hands on...For FREE!
Ready to get started?
Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop Express is the WORLD’s best imaging and graphic design software, where you can be creative on any project, from photo editing and compositing to digital painting, animation, and graphic design.
The professionally made photography tools make it easy for you to do everyday edits or total image transformation across desktop and iPad. You can easily:
- Crop
- Remove objects
- Retouch
- And combine photos
Play with color and effects if you’d like too!
You can steal a free trial for 7-days and thereafter it’s either:
- $20.99/month for Photoshop
- $9.99/month for Photography Plan
- $52.99/month for creative cloud apps
Would you like a Free AND Open Source Image Editor with sophisticated tools to stand the test of time and get the job done for you?
Listen up, GIMP might just be for you, and let me show you how.
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is totally free software so you can change its source code and distribute your changes easier and faster.
Whether you are a graphic designer or:
- Photographer
- Illustrator
- Or Scientist
...GIMP will provide you with sophisticated tools to get your job done almost effortlessly. The cool part is this…
You can enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many of the customization options and 3rd party plugins.
GIMP’s Integrations With programming Software’s
GIMP provides you with extensibility and Flexibility through integrations with programming languages including:
- Scheme
- Python
- Perl
- And more!
What is the result? A high level of customization as demonstrated by the large numbers of scripts and plug-ins created by the amazing community.
Pixlr
Do You Want a Next-gen, New Generation Photo editor?
Pixlr is the World’s Favorite #1 Online Photo Editor that easily lets you edit your photos right in your browser...for FREE!
You’ll experience next-level, intuitive photo editing with the Al-powered tools for quicker yet professional edits. Pixlr’s editor opens almost any image format such as:
- PSD(Photoshop)
- PXD
- JPEG
- PNG(Transparent)
- WebP
- SVG
- And more!
Smarter Tools:
Unlike other photo editing free and even paid software’s that have boring and repetitive editing tasks, you can say goodbye to that when you get the AI design tools in your hands. With ONE click you will remove backgrounds flawlessly from your photos, cut out every strand of hair, and way more!
You can finally let AI and Machine Learning take your photo editing and background removal to a new level! (Beyond mind comprehension stuff here).
Faster Editing Time?
Do you want to go Fast like Ricky Robby off the movie Talladega Nights?
With Pixlr you can count on having a faster editing time with simpler steps, and equally stunning results like you wouldn’t believe. How do you achieve this?
Simply, toggle on and off, or drag sliders from left to right to edit your photos. You can finally achieve unique aesthetic photo effects and it becomes much simpler with Pixlr.
Easier Content Creation
Do you sweat the small stuff?
Don’t sweat the small stuff anymore - instead of creating graphic elements from scratch, you can browse Pixlr’s well-stocked library of:
- Stickers
- Overlays
- Borders
- Icons and
- Decorative texts
...To add to your photos. This gives you more time to perfect your edits.
Photoscape
Do you need to fix or enhance your photos with laser fast speed?
Photoscape is a fun and easy to use photo editing software that enables you to both fix or enhance your photos.
Here are some key features and benefits:
- Viewer. View your photos in your folder, and create a slideshow if you wish.
- Editor. Resize, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, and so much more so you can have the best looking images you’ll be proud to look at and so will everyone else you share it with.
- Batch editor. You can batch edit multiple photos at the same time so you can get your job done much easier and faster which means you’ll save more time and spend your time on other projects or things you enjoy doing most.
- Animated GIF. You can use multiple photos to create a final animated video so you don’t have to worry about just using one photo which means you’ll have a finished animated video with versatility and more of your creativity ill flourish.
There are so many more you can take a look at on this page I linked to.
PicMonkey
Do you want to power your brand with superior photo editing and design?
What I like about PicMonkey is that you can create these stop-scrolling Images for Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and more. Whether you’re running an ad, or just designing your logo, you can count on PicMonkey to get this task done for you rather nicely and with the right message.
Look at social media, everyone is on it, right? A finger war is going on, people spend more than half of their time scrolling up and down their mobile devices or moving the mouse up and down on their computer trying to be social and see what’s new…
And out of nowhere, your image pops up. WOAH, they say to themselves, that’s an amazing and ee-catching photo here”, let me read more of this post or click on it and see where it takes me.
Next thing you know, someone is reading your content, purchasing a product from you, and overall connecting with you and your brand like you intended. That’s the power of PicMonkey at your fingertips. You’ll boost your engagement and followership with stylish:
- Posts
- Ads
- Covers
- Images
- And way more!
You can see the fab templates and hot tips for working on Facebook and Instagram.
You can use your own photos or choose a stock photo - PicMonkey provides you with MILLIONS. Easily tweak exposure, touch up portraits, add effects. Here’s where it’ll really blow your mind, ready?
YOU can use the ONE click-background remover which is a game-changer.
PaintNet
Are you looking for an image and photo editing software for PCs that run on Windows?
With Paintnet you get an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo’s, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools at your fingertips. My favorite part?
The fast-growing online community which provides you with help, tutorials, and plugins.
RawTherapee
RawTherapee is a free, cross-platform raw image processing program which you can easily download in places like:
- Applmage - Linux
- 64-it -Windows
- 64-bit Windows macOS
- Source Code
RawTherapee is one of the most powerful, cross-platform raw photo processing system, and released as free software(GPLv3). What is it designed for?
For developing raw files from a board range of digital cameras and targeted for users ranging from:
- Enthusiast newcomers to
- Those who wish to broaden their understanding of how digital imaging works to
- Professional photographers
The cool thing is you’ll get a powerful suite of tools so you can produce amazing photos and showcase your creativity.
One thing I liked most was their online community - RawTherappe has a forum and a RawPedia so you can ask questions and never feel like you are left alone.
High Image Quality:
You get a non-destructive, 32-bit(floating point) processing engine, modern demosaicing, algorithms, and advanced color+ detail editing to bring you the best tools to develop images of the highest quality from your raw files which include High Dynamic Range DNG.
Fotor
Do you want to see a Revolutionary Photo Editor And Design Maker...with billions of photos processed?
With Fotor You can edit a photo, Make a Collage, And Create A Design. Let’s take a look at each one.
For Editing:
STEP 1: Select What you want to edit
Either choose your own picture from the photo library or you can choose a ready-to go picture for a quick try. I’ll go with this option for this example.
I choose the donut(because I do like donuts) and here’s what I see:
STEP 2: Edit The Photo
As you can see, on the left panel you can select from many widgets such as:
- 1-Tap enhance
- Magic Clipper
- Crop
- Rotate
- Basic
- Fine-Tune
- Color
- Vignette
- Curves
And if you look to the far left, you can select from different categories like:
- Basic
- Effect
- Beauty
- Frames
- Sticker
- Text
- Cloud
- Help Center
- Settings
For Making A Collage:
STEP 1: Choose A Collage Style
You can select from four different collage-style templates:
- Classic Collage
- Artistic Collage
- Funky Collage
- Photo Stiching
For this example I’ll demonstrate with Classic Collage:
On this page you can select from different widgets like:
- Classic
- Artistic
- Funky
- Stitching
- Sticker
- Text
- Background
- Cloud
- Help Center
- Settings
You can easily make changes to the done-for-you templates and select from a variety of different ones as show below:
For Create A Design
BeFunky
Want to see an All-In-One online creative platform that has EVERYTHING You need to easily edit photos, create graphic designs, and make photo collages?
BeFunky makes photo editing and graphic design easy to use and create for everyone.
BeFunky has an amazing collection and tools for anything you’ll be creating such as:
- Crop and Resize photos
- Turn Photos To Art
- Batch-Edit Photos
- Background Remover
- Retouch Portraits
- One-Click Collage Maker
- Customizable design templates
- Over a million free stock images
- Thousands of vector graphics and icons
Canva
Onto One of My favorites and one I use on a daily basis for just about everything and anything...Canva! With Canva you can literally design anything, have a look for yourself:
With Canva you can get templates for just about any platform like:
- Snapchat
- Blogging
- YouTube
- Books
- Magazines
- PDF’s
- Brochures
- And more!
Want to know what are the trending templates?
You can easily scroll to the “Trending Templates category and find these;
And if you keep scrolling down you’ll hit the Facebook, Instagram. Flyers and so much more! Want to keep control over your Brand?
Brand Kit
With Brand Kit you can stay control over your logos on hand when you need them
Keep your designs consistent with color palettes and font pairings
Upload your own unique font:
Want to invite team members to help you with your account or to have greater collaborations?
You can easily invite team members for FREE so you can quickly share designs and folders.
All Your Designs
Want to save your images so you can come back to them and improve them later? Or how about if you had sick design templates you planned on using over and over again for your Pinterest images and all else?
With the “All your designs” tab you can easily locate all your saved work so you can move faster in creating your images which means you’ll save a TON of time and get your business and recreational work done super fast.
Pros Of A Portrait Photo Editing Software
Don’t get me wrong, free photo editing software is a great option, but what good what a paid version do for you?
I’ve used free photo editing software for portraits, landscapes, and many other necessities and here’s what I learned…
They all have a limit! You only usually get a “taste” or a “sample” of the real thing, and when you can’t unlock the rest of the features you actually need to best apply your portrait photos, it’s best to upgrade. Remember how I stated Adobe Photoshop Express as my #1 recommendation?
Well, you can also check out the review I made on Adobe by clicking here.
Final Thoughts And Your Free Account
What did you think about all these free portrait photo editing software companies?
Pretty cool stuff, right? You have LOADS of options, and you can always test one another out, and see which one you like best and works best for your projects needs.
Was there something I didn’t cover here today that you’d like me to go over for you? Please feel free to leave me a comment down below in the comment section, and I’ll get back to you ASAP!
Thanks,
Michael
P.S Don’t forget to check out my #1 recommendation in Adobe Photoshop here.
