Digital photography has completely changed the way we go about photography. It has opened up so many options and advantages to professionals and amateurs alike. The ease with which we can now edit digital photographs with the aid of photography software on our personal computers for many is the most significant of all, since it has opened up a whole new graphical world.

Nowadays there are lots of different photography editing software packages available. Each software package attempts to fit the needs and wants of a particular demographic of people. For this reason deciding on which digital photography software to use is harder than ever.

The first thing you need to determine when choosing which digital photography software to use will be what exactly you want to do with the software. A lot of amateur photographers just want the basics in their software, so that they won't have any problems working out how to use the software and so they won't need to pay for expensive training programmes.

One kind of photography editing software available focuses on providing tools specifically created with the artistically minded photographers in mind. These software programmes are generally not sophisticated enough for most professionals, but there tools can prove very useful to a lot of the more artistically minded amateur photographers out there.

The basic photography software

The most purchase photography software on the market for the typical nonprofessional user is of a basic nature. These basic software packages will generally include basic editing tools such as, cropping, resizing, removing red-eye tools, an array of printing options and other simple tools that the average amateur photographer might need.

Often some of these basic digital photography editing tools will also give you access to some filtering options as well. Each basic digital photography editing tool program is likely to have some options that are not present in its rival editing programs, but generally speaking they all have the same sort of options.

The main difference between a user using basic photography software and a user using professional editing software, is that the user using the basic software will have a lot less control over the editing process, where as the user using the professional software will have full control over the editing process.

If you just want to get started with some really basic editing software, by doing a Google search for something like "free digital photography software" you will find there are a number of free applications available. If you are just starting out, these programmes may well be perfect for you, but if you have any editing experience you are more than likely to find these applications too basic.

Once you have been using some basic photography software for some time, you will probably begin to get fed up with it's basic functionality. What you want to do now is take note of what editing tools you wish to have more control over and what editing tools you wish to have that you don't presently.

Once you've done this, you will be able to search on the net for the photography editing software that fits your needs and wants. Also don't forget you can check offline photography magazines and other sources for reviews etc.

It's also worth adding, that with the more complex software applications you will probably have to put more effort into learning how to use them, especially if you haven't had all that much experience with other editing applications.