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Now that Adobe has made Photoshop CC the linchpin of its Creative Cloud subscription strategy, photo enthusiasts are more than ever seeking alternatives to the engine that has driven the modern image-editing industry for more than 20 years.

Subscriptions to Photoshop via Creative Cloud cost $50 per month and are popular with a certain segment of Adobe users, mostly the cadre of commercial artists, graphic designers, Web developers, and photographers who use multiple apps for high-end professional work.

To sweeten the deal for photographers, Adobe is now offering a special photo-oriented subscription package targeted to previous users that includes Photoshop and Lightroom for $10 per month (based on a year’s commitment), until December 31. A similar offer targeting everyone else, regardless of past Photoshop ownership, runs until December 2. The upshot is that for photographers who considered $50 a month excessive for purchasing programs they will not use, there’s a less expensive option available until the end of the year.

But a subscription is still a subscription. And even some Creative Cloud cheerleaders may now be pausing to reconsider this path, especially in light of recent issues with Adobe security. That, added to general consumer opposition to subscription software, may play a role in an accelerated quest for a Photoshop alternative.

Even when Photoshop was available as a perpetual license, the $699 standard edition price tag was steep, as was the $350 upgrade price, though a hefty portion of enthusiasts were willing to fork over that amount for the best image editor money could buy. Adobe continues to sell Photoshop CS6, the last presubscription version.

We poked around and found nine good prospects that would be suitable for most amateurs and photo enthusiasts. Some of those alternatives, not surprisingly, come from Adobe itself, while others emerge from familiar vendors like Apple and Corel, as well as more recent players in the software marketplace. Note that prices can vary, and those below are the latest from the vendor's websites.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 ($100)

Photoshop Elements is a full-featured photo-editing package, a light version of Adobe’s flagship Photoshop CC. While it lacks certain high-end professional features such as support for four-color separation, as well as other advanced controls, its price is about 1/7 of the pro version. Photoshop Elements specifically targets hobbyists and advanced amateurs with a consumer oriented approach to image editing, such as Quick, Guided, and Expert modes. Elements ships with an Organizer app (shared with its companion video program, Premiere Elements) that tracks and organizes photos and videos and facilitates creation of artistic projects. Features such as Pet Eye editing (related to red eye in humans), Instagram-style photo effects, textures, auto smart tone, and content aware move make Photoshop Elements a strong contender for hobbyists at all levels.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 ($149)

Lightroom is a true crossover app that straddles the shifting line between advanced amateur and professional photography. While Lightroom is available via Creative Cloud subscription, it’s also available as a stand-alone license-based application for non-subscription purchase. While primarily a photo manager on par with Apple’s Aperture, Lightroom offers a high degree of editing functionality. Hobbyists with advanced knowledge of editing techniques or who shoot Raw may well find Lightroom an acceptable substitute for Adobe’s high-end editor. Lightroom has an agreeable one-window interface that’s easy to work with. Advanced new features include Upright, which offers four options for straightening images with a mouse click; smart previews for working on images when originals aren’t available; advanced healing brush to correct irregular shapes; and a radial gradient tool that directs the viewer’s focus within an image.

Apple Aperture 3.5 ($80)

Aperture has long been a Mac photo-imaging favorite, on par with Adobe Lightroom. While it bills itself as more photo organizer than editor, like Lightroom, it has a great many image- editing features that hobbyists and enthusiasts can rely on. Newer versions of the app fully support Mac Retina displays and join together the databases of both the Aperture and iPhoto libraries to promote the smooth transition back and forth between the different photo editors. A new white-balance tool, an enhanced shadow-highlight editor, and an improved auto enhance feature balance the app’s concentration on photo editing. Add fast browsing and full-screen operation into the mix alongside integration of Faces, Places, and Photo Stream features, and you get a full set of sharing and syncing options to top off the Aperture package.

Apple iPhoto 9.5 ($15)

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More consumer-oriented than Aperture, and simpler to use than Photoshop Elements, iPhoto for Mac is the hub of Apple’s iLife suite. With iPhoto, you can add special effects to images, correct exposure, remove red‑eye, remove unwanted objects, and fix images with an assortment of sophisticated controls. Music app for mac. Use effects to convert photos to black and white, add vignettes, blur edges, and more. The photos you take on your iOS devices can automatically appear in iPhoto via Photo Stream, ready for sharing. Slideshow themes enhance the look and sharing options for your photo collection. When you’re done with an iPhoto edit, you can also get something to show for it. Right from the app, you can order professional prints, photo books, cards, and calendars. This 64-bit app shares a unified database with Aperture, which offers even more advanced image-editing opportunities.

Flying Meat Acorn 4.1 ($50)

Acorn caters to photography enthusiasts seeking a wide range of nondestructive image- editing options. This 64-bit, lightweight but full-service image-editing tool offers all the standard features such as text, vector tools, filters, layer masks, compositing, PSD import and export capability, and an array of sophisticated functions that could yank you out of your Photoshop nostalgia. A multilayer editing function that includes layer groups and cool filters accompany Acorn’s smart crop tool and Web export features. Acorn also supports masks, alphas, curves and levels, multistop gradients, and more, and is optimized for Retina displays. All these convenient features are wrapped in an agreeable, easy to use interface.

Pixelmator 3 ($30)

Pixelmator has, over time, filled in many of the missing elements to make it a true Photoshop alternative. As a full-service image editor like Acorn, it offers all the traditional, recognizable tools that most photographers would need to tweak images. It also features a number of special effects that you can choose to make visible or not. Like Acorn, it works only in the RGB color space, but the new version has added Liquify tools and layer styles designed to compete with Photoshop’s famous features. Enhanced multiple-display support offers more flexibility. Add to that a slew of other easy-to-use drag-and-drop and slider-based editing functions such as painting, retouching, shapes, text tools, color adjustments, and 64-bit architecture.

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