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15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is my main work tool for more than a year. I use it every single day, all day long — to code, to process photos, and to write my blog posts, of course.

  1. BetterTouchTool turns it into hard-working assistant that with a tap or a gesture you can have launch apps, change brightness, swap Spaces and make windows snap to the sides of your screen.
  2. The standard toolbar has all the features you would expect such as crop tool, clone tool, erase, fill tool, brushes, selection tool and more. In addition, PIXLR also has a selection of preset filters similar to those offered in Photoshop for automatic photo editing.

Back in 2017, I thought the Touch Bar had a vast potential to become engaging and helpful. I believed developers might support it in their applications. I was hoping there was a use for it. A year has passed, applications have been updated, but as a Pro user of Pro 15-inch laptop with a 3K Euro price tag, I do declare now — the Touch Bar still remains the useless shit and there is no hope Apple will fix it.

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Things got even worse when Apple 'reinvented' the Play/Pause button in High Sierra. Now it controls everything, from browser ads to notifications sound. Everything, except music. WAT?

As a machine, MacBook Pro is great. But not because of the Touch Bar. Touch Bar is an inflamed appendix, the same dumb shit as Siri. If Apple had implemented it as an additional row and not the F-keys replacement, everyone would forget about it in a couple of days.

The reason is simple — that's how you see your laptop 99% of the time:

If you have, well, HANDS, you hardly see the Touch Bar more than twice in two hours. The first time, when you're leaving to get some coffee, second time — when you back with the cup of hot flat white.

No pro-user ever thought of copying text using Touch Bar or something like this, but Apple guidelines restrict any unique features. So why do I even need this crap, if it does not give me unique capabilities and takes away my F-keys.

We're doomed. MacBooks treated us well, and any other laptop feels like a cheap plastic toy nailed to the floor. MacOS is still the best, combining the usability of popular operating systems and flexibility of Unix.

What else do we have? Ubuntu? To use Photoshop in Wine? To watch Plasma crashes like in good old days? No, thanks.

For the whole year, I've pushed myself to use the Touch Bar. I've paid for that!

Here's my pro opinion: Fuck your guidelines, Apple. The Touch Bar should always be predictable. I don't want to remember button configuration for every app. I want it to be useful and informative. Just give me an additional screen, like in the early fan renders.

Early renders from Martin Hajek.

Saying 'extra screen' gives me childhood flashbacks. To my sleepless nights, when I was coding Conky configs in ArchLinux to display on my desktop the most important things: the weather, CPU-usage, IP-address, and a FULL-SCREEN CLOCK, of course — a pride and envy of every nerdy schoolboy.

If you were lucky to be an average healthy teenager, I'll show you this nightmare:

Ew, creeps! Let this shit stay in 2007. I went through it. I grew up. It looks cool and 'cyberpunky' for literally one evening. You never use it afterwards.

Things must be useful, not 'beautiful'

The grown-up me started to track my everyday habits and search Reddit for ideas. The only proper app for Touch Bar customization I've found, is BetterTouchTool. It's still buggy, user-hostile and drains the battery, but it only costs $5. Reasonable price, I recommend it.

I've read every single guide to the BetterTouchTool setup and came up with the following conclusions based on whether it works for me or not.

CoolCrap
Name of track playing
Deadly necessary feature. I'm always wondering what Spotify's Discover brings me.
Bitcoin price
No idea why this widget is so popular. Worthless distraction.
Volume buttons
Buttons rock. It's always faster to tap, not slide.
Brightness slider
Requires lots of space but used once a week when watching 'Futurama' at night.
Finder in one click
I want to have instant access to Finder, anywhere. Default Touch Bar can't do that. Weird.
RAM usage
Useless. In modern OS it's always nearly 100%. That's natural.

No, I'm not only listening to music and open Finder all day. I code, deploy my dockers, etc. All my work instruments are set up flawlessly. Touch Bar can't make them work better.

However, a lot of processes are always running in the background. Music keeps playing. New ideas pop-up — would be good to write them down. Touch Bar is a perfect place for everything you don't need all the time, but it's a pain in the ass to look for such things when they're needed.

E.g., the eyedropper tool, to take the hex color code from the screen.

Two weeks of experiments — writing widgets, trying them, observing, and now I have something to show you:

Obviously, something will change with time, but today I already see that I've started to use the Touch Bar more. Now I remember where every button is. Eat it, Jony Ive!

Here's the story of every single button.

ESC forever!

Several times My Touch Bar stopped working while Esc was hidden. No idea why hide it at all. Esc must always be tied to its rightful place. It is now, thanks to BetterTouchTool.

The button next to Esc returns the default Touch Bar, just in case you need something from standard functionality. Haven't used it yet, though.

A predictable Finder

Imagine, you want to drag a picture to a browser to upload. You click the Finder, but instead opening a new window at the same screen, it carries you away somewhere. Just because there's another Finder window opened there. And it's fucking impossible to fix that with standard MacOS tools.

Here comes the AppleScript. First, it forces a Finder to open a new window, then tells it to switch to home folder and opens it on top. That's the only way I've found.

Despite that, AppleScript is fun. You feel like playing a text RPG when coding.

upd: Found a nasty bug. Holding the Finder button for a while will launch a million Finder windows, so you're gonna have a really bad time.

Sublime Text and Notes

I've found out that I always use these two apps and want to access them from anywhere. I don't want to exit the full-screen of my IDE to write down something to Notes.

These are two simple app buttons. Just like at the Dock. You can add any. At first, I've added a bunch of unnecessary ones, but only those two survived. I don't want to replace the Dock but improve usability.

Currently playing Spotify or iTunes track

Standard Touch Bar will never support the most useful feature — to display the name of track playing. Instead, Apple provides you with huge and useless timeline slider. I don't know what's playing but know the moment in time. Handy.

Fuck sliders and buttons. I only need a track name and a cute pictogram. You can easily google AppleScript configuration for that. It works with both Spotify and iTunes, even when both are active.

In my script, the click on the name of track playing works as 'next'. Priceless. Especially when 'Nickelback' song interferes the AI-generated playlist.

Whether there is a way to get back to the previous track? Nope. The 'prev' button used rarely. No need to waste space. When I need that for some reason, I just open an app.

YouTube

Would be cool to display the name of the YouTube video on the Touch Bar, right?

There's a script for that too. It looks through open Safari tabs and finds one that starts with youtube.com/watch. Then, displays tab title on the Touch Bar. Clicking on it gets you to the exact tab. Neat!

We have a little problem here, though. BetterTouchTool can only run the script by a timer. There's no way to make a simple browser plug-in for displaying the text. You have a script running once in 20 seconds, and praying it won't overload the CPU.

upd: CPU is fine, but the battery doesn't. I've turned it off, for now, waiting for BTT updates or will probably write my own tool with external scripting support.

Reminders

I do not practice a time-management. My life cycle only requires a simple todo-list and the Reminders.app. It would be nice to see the top reminder on the Touch Bar.

It turned out very well. E.g., for the whole week, I was trying not to forget to extend my insurance. Did that immediately when it became an eyesore on my Touch Bar. Now I can even tell my dumb Siri 'hey, remind me to buy milk' and it appears on the Touch Bar. Nailed it — two useless things replaced with the useful one. Nice.

Clicking on the reminder opens the full Reminders list, so you can check the completed and add more.

Nay, it's not a problem if the reminder is too long, or Spotify grabbed the whole space since you can scroll this area of Touch Bar.

Weather

My personal guilty pleasure is to see what's the weather outside now. Imagine this — there's freaking cold, and you're sitting by the fireplace, covered in bees plaid, with a glass of hot wine. Or — it seems like there's a sunny and warm day, which means the adventures time!

A long time ago I even had a little utility for tracking the current weather in a tray. Probably the first app I bought.

Now I decided to make one for the Touch Bar. The main issue of such things is the hardcoded location. I always forget to change it when traveling. It's nicely done in wttr.in, where location traced through an IP.

With JSON Helper and Location Helper installed, you can write it youself in couple of lines of AppleScript. No need to buy $1.99 app from AppStore. PROFIT!

If you need a full report, clicking brings you straight to the local weather website. You can even add emojis to display the cloud cover. Take a look at our GitHub repo at the end of the article, some of my readers already made that.

The 'coffee break' button

Vital rule of the office life — block your laptop when leaving. No need to explain this.

I'm not a fan of 'hot corners' so I always used the Ctrl + Shift + Power shortcut before. Pity, it doesn't work on new MacBooks because of the Touch ID. The good news is you can add a button for this action to the standard Touch Bar.

I decided to steal this feature and make the 'coffee break' button. It locks the laptop and switches the screen off. Extremely useful and has an adorable pictogram — everyone notices it and asks how to get one too.

No-slider volume

Once again. I hate sliders on Touch Bar. Changing them to buttons was the first thing I did. Now I can tap them blindly. Guess, even my stress level significantly dropped when I stopped trying to put the sliders in the desired position. It was same to adjusting hot water in a shower — you're never gonna get it without burning yourself.

Look how close the buttons to each other at this part of the Touch Bar. Guidelines state to place them 2x wider. For me though, it seems like the perfect placement. My favourite size.

Smart 'Play'

Starting from MacOS High Sierra Play/Pause button globally controls the system sounds. It is not a problem on iPhone, but on Mac it controls every ad that pop-up with more priority than Spotify. You tap the button and don't understand, why it doesn't stop the music. Thanks, Apple. Very convinient.

It seems like Apple is extremely proud of their amazing innovative idea and don't even think of fixing it. Some random guy from the Internet solved it with a High Sierra Media Key Enabler utility. Works neatly.

Also take a look at the BeardedSpice if you want even more control.

The AppleScript for my Play/Pause button controls iTunes and Spotify, depending on active one. If both are not running, it will automatically launch Spotify. No need to think of it.

Here's one more script to change the play/pause pictogram:

THE Clock

Yeah, previously I've mentioned that only Linux nerds set clock everywhere. All so. Though, there are two important and unobvious uses for them on Touch Bar.

First: you will always occasionally tap any key, placed above the Backspace/Delete button. That's the suffering area, where no action must be placed, if you don't want to activate it every 5 minutes. Probably, that's why Apple put Siri there (analysts were satisfied, I bet). For us, it's merely a spot for a clock.

Second: full-screen apps. Most of the day my PyCharm opened in a full-screen. It helps me to efficiently use the screen and not get distracted by 'critical bug fix asap' messages. The thing is, you can't see time in a full-screen mode you and could easily miss the important meeting.

In short, it's useful.

Here's how my full config looks like:

Don't forget to uncheck MacOS Control Strip in Settings to fully replace the default Touch Bar:

Here's the complete preset, as promised: vas3k_btt_v2.json. To import it into your BetterTouchTool, click Manage presets —> Import. To make Weather work, you also need the JSON Helper and Location Helper.

Try it. It's easy. You only need an evening to sort it out. Probably you compile something great, and Apple will hire us all because we're cool.

upd: A lot of cool guys wanted to share their presets too, so we created a GitHub-repo for that. Feel free to add your own: github.com/vas3k/btt-touchbar-presets

upd2: Much time has passed since the article was written. BTT author has added many cool features that you can use instead of our hand-made widgets. The bad news: our presets are mostly not working now. At the beginning we tried to update them for each new version of BTT, but there were so many incompatible changes that we gave up. So, just use this article as a guide and you will be able to create something even cooler. I am very proud that we had such an impact on touchbar customization and BTT itself. Thank you, guys!

Capturing and sharing photos has never been easier thanks to the digital age of photography, but taking quality snaps is easier said than done. Is the light right? Are the colors too dull or too saturated? We often find ourselves asking these questions when it comes to sharing a photo online. In order to fulfill our photo enhancing needs, we see the internet filled with different sorts of automatic photo enhancing software that promise to transform your ordinary photos to pieces of digital art that will mesmerize the viewers.

Automatic photo enhancing software works by adjusting your photo to give it better color, light and so much more. It is most suited for photographers that do not want to spend too much money on expensive gear and too much time tinkering around with advanced photo editing software. There are many options to consider when looking for the best automatic photo enhancing software, but according to us, these are the top names to come forward:

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1. Luminar

Format – Software download
Available Platforms – Windows & MAC

AI editing. As with other examples of best photo software, Luminar makes use of AI technology. Features such as SKY Enhancer, Accent AI and Sun Rays can automatically edit your photos through detailed analysis and learning.

Photo Presets. Luminar has an awesome range of presets that you can easily apply to your images. These are not just run of the mill presets either – they are high quality. Examples include color film stock, Metro Tokyo and Expired Looks.

Textures. Aside from photo presets, you can also apply preset textures to your photos. The Found textures pack, for example, provides a host of natural and man-made textures such as metals.

These are just three of the main features of this image enhancement software. Luminar also has a host of default images styles that have been developed in conjunction with professional photographers. This automatic photo editor is a pleasure to use and creates some mind-blowing end results.

2. Adobe Lightroom

Format – Softwaredownload, browser editor, app
Available Platforms – Windows, MAC, Android, iOS

Adobe Lightroom runs as a desktop app, a mobile app, and an online editor. It’s versatile, easy to learn and use, and well-organized. Lightroom provides complete image organizing and sharing functionality, cloud storage, and professional photo edits. The latest versions include automatic features powered by artificial intelligence (AI) as well.

It’s designed to be fast and efficient and thus itallows you to edit pictures from the Library module, without even opening them.Quick Develop panel includes color and tone adjustments you can apply to one ormultiple images, presets you can use as they are or change according to yourartistic vision, and automatic adjustments. For example, Auto Tone performsautomatic adjustments for contrast, exposure, and brightness. You can also copysets of adjustments from one photo to another.

Adobe Lightroom includes automatic tools for straightening pictures,applying lens corrections, fixing chromatic aberrations, correcting whitebalance, recovering highlights, and adjusting tone. You can use the Auto modeas a fast editing technique or as a starting point of your edits.

3. Aurora HDR

Format – Software download
Available Platforms – Windows & MAC

Improved Quantum HDR Engine that merges your brackets into a perfectly balanced realistic image with just a few clicks in a matter of seconds. Whilst some HDR photos look contrived and unrealistic, Aurora HDR has advanced AI technology that allows you to create natural shots.

HDR Presets – If you want to try out different HDR effects and do photo enhancing automatically, try Aurora‘s myriad of HDR presets. These have pre-defined settings to create some interesting and quality results.

Creative HDR. Whilst it is fun to improve photos to make them look natural, it is also fun to make them look exceptional and “out-there”. The creative HDR mode allows you to do this and produces a bold and bright end product.

Aurora is all about HDR photo editing. With this photo editing software you can create some truly stunning HDR compositions – from natural-looking photos to creative, out-of-this world images.

4. Photolemur

Format – Software download
Available Platforms – Windows & MACFace Finish. If you regularly take portrait shots or selfies, Photolemur has a superb tool in the form of face finish. This tool smooths skin, enhances eyes and also removes any imperfections.

Automatic RAW Enhancement. This tool allows you to turn your RAW photos into usable edits with little to no effort. You can bring your photo back to what it looked like when you snapped it.

Smart Photo Styles. Photolemur also provides the ability to get creative with your automatic photo editing. You can use the smart photo styles to turn your images into works of art.

With a cool name like Photolemur, you know this program must be good! The latest version of this automatic photo editor software is fantastic. It offers many useful tools such as Automatic Face Retouching, Automatic Raw Enhancement, and Smart Photo Styles. Furthermore, Photolemur uses AI technology to create realistic and detailed photo edits.

5. PhotoScape X

Format – Software download
Available Platforms – Windows & MAC

PhotoScape is a free photo editor for both Windows and MAC devices and is a great piece of software for making simple photo edits.

The interface is undoubtedly basic – it has a very “Windows XP” feel in terms of windows and folder navigation. It is unbelievably easy and quick to use, however. You can complete simple editing tasks in a matter of seconds.

PhotoScape offers basic photo editing functionality – you can change parameters such as contrast, saturation, and auto-levels easily. Aside from this, PhotoScape has a range of presets and filters that allow you to transform your photo instantly – some are really useful whilst others are more for fun.

We also love the batch processing feature which is quite extensive. You can essentially make simple photo edits for groups of images instantly. For example, you can use the batch processing tool to apply filters and adjustments to all images within a certain folder – this really does speed up the editing process.

6. Nik Collection

Format – Software download
Available Platforms – Windows & MAC

DXO have created a fantastic plugin suite in the form of Nik Collection (you may remember it as free photo editing software from Google).

The suite is available for purchase on both Windows and MAC devices – you can also try a free 30 day trial of each plugin.

The collection includes Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, Analog Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro, DFine and Sharpener Pro. Each plugin provides a different array of filters and presets that can easily be applied to your photos.

Color Efex Pro: Color correction, creative color filters, and retouching controls

Silver Efex Pro: Converting photos to black and white composites

Viveza: Local adjustment brushes

Analog Efex Pro: To create photos that look like camera film or certain lens types

HDR Efex Pro: Automatically create HDR composites

DFine: Reduce unwanted background noise from photos

Sharpener Pro: Tool to sharpen images in local areas on to whole photos

The interface is user-friendly and you can apply the different effects in no time at all.

7. Zoner Photo Studio X

Format – Software download
Available Platforms – Windows & MAC

This photo editing software has a plethora of useful features.

Zoner Photo Studio X has incorporated a host of presets. For example, it has an auto-enhancement feature for portraits – this corrects elements such as red-eye and also adjusts contrast, color, and white balance.

Furthermore, there is a host of other presets such as color adjustments and black and white composites. You can hover over these presets and a thumbnail will display what the changes will look like. The auto-enhancements really are a superb addition – you can quickly process whole batches of photos if you are stuck for time.

The other thing you might notice is the interface and layout – Studio X has had a big improvement in usability. Zoner has clearly made it their aim to improve usability and thus you can easily access menus, editing tools and presets.

Zoner is available as a one-off purchase or a monthly subscription – the costs are minimal. It also has a free 30-day trial available.

8. Corel Paint Shop Pro

Format – Software download
Available Platforms – Windows & MAC

Corel has been creating photo editing software since the dawn of time.

Paint Shop Pro is their flagship product and really is a powerful piece of software. It can be used for both simple, quick photo edits, but also for in-depth professional editing.

For automatic edits, PaintShop Pro has some epic tools. Firstly, it has a series of filters/effects – these are categorized into photo effects, art media, artistic and texture. Using these tools you can quickly apply a range of stylish overlays to your photos.

Secondly, PaintShop Pro also has some brilliant basic editing tools that you can quickly edit your photos with. For example, the smart photo fix tool allows you to quickly correct flaws such as lens distortion, red-eye, and chromatic aberration.

Alternatively, the tone mapping feature allows you to quickly edit the overall color/tone balance of a photo. It is this combination of powerful editing tools and basic functionality that make PaintShop Pro such a useful enhancing program.

9. Pho.To Lab

Format – Smartphone App
Available Devices – Android, Apple, Windows photo editor

Pho. To Lab has a series of fun apps that allow you to apply awesome filters and effects to your smartphone pics. This is a great set of tools if you maintain social media accounts – you can quickly create interesting and eye-catching pics to upload to your social media streams.

The app suite contains three different programs – Photo Lab, Visage Lab, and Emolfi.

Photo Lab has over 800 different effects that you can instantly apply to your photos. You can apply stylish and fun backgrounds to portraits. You can also apply a huge range of textures, brushes, and filters to your photos to create unique effects. It is even possible to add animation.

Visage Lab, on the other hand, allows you to automatically re-touch your selfies. You can apply different filters to the photos and you can also clean up your appearance. It is easy to erase blemishes and other imperfections. Finally, we have Emolfi which is a similar app to the Snapchat filter feature. You can apply object layers over your selfies to make them match your mood.

10. Acorn

Format – Software Download
Available Platforms – MAC

Acorn is brought to us by Flying Meat and serves as a fantastic low-cost alternative to Photoshop and Lightroom. This Lightroom alternative is only available on Mac devices – you can download it directly from their website or through the App Store.

As a Lightroom alternative, Acorn can improve photos with ease.

Firstly, it has a host of non-destructive filters that can create some truly unique end products. It is possible to customize these filters with your own settings and even save the presets to use again.

Aside from filters, this automatic photo editing software gives a set of adjustment tools such as tilt-shift, vignette, drop shadow, sharpening and color correction – it is easy to make auto photo edit processes. Acorn is a fantastic mac photo editor and it costs next to nothing too which is always a benefit.

11. Pixelmator

Format – Software Download
Available Platforms – MAC

Pixelmator is a MAC photo editor that allows for professional photo edits. For creating automatic photo edits, Pixelmator has the ML Enhance function. Using ML Enhance you can automatically improve the basic quality and finish off your photos. It uses AI technology and has learned from millions of photos to provide reliable and quality end results.

Aside from ML Enhance, Pixelmator also has a host of batch processing tools. You can automatically alter white balance, color adjustments and effects. Furthermore, you can automatically change the image file type. The color adjustments, for example, provides you with a range of preset color options such as Smoky, Vibrant, Vivid and Calm. You can apply these presets with a single click.

This MAC program also has some neat features such as text overlays, quick selection tools, and layer tools. The interface is sometimes clunky as different windows pop-up, but the auto enhancements are superb.

12. PIXLR.com

Format – Browser Editor
Available Platforms – Any web browser

This editor has a simple interface and a host of basic tools to quickly edit your photos. The standard toolbar has all the features you would expect such as crop tool, clone tool, erase, fill tool, brushes, selection tool and more.

In addition, PIXLR also has a selection of preset filters similar to those offered in Photoshop for automatic photo editing. These allow you to apply some cool effects to your photos such as halftone, noise, vignette, HDR, and blur. PIXLR also has a selection of automatic adjustments you can apply to a photo. Examples of adjustment presets include invert, sepia, solarize, old photo, posterize and desaturate.

Finally, you can make adjustments to the basic photo parameters using the adjustment tools. These include brightness & contrast, color balance, levels, curves, exposure and hue/saturation.

Although this is just a web-based editor, it is still quite powerful and really quick to use.

13. Affinity Photo

Format – Software download & app
Available Platforms – Windows & MAC

Affinity Photo is a superb photo enhancer software, available as both an app for Apple IPads and as a desktop program too.

We should first notice that the program is easy to use – the tools are placed in a logical layout and are easily accessible. It also runs smoothly and does not require a huge amount of processing power.

This program has a whole dedicated section relating to RAW editing. It provides a host of useful development tools that allows you to quickly improve the basic quality of your photos. These tools include painted overlays, white balance tool, blemish removal tool, crop and straighten tool and tone clipping. Using these tools you can quickly turn a RAW photo into a high-quality edit.

Moreover, Affinity Photo also offers a selection of adjustment tools. These give you greater control over your images. They are typical tools that you would have a RAW editor to contain such as clarity, contrast, saturation, and noise reduction. The workflow is logical and the program operates perfectly on both computers and iPads.

14. Light Zone

Format – Software download & app
Available Platforms – Windows & MAC

Light Zone has actually been around for years and it is now an open source auto photo enhancer that anyone can use.

One of the main features of this program is its pre-built styles. These styles are effectively a combination of edited settings that create a certain effect. You can apply these styles with a simple click. Example of “styles” include “Soft Skin Tones, “Sharpening”, “Fill Flash”, and “Skin Glow”.

The styles are organized into different categories and you can edit the photo after you have applied it too. We love this free photo editor because of the styles, but it also has a host of basic editing functions too. You can apply photo effects such as white balance, hue/saturation, and noise reduction. As far as image enhancement software goes, Light Zone is definitely a top contender.

To download the program you must first register an account on the Light Zone website (it only takes a few minutes).

15. ON1 Photo Raw

Format – Software download
Available Platforms – Windows & MAC

ON1 Photo RAW is another heavy hitter in the world of photo enhancements.

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This program really shines when it comes to automatic enhancements. ON1 has a multitude of editing presets. These presets can be applied with a single click. Moreover, you can edit the parameters of each preset if you wish to tweak the end result. Examples of preset categories include cinematic, color grading, hipster, sports, urban and color film. The variety is superb and they can really transform your photos into professional end products.

ON1 has a similar layout to Lightroom and is extremely user-friendly. Edits can be applied to photos quickly. Moreover, it has an extensive import and export feature.

Finally, ON1 also has fantastic storage and management capabilities – you can use this program to organize and categorize your photos to improve your workflow.

It should be noted that to use this program to its fullest extent, you will need a powerful PC – it is quite processor and memory heavy. If you have a modern high-power computer, ON1 is certainly a great choice – other products in this list could be advised if you only have a basic device, however.

16. CyberLink Photodirector

Format – Software download
Available Platforms – Windows & MAC

PhotoDirector 10 by Cyber Link is the latest version of this photography software. This latest release includes many improvements and a host of AI-based technologies. If you want to improve photos automatically then this is a great choice. You can try the photo enhancement software for free first in a trial version – the full version is available as a download and has a reasonable cost in comparison to the other top photo enhancers.

So why is this program suitable to improve photo automatically? The new AI transfer tool plays a large factor in this. This tool allows users to apply a myriad of preset photo filters. That’s not it, however – you can actually take another photo PhotoDirector will learn its style and then apply it to your own image!

Aside from this, this photo editing software has a host of one-click presets too. You can apply filters such as black and white, sepia, split tone and HDR in seconds.

Finally, this easy photo editor also has several presets for portrait and landscape photos. The only downside we found to this photo enhancer was the speed – using the AI transfer tool is not a quick process.

17. Apple Photos

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Format – Software available with MAC devices
Available Platforms – MAC

This is a standard auto photo editing program that has always been released with Mac devices. This basic photo enhancing program is great for beginners and those getting to grips with photo editing. If you don’t have much experience photo editing then get used to concepts such as contrast, saturation, a color picker and brightness using Photos for Mac.

Photos for Mac has a range of automatic photo enhancer tools such as enhance auto-correct – this corrects imperfections and brightness levels in your photos in a single click. The brilliance adjustment tool on the other hand tweaks image highlights to provide a balanced end product.

This photo enhancer also has different preset filters to choose from which can be used to quickly change the style of your apple photos. Examples of these filters include vivid, vivid warm, dramatic, mono, silvertone and noir. Because this program comes free with Mac devices we rate it as one of the best photo editing software for Mac devices.

18. Adobe Photoshop Elements

Format – Software download
Available Platforms – MAC & Windows

As you would expect from Adobe, Photoshop Elements is a powerful and useful photo enhancement software. If you do not have extensive editing and design knowledge, Elements is the auto photo editor for you. Whilst Photoshop itself can be quite complicated, Elements could be classed as an easy photo editor in comparison.

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You can use many of Photoshop’s automatic editing tools but in fewer steps and with less stress. For example, you can apply a myriad of different filters such as palette knife, sponge and cutout in a few clicks.

Aside from this, Elements allows you to perform simple tasks such as resize the image, color picker from the image and change the color saturation. You can essentially make the program as simple or complex as you wish.

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To sum up this simple photo editing software up we would call it a simplified Photoshop. If you want to learn Photoshop in a hassle-free manner, Elements is the perfect way to do so.