Whether we are an amateur or a professional of photo editing, we have all looked for the best application to transform our photos. On Mac there is a wide range of possibilities that we have tried to collect in this article, taking into account that there are both free and paid options.
Applications to edit photos on Mac
Photscape

- Weight: 189.9 MB
- Compatibility: require macOS 10.12 or later and a 64-bit processor
- Language: Spanish and 9 more.
- Description: application that will allow you to carry out from the simplest editing tasks to the most complex. Without a doubt, it is very suitable for those people who do not have a good command of this type of tools and are looking for something simple. It allows to blur, edit the color of the image and everything you need to make an incredible montage for both a web page and a job.
Pixelmator

- Weight: 112.4 MB
- Compatibility: Requires macOS 10.13 or later and 64-bit processor.
- Language: Spanish and 5 more.
- Description: Pixelmator offers a much more professional suite of tools that integrates seamlessly with both the operating system and the cloud. This allows us to continue working on any computer in the Apple ecosystem. We will have available different selection tools, retouching, drawing, real effects, color gradients, and a large etcetera so that you can make all your creations.
Affinity Photo

- Weight: 562.8 MB
- Compatibility: Requires OS X 10.7 or higher and a 64-bit processor.
- Language: Spanish and 8 more.
- Description: Affinity Photo includes a wide selection of tools designed specifically for creative and photographic professionals. Allows editing and retouching of images, creation of complete compositions with multiple layers or quick and customizable effects. Everything is accompanied by a very good performance since we will see the editions in real time and it is also compatible with PSD files.
Polarr Photo Editor

- Weight: 39.8 MB
- Compatibility: macOS 10.13 or higher, and 64-bit processor.
- Language: English.
- Description: Powerful photo editor for Mac that includes the application of custom filters, the incorporation of photorealistic and layer effects, as well as different depth, color, radial, and gradient masks. In short, everything you need so that if you are a professional of photographic editing you do not lack anything to do your job.
Adobe photoshop

- Weight: 4GB
- Compatibility: minimum macOS 10.13 with 64-bit processor.
- Language: Spanish and 23 more.
- Description: Without a doubt one of the best known tools to perform photo editing on any platform is Photoshop. Operating now through a monthly subscription program, we will have available a wide catalog of tools to be able to edit our photographs in a professional manner. It includes the ability to create layers, add filters as well as remarkable tools such as 360º panoramas or the curvature pen tool.
Adobe lightroom

- Weight: 666.6 MB
- Compatibility: macOS 10.13 or later, 64-bit processor
- Language: Spanish and 13 more.
- Description: tool designed for photography professionals, which offers the necessary tools to readjust color, crop, eliminate elements of photography that we are not interested in … This app is included in the Adobe suite, complementing Photoshop.
GIMP

- Weight: 7.4 MB
- Compatibility: macOS 10.6 or higher.
- Language: Spanish and 15 more.
- Description: Free and open source tool that will allow us to customize our editing experience as we wish. Although the tools they include are very basic, they are undoubtedly enough to carry out the editing tasks. It includes the possibility of working with transparencies, scripting tools, sub-pixel sampling, among many others. The most interesting thing is that we have a wide suite of tools that are totally free.