While some people reject the subscription model on principle, its big advantage is that you continue to get all the latest updates and new features for as long as you keep on paying. But it costs much less, at $4.99 per month, which at the time of writing equates to about £3.50, compared to £10 for Adobe’s Photography Plan. It works on a subscription basis only, with no option to buy a one-off license, which might not endear it photographers who are looking for an alternative to Adobe software.

ZPS is, however, only available for Windows, so Mac users can stop reading now. It’ll even integrate with external services such as Dropbox and Facebook. It can be used to download and organise pictures from your camera, develop and edit raw files, and then build web galleries, design photo books and buy prints.

To describe it as a raw converter and image editor is almost to do it an injustice, because it promises to do pretty much everything you might need once when you get home from taking pictures. Indeed in what is a very crowded market, Zoner Photo Studio X (ZPS) stands out for its sheer breadth of capabilities. Developed using Zoner Photo Studio X (Autumn 2021 update) Zoner Photo Studio X has all the tools you need to make attractive raw conversions.

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