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BEST PHOTO-EDITING SOFTWARE
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
$9.99 per month EDITORS’ CHOICE Lllll
Photoshop remains without peer and is a perennial PCMag Best Product honoree. This year,
the program distinguishes itself with mind-blowing new features. Neural Filters let you alter
the age, expression, pose, and color makeup of human photo subjects. And Sky Replacement
accomplishes nearly instantly what used to be time-consuming, multistep process.
Photoshop now has an AI style-transfer feature, letting you give your photo the look of a Van
Gogh or other artist.
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BEST PHOTO-PRINTING SERVICE
MPIX
$0.19 per 4-by-6-inch print EDITORS’ CHOICE LlllL
Mpix has an excellent web interface, top-quality prints, and an assortment of photo papers
and processes. It ships your prints in the most protected way you’ll find from any photo
finisher. Mpix can also retouch your photo with options including Glass Glare Removal, Stray
Hair Removal, and Teeth Whitening. The company also offers a mobile app to order prints
from your phone camera with all the same options you get on the desktop.
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BEST VIDEO-EDITING SOFTWARE
CYBERLINK POWERDIRECTOR
$129.99 or $69.99 per year EDITORS’ CHOICE Llllh
PowerDirector is not only the most full-featured consumer video-editing application, but it’s
also the fastest at rendering movies. The company is constantly updating with new features
and format support. The subscription gets you access to royalty-free use of well-regarded
Shutterstock media. And masking, titling, and screen recording with multicam are quite
improved. Despite its wealth of features, PowerDirector is remarkably user-friendly.
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BEST CLOUD STORAGE AND SYNCING
MICROSOFT ONEDRIVE
Free EDITORS’ CHOICE Lllll
OneDrive works seamlessly with Microsoft Office and Windows and also has client apps for
Android, iOS, and macOS. The service offers online versions of Office productivity apps, can
back up your computer’s most important files, and uploads photos automatically from your
phone. Its Files on Demand feature saves local storage by downloading files only when you
need them, and the Personal Vault adds extra security protections to your sensitive
documents and media.
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BEST AUDIO-EDITING SOFTWARE
APPLE LOGIC PRO X
$199.99 EDITORS’ CHOICE Lllll
It’s not often that a “best of” distinction is awarded so easily, and it’s not that Logic Pro X is
the only good digital audio workstation out there—it’s that Logic Pro X competes on the high
