Image editor

An image editor is a software to edit digital images, either in bitmap (raster) graphics or in vector graphics.

An image editor can be used to create images from scratch, to edit existing images (e.g. photographs), or to combine images from various sources, etc. Image editors usually contain many tools to draw and paint, tools to create and change selections, various filters, tools to work in layers, masks, channels, and so on. They can open and save image files in many different image file formats.

Popular bitmap graphics image editors include:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Corel Photo-Paint
• GIMP (free, open source)

Popular vector graphics image editors include:

• Adobe Illustrator
• CorelDraw
• Macromedia FreeHand
• Inkscape

See also

• Retouching
• Photomontage
• Spanking fake
• Raster graphics editor on Wikipedia
• List of raster graphics editors on Wikipedia
• Comparison of raster graphics editors on Wikipedia
• Vector graphics editor on Wikipedia
• List of vector graphics editors on Wikipedia
• Vector editors versus bitmap editors on Wikipedia