Photography and design

Adobe Illustrator creates vector artwork for logos, diagrams and visual identities.

Adobe Lightroom combines a photo library with tools for developing and adjusting pictures.

Adobe Photoshop provides a layered workspace for retouching and image composition.

Affinity provides creative software for image, vector and layout work.

Blender brings modeling, scene creation and animation into a desktop 3D workspace.

Canva builds visual material from templates and a browser-based editing workspace.

CorelDRAW supplies tools for vector illustration and page-oriented design work.

darktable organizes and develops camera RAW images through a non-destructive workflow.

Figma provides a shared workspace for designing interfaces and presenting prototypes.

GIMP offers desktop tools for manipulating raster images and layered compositions.

Inkscape edits vector drawings with a workflow centred on scalable artwork.

IrfanView provides a compact Windows workspace for opening and processing images.

Krita is a painting workspace for drawn artwork, illustration and concept development.

Paint.NET offers a Windows image editor for everyday layered editing tasks.

Penpot provides an open-source workspace for interface design and prototyping.

Photopea opens an image-editing workspace directly in a web browser.

Picsart groups image-editing and visual creation tools into mobile and web applications.

RawTherapee develops camera RAW files with detailed image-processing controls.

SketchUp builds three-dimensional models for spatial and design projects.

Snapseed offers hands-on photo-adjustment tools for a mobile editing workflow.

Upscayl uses local image-processing models to enlarge pictures.

XnView MP helps browse, organize and convert collections of image files.