Zoner photo studio free review update#

The first-run wizard takes you through the program's interface, which I'll discuss next. It makes sense to do so, since the software is subscription-basedВ and offers cloud storage and online galleries. On first run, the program encourages you to sign up for an online Zoner account. At setup, you choose a language (in addition to English, there's Czech, Japanese, German, and Russian, but no French or Italian) and agree to the license. Its requirements are lower than those of Adobe Lightroom, which takes up about 2GB of disk space compared with Zoner's 300MB. Zoner Photo Studio runs on 64-bit Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. A 30-day full-featured free trial lets you kick the software's tires before you commit.

The good news is that it's only $4.99 per month or $49 per year, and you don't lose any of your work or the ability to view photos if your subscription lapses-you just won't get any more new updates. Some won't be pleased to learn that, like Adobe's software, Zoner Photo Studio is only available via subscription. If you want to combine Lightroom workflow and Photoshop layer editing in a single program, it's an option, but it's not nearly as state-of-the-art as either of those Adobe products. You also get online storage and galleries for your subscription price. The program boasts a tabbed interface, photo culling and rating, annotations, and decent output options.

Zoner photo studio free review update#

One of our biggest complaints about it has been slowness in common editing operations, which the update improves though doesn't completely cure. Its Zoner Studio X is a full photo workflow and image editing program that the company updated this spring with new color tools, speedups, and a photo book feature. Though it's not as familiar a name as Adobe, Zoner has been developing photo editing softwareВ for nearly as long, since 1993.