Future Scope of Image Editor Industry

Image manipulation involves the processes of changing images, whether they are digital photographs, traditional photochemical photographs, or illustrations. Traditional analog image editing is known as photo retouching, which uses tools like an airbrush to alter photos or edit illustrations using a traditional art medium. Graphics software programs, which can be broadly divided into vector graphics editors, raster graphics editors, and 3-D modelers, are the main tools that a user can use to edit, enhance, and transform images. Many image editing programs are also used to render or create computer art from scratch.

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Some of the key players of Image Editor Industry:

Adobe, Zoner, Serif, Cyberlink, MacPhun, PhaseOne, DxO Optics, ON1, ACDSee Ultimate, Corel, Magix

Raster images are stored in a computer in the form of a grid of picture elements or pixels. These pixels contain the image's color and brightness information. Image editors can change the pixels to enhance the image in many ways. The pixels can be changed as a group or individually using the sophisticated algorithms in the image editors. This article primarily relates to bitmap graphics editors, which are commonly used to modify photos and other raster graphics.

However, vector graphics such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Xara Designer Pro, or Inkscape create and modify vector graphics that are saved as descriptions of lines, Bézier curves, and text instead of pixels. It is easier to rasterize a vector image than it is to vectorize a raster image. How to vectorize a raster image is the focus of much research in the field of computer vision. Vector images are easier to change because they contain descriptions of the shapes for easy rearrangement. They are also scalable and can be rasterized at any resolution.