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# Zoner Photo Studio X Reviews
**Vendor:** ZONER software  
**Category:** [Other Design Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-design)  
**Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 12
## About Zoner Photo Studio X
Zoner Photo Studio X – An all-in-one application for your photographs and an established Lightroom and Photoshop alternative. Zoner Photo Studio will empower you by: • Organizing: store and browse photos by their location, date taken, keywords, or folders. Add descriptions, GPS coordinates, keywords, colored labels, and ratings so you never loose track of any of your adventures • Batch operations that save time. Your time • Non-destructive edits for every image format in case you change your mind • Indexing &amp; fast culling with fast previews and smart RAW • RAW Development • Layer-enabled editing • Unique color adjustment capabilities: Split Toning, Shifting colors • Plan, share and analyze your photos on your preferred social media channel or friends • Share you photographs on Zonerama, the free online gallery with no quality loss like other platforms • Turn your content into gifts (photobooks, calendars, canvas prints, and even videos Zoner Photo Studio will also benefit organizations • Thanks to the intuitive user interface, there&#39;s no need for long training • Batch operations that save loads of time. • Non-destructive edits for every image format. • You need the internet to activate the app, after that, you can use ZPS X anywhere • Low system requirements and a price your wallet will appreciate • Tell your organization&#39;s story with photos and slideshows • Edit, clean up, and organize photos of volunteers or on-site events • Plan, share and analyze your photos over social media channels It&#39;s all there, under one roof and the only application you&#39;ll ever need.




## Zoner Photo Studio X Reviews
  ### 1. Best tool for mediocre photo edits

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Pavith S. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2020

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

It lets you edit pictures in somewhat a photoshop style, but it doesnt have all that complex operations such as that of Photoshop.

It can also be used as photo management tool such as that of the old picassa software that google had and further droped.

Pictures can be viewed as in an album of their folders.

Details of an image is given perfectly, as all the informations are shown in the detail section.

It even shows you if a flash was fired during the shot. Thats really impressive.

Another thing is that Zoner Photo Studio X lets you organise your images via three main tabs. One is the Album type image explorer and then there is the Viewer which as its name says shows  you the image
The editor is the main part as it has tools that let you customise and edit your image in limited ways.

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

It is not a very handy software because most edits could be done in most native editors. 

Also the navigations aren't very friendly.

It has less editing tools and freedom of editing is also not much satisfying.

The tools could have been better, and the number of tools are also less. 

The Software design looks good in the black theme but even tho an old fashion look is there. Maybe due to the logo or the design structure.

**Recommendations to others considering Zoner Photo Studio X:**

Can be used for lite edits. Heavy edits and changes are not meant for this software.
Its not a freeware. You can easily find freeware substitutions for some tasks done by this software. Around $49 per year is the price for the software. It might be a bit expensive since its not a one time payment. its like an anual subscription rate.

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Used this software when i had trouble geting photoshop instaled in my pc.

It was helpful to an extend but it can never replace photoshop.

It was rather a photo management tool than an edittor.

It actualy organied the photos in a very nice way.

I prefered zoner photo studio x for minor edits for images such as adding texts in continuous jmages repetedly and also to view detailed informations about an image.

  ### 2. i love batch editing

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Fabio Z. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2020

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

very good for quickly retouching photos and organizing them, but I love the batch editing function of exif data. Many times we shoot with two reflex cameras whose time is not synchronized, and cataloging them in order of time, especially at weddings, is a problem. With this function you can easily solve the problem

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

many functions are also present in other software

**Recommendations to others considering Zoner Photo Studio X:**

carefully evaluate the functions and if it is right for you

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I can modify the exif data

  ### 3. Great Software, But...

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** At Home R. | Broker, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

Zoner photo studio is easy to navigate, and truly enhances photos. The automatic edit is nice because it enhances the photos without you having to go into all the individual tabs like the brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

While it is a great program, there are free versions that are just as good.

**Recommendations to others considering Zoner Photo Studio X:**

It is a great software, but if you are only going to use the basics such as brightness, contrast, saturation and a few others, then a free version will work just as well. If you need more advanced editing abilities, Zoner is a great option.

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have a real estate company and photos can make or break a house. Realtors often use their phone to take pictures of their listings, but we enhanced them with Zoner. It made the pictures seem like they were professionally taken.

  ### 4. Zoner photo studio review

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sangam S. | Test Automation Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2019

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

It has a full-featured system for organizing photos.

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

There is no user forum to post questions or share tips and suggestions.

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Zoner Photo Studio X software offers both a photo organizer and editor to help me store and easily edit images

  ### 5. A Professional Photographer's Choice 

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Thevarajah N. | Trainee Engineer, Civil Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

It's a photo editing software and also provides the platform to organize all photos. Editing and organizing in one place is the key expectation of every editor. Simple editing also available to anyone who doesn't know about the software can access it to fulfill their minimal photo editing works.

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

Get to know the software is not as easy as other software. Only video tutorials are available and no forum to ask questions or share our tips. I prefer a step by step method with each method explained with screenshots rather than the tutorial videos. Requires higher memory than any other similar software so malfunctions are usual for lower memory capacity PCs. 

**Recommendations to others considering Zoner Photo Studio X:**

A platform to learn the software easily.

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Editing of a photo album of weddings, receptions, puberty ceremonies, birthday parties and other outdoor or indoor photo shoots. Editing of a single photo which is to be framed.

  ### 6. Improving your photographic work will never be so simple.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Samuel Alberto J. | Diseñador, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2019

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

I really like the great capacity it offers users of its platform and at the same time the simplicity to use it. It is such an intuitive program that you can designate all your material to an assistant to help you in the work of retouching, thanks to its great automatic capabilities of improvements, if you have time in your photo studio to do it yourself, you can use your brushes exclusive that will give touch-ups that all your customers will love. Another thing that I like the most and that saves me a lot of time is the batch edition that you put at your disposal. Also, I like the permanent improvements that they link to the program so that your work experience is fluid and unbeatable.

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

The advantages it offers me have overcome any negative inconvenience that may arise, in my experience, I have no negative comments to make, they are concerned with correcting possible failures or mishaps at all times.

**Recommendations to others considering Zoner Photo Studio X:**

As a designer, I care about learning and knowing about the best options in the market so that my work is the best, with Zoner Photo Studio X, I have obtained support to improve the final quality of my work, so I am sure to recommend it without Problems for any photographic studio or any professional who works as a third party in areas related to improvements in photographs, is a tool that will contribute to you detaches in your work and that you can reach new markets, without hesitation I recommend your implementation.

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

After each photo session, after each client who hires your services, time is of the essence, thanks to Zoner Photo Studio X we have managed to process a greater number of photos in less time, which translates into higher revenues for the company. Another facility that gives any organization is the training you can guarantee the staff of the area in charge, training with a program such as Zoner Photo Studio X very intuitive so that any photographic lover can be part of the company from the elementary aspects to more complex processes.

  ### 7. Not exactly what I was looking for.

**Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

I do like best how the photos and files are laid out. it makes life easy for when you are going back to old projects and whatnot. It also performs quickly and not alot of lag time. 

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

i do not like how "outdated" the software looks. Most of the programs i run are very visually stunning like the updated Lightroom. 

**Recommendations to others considering Zoner Photo Studio X:**

I would recommend you give it a try, Sometimes it's just not what you are looking for, But who knows maybe this software will be perfect for others. it just wasn't right for me


**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

i have realized that getting all my thousands and thousands of photos into different folders tends to be easy with this software. 

  ### 8. the next level on the edition

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Arturo D. | Photographer Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2018

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

It is a program that solves you, that is, Zoner helps you in everything you need to make a good photo retouch, its editing functions are so complete that in a simple way it allows you to create a perfect edition for your photo or work project , this is what I like most about zoner offers very good quality with an incredible speed

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

Despite being very complete with everything related to editing functions I think that Zoner still has a lot to improve, a lot to add or many functions to incorporate into its software, because the more it offers, the better it will be and the more users will go to get it more and more, is the only thing that could say that I do not like the program, its scarcity in some factors.

**Recommendations to others considering Zoner Photo Studio X:**

If what you are looking for is a good editing program, professional but not so complicated, I can recommend everyone to use Zoner, it is undoubtedly the number one option to use a photo editing program with a series of tools and functions suitable for realization of a high quality work.

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Once I make a shot and I make sure that this is the picture that I will offer to my client in particular or to all my clients I proceed to take that photo to Zoner where I can freely make a series of editions to highlight even more the created capture and be able to make a quality project as a final delivery, since the perfect photo plus the perfect editing program does an amazing job

  ### 9. Is amazing in everything

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** carlos a. | Fotógrafo autónomo, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

It is really a program that contributes a lot to the photographers, it is a complement that all the people that love and work with the photography should use, allows that the works that we have take more quality thanks to all the functions of edition and retouch that Zoner offers, making each picture something simply unique.

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

Well, the program, despite being very good, at least to me in particular many times the screen freezes and I have to force it to close it and reopen it, causing me to lose many times the work I was doing, it is something that I think should be improve for users to make better use.

**Recommendations to others considering Zoner Photo Studio X:**

For new users of the program, my best recommendation for you is that you dare to use it, try your pictures here and I promise you will not regret it, it will be the best experiences you could have when using Zoner

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

As a photographer, the Zoner program is very important at least for me, because thanks to it I can edit my photographs and make them much more striking and better so that when it comes to delivering my work these are seen with such great quality that leaves my clients satisfied

  ### 10. Fantastic photo editor/viewer/manager

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Edo M. | Owner, Building Materials, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2017

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

This program is full of options and features that are needed to medium and high level user. Twice at year there are main upgrades, included in yearly subscription. User interface is really compact.

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

1. new user interface implemented from previous version is completely different and  a lot of time is needed to get used to it.(if YOu are switching from version 17 or lower one)
2. new pricing policy is, by my humble opinion, completely wrong, even with new discounts on yearly subscription

**Recommendations to others considering Zoner Photo Studio X:**

This is a classical case of not so known programs that can make miracles. I'm using it from version 14, and this now is version 19 (they changed name from ZPS 19 to ZPS X as they switched from selling software to yearly subscription). 

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Everything regarding photo editing and management. Also, as viewer is very good but not so fast.

  ### 11. Some great features, needs more diversity 

**Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2018

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

I love the simple design and intuitive features.

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

I would prefer there to be a broader number of features and ways to use them.

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Some of the retouching features are simple and intuitive. The catalog and navigator are used for finding images quick. 

  ### 12. Simple photo editing and basic management

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2017

**What do you like best about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

For the new photographer who wants a very simple program that can more then you will need.

**What do you dislike about Zoner Photo Studio X?**

May be to basic for pro users but still a good option for some.

**Recommendations to others considering Zoner Photo Studio X:**

Worth trying out for new people new to photo editing but not a good solution for advanced users. 

**What problems is Zoner Photo Studio X solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Simple way to edit and organize your photos. The key use we had was a low cost solution for photos management. 



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