Both Windows Vista and Apple are fierce competitors when it comes to photo editing. But how good are these photo editors and how do they differ from the other?

Microsoft Vista

The Windows Live Photo Gallery is perfect for beginners. It is user-friendly and this attracts professionals. Here are some of the tools available in this photo editor: auto adjust, brightness, contrast, shadows, highlights, and histogram.

The auto adjust works by sensing what corrections have to be made in the photo. The brightness and contrast is something that we are all aware of as well as the shadows and highlights. Meanwhile, the histogram is something that gives data regarding the total brightness of a photo.

The Paint is one of the most ubiquitous programs in Microsoft. Beginners usually use this all the time. Having a blank canvas, it has a toolbar where all the tools needed to make a drawing is present. You can call this as the novice's software program when it comes to editing pictures.

The tools themselves come in different varieties. Among these are the Free-form, Brush, Pencil and the Color box. There are several others, of course, but these are the widely used of them all.

Mac's photo editor

The iPhoto is a software from Mac where you can manage and edit pictures at the same time. However, it is mostly used for managing and organize photos. When it comes to photo editing, it is as simple as it gets. Here are some of its editing tools: saturation slider, definition slider, retouch brush, detect edges, and the Auto-Red-Eye tool.

The Saturation slider provides colors for the photos but does not affect the skin tones. The Definition slider enhances the clarity to provide vivid details. In addition to this, the Retouch brush allows you to take out unwanted spots or blemishes in the photo.

Which is beter?

It actually depends on what you need the most. If you are more for the editing, you may go for the Windows Vista Photo Editing Gallery. If you want it simple and easy, there's MS-Paint for you. And apparently, that is what Windows is all about.

But if it is organizing and managing photos among others that you need, then the tools from Mac's photo editing tools is what's good for you. Moreover, it is all about which software you have with you.