If photography isn’t a large part of your creative wheelhouse, some of the things covered in this guide won’t apply to you. This guide is aimed at professionals, or at least professional budgets, and it won’t follow the mold of our more generalized build guides.

Smartphones can take photos in RAW, cheap sensors have amazing high-ISO performance, and adaptive algorithms have streamlined workflows that used to be tedious, all while consumer screens continue to use the same undemanding colorspaces.Ī lot of what we’ll cover in this guide can be generalized to image manipulation and digital painting workflows, but it’s definitely biased towards photographers with high-fidelity print production workflows. With the rise of cellphone photography, the hardware requirements for casual photo editing have dropped significantly. Jump directly to PC-Recommendations > Who This Guide is For This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about building a Photo Editing computer, taking a deep dive into the monitor choices, storage configurations, and color proofing environments that photographers need. The right setup won’t make you a better photographer, but it will help you edit faster and spend more time behind the camera. While photo-editing software has become incredibly portable, it’s hard to deny the value of a proper workstation for professional work.

Best Computer for Photo Editing, Intel oriented 10-Core, ~2000$ Build.

Best Computer for Photo Editing, AMD oriented 12-Core, ~1900$ Build.

Best Computer for Photo Editing, AMD oriented 6-Core, ~1200$ Build.

Best Budget Computer for Photo Editing, ~700$ Build.

Building Your Photo Editing Workstation.

Secondary Hardware for Photo Editing & Processing.

What bottlenecks Photo Editing & Processing.

Good computer for photo editing