INDUSTRIAL INSIGHTS
 Photo Editing and Album designing Software Market https://www.theinsightpartners.com/reports/photo-editing-software-market/#:~:text=The%20photo%20editing%20software%20market,period%20of%202020%20to%202027.
The photo editing software market was valued at US$ 773.3 million in 2019 and is projected to reach US$ 1,267.7 million by 2027. The Photo editing software market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.4% during the forecast period of 2020 to 2027.
The demand and usage of photo editing software among professional as well as amateur photographers has been growing at an impressive pace from past few years. Whether the photos are being taken by smartphones or professional cameras, every photographer needs a software to organize, manage, optimize and edit the digital photos.
The camera technology in smartphones and cameras is improving at an unprecedented rate in terms of sensor size, resolution, and features among others. 
To keep up with these advancements, photo editing software providers are also enhancing their offerings by integrating advanced features such as artificial intelligence (AI) editing, facial recognition, layer editing, and content-aware edits among many others. 
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, CyberLink PhotoDirector, DXO PhotoLab, Phase One Capture One Pro, ACDSee Ultimate, Corel PaintShop Pro, and Skylum Luminar are some of the most popular photo editing software in the market today.
 The availability of innovative photo editing software for a wide variety of operating systems ranging from macOS, windows, android, iOS, and iPadOS in desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets is fuelling the growth of global photo editing software market
Key Takeaways
North America is highly dominating the photo editing software market owing to the increasing presence of social media advertising, availability of fashion houses and the rising sales through e-commerce channels. 
The integration of technology such as augmented reality and virtual reality along with intelligent computational algorithm for making images more appealing is also embracing the photo editing software market. 
Additionally, the introduction of 3D-imaging tools such as 3D analysis, 3D alignment and 3D smart vision that analyzes the depth of the image and further transforms them is also the most significant factor that is driving the photo editing software market.
The increasing use of facial recognition technology along with artificial intelligence is also further enhancing the market growth. 
However, the high cost of the latest photo editing software and the lack of availability of free version software will hinder the growth of the photo editing software market.   
Segment Analysis
Product Type  https://www.industryarc.com/Research/Photo-Editing-Software-Market-Research-502809
Android/iOS
• Windows
• Mac
• Online
Based on Product Type, The market is segmented into Android/iOS, Windows, Mac, and Other. In today’s world, there are many different operating systems available, which is why developers of picture editing software make sure their products are compatible with a wide range of systems. This allows users to get more done in less time.
Prosumer level holds the largest share in the photo editing software market in 2019. The latest photo editing software has brought an easy way to edit photographs in one touch editing and also providing with noise reduction editing of images.
 Moreover, the advent of artificial intelligence has led to the introduction of AI-powered photo editing software which uses machine learning for enhancing images and manipulate the images into desired form. The other major factor that is leading to the growth of the prosumer level segment is the rising use of smartphones. 
The rise of selfies has also enhanced the photo editing software market, as this has led to the investment in software providing face beauty effects and is especially relying on the AI-driven facial recognition technology for creating more realistic effects.
Hence, this development in photo editing has highly encouraged the prosumer level segment which will further propel the photo editing software market.  
End-user  https://www.verifiedmarketresearch.com/product/photo-editing-app-market/
• Personal User
• Enterprise User
• Educational User
Based on End User, The market is segmented into Personal User, Enterprise User, and Educational User. Individuals use the photo editing software for their own personal projects, and professional artists and graphic designers use it for their commercial projects. The software is widely used.
There is a wide variety of picture editing software available on the market for the user community, and it may be purchased for a fee or can be obtained for free. The programs for modifying photos are used by a wide variety of people, including amateurs, professionals, photographers, painters, and other creative types.
The community’s use of photo editing software is increasing as a direct result of the rise in the amount of content published on blogs and the participation in social media, being the major reason for the growth of personal user market.
The commercial segment is highly influencing the photo editor software market owing to rising use of photo editing software for social media platforms, e-commerce and fashion industries. The commercial segment is also estimated to grow with a CAGR of 21.5% during the forecast period.
 Majority of fashion houses are increasingly adopting the use of photo editing software for marketing and gaining customer’s attention. Moreover, the social media marketing agencies are increasingly embracing the use of photo editing software for the purpose of developing and optimizing images to make them more appealing.
Thus, the rising use of photo editing software for fashion and social media marketing agencies will prove to form a positive impact on the growth of the commercial segment. This development in the commercial end-user segment will further propel the photo editing market in the coming years. 
Geography
   india
• Asia Pacific
• Europe
   North America
• Rest of the world
On the basis of Geography, The Global design and content App Market is classified into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the world. The United States of America is the most important market in North America for content designing software.
North America will dominate the photo editing software market with a share of more than 30% followed by APAC and Europe. 
The major factors that are leading to the growth of photo editing software market in North America region is the rise of social media advertising, presence of major fashion houses, and growth of online advertising, e-commerce, and SMEs.
 Additionally, the small businesses in the U.S are heavily investing on social media agencies which will also fuel the photo editing software market in the future. According to Invesp, it is estimated that the U.S social media advertising revenue was $7.6 billion, which is further expected to grow in the coming years. Also, according to The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce, the U.S e-commerce sales was $146.2 billion in the first quarter of 2019. 
the rising use of immersive and appealing advanced photo editing software along with AI-technology by the e-commerce industry in the U.S is highly enhancing the sales through this channel. This factors are further leading to the growth of the photo editing software market in this region. 
In Asia Pacific, the advancement due to the increasing web designing projects and the growth of wedding photography businesses are widely enhancing the photo editing software market in this region. Moreover, the increasing trend of pre-wedding and post-wedding photo shoots in countries like China and India is significantly leading to the rise of photo editing software market.
Drivers –Photo Editing Software Market
Use of Computational Algorithms in Photo Editing Software
The rising of computational photography along with the assistance of algorithm in photo editing software is highly enhancing the pixels which is further leading to the upgradation of the photo editing software. Moreover, the software companies are using single lens and intelligent algorithms for creating a system that captures extreme close shots of the minutest details. Thus, this upgradation of the photo editing software by using intelligent computational algorithms will further provide more equilibrium to the captured image and further drive the photo editing software market.  
Integration of Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality in Photo Editing 
The integration of augmented reality and virtual reality in photo editing is further enabling the users to add more realistic effects to the image captured and make them more appealing. Furthermore, the use of AR/VR is providing accurate and realistic view of the image which is making it more enhanced. Using AR in photo editing enables the end-users to add realistic effects and provide an accurate and realistic view. In addition, the development of advanced depth sensors in smartphone cameras is allowing easy adoption of AR in the photo editing process. Thus, the increasing adoption of AR technology in the photo editing software will further prove to have a positive impact on the market and therefore, driving the market during the forecast period
Presence of Facial Recognition Technology 
The presence of facial/object recognition technology is further revolutionizing the photo editing software. This technology is providing more innovative editing such as the “bokeh” effect which is enhancing the use of photo editing software. This technology is also empowered by artificial intelligence, which recognizes the face in photos and determines the age or gender. This technology also recognizes the facial features like skin and hair and makes the editing of the photo more suitable and more impressive. 
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Market Landscape
Technology launches, acquisitions and R&D activities are key strategies adopted by players in the photo editing software market. In 2019, the market of photo editing software has been consolidated by the top ten players - Acd System International, Inc., Adobe Inc., Corel Corporation, Cyberlink Corporation, Dxo Optic, Phase One A/S, MAGIX Software GmbH, On1, Inc. and Serif Ltd.
Strategic Insights https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/566960630/photo-editing-software-market-size-to-hit-1-267-7-million-globally-by-2027-the-insight-partners
layers operating in the Photo editing software market focus on strategies, such as market initiatives, acquisitions, and product launches, to maintain their positions in the photo editing software market. A few developments by key players of the photo editing software market are:
In Jun-2020, DxO launched its Nik Collection 3, which is an upgrade to the plugin suite for Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop, and DxO PhotoLab. The product features a Nik Selective Tool, the suite’s plugin launcher for Adobe Photoshop, and quick edit tools. It also provides a new non-destructive workflow
In Mar-2020, INMAGINE Group introduces its new updates on Pixlr, a cloud-based photo editing tool. The product features an efficient interface, smooth editing in the browser. The newly launched Pixlr announced its rebranded flavors, such as Pixlr X, Pixlr E, and Pixlr M..
Social Media Management
The Social Media Management Market size is projected to grow from USD 14.4 billion in 2021 to USD 41.6 billion in 2026, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 23.6% during the forecast period. https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/social-media-management-market-321810.html
The major factors driving the growth of the Social Media Management Market include the Increase in focus on the market and competitive intelligence, Increase in need for search RoI for social media strategy, Enhancement of customer experience with social media management, Increase in user engagement of social media using smartphones.
Covid-19 Impact
The rise in the number of COVID-19 cases has caused a major boom to social media management market There are immense opportunities for social media management vendors, including the voluminous data generated through social media platforms, increase in cloud adoption trends, High adoption rate of social media management solutions among small and medium-sized enterprises.
However, the regulatory and compliance constraints and lack of common standards, complexities in the management workflow and laws restrain the market growth. 
The lack of standard measures for social media management platforms and the absence of a single solution to manage the increasing unstructured data challenges may hamper the growth of the social media management market.
Artificial Intelligence and Designing 
AI magic is here to save the world, making us giddy with excitement and terrifying us at the same time. However, AI is still mostly unknown, and figuring out exactly how it will work in the design world is pretty much like trying to figure out how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
AI (artificial intelligence) has become an over-hyped buzzword across many industries and the design world is no exception.
There are ongoing conversations between designers and developers around the future impact of AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning… VR, AR, and MR (virtual, augmented, and mixed realities), and how our jobs may be changing.
With AI, new relationships will need to be established between customer and product. These interactions will be just the beginning of the ongoing conversation between business and consumer about what artificial intelligence can, and should be able to do for products and services. Designers will bring the necessary empathetic context for innovation, which is how a business will succeed with AI.
Rising Above the Hype
AI holds a lot of potential for the design world, but for this to happen the hype around it needs to be deconstructed. 
It would better if designers cleared their minds and didn’t think about AI as “artificial intelligence”–as though AI was going to work as some kind of magic-tech. A more useful way to think about AI—at least for the short-term—is “augmented intelligence.”
AI is going to be mostly about optimization and speed. Designers working with AI can create designs faster and more cheaply due to the increased speed and efficiency it offers.
The power of AI will lie in the speed in which it can analyze vast amounts of data and suggest design adjustments.
An AI algorithm has already usurped the traditional role of a designer to generate millions of unique packaging designs for Nutella.
 The AI algorithm pulled from a database of dozens of patterns and colors to create seven million different versions of Nutella’s graphic identity, all of them unique, which have been splashed across the front of jars in Italy. All seven million jars were sold out in a month.
AI present and Future
Al design tools help designers create winning designs more quickly by automatically refining a product's design based on millions of other  Successful ones, It can also suggest entirely new design alternatives and report how and why these would improve user engagement
Analyzing vast amount of data, Al helps designers design higher-performing products based on the best-convertingdesigns, UX best practices, conventions and standards, and known usability metrics.
Al generates millions of unique versions of homepages and landing pages fAnalyzing vast amount of data, Al helps designers design higher-performing products based on the best converting designs, UX best practices, conventions and standards, and known usability metrics.or news sites and media brands based on user profiles, preferences and tracking data.
Al generative design: designers co-creating with Al are able to produce muitiple design solutions by simply putting in a goal or defined problem.
AI and Photo Editing
AI has transformed traditional photo editing and made it less time-consuming. It can take your hands off repetitive and manually-intensive tasks. AI understands what we want and helps us achieve it quite easily.
You will come across multiple AI-powered photo editing tools in the market.
 Each device has its own set of unique features and reduces the workload of photo editing. You can efficiently perform a lot of tasks with a single click.
For instance, you can add textures, detect faces, and colorize and sharpen your photos.
In the future, AI-powered software will be developed to meet specific needs according to the requirements of different forms of photography.
Photo background remover tools like Slazzer have already made life easier for editors. But AI-based photoediting tools will become even better at removing backgrounds.
They will be able to detect unwanted elements in a picture and correct the mistakes more accurately.
What Does the Future of AI-Based Editing Look Like?
With time, AI will become more useful for editing
It will be able to take into account minor details and make them seems natural.
Artificial Intelligence the Future of Graphic Design.
We are aware of AI-powered tools and their implications, and these tools have certain qualifications for transforming and transcending graphic design trends that can be uniquely applied to the design services that we provide to our clients.(From branding and logo design, infographic design, website design, etc.).
Our core specialty, presentation design, is one of the most popular design services, especially in the current pandemic era, and AI has found a way to deliver incredible value.
Content Personalization
“Adapting AI content is a software that uses artificial intelligence to serve the correct content at the right time for individual visitors, depending on what they have consumed in the past.”
The success rate of this particular feature is understanding of Instagram. It is built around consumer behavior and has developed a large learning curve for the future of marketing and also the future design and user experience
“Brands are now understanding that not all users are equal and the content is not a single size approach. To solve this problem, organizations must form their content with the individual”
Creative content formation is one of the first steps taken in the future of graphic design. The possibility of collecting data about a specific target audience, companies can not only convert more than that type of audience, but also keep existing and new customers. The dynamics of the content are infinite with the help (non-acquisition) of AI.
Development of variations
The optimization of the content is the power; From optimizing social networking publications, paid advertising, logo design, brand identity, websites etc..
AI Uses the database that is collected in behavior, patterns, keyword researches, interests, the level of commitment and many more matrices to leave no room for predictions, but to achieve design solutions on data that improves its customers better and, therefore, can generate multiple variations.
As an agency specializing in creating high quality presentation designs, it is always an advantage (not an alternative) to have a variety of “template” slides. PowerPoint and other tools offer this service, and PrezLab uses it.
speed. speed. speed
There is a lot of work to do, such as collecting, analyzing, and processing as a human being, and time is like an enemy.
Whether you’re a graphic designer on a team or a co-founder of a million-dollar business, prioritizing tasks can be a tough routine.
With AI, you can focus on what’s most important while processing the rest. It allows us to work smarter.
Driver
The global competition continues to affect profit margins, and companies are constantly on the lookout for technological solutions to maximize their productivity and reduce cost while maintaining an edge in the competition.
Companies need to integrate the demographic, competitive, and business information, along with the customer’s data, to find out the intricacies to outperform their competitors. Organizations are trying to focus on analyzing the sales and various markets to identify the gaps.
Customers these days have become brand conscious. They demand better quality, lower prices, and faster delivery of products and services. Advanced analytics is being incorporated to help achieve market goals. 
 Social media management solution helps to analyze unstructured social data to respond to dynamic market conditions and achieve high sales and operational profitability. Organizations can retrieve huge amounts of information about customer sentiments about their brands, and then they can strategize their marketing and sales activities.
 Companies can make use of social media management solutions to improve their market presence and gain a competitive edge by effectively analyzing the competition and consumer behavior from social media platforms. Social media management solutions have various applications, such as engagement, CRM, publishing, advertisement, monitoring, and real-time analytics.
Restraint
Data privacy issues have attracted global attention in recent years and have significantly affected the social media space with the formulation of data protection and privacy laws and regulations, such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA).
 GDPR specifies the requirement of enterprises to provision for data breach notifications, secure data transfer, anonymize customer data, and process data with the consent of clients.
 According to the regulation, if any organization compromises the privacy of its customers or employees through its social media platforms, or if an employee of the organization exposes confidential information about the stakeholders or customers of the organization, they are bound to pay hefty fines and legal actions and proceedings will be initiated against the concerned individuals or organizational entities.
Based on Component, the Social Media Management market has the following segments:
Solutions
Social Media Marketing
Social Media Listening, Monitoring and Analytics
Social Media Asset and Content Management
Social Media Risk and Compliance Management
Services
Professional Services
Managed Services
Social Networking - Worldwide https://www.statista.com/outlook/dmo/app/social-networking/worldwide
Total revenue in the Social Networking segment is projected to reach US$43.39bn in 2022.
Total revenue is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2022-2026) of 8.57%, resulting in a projected market volume of US$60.29bn by 2026.
In-app purchase (IAP) revenue in the Social Networking segment is projected to reach US$15.54bn in 2022.
Paid app revenue in the Social Networking segment is projected to reach US$0.03bn in 2022.
Advertising revenue in the Social Networking segment is projected to reach US$27.82bn in 2022.
The number of downloads in the Social Networking segment is projected to reach 11,190.8m downloads in 2022.
The average revenue per download currently is expected to amount to US$3.88.
A global comparison reveals that most revenue is generated in China (US$27,750.00m in 2022)
Social media apps
Social apps: global time spent 2019-2021 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268491/global-time-spent-social-apps-by-region/
 During the first half of 2021, Android users in Asia spent approximately 449 billion hours engaging with mobile social apps, up by 15 percent from the correspondent period in 2019. 
Between 2019 and the first half of 2021, Asia has consistently remained the world region with the highest number of hours spent on social media apps by Android users. In comparison, android users in South America spent 84.4 billion hours on social media apps in the first half of 2021.
Consumer spending on mobile social apps worldwide from 2019 to 2025
 In 2020, Asia presented the highest consumer spending on mobile social apps, with users in the region generating more than 2.1 billion U.S. dollars. By 2025, it is estimated that consumer spending in Asia on social apps will increase by approximately 220 percent, reaching the market value of 6.8 billion U.S. dollars. 
While spending on social apps in Europe is forecasted to experience slower growth, consumers in North America are forecasted to double their spending on apps in this category between 2022 and 2025.
Mobile app downloads worldwide 2017-2025 https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1262881/mobile-app-download-worldwide-by-segment
In 2020, global revenue from mobile apps increased to over 318 billion U.S. dollars. The number of mobile app downloads also increased this year, with games representing the biggest share
Almost 100 billion downloads were made in the mobile games segment. With around 19.6 billion downloads, mobile photo and video apps were the second most download apps that year.
Revenue of mobile apps worldwide 2017-2025 https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1262892/mobile-app-revenue-worldwide-by-segment
 In 2020, global revenue from mobile apps increased to over 318 billion U.S. dollars. This was an increase of over 60 billion U.S. dollars compared to 2019. The strongest segment that year was the mobile games segment with a revenue of over 200 billion U.S. dollars, followed by social networking mobile apps, which created a revenue of around 31 billion dollars. 
The Statista Digital Market Outlook estimates that revenue across most segments will increase over the next few years and overall will reach around 613 billion U.S. dollars by 2025.
Wedding Photography https://1kcreatives.com/wedding-photography-statistics/
The wedding photography industry has taken a huge blow in the last couple of years, yes. Recent reports say that only 30.5% of couples tried to make their 2020 wedding plans work. Unfortunately, the remainder of the population has either postponed or cancelled altogether.
If we get anywhere close Wedding Report’s forecast, 2022 could very well be the busiest year for this generation of wedding photographers.
 Wedding Report predicts that we’re going to see as much as 2.47 million weddings next year — the highest volume of weddings since the 1980s.
how the demographics are changing https://www.slrlounge.com/wedding-photography-stats-survival-guide/
6.9 per 1,000 is the marriage rate in the United States in 2016.  The most important trend to watch in the wedding industry is that while the U.S. population expands, fewer and fewer people are getting married as a percentage of the population (from 9.8 per 1,000 in 1990 to 6.9 per 1,000 in 2016,Center for Disease Control).
7.4 and 29.5 are the average ages of women and men for a first marriage in the U.S. in 2017, the highest on record (Pew Research Center); in India, the number of women marrying at age 18 decreased from 47% to 27% in a decade (The Economist); WeddingWire users average age is 33 years old for men and 31 years for women
The number of years in business is correlated with more weddings booked and more revenue.  
• Revenue is correlated with more money spent on advertising and with more money spent on continued education.  
• Respondents who reported buying or completing continued education were asked what type(s) they used. 58% reported using online sources, 42% went to in-person workshops, 40% used online guides, 27% used webinars, 26% used tutorials, 26% read books, 25% listened to podcasts, 22% went to conferences, 15% learned through mentorship, and 9% reported Other.   https://photobugcommunity.lpages.co/wedding-photography-industry-report-2019/
• Photographers were asked how they acquire leads for their business - 91% reported by word of mouth, 87% from Instagram, 71% reported online searches, 63% from Facebook, 61% from vendor referrals, 25% from paid ads on wedding websites, 16% from Pinterest, 11% from wedding shows/expos, and 6% reported Other.