The XPhoto editor review and select photos for promotion, publication, and dissemination. This identifies relevant images, edit photos to make them more appealing, and arrange them in a suitable layout. XPhoto editor also assign projects to photographers to meet the organization's photography needs.

Photo editing software is used to manipulate or enhance digital images. This category of software ranges from basic apps, which are able to apply simple effects, to industry-standard programs used by professional photographers for more advanced needs. Many functionalities of these programs mimic the manual photo editing techniques used in a dark room.
Typically, a photo editing software uses photos that have been taken with a digital camera that are then uploaded or imported to the software program. As touchscreen technology and wireless file sharing become more robust, many photographers are opting to use tablets or even smartphones instead of traditional desktops or laptops to use their photo editing software programs.