Sagelight is for the beginner or advance hobbyist who wants to do more than just take a picture, but wants to make it look great.
While those with more advanced skills can take advantage of some of the more sophisticated features of Sagelight, Sagelight is designed to let non-experts learn as they go by being intuitive. Sagelight will allow you to Resize, Crop, Add Border or to remove Red Eye effects from your pictures.
Here are some key features of "Sagelight 48-bit Image Editor":
· Very fast, real-time native 48-bit editor
· Most functions written with SSE/MMX technology
· Easy and Intuitive controls, designed just for Sagelight
· Powerful 'Quick Edit Mode'
· Professional level functions
· Dodge and Burn, and Clone Brush
· Unlimited Undo History with an "Undo Brush" to merge or blend different image states
· "Smart Light" features to help add light or create contrast without destroying image information
· Tooltips on every control and extensive help
· Very powerful masking functions
· Tutorials for major functions
· Extensive Auto Color/Auto Level algorithms to help balance your image
· Straighten Horizon (arbitrary rotate) with Auto Crop
· Resize, Crop, Add Border, Red Eye removal, Print, etc.
· Unsharp Mask, Gaussian Blur, Median, and Skin Smoothing and noise removal functions
· More than 50 different functions and effects
· 48-bit RAW File Support with Highlight Recovery
· 48-bit, compressed tiff (read and write) support
Requirements:
· 512 MB RAM
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· ICC Profile Support with an ICC icon for images with profiles
· Real-time Histogram with composite curve display
· Core engine re-written in MMX/SSE technology (i.e. ultra fast)
· 40 new function and effects modes, including
· 48-bit Gaussian Blur, Unsharp Mask, Channel Mixer, variable Saturation Increase, Median function, Skin Smoothing Functions, Image Blending, Vignette, Photo Filter/Gradient, Skin/Image smoothing, abitrary rotation (i.e. straighten horizon), etc.
· Standard functions such as Posterize, Threshold, Maximum, Median, etc. -- all with multiple options for interesting effects.
· General effects such as Duotoning, Color Contrast functions, Soft Glow/Focus, Moasic 2d/3d, Vintage Picture, edge effects, glass, plastic, oil paint, etc.
· All curves (i.e. RGB/Color sliders) have been redesigned to work more fluidly, faster, and are much higher resolution.
· All Brushes (such as Clone, Dodge and Burn, and Undo Brush) have been redesigned and re-implemented and are now fast an...