Artipic

Artipic is an advanced and reliable software solution whose main purpose resides in offering you all the tools necessary for adjusting and improving the look and feel of your pictures, suited both for amateur and professional photographers.

The program comes with a complex yet slightly cluttered user interface, but if you have worked with similar tools in the past, you will find this one much easier to handle, as it keeps in tune with the pattern set by graphic editors in general.

The main window of Artipic comprises the working area, where you can open and process your photo while its ribbon keeps various other functions handy. It also organizes certain components into panels that you can integrate or separate from the main screen, as well as close them, if you have no use for them.

The application features quite an extensive array of editing functions and components, ranging from the more common (cut, crop, rotate, stamp, color picker, apply text or red-eye reduction), to the more professional-oriented, such as fully customizable brushes and pens.

Artipic provides you with numerous ‘Image Styles’ (‘Sepia’, ‘Mayfair’, ‘Hudson’, ‘Sitro’, ‘Noir’, ‘Old Card’, ‘Process Green’, etc), yet also allows you to create your own and save them as presets, by modifying existing entries’ level and intensity of ‘Effects’ (‘Hue Saturation’, ‘Curves’, ‘Vignette’, and others).

The utility lets you modify the various ‘Layers’ in your picture, as well as activate or deactivate certain color ‘Channels’. At the same time, Artipic allows you to ‘Smoothen’ or ‘Sharpen’ the image, ‘Add Noise’, ‘Diffuse Glow’, ‘Drop Shadow’ or apply ‘Gaussian Blur’.

Moreover, since batch processing is supported, you can quickly use a set of effects or styles on an entire picture directory with just a couple of clicks. It saves you the time and effort otherwise required for manually processing them.

To summarize, Artipic is a professional-level graphic editor that can equally serve novices and the more experienced in editing pictures and enhancing the way they look; it offers powerful functions and tools, but spares you from the overly-advanced aspects of more complex resources.