ImageProc

Photos are a great way to preserve memories, and cameras are getting better and better at making them. Of course you require a certain degree of finesse and experience to make a good shot, and even so, there are always some more exceptional details that could still use some tweaking when you take a second glance. The camera's auto settings aren't enough to cut it most of the time, so tweaking a photo after you download it on your PC isn't something uncommon at all.

ImageProc is an example of a third-party software tool that helps you adjust the various features of a photo, turning an otherwise bland image into a potential work of digital art. But most importantly, it manages to provide you with pretty much any tool you can think of, even the ability to use layers, without being a total burden on your system's resources.

Each set of tools is divided into separate tabs which are themselves well-labeled, so you always know where to find what tool. As such, you gain access to tone correctors, details and sharpeners, FX tools, denoise effects, and several layer management tools. Tweaking itself is done simply by selecting what feature you want to adjust while dragging a slider and watching how the picture changes in real-time.

One limitation to all of these tools is that they are globally applied to the photo, meaning that you cannot select a certain region of a photo and tweak just that one.  One workaround to this problem is through judicious use of the cropping and layer tools, although using brushes would have been a whole lot easier. Another way to counter this problem would be the use of plugins, which is a feature that ImageProc also supports.

ImageProc has enough tools all by itself to satisfy any graphics designer's needs, and the fact that it can it can be enriched with plugins makes it versatile regarding the user's experience levels. This makes it an overall great graphics editor for and photography aficionado.