KeroSoft PhotoEditor

To many, Adobe Photoshop is the be-all-end-all when it comes to graphic editors. It’s not only a powerful program that allows millions of users worldwide to create content, but also a staple of our contemporary culture; like Google, Photoshop has become a verb that is synonymous with editing an image. While it will probably take a while before its supremacy is matched, there is certainly no lack of applications that try. And while that’s probably not the case for Kerosoft PhotoEditor, these paragraphs still make a nice introduction, don’t you think?

Now, this isn’t the first nor the last application that draws heavily from Adobe’s well-known interface. If you think about it, it’s not even such a bad thing, because most users will instantly find it familiar. The tools are neatly displayed in a bar on the left, the top ribbon gives you access to all sorts of adjustments and effects, while the on the right side you can customize layers, adjust opacity and view the color histogram of an image.

If this all seems familiar, then so will the tools that the program offers. You can select various parts of your image, but you can also use a magnetic lasso or even the magic wand. You can move, transform or crop a layer, but also draw on it using a brush or a pencil (tools which, by the way, have a surprisingly well-adjusted sensitivity). Then there’s also the clone stamp, the eraser, the blur (and its brothers, smudge and sharpen), the bucket, the eye-dropper and the type tool (which doesn’t exactly allow you to type directly on the image, but, hey, you can’t have them all).

If you have the patience to pass through all the program’s adjustments and effects, you may come to the conclusion the KeroSoft PhotoEditor is far from reaching the power and versatility of the mighty Photoshop. Still, it’s not very expensive for what it offers, and it can be successfully employed as a home-use, slightly-more-advanced, personal photo editor.