PhotoWiz

PhotoWiz is a feature-rich and user-friendly application that can be used for both novices and professional photographers to apply color and highlight corrections, sharpen and reduce noise for various pictures, as well as enhance the contrast, insert multiple color and photo effects.

The app comes bundled with a suite of multiple tools, namely, BWStyler, ColorWasher, ColorStyler, FocalBlade and LightMachine, which provides a complete method for adjusting and improving the overall image quality and properties.

It's wrapped in a well-structured and approachable layout that varies from an app to another, but shares a few common elements, like three preview screens, novice and expert modes, along with a split view to edit only a part of the item.

You can use your mouse scroll to easily zoom in and out or use the fit function to adjust the item to the screen. Plus, the tool lets you view histograms for each individual factor (RGB, luminosity, intensity, color balance, saturation, brightness, hue).

You can switch between various methods, novice that offers the most basic options, expert, which enables all features, as well as global, dynamic, adaptive and local contrasts. You can use those methods individually or adjust them together to improve the details contrast without damaging the picture and the highlights.

The app comes with a wide range of preset filters, like saturation, balance, highlights, brightness and hue, which can easily be tweaked to a preferred value by enabling the quick edit mode. If you made a mistake, the program provides undo and redo buttons to go back to the original composition and different picture frames. Other worth mentioning features are the ability to apply soft blur, noise reduction, sharpen, lighten or darken a particular area, as well as fix the exposure and saturation levels. The output is saved in JPG, PNG, TIF and PSD file formats.

Taking everything into account, PhotoWiz is a comprehensive and intuitive utility, packed with individual tools and designed for those who want to adjust general and advanced photo properties (sharpen, exposure, contrast, brightness, color levels), as well as correct imperfections and improve the overall quality.