PhotoLine

PhotoLine is full of picture-editing features. Thus, besides having those features that are usually found in other applications of the same type, such as painting, copying, filtering, using gradient and color fills, it also allows other more complex operations.

The tool supports importing a long list of file formats, including some that are not usually supported by other similar applications. It conveniently preserves the picture’s layout, objects, and layers. This means that it can be used to convert between any of the image formats supported. And not only that, you can use the action recorder to process batches of pictures without much effort.

Fortunately, the tool allows using an unlimited number of layers, which are indispensable to professional picture editing. Another widely demanded feature is the possibility of erasing a photo’s background, for this purpose, the editor comes with a lasso tool, a magic wand, and flexible mask handling. As to filters, there are plentiful to apply, such as sharpen, masking, soften, glowing, morphing, distortion, and shadow, among many others. Moreover, those features can be expanded by installing plug-ins.

If you need to create images for the web, you’ll be glad to know that the tool allows managing transparent and animated GIFs. Moreover, you can optimize GIF and JPEG images with interlacing and progressive formats.

In general, PhotoLine is a great image editing program. It is at least as good as other much more expensive software available. It is, therefore, a very convenient tool that I highly recommend. However, if you are not very skilled at editing images, you should probably look for another application because this one could be somewhat difficult to use, something that is logically derived from its sophistication.