In spite of its low price PhotoLine offers every function needed for professional image processing:
* 16 bit per color channel
* CMYK and Lab color space
* Color management with ICC profiles
Lossless image processing is made possible by adding functions to an image without changing the original data. This way you loose no information and have access to the unmodified image data every time you want to.
* Layer Masks
Layer masks hide parts of the accompanying image.
* Working Layers
Working Layers operate on the image data beneath them. Their field of operation can be restricted by a mask. There are the following Working Layers available: Curves, False Color, Histogram Correction, Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, Unsharp Masking, Gaussian Blur, Median, Perturbation and much more.
* Scaling/Rotating
If an image is rotated or scaled in a document, the image data won't be modified but only the corresponding information will be added to the image.
PhotoLine offers every function for working with digital photos.
* Digital Camera Raw Data
PhotoLine can import the raw image data - the so-called raw-files - of nearly every digital camera. You can find a detailed list of the supported cameras here.
* EXIF Data
EXIF data are saved by digital cameras together with the image data. They contain useful informations like the camera model, the focal length, the time of exposure and so on (see also EXIF Data in PhotoLine).
* IPTC Data
IPTC data are used to add additional informations to an image. Some of these are the author, a description and keywords, that allow categorizing images and this way easier retrieval (see also IPTC Data in PhotoLine).
* Corrections
PhotoLine offers many functions for enhancing photos:
o Light/Shadow adjusts brightness errors
o Connect Images can be used to combine two differently exposed photos to a single better one
o White Point corrects the white point of an image automatically or manually
o The Color Temperature can be set or adjusted
o Chromatic Aberration corrects color distortions at edges
o Image Noise reduces the color and brightness noise in an image
o Red Eyes removes red pupils caused by the flash of the camera
o Lense Correction corrects the distortions caused by the curvature of the lense
o Perspective distortions can easily be fixed by using the layer tool or the rectangular lasso
Browse Functions
* Create Print Document
This function takes the selected pictures and creates a document containing them. The resulting document can have more than one page.
* Create HTML File
The selected files are put together as a HTML gallery which can be used on a web page.
* Show Image
The "Show Image"-command allows to switch between the pictures in a folder. You can use this function to get an overview over the pictures made with a digital camera and to do the first steps in editing them. Furthermore you can move or copy good pictures and delete bad ones.
* Rename Images
These function allows to rename the pictures files according to a very flexible scheme. You can use IPTC and EXIF data as well as fix parts for example taken from the original filename or consecutive numbers.
* Copy EXIF Date
This functions copies the EXIF date to the file date. This is useful after editing an image, because this editing usually changes the file date. By that the sorting order of the file is changed. But as the EXIF date isn't modified, the original file date can be restored.
* Rotate Images Automatically
Many digital cameras are able to store in the EXIF data, whether the photo was taken landscape or portrait. In this case PhotoLine can rotate the images automatically to the right orientation.
* Keywords
The Browse function can be used to easily assign keywords to or remove them from the selected pictures. A powerful search function allows to find pictures with one or more given keywords afterwards.
* Copy/Move/Delete Pictures
With the Browse function you can copy or move pictures to other folders. Deleting of folders and pictures is supported, too.
* Rotate Pictures
The Rotate command can rotate JPEG images lossless without recompressing the image data.
PDF Files
PhotoLine can save documents as PDF. On doing that text and vector graphic is - if possible - not reduced to pixel graphics. On saving optionally all color information in a document can be converted to CMYK.
PhotoLine can also import PDF files. The import keeps the structure of the document intact, this means, text is read as text layers and vector graphics is read as vector layers.