#Photoline photo packages full
#Photoline photo packages software
#Photoline photo packages professional

I am now on the beta list, and developers are extremely sensitive to the wishes of their user base. Kinda refreshing after 1.5gb of Photoshop installation files.

#Photoline photo packages full

full 64bit and 32bit version for both mac and pc. bitmap scaling & rotation with Lanczos 8! layer effects and advanced 'blend if' for layers like Photoshop control of anti-aliasing on a per layer basis! Non-destructive adjustment layers like Photoshop, and filter layers without the need to resort to arbitrary smart objects which are awkward to work with. Document mode and DTP like features for layouts.

This artificial limitation forces one to use work-arounds for more complex masking, but Photoline sets no limit to the number of layer masks we wish to add! Very liberating. in photoshop we are limited to only one layer mask per layer. Photoshop feels incredibly limited in comparison, This also applies to adjustment and filter layers! It opens up a whole new workflow. the opacity slider for a layer can be set from a range starting at -200 up to +200. filters and adjustments function in all bit-depths for the most part (newest beta versions have improved this even further). More advanced users will appreciate the meaning of this. curves can be applied to rgb and cmyk layers in Lab mode without switching that layer to lab mode. full layer management (layer groups, etc.). virtual layers: instanced clones of a layer. A simple palette with a drop down menu is all you need to convert individual layers to any other image mode and any bit-depth. No more silly smart objects as a work-around. No more switching between image modes to attain a certain effect. Any combination! Far superior to any other image editing app I have encountered so far. And at the same time RGB/CMYK/LAB layers can be set to 8/16/32 bit per channel as well. greyscale, rgb, cmyk and lab(!) layers simultaneously in the same layer stack. That means: you may freely combine monochrome. each layer can be set to its own image mode in the same document! Read the previous line again, and understand its implications. I am not impressed easily.Īnd you know what: biggest (pleasant) surprise! The image editing tools are, for the most part, on par with Photoshop, and in a number of very crucial areas, actually outperform Photoshop by a fair margin - yes, you read that right.

#Photoline photo packages software

This coming from someone who has been an Adobe Certified Expert, and is an Adobe software instructor teaching image editing professionals these last 12 years. I haven't touched Photoshop in two months, or so: I now do my main jobs in Photoline. Honestly, I do not know - I only know Photoline has opened up a new approach of image editing for me.

Thoughts running through my mind: How could I have missed this gem? It's been on the market for a very long time Why does almost no-one mention - and is unaware of - Photoline? Why is the website so excruciatingly unprofessional looking? I was gobsmacked the first time I loaded it up.

But I thought, 'What the heck, I've tried everything by now, let's at least give it a quick look.' Your first reaction equalled mine: 'This cannot be any good, it looks rubbish', and I almost closed the browser window. First thought: absolutely dismal website, horrible campy looking examples, tutorials with neon disco effects.

Had never heard of it, and just pure chance landed me on their web pages. Over the years I tried all potential alternatives, free, commercial, open source, and what not, and quickly realized nothing came close to replacing my 'beloved' Photoshop.Įnter Photoline. I grew tired of Adobe's strategy for Photoshop: instead of improving the core image editing functionality, they only seem to be interested in bolting on more fluff to justify the high upkeep.

#Photoline photo packages professional

In the last two years I'd been on the lookout for a true Photoshop alternative in regards to professional image editing. Up to that point I had never heard of it before - and I've worked with just about every image editor that exist(s)/(ed) on multiple platforms, starting with Deluxe Paint on the Amiga.

Photoshop has been my weapon of choice as a professional user since v4, and three months ago I stumbled upon Photoline while browsing. Ordinarily I would never sign up for a forum merely to respond to a post, but this is just asking for a rebuttal :-) I've never heard it mentioned before either and I'm sure it would have been 'discovered' had it been very useful. I may be wrong but that's what I saw by having a quick look at the website. Most of its functions seem to be photo-organisation an album creation, the processing part being very much secondary. It looks like a very basic 'photo tweaker' rather than an image processing suite.