- Mar 9, 2019
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Sagelight contains many features, and you can explore them with the friendly user-interface and help system. You are encouraged to experiment – you can always reset and start over with the original image.
Features of Sagelight
Features of Sagelight
- Very fast, real-time native 48-bit editor
- Most functions are written with SSE2 and SSE4 Technology
- Easy and Intuitive controls, designed just for Sagelight
- Powerful ‘Quick Edit Mode’
- Extensive user support, including blog, discussion board.
- Professional level functions
- 48-bit RAW File Support with Highlight Recovery
- Image Layer Blending with 20+ modes, including Soft Light, Hard Light, Overlay, Multiply, etc.
- High-Pass Filter with C*I*E LAB support
- Dual Definition (aka “Clarity”/Local Contrast) layers
- Sagelight Vibrance
- 3rd-Party Plug-In Support (Adobe Filters, 8BF, etc.)
- Pro Saturation mode with 13 different Saturation Color Space Modes
- Powerful Manual Curves with 13 Color Spaces (RGB, C*I*E LAB, XYZ, HSL, HSB, etc.)
- Undo Brush allows you to merge image layers with a brush you control
- Dodge and Burn, and Clone Brush
- C*I*E LAB modes on Blur, Unsharp Mask, Image Blending
- Unlimited Undo History with an “Undo Brush” to merge or blend different image states
- “Smart Light” features to help add light or create contrast without destroying image information
- Tooltips on every control and extensive help topically located where you need it.
- Very powerful masking functions
- Tutorials for major functions
- Video Tutorials (also located within Sagelight)
- Hundreds of Gallery Examples
- Extensive Auto Color/Auto Level algorithms to help balance your image
- Straighten Horizon (arbitrary rotate) with Auto Crop
- Resize, Crop, Add Border, Red Eye removal, Print, etc.
- Multiple Color Space Support
- Unsharp Mask, Gaussian Blur, Median, and Skin Smoothing and noise removal functions (C*I*E LAB Support)
- More than 50 different functions and effects
- 48-bit, compressed tiff (read and write) support
- ICC Profile Support
- Real-time Histogram with composite curve display
- Core engine re-written in SSE2/SSE4 technology (i.e. ultra fast)
- Many function and effects modes, including
- 48-bit Gaussian Blur, Unsharp Mask, Channel Mixer, variable Saturation Increase, Median function, Skin Smoothing Functions, Image Blending, Vignette, Photo Filter/Gradient, Skin/Image smoothing, abitrary rotation (i.e. straighten horizon), etc.
- Standard functions such as Posterize, Threshold, Maximum, Median, etc. — all with multiple options for interesting effects.
- General effects such as Duotoning, Color Contrast functions, Soft Glow/Focus, Moasic 2d/3d, Vintage Picture, edge effects, glass, plastic, oil paint, etc.
- All Brushes (such as Clone, Dodge and Burn, and Undo Brush) are fast and realtime, making these functions a lot more useful and high-end quality.
- New Auto Levels and Auto Color routines with Histogram Display
- Raw Highlight Mode Recovery Support
- The mini-toolbar which is much more useful and out of the way — the 2.0 version was too big and is now gone
- File Info function that displays Exif information