Photoflare is a cross-platform image editor with an aim to balance between powerful features and a very friendly graphical user interface.
It suits a wide variety of different tasks and users who value a more nimble workflow.
This is free and open source software. It’s powered by the Qt framework.
Key Features
- Good performance.
- Basic image editing capabilities including creating an image, cropping an image, flip/rotate images, resize images, resize image canvas..
- Paint brushes.
- Image filters.
- Colour adjustments.
- More advanced features:
- Gradients – create both duotone and monochromatic gradients.
- Hue variation – modify the image with a colorize technique or the hue of the actual image.
- Add/Editing text – choose text colour, font, font size, font alignment, and type.
- Batch image processing – apply most of the PhotoFlare manipulations to large selections of images.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Internationalization support – languages supported include Chinese (Simplified and traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish Swedish, and Turkish.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: photoflare.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Dylan Coakley, Marek Mosna, Dmitry Vasilenko
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Photoflare is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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