An excellent image retoucher and enhancer for your digital photos.
Sagelight is a successful and powerful photo editing package which is related to its freeware cousin, the Lightbox Free Image Editor.
This fully-featured graphics editor can do many different things, and among the over 50 different functions and tasks that Sagelight performs are typical blur/sharpen, artistic effects you might be able to pull off with Adobe Photoshop and other professional-level filters. All of the effects can be applied to a variety of different images, not limited to JPEGs from digital photo apparatus.
Using Sagelight provides some stunning results and whether the person using the program is a beginner or a seasoned user of photo editing programs, it definitely doesn't let down with its loads of features. A lot of the things that Sagelight does provide is indeed geared towards professionals, but it also provides an easy-to-use interface which is inviting to new users.
With regards to new users, Sagelight provides all kinds of different user tutorials which makes it easy to learn how to do many cool things to your images.
In terms of system resources, Sagelight uses very little for the features that it provides; that is if you were editing the same photo with Adobe Photoshop with the same effects as if you had Sagelight fired up, you would notice that Sagelight uses your CPU and system memory much more efficiently.
While sadly Sagelight isn't a replacement of expensive photo editing suites like Corel or Adobe, it does provide a great resource to perform touching up and improvements to your existing photographs.
Features of Sagelight
- 3rd-Party Plug-In Support (Adobe Filters, 8BF, etc.).
- 48-bit RAW File Support with Highlight Recovery.
- Dual Definition (aka "Clarity"/Local Contrast) layers.
- Easy and Intuitive controls, designed just for Sagelight (read more here and here).
- Extensive user support, including blog (see it here), discussion board (see it here).
- High-Pass Filter with C*I*E LAB support.
- Image Layer Blending with 20 modes, including Soft Light, Hard Light, Overlay, Multiply, etc.
- Most functions written with SSE2 and SSE4 Technology.
- Powerful 'Quick Edit Mode'.
- Powerful Manual Curves with 13 Color Spaces (RGB, C*I*E LAB, XYZ, HSL, HSB, etc.).
- Pro Saturation mode with 13 different Saturation Color Space Modes (read more here).
- Professional level functions.
- Sagelight Vibrance
- Undo Brush allows you to merge image layers with a brush you control.
- Very fast, real-time native 48-bit editor.
Compatibility and License
This download is licensed as shareware for the Windows operating system from graphics software and can be used as a free trial until the trial period ends (after an unspecified number of days). The Sagelight 4.0 demo is available to all software users as a free download with potential restrictions and is not necessarily the full version of this software. on newer versions of Windows like Windows 11 and Windows 10 but more likely to be stable on older versions of the operating system with Vista and XP coming to mind. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
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