Live feedback tells you exactly what you are doing and how you need to crop in order to achieve specific aspect ratios. A new cropping tool makes it easier to crop pictures to exact specifications. You can also add text complete with effects to your photos. The brush and pen tools give you extra textures and styles and you can create your own. There are plenty of creative effects to try out too. Change a range of hues at the same time, and transfer colors between layers or images so you have a consistent color scheme across a group of photos. Serif PhotoPlus X8 gives you complete control over your colors with an excellent Hue, Saturation & Lightness tool.
Or merge photos with different exposures using the Merge feature. You can preview the changes as you make them but also change back to the original if you need to.įor more advanced editing, you can remove people or objects from your picture with a cutout tool.
The Surface Blur feature removes "noise" from your images so you can use it to smooth skin tones, whiten teeth, remove wrinkles and blemishes, and revitalize old images that look grainy and scratched. You can apply the quick-fix features to the entire photo or to small areas by using the brush feature. Remove red eye and blemishes, realign a subject for best effect, and adjust white balance and saturation.
The software is good for people who want to apply a quick-fix solution to their photos. Some users have reported issues with the RAW Studio failing to open certain files but when we tried the process we didn't encounter any problems with our files. You can also import HD and Adobe Photoshop files with the layers intact and make the adjustments you need in individual layers. When you open RAW files you are prompted with a separate window to make your pre-editing changes such as correcting the white balance and the exposure of your shots The Serif PhotoPlus X8 lets you work with RAW image files in the RAW Studio. When you open the program you're faced with a welcoming help window which explains all the processes. The software is only suitable for PCs, not Macs. You need Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7, 8 or 10 plus 512MB RAM (1GB for optimum 64-bit operation) and 340MB of free disk space (701MB optimal) to set up this software. What's good about the Serif photo editing package? We checked out the software and investigated its must-have features. PhotoPlus is simple enough for a beginner to use but more experienced editors will also find what they’re looking for in this comprehensive collection of tools.