Just when you think you've mastered that, clicking the Options tab reveals settings like Intensity, Direction, Length and Saturation. The Drawing filter, for instance, allows you to choose a background, a brush type, size and mode, step size, density and drawing tool. Which is a very familiar idea, but PhotoLine's options are generally extremely configurable, and capable of producing all kinds of spectacular effects. If you're happy with the image quality, then you can get creative by applying more interesting filters, for example turning photos into drawings or paintings.

Explore the Quality and Digital Camera sections of the Filters menu and you'll also find options like Optimize Contrast, Remove Dust/ Scratches, Descreen, Remove Dirt, Chromatic Aberration, Lens Correction and more. Whitepoint, brightness, light and shadow, colours, unsharp masking - and they're just the options available in the Correct Wizard. Once you've opened an image then PhotoLine can carry out all kinds of corrections. The program can import and work with many digital camera RAW formats, for instance: Canon, Casio, Fuji, Kodak, Konica, Leica, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung, Sony and many other manufacturers and models are supported.

PhotoLine is a powerful photo editor which comes packed with useful image processing features.

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