PhotoLine is a versatile all-purpose image and graphics editor. You can edit images or optimize them for the web, but you can also prepare print-ready PDF data.

PhotoLine offers the creative professional sophisticated tools: CMYK and Lab color space, color management with ICC profiles, adjustment layers, recording actions and 16/32-bit color depth per channel. Vector graphics can be edited as well as PDF files.

Features:

Photo Editing

• Up to 32 bit per channel, support of CMYK and Lab
• Color management with ICC profiles
• Lossless imaging
• Process digital photos
• Retouch, correct, ...

Browse

• IPTC and EXIF data handling
• Rotate images lossless
• Rename images and create catalogues
• Create HTML galleries
• Add and edit keywords
• Powerful search capabilities

DTP/Layout/Text

• "Real" PDF Import and Export (not just a big image)
• Multipage documents
• Calendar and barcode creation
• Rich text functions

Internet/Animations

• Create Flash and GIF animations
• Web Export
• Tile images and image maps

Many more

• Batch conversion
• Create slideshows
• Record actions
• Print multipage documents, flyers and labels
• USB-Stick support
• Multiprocessor support

What's New:

Version 24.01:

Improvements

• Browse, EXR import: For EXR images, the preview is now generated in the background.
• PSD import: With progress bar
• SVG import, "text": Now supports relative positions and "dominant-baseline".
• SVG import: Accelerated
• Levels: Shows the color under the mouse in the histogram.
• Browse > GPS data, macOS: With exiftool installed, setting the GPS data now also works on macOS.
• Convert font to vector, Wine: Now works the same way as on Windows.
• Layer List, search: linecolor and fillcolor now also search for color names.
• Layer List, search: Font names can now also be tested for inequality.

Bug fixes

• XR import: The document size was not set correctly in document mode.
• PSD import: Images with superfluous channel data are now read correctly.
• PDF import: When canceling in font replacement, the progress bar styes on-screen.
• PDF import: Crash with DeviceN color spaces with incorrectly declared separation channels fixed.
• PDF export: A gray image that was assigned a gradient with more than one spot color was not exported correctly.
• PDF export, path text with shadow: The path text was not saved correctly.
• Web Export: If an action was set that changed the image size, clicking in the document to set the preview position did not work correctly.
• File association, Windows: PLD files were not registered correctly.
• Levels, gray images, active multi-channel display: If the multi-channel display was active for a gray image, the limit values could not be changed in the histogram field.
• Levels: Position of the picked color was not initialized.
• Levels and Curves, Adjustments dialog, color picker: The color picker of the Adjustments dialog was no longer deactivated automatically.
• Layer list, search for virtual copies, macOS: Using the function resulted in a crash.
• Auto Mask: "Read linked" switch was set incorrectly at program start.
• Layer tool, multiple selection with layers protected against moving, moving: Handles were not always deleted/drawn correctly.
• Layer tool, tool settings "Align to content": With text layers, text exceeding the bounds was ignored.
• Filter brush, "All layers": If the active layer had no alpha, but the layers above it did, there could be a crash.
• Browse, location marker in preview: EXIF data no longer needs to be present.
• Browse, GPS dаta: After setting the GPS data, the browse panel is updated.
• Layer masks, isolated group: Deactivated layer masks in isolated groups have been activated.
• Text fields, dark mode, Windows: Depending on the screen profiles, there was a visible bar at the top and bottom.
• Hue Editor: The first and last point could not be deleted.
• macOS, Retina, temporary drawing with XOR: Did not work with extended range colors.
• View > Original size: Visible document center is retained.
• Layer effects, blend mode, Windows: An empty blend mode could be set with the mouse wheel.
• Layer effects, Emboss: The lighting could be incorrect for certain edge shapes.
• Text layers, bottom/middle alignment, baseline grid: Bottom/middle alignment ignored alignment to baseline grid.
• Text layer, vertical alignment bottom/center: Selection was displayed incorrectly..

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