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 25.50:

Improvements:

• Open file: If an open document has a different color space than the working color space, it can now be converted optionally.
• Layer List, thumbnail: Clicking with Alt creates an intersection with the existing mask.
• Layer List: Groups with “Pass Through”; for other blending modes, “Encapsulated Drawing” is set automatically.
• Layer List, thumbnails of transparent layers: There are various options for displaying transparency.
• Layer List, search: “&linecolor” and “&fillcolor” now also search in text layers.
• Layer List, search: “&color” searches for line and fill color.
• Layer Attributes: “Normal” layers with visible children can now be drawn isolated.
• Layer Attributes, channel settings: Alt+click for the usual toggle behavior.
• PDF import: Changes to improve recognition of fonts with incorrect names.
• PDF import: Annotations with AppearanceStream are loaded.
• SVG import, images: Now also reads images that are not embedded.
• TIFF import: Better handling of defective gamut data.
• AVIF export: Can now also save animations.
• Lighten/Darken tool: Now have separate presets.
• Gradient action: The “In active layer” status can now be changed by editing the action.
• Settings, Windows: “Extended > Language” now displays the available languages in a drop-down list.
• Settings: “Extended > Font replacement list” now has slash names instead of buttons for bold and italic.
• Layer > Merge Layers”: Applies the name of the active layer or the lowest layers with a name.
• “Edit > Paste,” Vector, Windows: SVG and PDF are now preferred for pasting in Windows.
• “Edit > Image,” Image: Similar to vector, PNG and TIFF data are preferred for pasting.
• Curve editor, undo: The curve editor supports undo.
• Docked dialogs: If a dialog that is too large is docked, its size is reduced accordingly.
• Text input, Windows: Improved input with, for example, the Japanese IME.
• macOS 26: Finder shows previews for PLD files in icon mode.
• Scripting: New operation “Change Channels”.
• Scripting: New operation “Convert”.
• Scripting, Windows: “Alert” no longer requires a button. “OK” is used instead.

Bug Fixes:

• Fonts: Old Windows names (e.g., “Arial Black”) were not found correctly.
• Layer List, groups with ajustment layers, color profiles: The thumbnail could be incorrect for groups with adjustment layers and color profiles.
• Page List: The thumbnail could disappear after changing its size.
• Scripting, macOS: Pages could not be deleted.
• Layer tool, Lasso: If there was a Lasso, the document was marked as changed when the mouse was moved.
• Vector Lasso: When hiding the Lasso, handles outside the Lasso area were not erased.
• “Edit Vector Points” tool, vector with gradient: The gradient editor was displayed in the document even when the handles were turned off.
• Liquify, Warp subtool: Edge artifacts appeared when painting upwards out of the image.
• Quick Selection: Mouse pointer and brush display improved.
• Partial Transparency tool: Now uses the paint mouse pointer instead of a cross.
• Measurement tool: When clicking and dragging, “Setup scale” was not handled correctly.
• Image tools, Merged Copy or Source set to Active Layer: If there was an adjustment layer with a border (blur, liquify, etc.) before the active layer, the result could be incorrect.
• Clone Brush, Tool Preview: If the source was not the active layer, the preview did not work if the layer had a layer mask or an adjustment.
• Curves, Painting tool: After using Curves, the mouse pointer of the painting tool was no longer correct.
• Icons, macOS: Icons with fixed scaling were sometimes upscaled under Retina.
• macOS, multi-monitor: When maximized, document windows were sometimes maximized on the wrong monitor.
• Gradient editor in dialogs, Windows: Clicking in the color bar displayed a drop-down dialog instead of selecting a color/gamma or creating a new color.
• Line style editor, drop-down version: Creating multiple line segments closed the drop-down dialog.
• PDF export, path text with background effects: Problems could occur during export.
• PDF import: Text generation improved.
• TIFF import: Tiled images are read better.
• AVIF export: Gray images were not saved correctly.
• (Simple) Browse, recent files: An outdated thumbnail could be displayed.
• Docked dialogs: If a hidden dialog was displayed again in a miniaturized tab window, a crash occurred.
• Isolated groups, path effects/distort: Layer masks were ignored when path effects were applied to the isolated group.
• "Morph Marked Vector Layers": If a morph was created in the opposite direction to an existing morph, a crash occurred.
• Embedded placeholders, external program: Embedded placeholders were converted to file placeholders when edited in an external program.
• Preferences: After making a change in the Preferences dialog, the drop-down list selection was incorrect.
• Focus frames around custom text fields, macOS 26: Focus frames ware displayed incorrectly.
• Screen, resolution change (including hibernation at certain resolutions), macOS: Improved behavior with docked dialogs.
• Gray image with grouped adjustment layer and layer effects: The adjustment sometimes worked in RGB mode, even though grouped adjustments by definition work in the color model of the parent image layer.
• Color Editor, vector pattern: After changing the pattern size, the visible section could jump.
• Vector layers, curve, fill: Curves consisting of two points that formed a rectangle together with its control points were filled as rectangles.
• Preferences > Display > Grid and Guides: If values were changed in both sub-dialogs, only one of the changes was applied.

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