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Flare

       Mac OS

★★★ Best of Mac App Store 2011 ★★★

Effortlessly add effects and textures to your photos. Choose from a variety of Flare’s built-in Presets or create your own using dozens of individual photographic effects. Easy to learn for casual hobbyists, Flare also has the flexibility professional photographers need.

Your photo is just the beginning!

• Dozens of built-in Presets spanning a wide range of photographic effects and styles
• Create custom Presets using over 90+ effects including textures, frames, borders, and more
• Additional Presets available for download at FlareApp.com

Color Effects:
Exposure, Midtone Brightness, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast, Tint, Duotone, Color Filter, Color Gradient, Black & White, Cross Processing

Lens Effects:
Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Zoom Blur, Sharpen, Glow, Vignette

Creative Effects:
Grain, Texture, Lightleak, Frame, Border, Rounded Edges, Barrel Distortion, Rotation, Halftone, Pixellate, Scanlines

• Edit – Fine tune effects via live preview
• Snapshot – Temporarily save edits as a Snapshot for later use
• High quality 12 Megapixel Textures, Borders and Frames
• Unlimited Undos
• Drag and drop images from iPhoto, Aperture, Photoshop and Lightroom
• Use Flare as an external editor in iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom.
• RAW format supported for importing photos
• Crop and Rotate images quickly and easily
• Export photos in JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats
• Share creations on Flickr or by e-mail
• Online user guide and video tutorials

System Requirements:
MacOS X Snow Leopard 10.6
Intel Core Duo
2GB RAM (minimum) / 4GB RAM (recommended)
100MB Disk Space plus room for your photos

What's new

NEW FEATURES

• Use new Shuffle feature to add variation with selected preset

IMPROVEMENTS

• Multiple presets can be added by drag & drop
• Better control of JPEG quality while exporting
• New cropping aspect ratio of 4×5
• More robust final rendering when exporting
• Improved security by supporting Application Sandbox

BUG FIXES

• Fixes a crash with large images that were using complex presets
• Fixes a problem with a black preview on some older Macs
• Fixes the display of photos with odd DPI settings in the cropping view
• Fixes a problem creating large export files when used as External Editor from iPhoto
• Fixes a problem with an incorrect light border on large exported images
• Fixes an issue with scrolling while dragging effects in the edit tab

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Last changed:

Apr 11, 2012

Category:

Photography

Developer:

The Iconfactory

Version:

1.3

Average Rating:

4.50 (240)

Size:

59.6 MB

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