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Photo-Brush tells you the zoom factor of what you see on the screen.It does not displays the size in pixels of the photo you are working on in the first place, but you will know it when you open the menu Image/Image Size. Remember? these 2 are my fad!
Photo-Brush offers manual levels correction based on an histogram.
The fastest and easiest way by far (in my opinion) to correct brightness and contrast of photos.
I use this function and the next one very often and did never see another photo software with similar correction tools.Automatic levels correction is available too.
Photo-Brush offers manual white balance compensation (or histogram shift) based on an histogram.
The fastest and easiest way by far (in my opinion) to correct color casts of photos.
Automatic color cast fix is available too.
Photo-Brush has an auto enhance photo function that gives good results.
I am probably a little bit fussy and mostly prefer to use both manual functions above.
Photo-Brush has a very convenient tool to correct sloped horizons or to correct imperfect vertical axes
(menu Image/Straighten)
Photo-Brush has a convenient Crop tool.
Photo-Brush offers an adjustable barrel and pincushion distortion correction.
You need this if you take photos with strong tele or wide angle objectives that distort the image.
Photo-Brush offers an easy to use perspective correction function to fix building facade or frame of an image.
You can use Photoshop plug-ins in Photo-Brush.
Thus there is virtually no limit to the effects you can apply to your photos.
Photo-Brush pre-calculates and tells you the file size you will get when you save an image as a compressed jpeg.
It also shows a preview.This is by far not an exhaustive list of Photo-Brush's features, but rather a quick summary of functions I found most useful. |
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Photo-Brush keeps the EXIF tags, but after saving an image,
the EXIF thumbnail has an error and the width and height EXIF tags are not updated when needed
e.g. after resizing or cropping.
Many nice functions are dug into under-menus (I don't like under-menus, they flip away before you reach them).
It would make Photo-Brush much more comfortable to use
if the user could define a few buttons in the tool-bar with the functions (s)he uses most often.
Photo-Brush has a rather poor image browser. We could also say it is a better than average file open dialog.
But let's look at it objectively, Photo-Brush is a photo editor,
not a photo viewer and most good photo viewers have poor editing features in comparison to Photo-Brush. |