What is Phot-Awe?
Phot-Awe is a professional-grade photo editing application with an extensive set of tools for manipulating digital images. It provides a clean, modern interface with support for adjustment layers, layer masking, clipping masks, blend modes, and other advanced photo compositing techniques.
Key features include:
- Non-destructive editing workflow with adjustment layers and layer masks
- Hundreds of customizable filters, including tilt-shift, vintage, HDR, and more
- Powerful retouching tools for removing unwanted objects/blemishes and applying complex touch-ups
- Content-aware fill that can convincingly synthesize new image detail based on surrounding context
- Perspective warp and liquify for interesting distortions and transformations
- Comprehensive color correction features like curves, levels adjustment, color balance, etc.
- Brush tool with a wide array of blending options for advanced, customizable painting/drawing
- Vector shape layer support for creating resolution-independent graphics and text
- 3D editing tools to transform flat images into adjustable 3D scenes
Phot-Awe strikes a solid balance between approachability for hobbyists and powerful functionality demanded by professionals. Its customizable workspace and vast toolset make it versatile for all levels and styles of photo manipulation.
FastStone Image Viewer, IrfanView, ACDSee Photo Studio, Photoscape, XnView, ImageGlass, XnView MP, Preview, gThumb, JPEGView, qimgv are some alternatives to Phot-Awe.