This is the "emacs of image editors". It has a small footprint and a simple interface with a lot of neat shortcuts that leaves screen space for the important thing: The images! The interface is optimized for requiring as few clicks and keys as possible for a typical work flow in editing photos, writing papers, powerpoints, and documents, and testing new image processing algorithms. Now in version 2 you can even develop RAW images from most cameras (tested with Canon and Nikon) - you can get even change the settings! It has a lot of other powerful features like blending, retouching, lens distortion, filtering, 3D reconstruction, etc. right at your fingertips.
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- Sort through a new photo shoot by opening the directory from which it crates an internal ShowList (which you can save for later use, drag n drop more files to it, etc. ), and use the mousewheel or page up to see through the files. Press delete to remove a file from the list (ctrl+del to delete it from the disk). Remove all the files you dont need. You can now save all the kept files to a new album and perfect modifications (light changes, lens dedistortions, etc. ) to all images, or just copy the original files. You can also start a slideshow with a certain fps and save it as an avi file.
- If you want a new wallpaper, find your image and make the screen look like you want it to look (incl. background colour), resize "as viewed", and apply wallpaper. If you have a wallpaper which is too bright or boring, use "edit wallpaper", edit it and put it back, so you dont even have to find the file.
- Instead of layers, it has 1 undo buffer and 9 buffers where you can store versions of your image. This can be used to blend and retouch images. For example, removing spots on the skin (make a selection rectangle slightly larger than the spot and apply an oversmooth or medianfilter, then undo to switch the buffers, and "retouch from undo buffer" and start wiping out the spot.), applying saturation and light changes to parts of the image, and to take down a notch of an edit you did, like if the retouching, saturation, sharpening or noise reduction looks fake, press Z a few times to blend back the original. 5 presses on Z equals a 50-50 blend.
- The raw support is real as it allows you to tweak the development from raw 16bit to 8bit images.
If any one who come here has the same problem, I suggest you update to Avant 2012 build 21. This problem has been fixed perfectly.
Cheers!