Filter Effects Gallery

Add and preview multiple Filter Effects to your image from within one pane. The Filter Gallery has undo/redo functionality and also remembers the last used effect for even more flexibility. Select from over 40 fantastic effects, such as Add Noise, Halftone, Solarize, Diffuse Glow, Motion Blur, Emboss and Lighting Effects, to professionally enhance your images.

Instant Artist

Turn your photos into works of art with the Instant Artist. Choose from a range of artistic styles, including Expressionist, Impressionist, Van Gogh, Oil, Pencil, Paint and Ink, Watercolour, and see your image transform into an artistic masterpiece in seconds. Adjust the settings for the exact look required and even save your settings to re-use again and again.

Screen Capture

Take instant screenshots of your active window, client area, the full screen, a selected object or a selected area. The creative options are unlimited with this fun and exciting tool. If you can see it on your PC you can capture it, with PhotoPlus’ powerful and flexible screen capture feature.

Extract Tool

Extracting a portion of an image is incredibly easy with PhotoPlus. Simply paint around the area you want to keep with the Edge Marker tool, fill the area you want to retain and you’re done. Your image is placed on a transparent background so that you can add other images to it should you wish to.

Artistic Brushes

PhotoPlus’ flexible artistic brushes allow you to draw with a variety of media such as Charcoal, Pencil and Watercolour, Effects including Clouds, Colour and Scatter, as well as preset picture brushes for really fun effects. The Context toolbar offers paint flow, brush size, opacity options and more for speed and total ease-of-use.

Drawing & Shapes

PhotoPlus’ vector drawing tools offer powerful freehand drawing capabilities. For a ready-made shape select one of the QuickShapes then use the sliders to morph them into chevrons, badges, zigzags and more – even apply layer effects and gradient fills to your shapes. Put your sweetheart in a heart shape or your mother in law behind bars!

Mesh Warping

Create caricatures of your friends, family and pets with PhotoPlus' fun and funky mesh warping tool. Use the customisable grid of points and simply drag the nodes to pull, stretch, distort, shrink or enlarge areas of your image. Make your subjects turn their nose up or frown at the click of your mouse!

Animation

PhotoPlus’ fantastic Animation features offer powerful automatic Tweening, which instantly creates extra frames for smooth, professional-looking animations. You can also unify layer attributes, clone multiple frames and flatten frames for complete flexibility. Animated GIFs can be imported and exported, making PhotoPlus ideal for creating Web animations.

Adobe® Photoshop® Plug-In Support

PhotoPlus supports Photoshop-compatible plugs-ins that offer a variety of Filters and Effects, to help you achieve fun results from your images. There are many high-quality plug-ins available, including those created by companies such as Twisting Pixels and Alien Skin. There’s no need to shell out for more expensive image-editors when you can use these plug-ins with PhotoPlus.