Improve the quality and presentational attractiveness of your photos. Work with a collection of instruments for adding and adjusting various effects, including texturization, glow, colour balance change, zooming, sharpness balancing, video and TV damage, etc.
Nowadays, there are plenty of image editing tools that provide you with various ways to improve the quality of your photos. One of them is Flare, a simple to use program that offers you a comprehensive number of effect presets and textures which let you intensely change the aspect of your pictures.
The application's interface is very easy to manage as it's nicely organized. First, you drag and drop the picture you wish to alter and, in this order, rotate, crop and add the necessary effects. A good thing about using Flare is that it allows you to take snapshots to your presets for later on reference.
Even though you have access to various effect presets, you can find even more on the homepage of the developer. If you wish to use the ones from the website, you have to download them one by one, a procedure that might cost you some time.
A feature that I would personally like to see in a future release of this program is to support batch processing. Having the possibility to edit a large number of photos at the same time (using the same effect presets) might come as a great advantage and a time-saving solution.
To conclude, Flare is a great tool for adding effects to your photos and cropping pictures. My belief is that it's worth acquiring this product since it offers such a variety of effect presets and quality output files.
v1.5 [Nov 29, 2012]
NEW FEATURES
• New default presets: ‘Tin Type’ and ‘InstaMatic’
• New borders: ‘Tin Type’ and ‘Hipster’
• New Profile Presets effect in the Color menu
• Added Facebook sharing (requires Mountain Lion 10.8.2 or later)
• New option for rotation effect that scales to fill image frame
• Hold down option key while clicking Shuffle to increase amount of change
BUG FIXES
• Fix a bug with viewing rotated CR2 file
• Resume now restores the crop and master opacity
• Retina fixes now work on 10.7.5
• When loading a new Preset the Master Opacity will be reset to 100%
