Sagelight is for the beginner or advance hobbyist who wants to do more than just take a picture, but wants to make it look great. While those with more advanced skills can take advantage of some of the more sophisticated features of Sagelight, Sagelight is designed to let non-experts learn as they go by being intuitive.

Sagelight 48-bit Image Editor v3.0 features:

Very fast, real-time native 48-bit editor

Most functions written with SSE/MMX technology

Easy and Intuitive controls, designed just for Sagelight

Powerful 'Quick Edit Mode'

Professional level functions

Dodge and Burn, and Clone Brush

Unlimited Undo History with an "Undo Brush" to merge or blend different image states

"Smart Light" features to help add light or create contrast without destroying image information

Tooltips on every control and extensive help

Very powerful masking functions

Tutorials for major functions

Extensive Auto Color/Auto Level algorithms to help balance your image

Straighten Horizon (arbitrary rotate) with Auto Crop

Resize, Crop, Add Border, Red Eye removal, Print, etc.

Unsharp Mask, Gaussian Blur, Median, and Skin Smoothing and noise removal functions

More than 50 different functions and effects

48-bit RAW File Support with Highlight Recovery

48-bit, compressed tiff (read and write) support