Sagelight 48-bit Image Editor (formerly LightBox) is a image editor to make your pictures look amazing. 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.

Easy.
Sagelight was designed from scratch for the new digital age, making editing easy and intuitive. Sagelight lets you experiment and get results easily without having to know anything about image editing. Sagelight is great for the beginner.

Powerful.
Sagelight has state-of-the art technology and whole lot of new technology that lets you get the same results as expensive editors, but with a lot less work (and cost). Sagelight is great for the hobbyist.

Advanced.
Sagelight was written from scratch to take advantage of the speed and power of modern-day computers, as well as the specific needs of digital cameras.

Fast.
Realtime results. Sagelight was written from scratch, with core code written in SSE and MMX assembly language. This means that Sagelight is extremely fast and responsive.

Professional.
In addition to exceptional speed, Sagelight also handles RAW files, highlight reduction, native 16-bits per-channel, Dynamic Masking, Smart Light, Photo Filter/Gradient, LAB/HSL functions, and many other advanced features not found in other editors.

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 will allow you to Resize, Crop, Add Border or to remove Red Eye effects from your pictures.

Sagelight 48-bit Image Editor (formerly LightBox) Features:
1. Very fast, real-time native 48-bit editor
2. Most functions written with SSE/MMX technology
3. Easy and Intuitive controls, designed just for Sagelight
4. Powerful 'Quick Edit Mode'
5. Professional level functions
6. Dodge and Burn, and Clone Brush
7. Unlimited Undo History with an "Undo Brush" to merge or blend different image states
8. "Smart Light" features to help add light or create contrast without destroying image information
9. Tooltips on every control and extensive help
10. Very powerful masking functions
11. Tutorials for major functions
12. Extensive Auto Color/Auto Level algorithms to help balance your image
13. Straighten Horizon (arbitrary rotate) with Auto Crop
14. Resize, Crop, Add Border, Red Eye removal, Print, etc.
15. Unsharp Mask, Gaussian Blur, Median, and Skin Smoothing and noise removal functions
16. More than 50 different functions and effects
17. 48-bit RAW File Support with Highlight Recovery
18. 48-bit, compressed tiff (read and write) support
19. ICC Profile Support
20. Real-time Histogram with composite curve display
21. Core engine re-written in MMX/SSE technology (i.e. ultra fast)
22. Many function and effects modes, including:
* 48-bit Gaussian Blur, Unsharp Mask, Channel Mixer, variable Saturation Increase, Median function, Skin Smoothing Functions, Image Blending, Vignette, Photo Filter/Gradient, Skin/Image smoothing, abitrary rotation (i.e. straighten horizon), etc.
* Standard functions such as Posterize, Threshold, Maximum, Median, etc. -- all with multiple options for interesting effects.
* General effects such as Duotoning, Color Contrast functions, Soft Glow/Focus, Moasic 2d/3d, Vintage Picture, edge effects, glass, plastic, oil paint, etc.
23. All Brushes (such as Clone, Dodge and Burn, and Undo Brush) are fast and realtime, making these functions a lot more useful and high-end quality.
24. New Auto Levels and Auto Color routines with Histogram Display
25. Raw Highlight Mode Recovery Support
26. The mini-toolbar which is much more useful and out of the way -- the 2.0 version was too big and is now gone
27. File Info function that displays Exif information

Sagelight editor was developed from scratch to meet the needs and abilities of the new digital age.

Much of the new technology developed for Sagelight is geared around making image editing powerful while keeping it as simple and easy as possible at the same time, while other technology developed for Sagelight deals with keeping image quality as high as possible.

Listed below is some of the new technology developed for Sagelight. Some developments are brand-new technology, while others increase the abilities of existing algorithms.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $39.99, you can free download and get a free trial.