From the creators of the App Store's "Best of 2015" iOS app, Polarr Photo Editor for OSX is a lightweight, professional photo editor at 4MB with advanced features.
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Performance
- At 4MB, Polarr is the smallest and most efficient photo editor for Mac.
- Exceptional memory/CPU management and low power consumption using Webkit.
- Support JPEG, and most RAW images upto 42MP.
- Support transparent PNG and exports transparent PNG
Design
- Drop images directly into the app from other apps
- Designed for mouse, keyboard and touch
- Proprietary control slider for speed and precision
- Interactive in-app guide to photo editing
- Expandable and collapsible workspace
- Responsive window size to fit your screen
Adjustments
- Color: Temperature, Tint, Contrast, Saturation, Vibrance
- Light: Exposure, Highlights and Shadows
- Detail: Clarity, Sharpen, Denoise (color and luminance), Diffuse and Dehaze
- Optics: Distortions, Vignette, Fringing
- Eight channel HSL adjustments
- Three channel curve adjustments
- Highlights/shadows toning
- Filter blending and mixing
- Highlights/shadows toning tools
- Grain simulation
Local Adjustments
- Multiple circular and gradient local adjustments
- Flexible 4 point controls to position adjustments and feathering
- Adjusting basic color, highlights/shadows, clarity in local adjustments
Cropping and Tilting
- Precise tilting with automatic zooming to fill the frame
- Horizontal and verticle mirroring and rotations
- 10 default crop ratios with custom cropping controls
Filters
- Three hand-crafted presets as base filters for adjustments
- See the parameters used in filters to make more improvements
- Create custom filters based on your editing history
Import and Export
- Import multiple JPEG, PNG and most RAW image formats
- Export photos in batch with custom JPEG quality and size
- Add and save custom watermark during export
- Custom filters can also be imported and exported
History Management
- Infinite undo and redo on your photos
- Easy navigations to jump to any point in previous edits
- Persist editing histories across different editing sessions
My daughter will be getting a Macbook Pro for use at school this next week. They don't allow iTunes/app store installs, but the IT guy looks the other way if they want to directly install a program.
Is there any way to get this "out-right", or is it only available via the Apple app store?