There is a plugins section in the Tools menu, though it is empty. Toggle an optional grid with a customizable width, switch to full screen mode, disable or enable the toolbar and the side bar from the View menu. The Adjust menu in addition to Hue variation, auto levels and contrast, also has options to switch to negative (inverted colors) and modify the opacity of the image. The Image menu contains options to adjust the image and canvas size, crop the picture in multiple ways. It has an option to paste as a new image which can be handy to open a new photo for editing. Purge the clipboard or the history from the Edit Menu. Use the revert option from the File menu to restore the original image at any time. The other shortcuts on the toolbar allow you to apply Dust Reduction, Soften, Blur, Sharpen, Reinforce, Hue variation, Gradient, flip and rotate images. It has more Noise effects to choose from like Despeckle, Gaussian, Impulse, Laplacian, Poisson. More options can be found in the Filter menu and includes Equalize, Normalize, Black and White, Color threshold, Oil Painting, Charcoal Drawing, Solarize, Emboss, Monochromatic, 3D Frame, Deform, Swirl, Wave, etc. Photoflare has cool effects that you can add to your image: Gray Scale, Old Photography and Sepia, which gives photos a unique look. The next set of buttons give you manual controls for increasing or decreasing the brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma levels. The first two buttons are used for auto level and auto contrast. The lower toolbar called (Filter bar) has filter presets that you can apply to the image. You can use the shortcuts to resize the image, the canvas, add text and adjust the zoom levels. The first one has basic file operation buttons, but also offers advanced options like RGB mode, Indexed mode, Transparent Color. The GUI of Photoflare has two toolbars at the top of the window. It has some useful tools for editing images like the selection tool, an eye dropper (color picker), magic wand, line, paint brush, advanced paint brush, paint bucket, spray can, clone stamp, blur, erase and smudge tools.
The Tool palette (color palette/tools side-panel) is placed towards the right edge of the screen. Photoflare supports the following image formats: PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, TIF, TIFF, BMP and ICO. The images are loaded in tabs so can jump between two images quickly. You can load an existing image and start editing it, or create a new image from scratch. The interface of the program is not difficult to get used to. But if you just want to use it as an image editor, it can suffice. Photoflare is an open source and cross-platform image editor that allows you to apply filter effects to your photos.
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