Image Broadway6.3 Build 006101223

Image Broadway is a handy image editor designed with artists and photographers as well as casual users in mind. It features complex and advanced tools such as lasso and fuzzy select.

An elegant, unobtrusive and intuitive user-interface

The application features a neat user-interface with a customizable layout and tabs that auto-hide thus enabling users to make the most of their screen space.By accessing the Window menu, one can easily create vertical or horizontal tab groups. This can come in handy when users want to either work on two images in parallel or constantly compare two pictures.The application can also run in full-screen mode in order to provide users with a lager working space and as little distractions as possible.

Brushes, layers and tools

The entire array of tools, filters and brushes should be instantly familiar to most users. The line-up contains no surprises, however that makes the application and its tools easy and intuitive to use.It comes with a fair assortment of brushes, however if these are not enough, users can create, edit and save their own.Selection tools include the classic rectangle and circular variants as well as the more advanced magic wand and lasso.The application also supports layers. These are managed from their dedicated toolbar menu and tab, and can be re-ordered and duplicated as well as have their transparency and channel settings modified.

Conclusions

Though, as mentioned before, the brushes, tools and filters made available by the application should be quite familiar to those who have used similar software before, its elegant and unobtrusive interface can make it interesting to some users.This piece of software is also easy to use and intuitive. Setting it up was a quick and smooth process and it did not show any signs of unwanted or unintended behavior such as errors, freezes and crashes during testing.