PhotoLine is a powerful image processing application that offers flexible text, vector, and image layers. Among the standard features like painting, cloning, filtering, blending, and flood fill, it offers many special effects like squirl, shadow, glowing, distorb, morphing, 3d projection, and many dynamic layer effects. PL 32 supports many picture formats. It can do transparent and animated GIFs, CMYK, multiple undo/redo levels, plugin filter, actions, batch conversion, and more.
Features

Image Processing

16 bit per channel, support of CMYK and Lab
Color management with ICC profiles
Lossless imaging
Process digital photos
Retouch, correct, ...

Browse

IPTC and EXIF data handling
Rotate images lossless
Rename images and create catalogues
Create HTML galleries
Add and edit keywords
Powerful search capabilities

DTP/Layout/Text

"Real" PDF Import and Export (not just a big image)
Multipage documents
Calendar and barcode creation
Rich text functions

Internet/Animations

Create Flash and GIF animations
Web Export
Tile images, create buttons and image maps

Many more

Batch conversion
Create slideshows
Record actions
Print multipage documents, flyers and labels
USB-Stick support
Multiprocessor support

New in Version 16.52

Plugins supported in actions now
Rotate/scale, guide lines: On rotating (90-, 180- and 270-) and scaling guide lines will be modified, too
New Adjustment Layer: size dialog removed, grouping can be done in adjustment dialog
Vector points: the coordinates of vector points can now be adjusted numerically
Browse: Preview scalable, two images can be shown
Infobox redone

Homepage: http://www.pl32.com/