Our Verdict
As the saying go , a picture is deserving a thousand words — and that ’s why creative professional person of all stripe like to communicate their ideas in the descriptor of an image . As it turn out , however , a thousand words can be a few too many when you ’re trying to draw attending to a small detail .
Light Up1.0.3 lick this problem by appropriate you to load up an picture from a Indian file and blocking it out with a mask whose duskiness you may customize to your heart ’s content . you may then selectively “ carve ” sections out of the mask , allowing specific portions of the underlie image to be highlight . The carving tool brook three different shapes : rectangle , rounded rects , and ovals ; you could have as many as you like in your image , and are free to resize and move them around .
The app is incredibly round-eyed to use and supports several vulgar figure of speech data format like PNG and JPEG . It does not , unfortunately , support Photoshop single file ( although you’re able to always win over those down to a support format , I would conceive of that a tool like LightUp would be most useful to client who receive proofs in PSD data formatting from a couturier and do n’t own any Adobe software system ) , nor does it leave you to capture an image directly from a World Wide Web Thomas Nelson Page , which would have been another neat addition .
Nonetheless , Light Up is a dandy app whose main vantage is focusing on a individual task and a simple , intuitive drug user interface that allows users to quick grok the fashion it work and get to work on their image .
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