PhotoMake is a program by a Polish author, which is to replace GIMP and Photoshop in the future when processing photos. The author measures high, but it must be admitted that the selection of tools and simple to pain interface have the potential. The tools available in the program palette will surely look familiar.

Here you will find an ordinary brush, text tool, selection, drawing shapes (rectangle, ellipse, curves...), colour sampler, bucket, airbrush and magnifier. A novelty may turn out to be tools characteristic for image processing, such as removing red eyes, a stamp (cloning) and a retouching brush, a smudging and sharpening brush, a brush for colour change, a colouring brush, a brush that greyscale, brightens and dims the image. Brushes can be operated on single channels, and most of them can be used in multiple modes (brightening, multiplication, dissolution, and so on).

The tools themselves are simple, but in combination with a little bit of familiarity and user fantasy they offer great possibilities. Especially if you add to it the ability to use masks. However, it is not with the brushes alone that man lives.

Photomake was equipped with a rich gallery of effects. Basic operations on the histogram, such as stretching and levelling, are only the beginning. The next level of induction includes commonly known filters for exposure correction, black-and-white photography, color balance change, color saturation change, threshold and the like.

A group of special filters allows you to add noise, wet paper effect, intelligent image capture and old-fashioned styling. Sharpening can also be done in this program in more ways, using filters that find and highlight edges. Matrix filters, on the other hand, allow for attractive blurring of images and noise removal.

Of course, we can cut and rotate the image in this program and change its size. At the end we can try to superimpose an image or texture on the edited photo. A great advantage of the program is the history palette, which is modelled on the one from Photoshop.

Here, however, we also have the option of selecting selected steps in the treatment as milestones, so that you can easily return to a certain fixed point with a single click, instead of undefined number of actions performed. In addition, the history can be edited non-linearly and any action can be removed without violating the previous and subsequent steps, just like we can remove a layer. File formats supported by PhotoMake are not an impressive collection, but they should satisfy beginner photographers, because here you will find popular JPG, BMP and GIF, advanced users will certainly not be able to open the possibility of editing TIFFs in this program.

The interface of the program is very simple and does not require any effort on the part of the user, but working with brushes at the beginning will be difficult. You can also see that various details in the interface still need to be fine-tuned. However, if you are looking for a program where you can easily cut a photo, improve colours and add a vignette, PhotoMake will do its job well.