Without a doubt image editing applications are among the most used on almost any device, say smartphones, tablets or computers.
It is because of that today we will talk about an excellent application that has advanced options to edit our images in a professional way.
Polarr is a powerful and easy-to-use photo editor, it is an application used by the most professional portrait and landscape photographers in the world, Polarr offers advanced automatic enhancement tools and sophisticated filters to edit every detail of your images.
Polarr Photo Editor It has a very elegant and intuitive interface as well as additional modules and tutorials, the ability to batch export photos and watermarking tools.
There are options to use radial or graduated filters, and you can combine multiple filters to provide the effect you need.
This can get complicated, but luckily the app allows you to save your current settings as a custom filter for quick reuse later.
It can also be cropped, rotated and a useful straighten tool, among other useful options and finished images can be saved locally or exported to Facebook, Dropbox, Flickr, Google Drive, Picasa, Box, and Evernote.
About Polarr version 5.2.1
Currently Polarr is in its version 5.2.1, version in which Image overlay support was added.
In addition, a lot of different effects and depth mask were added.
The creation of overlays was also added allowing us to introduce duotone editing into the application, which has a lot of presets to choose from or you can create a duotone image from scratch.
On the other hand New text tools were added, with which you can import custom fonts, add shadows, borders, change perspectives, erase and combine with color, radial, gradient, depth and brush masks.
A new border tool that automatically suggests border colors based on the color of your photos. You can also adjust the border size and aspect ratio.
Of the other features that can be highlighted in this version are:
- Allow export and import of themes as a QR code
- Mesh preview for liquefy tools, you can now preview the distortion mesh of the liquefy tool.
- Window snapshot for brush and liquefy tools. Now you can see where your finger is with a small activity window.
- Filter creation dialog revamped. Now it's much easier to preview and configure your filters than before.
- New color themes and more flexibility to control color themes.
- Make edits of faces part of custom filters. Updated native face detection support.
- Allow non-custom layers in custom QR filters
- Removable media added to app permissions.
- Updated RAW native support release.
- You can now use the Emoji text tools
- 8-point perspective distortion tool with automatic cropping. Pro members can use this new tool to create free distortion on their image.
- Edge recognition brush for pro members.
- Brushing is automatically activated at the edges to help you fine-tune the brush.
How to install Polarr on Ubuntu and derivatives?
If you are interested in being able to try this fabulous image editor, you can do it from the Snap packages.
So they must open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and in it we are going to type the following command:
sudo snap install polarr
Now if you need to install the RC version of the application, this can be done with:
sudo snap install polarr --candidate
For those who want to help with the detection of errors, they can obtain the Beta version with:
sudo snap install polarr --beta
Finally, if you already have this editor installed on your system, you can check for any more recent updates with:
sudo snap refresh polarr
How to uninstall from Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those who want to remove this application from their systems because it was not what they expected. You can run the delete command in a terminal, which is:
sudo snap remove polarr