Photoflare

Photoflare is a powerful yet easy-to-use cross-platform image editor. It suits a wide variety of different tasks and users who value a more nimble workflow. Features include basic image editing capabilities, paint brushes, image filters, colour adjustments and more advanced features such as Batch image processing.

Shoot RAW? PhotoFlare Lens is a free RAW viewer supporting 700+ camera models with non-destructive XMP editing.

Looking for layers, non-destructive editing, and a professional brush engine? Check out PhotoFlare Studio.

Documentation

Information on current features and how to use the application will be available here.

Building

Dependencies

• g++ (G++/Clang on Linux, MSVC/Clang on Windows or Clang on MacOSX)
• libgraphicsmagick++1-dev
• libomp-dev
• libc6-dev
• libqt6core6
• libqt6gui6
• libqt6widgets6
• qt6-base-dev

Ubuntu (24.04)

sudo apt-get install g++ libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libc6-dev libqt6core6t64 libqt6gui6t64 libqt6widgets6t64 libomp-dev qt6-base-dev qtcreator

Ubuntu (26.04)

sudo apt-get install g++ libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libc6-dev libqt6core6 libqt6gui6 libqt6widgets6 libomp-21-dev qt6-base-dev qtcreator

Compile using either by opening the .pro file with Qt Creator or use qmake passing the .pro file as a parameter.

qmake Photoflare.pro

gmic-qt

git submodule update --init --recursive
bash external/build_gmic_photoflare_qt.sh

Full instructions for each platform available here

Running

Dependencies

• libc6
• libgraphicsmagick++
• libqt6core6
• libqt6gui6
• libqt6widgets6
• libqt6printsupport6
• libomp
• qt6-image-formats-plugins (Optional - Extra file format support)

Translations

Languages currently available:

• English
• French (fr)
• Dutch (nl)
• German (de)
• Chinese (Simplified - zh_CN)
• Chinese (Traditional - zh_TW)
• Czech (cs)
• Portuguese (pt_BR)
• Portuguese (pt_PT)
• Swedish (sv)
• Russian (ru_RU)
• Indonesian (id)
• Spanish (es)
• Japanese (ja)
• Turkish (tr)
• Korean (ko)

If you would like to add to this list then get in touch. Instructions on adding a translation is available here