Sagelight is a powerful, professional-level editor for non-professionals,a serious editor for non-serious people
Sagelight is for the beginner or advance hobbyist who wants to do more than just take a picture, but wants to make it look great. While those with more advanced skills can take advantage of some of the more sophisticated features of Sagelight.
Sagelight is designed to let non-experts learn as they go by being intuitive.

Sagelight 48-bit Image Editor features:
* Very fast, real-time native 48-bit editor
* Most functions written with SSE/MMX technology
* Easy and Intuitive controls, designed just for Sagelight
* Powerful 'Quick Edit Mode'
* Professional level functions
* Dodge and Burn, and Clone Brush
* Unlimited Undo History with an "Undo Brush" to merge or blend different image states "Smart Light" features to help add light or create contrast without destroying image information
* Tooltips on every control and extensive help
* Very powerful masking functions
* Tutorials for major functions
* Extensive Auto Color/Auto Level algorithms to help balance your image
* Straighten Horizon (arbitrary rotate) with Auto Crop
* Resize, Crop, Add Border, Red Eye removal, Print,etc.
* Unsharp Mask, Gaussian Blur, Median, and Skin Smoothing and noise removal functions
* More than 50 different functions and effects
* 48-bit RAW File Support with Highlight Recovery
* 48-bit, compressed tiff (read and write) support