Every Nice Sunday Afternoon

Sagelight Image Editor, sale thru end of march $39.95 - will go up to $79 after end of March. I'm grabbing one first of the month. Here is the blog link:
http://sagelighteditor.wordpress.com/
Home Page:
http://www.sagelighteditor.com/
check it out. has a lot of perks and tools. I'm liking it.

ok it's later - I downloaded the 30 day trial. here are the features:

Sagelight 48-bit Image Editor v3.0 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
ICC Profile Support
Real-time Histogram with composite curve display
Core engine re-written in MMX/SSE technology (i.e. ultra fast)
Many function and effects modes, including
48-bit Gaussian Blur, Unsharp Mask, Channel Mixer, variable Saturation Increase, Median function, Skin Smoothing Functions, Image Blending, Vignette, Photo Filter/Gradient, Skin/Image smoothing, abitrary rotation (i.e. straighten horizon), etc.
Standard functions such as Posterize, Threshold, Maximum, Median, etc. -- all with multiple options for interesting effects.
General effects such as Duotoning, Color Contrast functions, Soft Glow/Focus, Moasic 2d/3d, Vintage Picture, edge effects, glass, plastic, oil paint, etc.
All Brushes (such as Clone, Dodge and Burn, and Undo Brush) are fast and realtime, making these functions a lot more useful and high-end quality.
New Auto Levels and Auto Color routines with Histogram Display
Raw Highlight Mode Recovery Support
The mini-toolbar which is much more useful and out of the way -- the 2.0 version was too big and is now gone
File Info function that displays Exif information


OK it's later. Paying for the thing now - it's great software. It's a keeper as they say on Giveawayoftheday.