RGBmachine Editor's Review

You probably think that the name, 'RGBmachine', refers to a software meant to help you adjust the colors of your pictures. If you think that, you are right. Besides that, the producer claims also that this software can rotate, crop, ... and remove red-eye effect'.

As you can see, this is a very simple program with a small number of features. The 'rotate' and the 'crop' features are working flawlessly and interesting. I say interesting because while cropping you move the picture underneath the crop area instead of drawing that area. While using the main feature of this program you can adjust brightness, contrast, red, green, and blue. The red eye removal tool is a little difficult to use when you use it for the first time and I must say that it's disappointing. You can't select a color for the eye so it will only make that area darker.

I was very disappointed to see that you can't drag and drop a file directly into the program or even import a single file. You can open only folders. This is frustrating because if you want to modify only one photo you have two choices: isolate it in a folder or searching the whole directory for this particular file. The second options is more difficult to use because you see the preview part of the program shows you only a small number of pictures, in thumbnail mode. If you have many pictures to modify you can choose to use the settings made to one of them for the others.

The user interface is well structured and due to this aspect it is very easy to work with the program.

Pluses: Easy to use.

Drawbacks / flaws: Too few features.

In conclusion: I look forward for the next release to see if it will bring some improvements especially concerning the red eye removal tool.

version reviewed: 3.2