Photo Editor to complement FF

Interesting.
I tried it before, but now I saw that they improved and they added more interesting effects.
It still misses the wider range of components of FF, but it can be useful.

Kinda don't want to downplay this but here are a couple pointers I should mention:

Hmmm this effects library SEEMS legit for just your effects, but some of these seem to use photo resources. For example, the "effect" stars 5 there on your effect browser seems to be a blatant upload of either the author's original work or somebody else's work. We got no idea if that's copyrighted or not.

So I grabbed a trial copy of the program just to see what's going on here and it seems like a bunch of effects heavily rely on photographs/pictures. Now ok, unlike FilterForge where EVERYTHING is generated internally in the program, this program makes use of user submitted photographs to produce the effect. It's a bit scary thinking any user can submit anything they see fit... simply because of copyright issues. But ok, I dug a bit because this got me interested.

Visiting the forums a bit the admin had this to say about the usage of photos in their effects: "The images users submit must have no license restrictions in order for them to submit it. When users are not using their own pictures they must get them fr om sites wh ere the pictures are free for any use."

Which worries me. You don't have a 100% honest crowd on the internet. There's no way of verifying that the images used are 100% copyright free. There's no guarantee about anything. Which means the majority of what's uploaded as a usable effect is somewhat "sketchy" for any form of usage unless you decide never to share your work. Unless the developers can clarify that, and guarantee user safety it'll be a tough program to use for any creative work.

So be cautious. You never know what you're gonna run into. The developer's approach heavily rests with what the community uploads which means you're paying for the access to what the community makes. Therefore, given the questionable copyright issue here, it might not be worth the money as it seems.

So technically, given the nature of this software, the community effects library cannot and never have a single case of copyright infringement for this to work smoothly. You surely can replace the effect with your own image, but I'm talking more about quality control of the contents that you paid for. You basically can't have images with questionable backgrounds slipping through what already seems to be loose security. Kinda troubling honestly because some of these effects are just blends between two images with nothing super special happening.

Oh well... software... legal trouble... difficult. Nothing in the world is perfect.