1 Graphics Applications [Freeware] Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:24 pm
Green CoW
Graphic Designer
Well here's a little list of some freeware image editors...
Ultimate Paint LE
http://www.ultimatepaint.com/
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NOTE: Freeware Version
Same as the trial version, but does not support Adobe Photoshop plug-ins and has only 20 image filters built-in. Can be used without any limitations.
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PhotoPlus (Freeware Editon)
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/key_features.asp
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Pixia
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/index.html
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PhotoFiltre
http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm
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PhotoFiltre is free for a private or educational use.
A commercial or professional use requires a registration.
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ImageForge (Standard Freeware Edition)
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html
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i.Mage
http://www.memecode.com/image.php
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Project Dogwaffle (Freeware Edition)
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/
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VicMan's Photo Editor
http://www.vicman.net/vcwphoto/index.htm
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Photobie
http://photobie.com/
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.NET Framework 2.0 Required
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Paint.NET
http://www.getpaint.net/
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.NET Framework 2.0 Required
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The GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/
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GIMPshop
http://www.gimpshop.com/
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PhotoSprite.NET 3.2
http://www.photosprite.net
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.NET Framework 2.0 Required
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Artweaver
http://www.artweaver.de/overview-en/
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Falco Image Studio
http://www.falcoware.com/FalcoImageStudio.php
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Photo Pos Pro Free Photo Editor
http://www.image-editor.net/Photo-Pos-Pro-Image-Editor.asp
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Photo! Editor
http://pho.to/editor/
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Hornil StylePix
http://hornil.com/en/products/stylepix/
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RealWorld Paint.COM
http://www.rw-designer.com/image-editor
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Ultimate Paint LE
http://www.ultimatepaint.com/
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- Ultimate Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation. On this page you can download different versions, see what extras UP gives you compared to other paint programs, take a look at its cool plug-in effects, register the trial version and browse the tutorials. In the latest trial version all basic functionality can be used without limitations. In addition we have also introduced a new freeware version.
UP supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, AVI (reading only), TGA, WMF/EMF, ICO (reading only), IFF/LBM and WAP BMP image formats and Twain compatible scanners. You can easily print your image, setting its size, position and orientation.
It has a flexible brush handling method which encourages creative drawing. It's similar to what good old Deluxe Paint had, so if you're familiar with DP, you will love Ultimate Paint. You can also retouch and enhance photos using a comprehensive set of built-in tools and plug-ins. Features include resizing, rotating, flood filling, text operations and a lot more. Comes with dozens (more than a hundred!) of cool plug-in filters, and Adobe plug-ins are also supported. All pictures are handled 24 bit. The user interface is adjustable to the user's experience level, thus both novice users and experts can use it conveniently.
NOTE: Freeware Version
Same as the trial version, but does not support Adobe Photoshop plug-ins and has only 20 image filters built-in. Can be used without any limitations.
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PhotoPlus (Freeware Editon)
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/key_features.asp
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- *Enhance your images with easy-to-use creative tools, such as paintbrush, airbrush, clone, smudge and erase - adjustable brush settings include size, shape, softness and fade for complete control.
*Apply bevels and drop shadows to create sophisticated-looking text and images. Use the layer manager to add to and enhance images without affecting the originals, just like the professionals!
*Adjust brightness, contrast, sharpness, color hue, saturation, remove red-eye and more! Enhance, repair and tweak your photos for great results every time.
*The versatile Deform tool lets you rotate, resize, skew, reshape and add perspective to any selection or layer. Powerful, yet easy to master, you'll be amazed by the look you can achieve with this tool.
*Add editable, deformable text to your images and further enhance your text with stunning drop shadows and bevel effects for even more impact.
*Easily create your own animated GIFs for websites and presentations - PhotoPlus 6 makes it much easier to create your own animations than you may think!
*Divide images into individual sections that can be clicked on to link to other web pages and websites, just like text hyperlinks. PhotoPlus 6 creates all the HTML code ensuring your images appear properly - it couldn't be easier!
*Simultaneously view up to four previews that display the relationship between image file size and quality, making it easy to decide how to save and export images for every purpose.
*Add ready-made, customizable QuickShapes to your images. Choose from a range including speech bubbles, starbursts and spirals - a real time-saver!
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Pixia
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/index.html
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- ** Basic Specifications **
* Pixia is a painting tool made exclusively for full color graphics.
* Maximum graphic size: 10240 x 10240 dots (NOTE: this depends on RAM capacity.)
* Number of Layers: As many as memory lasts.
* Peripheral devices applicable: TWAIN32 devices. Printers made to use for Microsoft Windows. Tablets (Wacom, Oce-Japan)
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PhotoFiltre
http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm
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- PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve. The toolbar, giving you access to the standard filters with just a few clicks, gives PhotoFiltre a robust look.
Its wide range of filters allows novice users to familiarize themselves with the world of graphics. You can find the standard adjustment functions (Brightness, contrast, dyed, saturation, gamma correction) and also artistic filters (watercolor, pastels, Indian ink, pointillism, puzzle effect).
There are more than 100 filters to be discovered !
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Image browser
Plug-in management
Scanning of images using a TWAIN compatible device (scanner, webcam, photocamera)
Transparency management for GIF images and exporting them to icons (16, 256 or 16 millions of colors)
Advanced text effects (rotation, shading, bevel)
Serveral types of contours and textures
Blending and assembling of images
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PhotoFiltre is free for a private or educational use.
A commercial or professional use requires a registration.
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ImageForge (Standard Freeware Edition)
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html
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- ImageForge provides you with a set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics.
Create and edit images, acquire pictures from your scanner, digital camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and much more.
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i.Mage
http://www.memecode.com/image.php
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- i.Mage is a small and fast graphics editor slanted towards quite and easy pixel editing, ala DPaint from the DOS/Amiga days. Instead of being a bloated behemoth with a zillion plugins it starts in under a second and it does a lot of the mundane jobs of image editing quickly and without fuss. The right tool for simple jobs.
Source code is available under the LGPL. If you don't see links in the download section I can provide then on request. I'm usually hacking on code rather than keeping every last i dotted and t crossed. If you don't see a feature you want your welcome to add it to the code and send me a diff.
While i.Mage is not deprecated I don't spend a lot of time on it these days. Requests for features or bug fixes may take some time to get some attention.
Main features
* Load/Save: Gif, Tiff, Jpg, Pcx, Bmp, Ico.
* 2 pane view, zoomed and 1:1.
* Downsampling/upsampling bit-depth, dithering, halftone, error diffusion.
* Resampling (smart resizing), cropping, rotating, offseting and flipping images.
* 8-bit palette editor: RGB/HLS ramps, colour cubes/stock palettes, reverse ramps, remapping.
* Clipboard support.
* Alpha blending.
* Basic linear/radial gradient fill.
* Undo que for most tools.
* Conversion of image to C/C++ code.
* Transparency support.
* Invert image.
* Convert to grayscale.
* Brightness/contrast adjust.
* Save/load/flip/rotate the current brush.
* Flood fill.
* Basic drawing primitives.
* Polyline editor.
* Text tool.
* Simple scripting language.
* Basic colour management via Little CMS, does RGB<->RGB on load/save to the internal colour space (sRGB), allows viewing of colour profile details.
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Project Dogwaffle (Freeware Edition)
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/
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- Project Dogwaffle is a full featured paintbox application inluding natural tools, realtime filters, image warping, gradients, and more.
The program is primarily designed for "unnatural painting" and includes realistic artist tools, paper, and media styles. It offers custom and procedural brushes and fill types as well as realtime image processing filters. Dogwaffle supports many file types and supports multiple levels of Undo, alpha channels and seemless textures. The interface can be extended with the use of plugins.
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VicMan's Photo Editor
http://www.vicman.net/vcwphoto/index.htm
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- VCW VicMan`s Photo Editor is an image editor with basic and advanced features, including selection by color, lasso, replacement of colour, deleting of objects, various paintbrushes and pencils, text, gradient and more. It comes with several pre-defined special effects and the option to add additional ones via plug-ins.
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Photobie
http://photobie.com/
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- Photobie is an image editor that offers all the standard editing and paint tools, as well as image layers and Photoshop (.8bf) plug-ins as well s several other features that are normally not found in free image editors. The program includes screen capture tools, an image browser, a GIF animation tool and a Flash player, as well as photo frames, channel adjustments and more.
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.NET Framework 2.0 Required
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Paint.NET
http://www.getpaint.net/
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- Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP or 2000. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software. The program offers a clean and easy to understand interface that includes all common editing tools, as well as clone stamp and various image effects. More advanced users will also appreciate the fact that Paint.NET supports layers with transparency and layer adjustments. Additional features include Red-Eye removal, image resizing, sharpening, multi-level Undo and more.
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The GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/
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- GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
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GIMPshop
http://www.gimpshop.com/
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- GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.
It shares all GIMP's advantages, including the long feature list and customisability, while addressing some common criticisms regarding the program's interface: GIMPshop modifies the menu structure to closely match Photoshop's, adjusts the program's terminology to match Adobe's, and, in the Windows version, uses a plugin called 'Deweirdifier' to combine the application's numerous windows in a similar manner to the MDI system used by most Windows graphics packages. While GIMPshop does not support Photoshop plugins, all GIMP's own plugins, filters, brushes, etc.
Due to the changes to the interface, many Photoshop tutorials can be followed in GIMPshop unchanged, and most others can be adapted for GIMPshop users with minimal effort.
PhotoSprite.NET 3.2
http://www.photosprite.net
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- PhotoSprite V3.0 supports most common raster image formats JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF.
Image processing operations like Resize, Rotate, Crop, Gray, Brightness, Contrast, Invert....
Filter operations like Smooth, Sharpen, Flip....
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.NET Framework 2.0 Required
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Artweaver
http://www.artweaver.de/overview-en/
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- Artweaver is a Windows Freeware program to simulate natural brush tools. It is therefore suitable to leave your creativity free run.
Artweaver offers you a clear program window, which can be used without training immediately.
Artweaver is available in English and German language. Through support for language files, the Artweaver program window can be translated easily into other languages.
Artweaver Features
* Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils...
* A wide variety of adjustment settings to customize the default brushes or to create new brushes.
* Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
* Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD (no layer support).
* Transparency and Layers support.
* Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.
* Editable text layers.
* Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling.
* History function to und/redo last editing steps.
* Expandable by Plug-In modules (Artweaver Standard).
* Support for many languages through language files.
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Falco Image Studio
http://www.falcoware.com/FalcoImageStudio.php
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- Whether you design high-detail color images we use the necessary tools. Falco software company presents a comfortable image creation tool - Falco Image Studio allows creating, editing small images. It handles popular file formats used to store multiple images of various sizes and all possible color system! You can purchase tool you need to create graphically rich images! Free trial version also available.
Key Features for Falco Image Studio:
1. Loading from BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG, TARGA, PSD(Photoshop), TIFFfiles.
2. Saving in JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TARGA formats.
3. Unlimited UNDO/REDO.
4. Copy/Paste in Multi - Windows.
5. Paste from others Image Editors like MS Paint etc.
6. Pencil, Brush, Line, Text, Spray, Rectangle, Ellipse, Filled Rectangle, Filled Ellipse, Fill Tool, Selection Tool, Color Selection Tool, Lasso Selection Tool, Hue Selection Tool, Blur, Eraser.
7. Effects: Rotates, Flips, Shifts, Contrast, Brightness, Invert Colors, Blur, GrayScale, HLS Adjustment, Sharpen, Emboss, Contrast Filter, High Contrast Filter, Prewitt, Sobel, Laplas. Swapping of RG, BG, RB colors.
8. Any Size up to 2048 x 2048.
9. BMP & PNG 32 bits supporting with trasparancy.
10. Vista Supporting.
11. Multi-file opening.
12. WEB-Camera and Scanner Supporting.
13. File Preview.
14. Photoshop Selections.
15. Layers.
16. Advanced Print Preview.
17. Masks and Borders.
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Photo Pos Pro Free Photo Editor
http://www.image-editor.net/Photo-Pos-Pro-Image-Editor.asp
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- Photo Pos Pro Photo Editor Key Features:
Support of many picture file types including a password protected file type.
Support of scanners and digital cameras - The software supports a wide variety of digital devices which capture images such as scanners, digital cameras and more.
Advanced Image Enhancing and editing tools and functions - With these tools and functions you can improve, repair and enrich pictures. Among other things, here you will find automatic tools for picture repairing, tools and functions for repairing and improving pictures, tools for editing and changing colors and textures, a variety of filters, tools for resizing and changing the resolution and orientation of pictures and more.
Tools for precision repairs and editing - With these tools you can perform precision repairs on pictures such as removing scratches and unwanted details, enriching, emphasizing, sharpening, blurring and spreading of areas on a picture and many more pinpoint operations. You can even remove zits and moles from facial pictures (portraits).
Tools for creating Computer Graphics - With these tools you can create and enrich pictures using stunning, colorful graphics. The computer Graphics tools include regular brushes, custom brushes (apart from the variety of brushes that come with program, you can crate your own brushes yourselves), tools for drawing lines and shapes, the filling tools and more. The Graphic tools support Transparency, Textures, Patterns, Gradients and much more.
Rich Text Tools - With the text tools, you can enrich your works using a variety of different texts. You can add different text to pictures, from simple, one-hue texts to complex texts which use complex multi-hue colors and textures, including Texts along Paths (such as a text along a circular path, a text along a rainbow path, a text along a wave-shaped path and more). Like the Graphic tools, the Text tools also support Transparency, Textures, Patterns, Gradients and much more.
Special Effects - The software contains dozens of functions with which to create special effects. With them, you can both enrich your works and create stunning and eye-catching works.
The Selection Tools - With these tools you can isolate desired areas on a picture and edit only these areas. The software offers a variety of powerful selection tools including a number of automatic tools for isolating desired areas. The Selection tools support Transparency, Feather, Smooth (Antialias) and more.
Layers - One of the important properties of the software is the ability to create pictures with numerous layers. For each layer you can set the level of Transparency, place in the hierarchic level of layers, Blend Mode, Curve Graph and more. The use of layers offers infinite editing possibilities to the user as well as maximum working flexibility.
Masks - The software supports Masks and Alpha Masks. Apart from the variety of masks that come with the program, you can create new masks on your own or use mask files which others have created.
Gradients, Patterns and Textures - The software supports a variety of Textures, Patterns and Gradients. You can use the variety of Textures, Patterns and Gradients that come with the software or alternately, create new ones on your own.
Script Tools - The Script tools enable you to define a series of image enhancing operations and to save them. You can create powerful scripts and run them on as many files as necessary.
Batch Operations - The software enables you to perform a variety of operations on a number of picture files at once (a Batch Operation) and by doing so, makes it possible for you to save time by not having to perform monotonous operations on each separate picture file (for example, you can reduce the size of all the picture files in a certain directory and improve their quality by sharpening them all at once without having to open each file separately).
Converting Picture File Types (Formats) - The software enables a quick and easy conversion of the format of picture files (For example, you can convert a directory of pictures with Bmp format to Jpg format in one easy stroke).
The Picture Browser - The Software contains a built-in picture browser with which you can easily browse through the pictures saved on your computer. With the browser, you can easily perform a variety of administrative operations.
The Ability to expand the software yourselves (!) - One of the most important possibilities that the Photo Pos Pro software offers is the ability to expand the capabilities of the software yourselves! You have an idea for a new Feature that does not exist in the program? In many cases, you can add this Feature yourselves! You can create new functions to define Color and Brightness (using the Curve Tool), various filters and more. You can combine a number of operations with the Script Tool in order to create Scripts which will perform new operations, according to your needs. In addition, you can share the new Features which you have created with anyone you wish simply by sending them the relevant files!
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Photo! Editor
http://pho.to/editor/
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- Photo! Editor is powerful multifunctional software offering a complete set of image editing tools. It contains anything a digital camera owner might need to correct or enhance their photos. You will enjoy the ultimate convenience and professional approach provided by each of the tools.
With Photo! Editor, you can remove red eye instantly, enhance the color of the image, make funny caricatures, add astonishing lighting effects, straighten, resample and crop images. The Denoise tool is one of the world's best to effectively remove luminance and color noise from digital images made under poor lighting conditions. You will also appreciate the Make Up tool that offers a complete set of retouching filters to make the best of your portrait photos.
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Hornil StylePix
http://hornil.com/en/products/stylepix/
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- Features
*Convenient working environment
o png, jpg, bmp, tif, gif, tga file formats are supported
o Working with multiple files can be opened simultaneously
o Multi-level undo-redo support, and action list display
o Zoom in/out and the full-screen view and guides, rulers, grid support
o Thumbnail, histogram and waveform view for current editing image
o StylePix own file format(.tsp) support
*Variety selection tools
o Auto-range, color-range, and rectangular, circular, polygonal, lasso area selection, and transformation options
*Variety of drawing tools
o Brush, eraser, spray, clone-brush, lines, rectangles, circles
o Multi-line text editing
o Flood fill and gradient fill support
o 20 kinds of blending modes
o Color picker with HSV color model
*Review and convenient image viewing
o Folder explorer and thumbnail view supports
o Full-screen slide show
o Browse tool
*Batch processing
o Rename, resize, rotate, and apply filters for multiple files
*Image transformation tools
o Rotate, flip
o Crop tool
o Free transform tool
*Correction-restore and enhancement tools
o Dust removal, Red-eye removal tools
o Lighten, darken, blur, and sharpen tools
*30 kinds of practical image filter
o Color adjustment filters
o Sharpen and blur filters
o Mosaic, noise filters
o Style Filter
o Rendering filters
o Morphological filters
o Noise filters
o Distort filters
o Convolve filters
o Photo Enhancement filters
*Multi-layer support
o Multi-layer editing, and group support
o 30 kinds of blending modes and transparency for each layers
*Change desktop background
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RealWorld Paint.COM
http://www.rw-designer.com/image-editor
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- RealWorld Paint.COM can display images using any zoom factor and always shows 100% accurate preview of the drawn shape. Tooltips are displayed throughout the user interface to explain meaning of controls.
After a geometric shape is added to an image, control handles appear and users can further adjust the shape. New points can be added to poly-lines, curves and polygons by dragging a handle of an edge.
RealWorld Paint.COM allows you to edit pictures with layers and assign effects to every layer. A layer can have for example a bevel effect active giving all shapes a 3D look and feel.
RealWorld Paint.COM has much hidden power under the hood and harbors features unexpected in a freeware image editor. Many of its drawing tools and image filters are able to do gamma-aware blending and color gradient interpolation, producing correct colors by default.
A powerful scripting system allows users to greatly extend and customize the functionality of RW Paint.COM using JavaScript. For example the "Create screenshot" command (used to generate the screenshot above) is a scripted function.
Beside the ability to use native plug-ins for virtually everything (filters, tool, fills, windows, codecs, storage, ...), RealWorld Paint.COM is also able to use the vast amount of plug-ins compatible with Adobe Photoshop.
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