Features

  • Interface

    • Toggle the toolbars on or off at the touch of a button.
    • Horizontal or vertical split view mode.
    • Pixel grid for guidance at high levels of zoom.
    • Move the mouse pointer with exact precision using the arrow keys.
    • Extensive shortcut keys used to improve productivity.
    • 12 Image clipboard.
    • Up to 1000 undo steps.
    • Zoom levels between 10% and 2000%.
    • Pan window for quickly navigating a large image, or at a high zoom.
    • Browse different files passed at the command line.
    • Translations: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Taiwanese), Czech, English (UK), French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Turkish.
    • Use a pressure sensitive graphics tablet.
    • Limit memory used for undo images.
    • Grab screenshots.




  • Pixel Art

    • Edit indexed palette or RGB images.
    • Save and load PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, TGA, XPM, XBM files.
    • Extensive palette features - load, save, sort, edit, posterize, quantize, remove duplicate colours, remove unused colours, colour protection, palette shifting.
    • Image channels: Alpha, Selection, Mask. All saved to a PNG file.
    • Up to 100 layers.
    • Create animations by moving layers, or shifting palettes.
    • Create animated GIF's using Gifsicle.
    • 81 brush presets.
    • 100 brush patterns.
    • User defined gradients.
    • Copy and paste using rectangle or polygon shapes.
    • Tools to shuffle pixels, flood fill, draw straight lines, smudge, clone, paste text, draw/fill rectangle/ellipses.




  • Image Manipulation

    • Quickly transform image gamma, brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, posterize from a single dialog, and preview the results in real time.
    • Apply various effects such as invert, greyscale, isometric transformations, edge detect, sharpen, unsharp mask, soften, Gaussian blur, emboss, bacteria.
    • Use gamma correction on effects to improve the quality of various effects.
    • Crop at the touch of a button.
    • Resize the canvas.
    • Rescale the canvas, enlarging or reducing, using several filter methods.



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