Paint STAR 2.70

A surprisingly nice and FREE Photoshop alternative, very light and easy-to use. Highly recommend to digital art students who have no money for the pricey CS.

PaintStar is a versatile digital image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, composing and authoring images, image morphing, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context menu. It supports alpha, layer, path ,and the most common editing techniques. PaintStar has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well.

A Brief List of Features

• Full suite of painting tools including paintbrush, pencil, eraser, airbrush, filter brush, color retouching, blur/sharpening,smudge,and cloning. Many customizable brushes, textures, gradients, and 26 methods of combining modes suppported.[See Several Examples]
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear, perspective,flip,and wrap. Auto antialias supported.[See Transformation Examples]
• Image Morphing supported. With this technique, you can create a sequence of intermediate frames that seamlessly transform one image to another and generate output in a form of gif animation or image file sequence.[See Morph Maker Tutorial]
• Gradient Fill tools include linear, radial,square,conical(symmetric),conical(asymmetric) and shapeburst. Multiple colors supported.
• Selection tools including rectangular, elliptical, free, fuzzy and paths. Add, subtract, invert, antialias and feather selections supported.
• Zoom 10% - 2000% display, and show grid supported.
• More then 30 File formats supported include JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PCX, BMP and many others.
• Color conversion supported include several different dithering methods and palette options.
• Alpha channel (transparency) supported.
• Displays Histograms (RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK).
• Displays EXIF information. EXIF 2.2 supported.
• TWAIN supported for scanners and digital cameras.
• Multiple Layers, 26 methods of combining modes suppported.

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