Image Processing Software

    Reflet is rather small and compact utility. It serves for one purpose only: allows to generate an animation simulating ripple effect and a reflection of the image in the water, and makes it in a simple and elegant way. It can be useful for logo animating, to decorate Web pages or just for fun. Of course, it can be used for images of stretches of water but in essence you can use any image including portraits, momuments, etc.
    Downloading of the application is avaliable at Download link. (This is an English version of the program; there is also a French version at the French version link).
    The application is downloaded in the form of the .ZIP-archive file containing the application .EXE file proper, two sample images, a simple .htm help-file, and a license .txt file. No installation as such is required. The program is ready for execution immediately after downloading.
    The Main menu of the application contains only three options: File, Options and ?.
    The option File opens File Dialog and has also only three options: Open, Export and Exit. The option Open serves for image file opening; The program works with a number of image file formats including JPEG, GIF, Windows MetaFile, TIFF, Adobe Photoshop, Bitmap, Icon files, etc. Selecting and choosing an image file for opening is being done through the Windows browser. Right after the opening the image is already reflected. The option Export allows exporting the result image in another file. If you activate this option there opens a window in which you can select an animation format, the number of used colors, what to export (an image AND a reflection, or a reflection only). There is a warning in this window that for animating Web-pages only animated GIF-format is appropriate. The standard option Exit is for cancelling the program execution and quitting the application.
    The option Options allows starting the animation (simulating rippling effect) proper and setting its characteristics. The process of animation begins after choosing the option Enter. After that this option is checked. The second activating the option Enter stops the animation;the option becomes unchecked. With the option Speed you can change the speed of the animation; with the option Type of waves you can select short, medium or long simulated waves.
    The option ? opens a Help popup containing three options. The option Information (with the F1 hotkey) opens the simple .htm help-file containing some explanation of the parameters of images available for adjustment. The option Official Web site contains a link to the Web-site of the developer. And the option About Reflet calls the standard About window containing information about the developer (Antonio Da Cruz) and links to his Web-sites.
    Under the Main menu there is a taskbar of the application. It contains three buttons for Open, Export and Start Animation actions (there are on-line tips for the buttons), as well as spinners Images and Height(%), and an option group Perspective/Regular. The option group allows to change the type of the simulation varying its appearance (it defines the movement of the waves). The Image spinner defines how many images are used for the animation (by default 5 frames). And the Height(%) spinner defines the height of the reflection in percentage to the original image (by default 90%).

This is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation. You can download different versions - commercial or trial, or freeware; 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.

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.

The icons of drawing functions and the color selector can be found left to the main window. To the right there’s a fast palette for quick color storing and retrieval.
One of the unique features is that you can apply different skins to the program, even easily design your own.

There are several special tools that can only be found in high priced packages. One of them is an image optimizer. It helps you to find the best image settings for saving a particular image with the smallest possible size retaining best quality. You can compare results on-the-fly, zoom in/out particular areas to see the difference.

The navigation panel shows the image around the cursor at 100% magnification ratio which is handy if you’re working in a higher zoom and would still like to see the modifications at the original zoom factor. It also displays the entire image and the color parameters of the pixel currently under the cursor.

The Color Selection dialog is easy to use, allows both fast, intuitive and precise setting of a color. A color can be chosen by setting its RGB components (sliders) or by setting its Hue (color circle) and pointing on a color in the Saturation-Value space (color field). For HTML design the color is also represented in hexadecimal format.

The Image Browser dialog allows you to browse through the images on your hard disk. One of the unique features of Ultimate Paint is the ability to browse effects, too: you can see the thumbnails of the different filters and select the desired one.

Ultimate Paint has more than a hundred professional quality effects which is outstanding among image processing programs. Most of these plug-in effects have several adjustable parameters which gives lots of freedom to get exactly what you desire. See the preview of available effects. Most effects have instant preview (small window), and you can also preview the effect on the whole image. Each effect has a detailed help which describes its usage in detail. If you use the freeware version you must take into account that it has only 20 built-in image filters. Additionally, the freeware version doesn’t support Adobe Photoshop.

Align and resize your images interactively with one movement of the mouse or more accurately using numeric values. Add an optional title text or border around your image, and print the final design - all with the advanced print dialog of UP.

Downloading of the program is available at the Download Web-page of the developer. You can download a commercial, or trial, or freeware version of the program.
And here are Tutorials for the program.

Source: ultimatepaint.com

    This is an image editor which features an export optimizer, editable text, image slicing and image maps, selection tools, smart shapes, and image enhancement tools. This image editor is capable of working with image layers and image animations.
    The program is shipped in two versions: freeware (up to the version 6.0) and commercial (beginning from the version 8.0 and upwards). Downloading of the PhotoPlus 6.0 is available at the Download link.
    While installing the program you have two options: US Standard (Letter size paper) and UK and the rest of the world (A4 paper).
Here is the PhotoPlus web-site

    If you select the task of creating a new image, the program opens a small window requesting you to set dimensions of the image (length and width) in pixels, resolution of the picture in pixels per inch or in pixels per centimeter, as well as the type of background (white, background color, or transparent). You can set and clear the animation flag, too. After opening the image (the existing one or a blank) there appears the application toolbar in the right part of the Main window of the application.
    But even the freeware version of the program demands on-line registration. In the process of this on-line registration the installer informs you about the product identification number. You must complete the registration by typing the registration key which is supplied over the Internet. The developer of the program warns that by completing the on-line registration you give him permission to send to your e-mail box various materials about new releases, patches, etc. But you can unsubscribe later. After completion of the registration process the application is unlocked and ready for use.
    After starting the application the program brings out a window with starting options. The window has intuitively understable pictures and buttons for the following tasks: Open Saved Work, Create New Picture, Create New Animation, Import From TWAIN, View Samples, On-Line Resources. You can select and choose the needed task from this window or simply close it; if you close it without selecting the task, you can do it later in the Main Menu of the application.
    After opening the image (the existing one or a created blank) there appear three other windows in the right part of the Main window of the application. These are: the Tool Properties window, the Color window, and the Layer Manager window. The content of the Tool Properties window at every moment depends from the currently selected application tool. If the tool has no available options for setting at the Tool Properties window there appears the Message “No options available“.
    There is a toolbar on the left side of the Main application window. The toolbar contains buttons for editing tasks; some buttons may bring out small associated with combo-boxes toolbar palettes (for example, the button for selecting options). You can relocate the toolbar to the other place in the Main window.
    Under the Main menu of the application there is the taskbar of the program containing buttons for creating, opening, saving and closing image files, printing images, copying and pasting, as well as undoing and redoing changes. There is the button ? standing for Help.
    The Main Menu of the program contains eight options: File, Edit, Image, Layers, Select, View, Window and Help.
    The File option opens File Dialog. In the File Dialog popup there are options for file opening, saving and closing. There are some peculiarities. The options Save and Save As support saving only in the native PhotoPlus .spp-format. Saving the currently opened image in the original format is being done by using options Save Original and Save Original As. While opening images the program supports a number of image formats including Bitmap (*.bmp), Truevision Targa (*.tga), Windows MetaFile (*.wmf), PaintBrush (*.pcx), GIF (*.gif), JPEG (*.jpg), Portable Network Graphic (*.png) and more. Converting the format of the original image is being done by options Export… and Export Optimizer…. The latter option allows to set some options for the output image in a special optimizer window (for example, the quality of the JPEG image).
    You can import images from some outer source with the option Import.The option Print stands for printing images;it opens the print manager window. The options Preferences allows setting working preferences and options such as enabling/disabling Undo system, setting grid size, setting the directory for plugins and much more. The program supports a list of recently opened files.
    The option Edit opens Edit Dialog containing standard editing options such as Copy, Cut, Paste, Undo/Redo and Clear.
    With the option Layers you can handle layers in the picture; you can apply effects to them, arrange them, mask and unmask them. The option Properties opens the Layer Information window. You can also delete and merge layers.
    The option Select of the Main Menu deals with selection options. You can select, deselect and invert selections. There is a special sub-popup for modifying the current selection (for example, contracting or expanding).
    The option View manages zooming in and out of the image as well as visibility of various toolbar windows and palettes of the program. It also manages tool tabs within pageframes in the tool windows.
    The option Window stands for a usual window handling popup (cascading and tiling windows as well as choosing the window by a number and name).
    The option Help of the Main Menu brings out the Help popup containing the Help-system in the Microsoft Help Format as well as links for the PhotoPlus and Serif Web-sites. And there is a Registration Wizard… option in this popup which allows to go through the registration process if you didn’t do that while installing the program. If you select this option with the registration already complete there appears an information window saying the registration is already complete and showing phone numbers for online support in the US, UK and for the rest of the world. And finally there is a standard About option with the developer’s logo.
For better work with PhotoPlus you can download a Tutorial in a .pdf format from the developer’s web-site.

This is a rather small utility allowing you to handle your digital photos on your computer. Main features of the program:

    Although it’s fairly limited in features, PhotoFiltre offers a simple, but elegant user interface and a lot of one-click image adjustments, filters, and effects. There is a built in image explorer panel for visually navigating your file system, basic drawing, painting, retouching and selection tools, and batch processing capabilities.

    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.

    Downloading of the application is avaliable at the Download page on the developer’s site Photofiltre.free.fr (this hyperlink is for the english version of the site).

    Basically. there are four language versions of the utility for download including English and French. But at the download page there are a number of additional language packs for downloading including German (Deutsch), Russian as well as other languages.

    A strong side of the application is a lot of available predefined selections and photo masks donating for public use by devoted customers and available for download. Every PhotoFiltre customer can upload on the site his selections and masks.

    The Main menu of the application has ten options: File, Edit, Image, Selection, Adjust, Filter, View, Tools, Window and ?.
    Under the Main menu there are two taskbars of the program; there is a graphic toolbar at the right edge of the Main window, too.

    The option File opens a File Dialog popup. It has standard options for creating new image (New…) and opening an existing image (Open…); the option Recent files supports a list of recently opened files for re-opening; by the option Revert you can substitute the content of the current image with the last saved version of the image. There are standard options for saving images Save and Save as… as well as closing images Close and Close All. PhotoFiltre supports a number of standard graphic formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, RLE, Targa, TIFF.
    There are also options for printing the current image Print and acquiring an image from TWAIN-source (Import TWAIN). The option Image properties opens the window which displays information about the current image; The option Exit serves for cancelling program execution and application quitting.

    The option Edit unites editing options. There are standard editing options such as: Undo and Redo changes, Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Paste as new image; there is a Paste special option allowing masking for pastes. There are options for clipping selections, rotating and flipping, as well as defining and handling patterns. With the option Purge you can clear the Clipboard and/or histories of editing process.

    The option Image handles the image as a whole. You can change color Mode of the image, Flip vertical and horizontal, Rotate and Skew…, change Image size… and Canvas size…, as well as Fit image… and Duplicate it. There are options for image cropping, too (Crop and Automatic crop). The option Text allows text insertion. There are options for setting transparency to the selected color.
    The option Selection handles selections in the image.
    The option Adjustment of the Main menu deals with adjustments of color balance, hue, shades, contrast and so on.
    The option Filters serves for applying filters to the image. With the Filters popup you can apply predefined filters as well as use custom filters developed by you or some other person (the option PhotoMasque).
    The option View of the Main menu allows zooming in and out, show grid and snap to grid and so on; it enables/disables Filter bar and Tools palette, and Show bounds and shadow.
    The option Tools allows to select a needed tool for work. The Tools popup has also Image manager allowing file copying, moving, renaming and deleting. The option Export as icon… allows saving the image as an icon-file. The option Preferences allows to set preferences to work with the application.
    The option Window contains standard window handling options.
The option ? stands for Help. The actual on-line help is called with the option Information. The ?-popup has also web-links to the official web-site of the program and the customers forum, as well as standard option About.

    This is a simple highly specialized image converter developed for one purpose only: converting images in EMF/WMF (Windows Metafile) format to EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) format. Actual converting of the image is being done using the PostScript driver installed on the user’s PC. Without the PostScript driver the converting of the image format by this application is impossible. The structure of the program is pretty simple.     The Main menu contains four options: File, Edit, Convert and Help. The Pop-up menu File has two options: Open (for selecting and opening EMF/WMF images for converting) and Save As (allowing to save selected pictures under another name). The pop-up menu Edit has standard options for working with a selection list (Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete) and the option Preferences. Actually, the options Cut and Delete perform the same task - they delete selected file from the list for conversion. The option Preferences serves for selecting the PostScript printer (which should be installed earlier, of course). You can also set the resolution of the output image with this option (taking into account capabilities of the installed PostScript driver). The option Convert serves to convert image format of the whole list of image files or the selection of files within that list. During the process of converting the PostScript driver is called; the converted image is shown in the left lower corner of the Preview window of the printer driver. Actually, the destination of the output of the converted image is saving to EPS file, not the printing on paper. The option Help of the Main menu actually contains no help at all - only a pop-up About.
    The distribution package of the application is available at link http://www.projectory.de/emftoeps/emftoeps.zip or through a link in http://www.projectory.de/emftoeps/index.html.
    As a matter of fact there are no installation process, however. The distribution package is a .zip archive containing a ready-for-work copy of the application directory; the executable is EMFToEPS.exe. It’s interesting that the author of the application graciously supplies source files of the program, too. They are contained in the sub-directory ‘source‘.
    The author of the application - Dirk Struve warns that there are some bugs in his applet:

• Some WMF images can’t be loaded correctly, because the WMF format is not well defined and I don’t now all different versions. Solution: Always save images as EMF.
• Some WMF images are not converted correctly. (This seems to be a PostScript driver problem) Solution: Try saving images as EMF or WMF images with True Type fonts as curves.
• Preview of File Dialog sometimes wrong (Bug in Delphi libraries).
• On some Windows systems, images are not displayed correctly or dieappear.

But he writes he probably won’t continue work on it.

    IrfanView is a rather small and compact image converter and refinisher (the size of the installer executable is only 885K). It’s especially useful for working with digital photos and their refinishing. IrfanView is a very fast image viewer/converter. It features: viewing support for dozens of formats both popular and obscure, drag and drop support, fast directory view, print support, TWAIN support, slideshow view, batch conversion, color depth and more.

    The Main menu of the utility has 6 options: File, Edit, Image, Options, View and Help.
The option File opens File Dialog. The File Dialog popup menu is very elaborate and has many options gathered in separate groups. Many options of the File Dialog has associated with them function keys. The first such group includes standard options of opening files Open, Reopen, Open with external editor, Open As. The option Reopen allows for yet another opening of yhe last opened file. The option Open with external editor allows for the opening of the selected image with the help of the other image editor if such external image editor is written in preferences. The option Open As allows for th1e opening of the image in specific formats ASCII, HEX and RAW.
The standalone option Thumbnails allows for opening of images by selecting and choosing thumbnails in a directory tree.
The option Slideshow allows you to open slideshows. The option Batch conversion/Rename… allows for conversion image format of a selected group of files. It opens a window of built-in image converter. In this window you can define a file group for conversion (optionally including subdirectories), an output image format, an output directory and path, and much more. You can also set some specific options of the selected output format.
There is also the group of standard options of dealing with files in the File Dialog: Rename File…, Move File…, Copy File…, Delete File…. These options allows for working in IrfanView as in any file browser.
The option group Save and Save As allows for saving of the selected image in a chosen image format.
The standalone option Print allows for printing of the selected image. It opens the Print window in which you can set various properties of printing and actually start the printing process.
Then there is the group of options dealing with image hardware: Select TWAIN source…, Acquire/Batch scanning… and Copy Shop….
The standalone option MRUDs opens the popup of recently opened image directories.
The standalone option Exit cancels program execution.

    The option Edit opens Edit Dialog popup which comprises various editing options mainly to deal with selections in the selected image. It allows undoing recent actions, and clearing the whole picture and the Clipboard, and inserting texts in the current selection.

    The option Image opens the Image Dialog popup containing yet another group of image editing options - mainly various special effects. As usual there are, of course, rotating and flipping of the image, resizing the image and/or the canvas, color changing, negation of the color and converting it into greyscale, and more. The option Information opens the information window which contain extensive data about the current image.

    The option Options opens the Options popup allowing for setting of various options and preferences of the application. Some of the options (Start Multimedia Player and JPG Lossless Operations…) require external plug-ins which can be downloaded from the website of the developer. The option Capture/Screenshot let you make screen captures.
The option Change language… deserves special mentioning. It allows changing of the program interface. In the basic configuration two variants are envisaged: English and German (Deutsch). But you can select one of the two dozen plus European and Asiatic languages if you download the corresponding language support file from the web-site of the developer. You can see there the list of currently supported languages. It includes Russian . Apparently, the languages support DLLs are developed by the programmers community. At least, the Russian language DLL is developed by some guy from Zelenograd, Russia. The multilanguage support is exceptionally strong feature of IrfanView. It’s very rare in other FreeWare applications.

    The option View of the Main menu opens the popup of view options. Here you can set showing/hiding of application tools (the taskbar, the toolbar, the meny bar), select full-screen or window mode, select an option of fitting the selected image or no fitting at all. You can also change the current image in the editor by scanning the current image directory (options Next/Previous/First/Last/Random File in Directory), or even set an automatic view of the current image directory (the option
Start/Stop automatic viewing). There are options of zooming in and out, or returning to actual size of the image (the option Original size). There is also and option of viewing the HEX-content of the image file (Show HEX view). And you can view multipage images with the option Multipage images or even create them (but creating of such images require an extenal plug-in - except TIF format).

    The option Help opens a Help popup. There are context-dependent help in the Microsoft Help formay, the FAQ list, the Keyboard Shortcuts explanation and options of various info about the program and its developer. The is the option
Registration… for customer registering. Registered customers can receive technical support.

    Under the Main menu bar of the application there is the taskbar containing buttons for various most often usable actions in the applications. In the taskbar there is a small window for selected the current image directly by specifying its directory index. You can see in the window on-line tip about the number of image files in the current directory. The current selected file is indicated in the format The Index Number Of File-Slash-The Number Of Image Files In Directory.
    At the lower edge of the Main window there is the status bar of the application. The status bar contains information about bits per pixel of the image, its directory index, the file size, the date and time of its creation.

Here are some reviews about the application from the Web:

Reviewed By: Richard Weil
I’ve been using this viewer for years and wouldn’t use anything else. I’ve tried others and remove them and return to Irfan View exclusivly. This freeware program is probably as good or better than most viewer software. Adding the available plug-ins makes it even better. It can view any type graphic file you desire. It’s the best!

Reviewed By: Jamie

This tiny software is wonderful! You can resize pictures, touch them up change the color and view all types of gif, jpg, bmp and tons of other extensions

Reviewed By: Sven

It is small, fast and has all functions it needs. And it’s free!

Downloading of the application is available via download page
http://www.sofotex.com/downloads/d59.html

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    This is rather simple image editor allowing to edit images fom a variety of formats (GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, PCX, BMP, TARGA, AVI); create images for websites; create and view GIF animations; adjust colours in photos; apply filters and transformations; magic wand selections; use any picture as a brush or fill pattern; blur; sharpen.
    The program is developed by Paul Bird from England. The program has a commercial version, too. The commercial and freeware versions are different in that help files, sample images, texture and fill patterns are available only in the commercial version. In the commercial version there are more filters, the 3D Shape Maker, Object to Bitmap Converter and the RAM Viewer. The commercial version is shipped by the developer on a CD-ROM. The freeware version has no on-line help.
    Downloading of the freeware version of the application is available on
    The Main menu of the application has eight options: File, Edit, Selection, Toolboxes, Picture, Run…, View and Help.

    The Help option opens the Help popup, containing options Brush Strokes Manual, General Tips, What Do I Do Next? and a standard option About (some information about the application and its developer). As a mater of fact, in the freeware version the option Brush Strokes Manual (the on-line application manual) is, in essence, disabled; it opens a window containing information that the on-line manual is available only in the commercial version. But the options of on-line tips (General Tips and What Do I Do Next?) work.

    The option File opens File Dialog containing options of opening/closing image files (New…, Open…, Save picture as…), getting images from a digital camera (Capture from Camera) and from a video image file (Get frame from Video); printing images (Print… and Print Preview), cancelling the program execution (Exit) and a link to the web-site of the developer (Free Software Website). It must be noted that in the freeware version the option of printing images Print… doesn’t work; but the option of Print Preview works.

    The option Edit opens Edit Dialog containing only the usual options of selecting and editing (Copy, Cut, Paste, Select All, and Crop Selection), clearing the window content (Clear), and undoing/redoing changes (Undo/Redo).

    The option Selection calls the popup containing options for working with the current selection (Paint Background, Set Transparency - sets transparency level of the selection, Linear Interpolation - if checked it improves the quality of transformations in slight expense of speed, and Colour Tolerance - sets how colors and shades need to be considered part of the same selection).

    The option Toolboxes calls the popup containing checkable options of opening/closing toolbars of the application (Pens&Brushes, Lenses&Filters, Selections, Transformations, Frame Tools), the option of opening the window of applying plug-in filters to the current image Plug-in Filters, the option of inserting some text in the image in the selected font Texts&Fonts, checkable options of opening/closing palette toolbars (for 16 and 256 colors), the option Greyscale Colors which actually replaces colors with shades of grey, and the option of resetting color palettes Reset Colors.

    The option Picture of the Main Menu calls the popup containing options of changing the size of the image Change Size, swapping current frames Swap Frames (which is assigned the function key F1), Adjust Colors - calls the window of adjusting colors of the current image, and checkable options Use Only 16 Colors and Use Only 256 Colors.

    The option Run… serves to call the plug-ins Object To Bitmap Converter, 3D Object Maker, and RAM Show. As has been mentioned above these plug-ins are absent in the freeware version; the corresponding options of the popup Run link to the webpage for ordering the commercial version instead.

    The option View calls the popup of zooming the image and displaying it in full screen. This popup has the option of animation preview, too. An animation consists of several frames; in this option you can set the number of frames in the animation.

    Under the Main Menu of the application there is the main taskbar containing buttons for various actions. If you want on-line tip for the button just press the right-hand button of the mouse while the mouse pointer points to the chosen button.

    At the bottom of the Main window of the application are displayed information about the current position of the cursor and the composition of the color at this point (in shares of Red, Green and Blue).

The first button in the main taskbar with a question mark is present only in the freeware version. It calls the page warning about absent help files and inviting to visit the webpage for ordering the commercial version.

    Artweaver is a simple freeware image editing program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.
You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.
Main features of the program:

• Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils and so on.
• Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
• Transparency and Layers support.
• Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.
• Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD (no layer support).
• Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling.
• Support for several languages through language files.

    At present Artweaver supports through language files English, German, Chinese and Hungarian languages.
Artweaver is available for downloading through links at the web-page
http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?downloads_en
    You can download via these links the needed language support files.
    Artweaver is primarily an image editing tool with many artistic effects. Although it supports a number of image formats and can be used for image format converting. Image formats supported by Artweaver: AWD (native format for Artweaver), Bitmap (.PCX, .RLE), GIF, JPEG (.JPG, .JPEG, .JPE), PCX, PNG, Photoshop (.PSD), TARGA (.TGA, .VDA, .ICB, .VST ), TIFF (.TIFF, .TIF).
    The Main menu of the application has nine options: File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, View, Window, Help.
    The option File initiates File Dialog popup which has both standard options of opening, closing and saving files (New, Open, Close, Save and Save As), and some specific options for this application. These are, for example, options of cloning images (Clone and Clone Source), the option Iterative Save. The File Dialog supports a list of recently opened files though a bit peculiarly for Windows-oriented programmes - not directly but via the option Open Recent of the File Dialog popup. In the File Dialog popup there are also options of exporting-importing images (Export/Import) as well as options for printing images, and the option Exit for cancelling program execution and quitting the application.
    The option Edit calls Edit popup containing standard editing options (Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete), as well as options of undoing/redoing changes, presetting and setting preferences. In this popup are also included options of transforming images (free transforming, rotating, flipping and so on).
    The option Image calls Image popup containing options of various adjustments (coloring, curves, hues, saturation, etc), duplicating the selected image (Duplicate), setting the paper color, setting the size of the image and canvas, and rotating the canvas. The option Attributes of the popup initiates an information window about properties of the image.
    The option Layer calls Layer popup designed for managing layers of the image (if such layers exist). Artweaver supports layers in the image (i.e. the image may have several layers which could be brought to front sent to back. Each layer can be dealt with independently.
    The option Select calls Select popup with various options of selecting and dealing with selected material. Besides usual possibilities of selecting you have the option Layer Content allowing you to select the whole layer content in the image. There are also options of saving the selection onto a disk and loading the selection saved earlier. Selections are saved in .Asl file format (Antweaver Selection).
    The option Filter of the Main menu allows using special effects with images as a whole as well as with the selected layer of the image. There are a whole lot of such special effects and the popup Filter is rather rich in content.
    The option View of the Main menu contains options of zooming in and out of an image, fitting the size of an image, setting the grid and so on.
    The option Window of the Main menu comprises standard options of work with windows for Windows-based programmes (cascading and tiling windows, arranging, closing, and minimizing), as well as options of hiding/showing various tools windows of the application (toolbars, palettes, brushes, color sets and so on).
    The option Help of the Main menu calls a popup with options of Help and About, as well as System Information and links for updating the program. The Help of the application is in Microsoft Help format. It’s structurized, indexed and has the option of context-oriented search. The Help is very detailed describing basic concepts and work with images with application tools. In the Help is especially underlined that the creator of the program strived for maximal approach to real painting (e.g. you can imitate various textures of canvas material).
    In the Main window of the application there are windows of application tools: Toolbar (selecting various tools), Brush (specifically for changing the properties of the brush if brush is used as a current tool), Color Set (denoting the current color of paint), Layers (for changing the layer destined to work with) and Preview (to show the image as it would be printed).
    Under the Main menu is also located the taskbar containing comboboxes with regulators for changing properties of the image.
    You can contact the developer of the application via web-page http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?contact_en or visit Artweaver support forum at the address: http://www.artweaver.de/forum/

    This is a freeware paint and image editing tool. It features soft brushes, scanner support, crop, resize, rotate, special effects filters, gradients, patterns, and much more. The company provides for two version of the product - freeware and commercial (ImageForge Pro). Downloading of the freeware version of the product is available here. You can download either a self-extracting installer or a .ZIP file, containing installation files.
The Main menu of the application has eight options: File, Edit, Options, Picture, Effects, Tools, Window and Help.

    The option File opens a File Dialog. The File Dialog may be conducted in two styles: so-called Standard Windows and Enhanced. The selection of the File Dialog style is done by the option File Selector (pop-up menu) in the pop-up menu File Dailog. Both styles of the File Dialog support an image preview option. The File Dialog popup has also the option of acquiring images via a TWAIN device (Acquire from TWAIN device). There is also the option Print allowing you either to print the selected image on paper or export it to another image format (image converting). Image converting is available by the option Save As of the File Dialog popup. The File Dialog also has the option Exit to cancel program execution and contains a list of recently opened files.
    The option Edit of the Main menu opens the Edit Dialog which contains standard editing options (Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Select All), options of undoing previous actions and redoing them (Undo and Redo), the option Show Clipboard, and specific option Use paper color as transparent color which can be checked or unchecked. This option is checked if you want to set all colors which match the Paper Color to transparent when using the Paste as New Selection (Transparent) option under the Edit menu.
    The option Options initiates the Options Dialog popup which contains the following options:

• Button Bar (Small, Large)

Defines the size of buttons in the Main window taskbar.

• Toolbar (Left, Right

Defines the arrangement of the editor toolbar: on the right or on the left in the Main Window

• Auto Hide Tool Bar

This option can be checked or unchecked. Check this option if you want more editing room and would like the Tool Bar to be hidden when not being used. The Tool Bar activates again when you allow the cursor to hover at the edge of the frame.

• Snap Cursor to Drawing Grid

This option is checkable, too. If checked this option causes objects and tools to align with invisible grid points established with the Set Grid function. Useful to precise positioning lines and objects.

• Set Drawing Grid

Initiates Set Grid function and the Set Grid window, accordingly, allowing you to set the size of the grid cells.

• Show Magnification Grid

This option is checkable. If enabled this option places a grid over the image while it is magnified. This can make it easier to identify individual pixels in the picture.

• Undo On

This checkable option enables Undo feature.

• Set Selection Tools to Auto Crop
• Anti-Alias Image Rotation
• Draw From Centre

Objects (circles or rectangles) are usually drawn by clicking on the upper corner and dragging down and to the left or right. Checking this option allows to draw objects by clicking at the centre of the area in which to place the object and dragging outward in any direction.

• Set Preferences

Opens Set Preferences window in which one can set preferences of the program interface, saving, palette, etc.

    The option Picture calls the Picture popup allowing various actions with the selected image, namely:

• Crop
• Enlarge Canvas
• Resize
• Resample
• Duplicate
• Set palete…
• Change Color Depth (the number of colors)
• Dithering Options
• Flip Horizontal
• Flip Vertical
• Rotate
• Rotate by Degree
• Invert
• Clear
• Skew/Shear

    The popup Picture has also options Info (which initiates the info-window about current selected image - dimensions, number of colors, bits per pixel, size, compression, as well as file date/time and name including directory) and Preview initiating the Preview window.
    The option Effects calls the Effects popup allowing various special effects with the selected image, as to: changing colors of the image by different ways and changing outlines in the picture.
    The Tools calls the Tools popup containing only one option in the freeware version of the product: Create Album Or Slide Show.
The option Window calls the Window popup containing standard Windows options of arranging windows: cascading, tiling, etc.
The option Help calls the Help popup, containing options of on-line Help of the application (in the Microsoft Windows Help format), web-links of the creator, the option About (calling the About window of the application - info about the creator) and useful option Restore Default Registry Settings. With this option you can always restore default ImageForge settings if experience some problem. Sometimes it helps

In the Main window of the application there are also the Taskbar containing buttons for the most often usable actions and the Toolbar containing various editing instruments.

The current positioning of the cursor in pixels in the image is indicated in the left lower corner of the window.

To summarize, this image editor is very refined for a freeware tool .