Technical Specifications

Supported File Formats

• Import and export: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, JPEG2000, BMP, APNG, XPM
• Import: SVG
• Open and save: ICO, CUR, ANI, ICNS, ICL, CUL, IFX
• Extract from: EXE, DLL, OCX, Mac Binary, AppleSingle, AppleDouble
• Capture: Ability to capture images from your desktop
• Support for BMP and PNG toolbar image strips

Image Processing

• Layers-based image editing (IFX images)
• Over 20 tools for selection, crop, painting, retouching, typing, measuring and navigation
• Use over 40 filters
• Adjust image size and resolution, expand image, trim image
• Scale, Rotate, Flip (vertical or horizontal)
• Fill images, layers or selections
• Batch process
  • Extract icons or cursors from files
  • Export icons or cursors to image
  • Create icons or cursors from images
  • Group Images to Icons
  • Apply Actions
• Resource editor
  • Create/modify icon libraries (ICL) and cursor libraries (CUL)
  • Modify icons/cursors inside 32 bit EXE files
• Advanced brush settings
  • Size, angle, spacing, width, height
  • Dynamic parameters: size jitter, angle jitter, width jitter, height jitter, opacity jitter, hue jitter, saturation jitter, brightness jitter, x/y position jitter
• Powerful multicolor gradients
  • Many predefined gradients
  • Gradient editor to create custom gradients
• Text Styles
• Record/playback effects and adjustments using actions

Tools

• Selection
  • Tools: Rectangular, Elliptical, Lasso, Magic Wand, Move selected pixels
  • Move/Modify selection
  • Smooth selection
  • Inverse selection
  • Edit selection in Quick Mask mode
• Crop tool
• Painting
  • Tools: Brush, Pencil, Gradient, Fill, Line, Curves
  • Specify blend mode, opacity, brush for painting tool
• Shapes
  • Tools: Rectangle, Ellipse, Rounded Rectangle, Shape
  • Specify blend mode, fill of shapes
• Retouching
  • Tools: Eraser, Color Eraser, Blur, Sharpen, Brighten, Darken
  • Specify brush and strength
• Text tool
• Measuring and navigation
  • Color Picker, Hand, Zoom, Ruler

Image Adjustments

• Color Balance
• Brightness and Contrast
• Hue/Saturation
• Opacity
• Fade Out
• Transparent Color
• Inner and Drop Shadow
• Levels
• Curves
• Bevel
• Replace Color or Pixels
• Rotate

Effects

• Use over 40 predefined effects or create your own filter
  • Invert, Grayscale, RGB Channel Mixer
  • Emboss Color, Emboss Dark, Emboss, Emboss Light
  • Average, Blur, Blur Soft, Blur More, Motion Blur, Gaussian Blur
  • Sharpen, Sharpen Less, Sharpen More, Directional Sharpen
  • Find Edges (vertical), Find Edges (horizontal), Enhance Edges, Detect Edges, Edges Strong, Edges Weak, Contour
  • Glow, Waggle, Pattern, Paint Dark, Paint Bright, Shake, Shake Less, Pale, Scene, Drop Shadow
  • Add Noise
• Ability to create custom filter

Layers

• Layers-based image editing (only for images)
• Create new, duplicate, delete, rename, import or hide layers
• Change blending mode for layer
  • Normal, Multiply, Additive, Color Burn, Color Dodge, Reflect, Glow, Overlay, Difference, Negation, Lighten, Darken, Screen, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, Brightness, Soft Light, Hard Light, Pin Light, Freeze, Heat, Subtractive.
• Adjust layer opacity
• Merge layers
• Flatten image
• Arrange layers

User Interface

• Interface designed to work with small images
• Dockable panels
  • Tools, Tool Options, Layers, Brushes, Swatches, Palette, Gradients, Colors, History, Explorer, Preview, Histogram, Info panels
• Quick Mask mode
• Use grid and zoom up to 10000% to edit small images
• Customizable shortcuts
• Explorer panel to easily import images
• Save/Load work spaces
• Sidebar to view all the images in the icon
• Create Win/Mac icon from image
• Snapshot
• Many customizable preferences
• Search box for quick command execution

Colors

• RGB, HSB, Gray color modes
• Transparent color
• Access to the palette of palette base images
• Add, remove and pick colors from Swatches panel
• Eyedropper allows picking colors from images
• Recent colors
• Global color picker to pick color from anywhere on the screen

Customization

• Customize folder icons

Languages

• English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish