Pixel is a RGB, CMYK and HDR image editing, photo retouching, graphics manipulating and animation program available for many operating systems
Pixel has a multiplatform design and looks the same on every supported platform. Also, every file produced with Pixel is cross-platform and can be copied files from one platform to another
Platforms
* Pixel is running following platforms now: Windows, Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, Linspire, Zeta/BeOS/x86, QNX/x86, FreeBSD/x86, MacOSX/PPC and MacOSX/x86, MorphOS/PPC, eComStation, OS/2, SkyOS and DOS
* In future following ports are possible if there’s general interest: Linux/x86_64, Linux/ARM, Solaris/x86, Solaris/Sparc, Window x64, NetBSD/x86
Core
* Pixel is an extremely small and fast application
* it is easy to translate to any language as it supports full Unicode, all available translations are available at once (English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Slovak, Croatian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Afrikaans, Brazilian Portuguese and others)
* supports TWAIN compatible scanners, digital cameras
* supports SANE compatible scanners, digital cameras and others (Linux, BeOS, eComStation)
* pressure sensitive tablets support
* printing support
* multiple color managed clipboards
* various image formats handling (GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PSD…)
* support for JPEG-2000 format
* support for OpenEXR format
* EXIF support
Image editing
* support for layers, paths, channels, masks and selections
* Color Management support for RGB, CMYK, Grayscale and CIE Lab modes (8-bit and 16-bit)
* support for HDR (High Dynamic Range) images with 32-bit/channel precision, HDR images in Pixel are editable in full HDR quality, not in 8-bit RGB as in competiting programs
* realtime live effects for layers (adjustments, effects), sets of live effects can be saved as layer Styles
* image browsing and searching
* powerful text editing with spellchecking and support for IME/XIM (Asian languages)
Retouching
* includes variety of brushes, including full-color brushes and animated brushes
* brush retouching tools including special effects
* retouching set of filter plug-ins
Web features
* complex support for image slicing and image optimizations (GIF, PNG, JPEG, WBMP)
* direct editing of generated HTML code without destroying user’s additions
* support for clickable maps
* support for small animations for your web pages (animated GIFs)
Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.0.x.
Other dependencies include:
X11, SDL, freetype, lcms, sane, cups, openexr, libpng
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