Features

  • Image editing in indexed colors (with palette), up to 256 colors
  • Classical tools : lines, circles, text, multiple undo/redo, built-in brushes, ...
  • Less classical tools : airbrush, splines, gradient-filled shapes, custom brushes
  • Layers, for easier changes of the composition as you work
  • Animations with multiple frames and export as GIF
  • Dual-view mode, you can see and draw both zoomed and actual size views at the same time
  • Extensive palette editor : RGB and HSL color systems, editing group of colors, define and create color ranges
  • Palette control : reorder colors without altering picture, common palette generation for merging two images
  • Shading mode : helps you to antialias with your own gradients
  • Grid mode : draw tile and easily assemble and copy them to create a screen mockup.
  • Patterned mode
  • Transparency, smoothing, smearing, and other advanced effects
  • Extensive and customizable shortcuts. You can control everything with the keyboard and disable the menu to draw fullscreen
  • Scripting with embedded Lua engine, to automate operations and perform powerful analysis and manipulation of pictures.
  • Unusual screen modes : wide and tall pixels, constrained palettes. Very useful for pictures dedicated to 8 and 16-bit computers.
  • Special drawing modes, replicating constraints of ZX Spectrum, Thomson, Amstrad CPC custom modes, and others