Saint Paint - это програмный пакет, предназначенный для редактирования
картинок и анимированных рисунков с палитрами True Colour, 256 colour,
16 colour, и монохромных. Программа разрабатывалась первоначально для
использования в игровой индустрии, благодаря чему она снабжена наиболее
нужными инструментами, которые встречаются только в дорогих и мощных
продуктах, необходимым профессиональным художникам, дизайнерам и
программистам. (Например, возможность выбрать в качестве кисти кусочка
изображения, или анимация комбинации разных цветовых мод или поддержка
редактирования AVI) Программа идеально подходит и для работы над
цифровыми фото. Полнофункциональные возможности редактирования слоёв и
альфа-каналов. Подерживаются форматы: BMP, JPG/JPEG, GIF, ICO, CUR,
AVI, PNG, PCX, TIF/TIFF, TGA, WBMP и SPS (SPS - собственный
формат)Весьма полезно, что изображения в Saint Paint являются
независимыми от устройства (DIBs). Это вкратце означает, что вся
информация о палитре, насыщенности и т.д. сохраняется внури программы и
остаётся неизменной и при переходе на другую графическую карту.
Saint Paint is the ideal paint package for creating and editing True
Colour, 256 colour, 16 colour, and Monochrome graphics, and animating
in any mode or combination of modes, with AVI editing support. It
features all the essential graphic tools you'll need in everyday use,
in a neat and very easy to use manner. Whether you are a newbie or a
professional, you'll be amazed how you managed without it. Supporting
GIF and JPG formats (and many more besides), it is the perfect package
for designing web graphics. It is also fantastic for photo editing,
with many tools including a tool for eliminating red-eye, image
sharpening, and full support for printing out images. Its versatility
makes it the essential graphics tool, whatever your needs are. Even if
you already have a much more expensive paint package you'll find Saint
Paint Studio to be invaluable. Developed for use in the games industry
by artists and programmers, it has all you need for everyday use, and
will establish itself as your only essential paint package.
File Formats supported:
• BMP, JPG/JPEG, GIF, ICO, CUR, AVI, PNG, PCX, TIF/TIFF, TGA, WBMP and
SPS (Saint Paint Studio's own format which stores animation, layers and
alpha channels).
Saint Paint Studio Features:
• Images in Saint Paint are device independent (DIBs). When you edit
your image, all the information about the palette, and the colours used
will be saved internally and retained. Other paint software utilities
are well known to alter palettes and images internally especially when
saving, which can lead to no end of headaches.
• Full support for every combination of colour depth conversion between
True Colour/256 colour/16 colour/Monochrome colour images, including 2
dithering options.
• Complete animation system, with GIF and basic AVI support, including
mixed colour depth images and mixed image sizes. Also with a full set
of animation playback controls.
• A fully featured layer and alpha channel editor.
• An image file browser with adjustable viewing grid and an integrated
set of file handling functions - find, rename, copy, delete, undo.
• Square or free hand brush grabs (selecting part of an image to use as
a brush to paint with) and a comprehensive set of tools for
manipulating them, including rotation (through any angle), resizing
(with a bi-linear interpolation option), flipping, colour palette
swapping, loading and saving, pasting as a newly created image, pasting
with anti-aliasing. Also you can deform the brush image into almost any
shape you like. This can be used to create a variety of interesting
effects including perspective.
• Single image or animated brush grabs with a variety of pasting options.
• Image processing tools including conversion to negative image,
conversion to black & white, brightness (including automatic
brightness correction), hue control (colour tinting), contrast, gamma
correction, image sharpening, image de-speckling, image
blurring/softening/smoothing, image simplification (oil painting
effect), a red-eye filter for eliminating red-eye from photographs,
image resizing/cropping/stretching/shrinking functions (with the option
of bi-linear interpolation) and image flipping.
• Effects include smoothing/blurring, translucency and brush paste fades.
• Quick Image duplication. Image copying and pasting via the Windows
Clipboard, therefore incorporating screen capture functionality.
• A full range of painting tools including lines, simple geometry, spray can, text, curves, square and freehand brushes.
• A 256 colour palette remapping and swapping utility, including batch
processing. Also batch processing into different file formats etc can
be acheived by using the animation system as a simple image buffer.
• A host of palette manipulation tools, including loading and saving
palettes, colour spreads, swapping, copying and excluding (a palettised
image can be forced into any set of selected colours).
• A symmetry tool that allows easy production of cyclic or tiled
patterns (very useful for website wallpaper). Full support for printing.