List of Features

General

• Free-style layering with blending modes
• Adjustment layers with multiple adjustments per layer
• Linked layers (a.k.a Linked Smart Objects)
• Composite, Image List, Frame Animation and Object Animation image modes
• Animation, both frame-based and object-based (timeline animation)
• Animation Composer engine
• Image Stacking for noise reduction, super-resolution, etc.
• Tablet/Pen-input/Stylus support with pressure control
• Touch-screen support with gestures including pitch-to-zoom and multi-finger panning
• Support for the native formats of Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo, ArtWeaver, Corel PhotoPaint, FireAlpaca, GIMP, Krita, Paint.NET, PaintShop Pro and Pixlr
• Support for common formats such as JPEG, animated PNG, animated GIF, TIFF, PICT, WebP, HEIF, DDS, JPEG-2000, JPEG-XR, JPEG-XL, AVI video, etc.
• Support for the OpenRaster interchange file format and rare formats such as QOI, MNG/JNG and DPX
• Support for older formats such as PPM/PGM/PBM, PCX/DCX, PCD, TGA, COKE, etc.
• Comprehensive Camera RAW file support with live adjustment
• Extensive plug-in support with streamlined SDKs
• Support for Photoshop Filter Plug-ins (.8BF)
• Advanced printing and scanning engines
• PDF document generation
• Icon and cursor editing, import and export, including Vista-style and Mac-OS icons
• Screen Capture, including Video Screen Capture with multiple triggering modes
• Video capture from devices (e.g. TV/Video)
• Supports multi-core processors, High-DPI displays and Multiple Display setups
• Integrated File Browser, Bluetooth OBEX and in-built utilities (Calculator, Notepad)
• Shell integration with thumbnails and conflict detection
• Unlimited Undo/Redo and Asynchronous Auto-Save, with Just-in-time memory compression to save space
• Fully re-editable text with advanced styling and effects (TextArt)
• Full alpha channel through out the workflow with Alpha protection (a.k.a. transparency protection)
• Multiple language support with user-editable language files and translation assistant (Chasys Photo Language Studio)
• Anti-aliasing and super-sampling support in tools and paths (see note #1)
• Smart-resizing (similar to seam-carving)
• Best-in-class post-edit heuristics anti-aliasing engine
• Physical measurement specification with display size detection via EDID
• Uses the latest CD5 specification with animation and multi-resolution
• Super-fast internal graphics engine (JpDRAW2)
• Full UNICODE support in all components
• Metadata save, restore and scale to imitate vector art
• Configurable Guides and Grids with Snap-to-Grid
• Smart-dither to custom palette
• Asynchronous preview rendering engine
• Pantone equivalent palettes for PMS 100 to 814-2x
• Automatic color naming
• ... and many more!

• Hand - For selecting layers and moving them around
• Move - For selecting layers and moving them around
• Mark-Up - For hotspots, markings and measurements
• Animate - Animates objects (Object Animation)
• ...
• Snip - Snips out image portions for editing or reuse
• Crop - Crops part of an image and optionally rotates it
• Razor - For slicing images
• Resize - For resizing layers
• ...
• Pencil - For pixel-by-pixel editing
• Color Picker - For picking colors from the image
• Brush - Draws wide lines and custom strokes
• Effects Brush - For smoke, red-eye, recolor, etc.
• Pattern Brush - For filling areas with patterns
• ...
• Cloning Brush - For photo-corrective patching and duplication
• Healing Brush - For photo-corrective patching and grafting
• Smoother - For smoothening and smearing sections
• Sharpen - For selective sharpening and highlight
• Smudge - Smudges the area under it in the direction of drawing
• Roughen and Spray - For roughening surfaces and creating sprayed air-brush effects
• ...
• Eraser - Erases pixels, making them transparent or white, with optional background detection
• Content-Aware Erase - Intelligently removes objects from images
• Opaquer - Restores transparent pixels, making them visible
• Edge Treatment - Cleans and refines the edges of opaque objects
• ...
• TextArt - Inserts plain and decorative text
• Pen and Path - Advanced selection and marking tool
• Line and Curve - Draws straight and curved lines with optional line caps
• Shape - Draws filled or unfilled shapes
• Custom Shape - Draws filled or unfilled shapes
• GT Shape - Draws gradient-tinted shapes
• Blocks and Decoratives - Draws various block shapes and decorative tint effects
• ...
• Filling Paint - For filling a uniform area with a color
• Transparency Fill - Erases areas containing similar pixels
• Gradient Fill - Draws gradient-tinted backgrounds
• ...
• Liquify - Push, pull, pucker, bloat and warp pixels
• Triangle List - Draws polygon fans and strip for special effects
• Projection - Transforms images and adjusts perspective
• Dynamics - Makes image adjustments such as setting the white-point

Transforms

• Flip
• Rotate
• Skew
• Perspective
• Stretch
• Smart Resize
• Heuristic Scaling
• Tile
• Kaleidoscope

Adjustments

• Brightness and Contrast
• Hue, Saturation and Value
• Greyscale with Tint
• Levels and Gamma
• Curves / Transfer Function
• Alpha Function
• Selective Decolor
• Auto-Level
• Histogram Equalization
• Attach / Edit Adjustment Layer

Effects

• Image
  • Synthetic Enhance
  • Dynamic Contrast
  • Local Contrast Enhancement
  • Dodge and Burn
  • Make Tile
  • Post-edit Anti-aliasing
• Color
  • Replace Color
  • Duo Tone
  • Posterize
  • Bilevelize
  • Negative
  • Gradient
  • Limit Colors
  • Channel Manipulation
• Alpha
  • Chroma-Key (Blue-screen)
  • Shrink Opacity
  • Dissolve
• Blur
  • Low-pass Blur
  • Gaussian Blur
  • Spin Blur
  • Zoom Blur
  • Motion Blur
  • Surface Blur
  • Chroma Blur
• Sharpen
  • High-pass Sharpen
  • Normal Sharpen
  • Luma Sharpen
  • Un-Sharp Mask
  • Smart Sharpen
• Noise
  • Add Noise
  • Wavelet Denoise
  • Median Denoise
  • Linear Denoise
• Correct
  • Red-eye
  • JPEG Artifact
  • Color Fringing
  • Color Misalignment
  • Chromatic Aberration
• Stylize
  • Emboss
  • Edge Detect
  • Pixelate
  • Oilify
  • Diffuse Glow
  • Drop Shadow
  • Create Halo
  • Reflection
• Distort
  • Swirl
  • Pinch
  • Liquify (image warping)
• Render
  • Grid
  • Clouds
  • Watermark
• Custom
  • Convolution Matrix
  • Color Channel Matrix
  • Program / Script
• ...
• External Plug-ins
• Shell-out to External App

Processes

• Icon Generator (supporting 32 bpp Vista style icons and cursors)
• Decompose Colors
• Subpixel Rendering
• Stacking:
  • Align Images for Stacking
  • Stack :: Image Averaging
  • Stack :: Merge to HDR
  • Stack :: Focus Stacking
  • Stack :: Moving Objects
  • Stack :: Super-resolution
  • Stack :: Alpha Unblend
  • Stack :: Other

Blending modes

• Normal
• None
• Mask
• Luma Mask
• Behind
• Overpaint
• Add
• Subtract
• Multiply
• Divide
• Offset
• Minimum
• Maximum
• Difference
• Screen
• Overlay
• Dodge
• Burn
• Luma
• Chroma
• Hue
• Saturation
• Value
• Lightness
• Logical AND
• Logical OR
• Logical XOR
• Custom via BLND metadata

Miscellaneous

• AI Image Editing and AI Image Generation with API
• Fully unicode with multi-language support
• 18 scaling methods, including Bicubic (Cardinal, BSpline, BCSpline) and Windowed Sinc (Bartlett, Blackman, BlackmanHarris, Bohman, Cosine, Gauss, Hamming, Hann, Kaiser, Lanczos, Parzen, Rectangular, Welch)
• Screen Capture (still and video) with mouse pointer capture option
• CD/DVD Disc Labeling, including LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling
• Project templates
• AQuE (Anti-Quantization Engine)
• Pen and Tablet support (all WinTAB devices including Wacom)
• Color filter matrices
• Animated cursor creation
• Mark-up broadcast and EXIF support
• Soft proofing with ICC profiles
• Converter can duplicate subfolder hierarchies
• Video cropping, optimization and rate conversion
• Image scanning via both TWAIN and WIA
• Camera RAW support based on dcraw with floating point and 48-bit processing