Features

• Extended project management with media types and history
• Simple and alpha transparency
• Keyboard shortcuts can be modified
• File drag and drop
• Fast zoom and preview
• Create or load animations from single image files
• Advanced color reduction
• Cropping and scaling of images/animations
• Configure mouse wheel for different functions
• Unlimited undo
• Layered images and animations
• Pixel size definition to have sizes like 2x1

• RGB channel depth can be selected from 222 to 888
• 16 color PNG support
• Optimize tile based graphics for hand held systems that have a limited number of colors per tile like Gameboy Advance etc.
• Support for pattern drawing to create endless textures
• Tile map editor with auto optimization, mirroring, felxible export
• AnimStrip files can be created containing frames side by side in a bitmap, PNG/BMP

• Round, rectangular or custom brush shapes
• Transparent brushes
• Animated brushes (brush is animation itself)
• Anti-aliasing
• Over 25 different paint modes such as:
• translucent
• brighten
• darken
• shade
• soften
• color cycle
• halftone
• tint
• Create your own paint modes with a built in formula editor
• Shape tools like circle/rectangle
• filled using texture or solid colors
• hollow with different dot spaces
• Standard tools like
• (poly)line (filled, unfilled)
• curve
• free, rectangular, polygonal selection, magic wand
• spray can
• text using all installed Windows fonts and self defined bitmap fonts
• Flood filling using solid color or different gradient filling methods with 2 dither methods (ordered/random)
• Continous and single dot painting
• Up to 16 different free customable gradients
• AnimPainting to flip frames WHILE drawing

• Masking based on masked pixels or colors (stencil) including quick selection
• Grid to snap the brush to while drawing
• Scaleable zoom grid to create any type of grid including isometric, octagon or box grids
• Light table to lay different keyframes of an animation upon another to be displayed with different brightnesses. This effect is also called onion skinning.
• User defined brush grip position
• Use an image as fixed background
• Simultanous display of zoomed and original image
• Full screen mode
• Scaled display of animations while playback
• Onscreen resizeable brush container to work with different brushes
• Display of position coordinates and dimensions
• Wide range of DPaint-shortcuts (Amiga and PC)
• Draw symmetric images with a special symmetry drawing tool
• Lock mouse movement for precise positioning

• Single color, text or custom brushes selected from an image part
• Support for animated brushes (select an animation as brush)
• Rotate (90°, 180°, free with real time display)
• Mirror
• Resize (free or proportional stretching)
• Outline with color
• Shrink for one pixel row
• Use a brush for pattern filling
• Load/save (anim)brushes
• Minimize a brush or animated brush to their optimal width and height (sprite optimizer)
• Place your brushes into a brush container for parallel use

• Use animated brushes (brush is an animation itself)
• Different delay values for each frame or FPS delay
• Several playback modes (pingpong, loop, play...)
• Scaled animation playback
• speed modification during playback
• Over 14 scaleable transition effects like
• fade in/out, fade over
• window shade
• mosaic fx
• dither dissolve
• zooming
• palette animations (cycling)
• Create animations from your drawing steps or color cycled images
• Color cycling while drawing
• Insert/delete/append/copy/revert ranges of frames
• Load/save animation as single images
• Append animations

• Define colors in RGB/HSV-color sheme
• Web color value editing
• Import 24bit graphics with automatic color reduction
• Floating color palette for fast selection and modification
• Create smooth color ramps
• Use gradients to fill objects with different color shades (linear, contour, radial...)
• Create images containing palette based color cycling
• Sort palette by hue, saturation, brightness or color
• Copy to ranges of colors from one table to another
• Color reduction with optimized or custom color palettes including Floyd/Steinberg dithering for best image quality
• Automatically remove unused or duplicate palette colors
• Import color palettes from image files
• Ordered and random dithering
• Use local (frame dependend) or global color palettes
• load/save palette data
• modify contrast, saturation and brightness of a range of palette colors

• Compuserver GIF89a (.gif)
• Deluxe Paint image (.lbm)
• Dr.Halo CUT (*.cut)
• Amiga Interchange File Format (.iff) / with Anim5 support
• Windows Bitmap (.bmp) up to 24bit
• JPEG (.jpg)
• PC Paintbrush (.pcx)
• Portable Network Graphics (.png)
• Tagged Image (.tga)
• Autodesk Flic (.fli/flc)
• Windows AVI (.avi)
• Sprites (.spr)
• Windows Icon (.ico)
• Windows animated Cursors (.ani)
• Gameboy Cel File (.cel)