Pixopedia 2014 0.6.0 Portable

Pixopedia 2014 is an exceptionally powerful image editor, drawing and painting tool. With Pixopedia, you are presented with many different presets and brushes for touching up photos. It is especially useful for creative individuals who like to experiment with image editing tools thus creating their own derivative works of art. Many of the tools have their own configuration options.

The main layout of this graphics editor is similar in some aspects to Adobe Photoshop with tool panels on the left, top and right panels. Editing tools are on the right-hand side and include things like brushes, a text tool and other drawing tools. The top panel provides access to open, save, print and other editing guides like lasso, move and zoom.

Interesting to note about Pixopedia are the 3D brushes, color twisting and textured drawing tools. The left-hand panel gives access to effects, filters, blur, sharpen, etc.

Overall, Pixopedia is an interesting image editor that provides many of the most common and some uncommon tools including filters and effects.

Pixopedia 2014 features and highlights

9 predefined brushes visible in bottom panel and collected in one set
Brushes are accessible by mouse click or by keyboard shortcut (1-9)
Brush can be changed while drawing (on the fly), by clicking appropriate keyboard shortcut
Every brush has it's own settings, color, texture, background tile and other parameters
Brushes can be modified and saved individually or as complete set of 9
Tools, actions, brush parameters are created as sticky forms. Forms can be detached and moved freely. This is useful when working with extended desktop with two monitors
If set so in main settings, when drawing process begins, all visible sticked forms are hidden. When drawing process is finished, all sticked forms are shown again
New drawing engine implemented: every shape border is drawn with current brush. Interior drawing of closed shapes uses it's own parameters
Rectangle shapes can be rotated.
New undo buffer engine: single stroke undo/redo, multiple strokes undo/redo.

Whats New in version 0.6.0
Big internal redesign.
New tool form added – Layers. Layers mode removed from image modes. All image modes (currently standard and master/slave mode) have full layers support.
Button Move & rotate layers removed. Button Move & resize layers renamed to Manipulate layers. When this button is clicked, a new pop-up menu is available. Right click on image area to see available options (more to come).
Two new actions added to master/slave mode: import image as new layer and copy master layer to new slave layer.
Possibility of using slave image for clone brush: press “C” on your keyboard while mouse cursor is on slave image. Select one of the cloning schemes and perform drawing on master image.
Every layer can have it’s own assistant image (mask, contour, sidekick and stencil).
A new internal 3×3 filter added: Nylon raster. Apply it few times to see the result.
A new 3×3 filter mode added: binlogic(binary logic convolution). One internal and one external filter added as examples (Psychedelic nxor and Dark poster). This filter convolves image with binary logic kernel, i.e. pixels are not multiplied by appropriate kernel elements as with ordinary convolution. Instead, on each pixel is applied binary logic operation with byte value from kernel element. After operation on each pixel is finished, values are summed as in ordinary convolution. Each kernel element consist of optional sign (only “-” sign is acceptable), binary logic operation and byte value: [-]{Op}{Value}. Here is the list of valid binary logic operators:
A – AND
R – OR
X – XOR
!A – NAND
!R – NOR
!X – NXOR

Note: parser is case insensitive, so you may use lowercase and uppercase characters interchangeably.
Example of valid kernel values: Aff, !a0e, -xE0, -!Rf0.
In this version some image processing actions are restricted only to background image. Actions restricted to background image are marked with (b.i.). In previous versions those actions produce quite a mess when applied on layers.
A bug in warping action: some warping modes do not perform correctly when applied on transparent images with antialias option checked. This bug dates from version 0.4.0. due to internal changes in drawing surface. Bug fixed.

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