Features:
  • Loading and saving of JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP , uncompressed  TIF , uncompressed TGA .  *Implements java 1.4 imageIO api which allows future file format support through imageIO plugins.
  • Basic controls: Brightness/contrast , gamma, R/G/B correction and grayscaling, color inversion etc.
  • Filters: different types of Blur/Smooth, Sharpen, edge detections, emboss, maximum.minimum, thresholding.
  • Effects: Innumerable cool effects like Diffuse, Mosaic,Venetian Blinds, Buttonize, Solarize, Scramble, Wave, Camera effects, Wava effects Plaster effects, Oil Painting  etc . Plus many other effect filters can be added as plugins. Download new pluygins from the Website.
  • Layer Selection: Selected region can be considered as a layer and can be dragged/ copied/ cut/ deleted and pasted as a new selection or new image.   Provides ability to manipulate individual areas of an image selected as region of interest. All image manipulation operations /printing can be performed on the selected region rather than on the whole image. Even texts are supported as layers.
  • Fancy Text: Different types of anti-aliased text including 3D text, shadow text, circular text , outlined text with different user selectable options like textured background/color etc. The Texts supports dragging and  can be copied and pasted as layer selection in the same or new image. Different type of Texts can be added as plugins. Many more types of fancy texts to come soon as plugins.
  • *System Clipboard Support: allows images copied from native application or as screenshots to be pasted as a new image or layer selection.
  • Unlimited Undo limited only by your hard disk space.
  • Multiple Image operations: Blending, overlaying, arithmetic/logical operations of mutliple images.
  • Image Transformation like Resizing, rotation,shear,flipping etc.
  • Rendering effects include- Spotlight effects. More to come as plugins.
  • Cloning brush to copy part of an image to another location.
  • Brushes with different strokes and choosable textures
  • Drawing Tools: Spray tool.  Free hand and line/rectangle/oval drawing with customised width,color,line style,fill and cap style . Eraser with chooseable size
  • Image Browsing: includes an image browser to browse image as thumbnail. Provides menu to rename,open,delete images through  the image browser
  • Transparency: creating transparent images (for ex. gif images)
  • Image warping/deformation controllable by the mouse
  • Borders: Creating different types of image borders,frames
  • Noise control : Noise reduction and generation
  • Histogram: Histogram display and Histogram equalization
  • Printing : Multiple page image printing facility with Print Preview
  • View: Zoom in/Zoom out/ Fit to window options ,
  • Drag and Drop facilty: Dragging images from Windows Explorer opens it up, dragging a directory or a zip/jar file into the application opens the image browser displaying the thumbnails of the images present in it.
  • Other tools include:
  • Image to Ascii file conversion
  • Custom filter options
  • create new images with choosable color/texture or gradients.
  • JPhotoBrush Plugins enabled

and much much more with highly configurable user options, and dialog boxes most having image preview.

* works only if jdk1.4 or higher is installed.