Active Pixels 4 news

June 2, 2009 · Posted in Uncategorized · 1 Comment 

Hello.
Color selector. Color selector in Active Pixels 4 was upgraded. Added new feature - you can limit colors by pallete. Later i will add powerful palette editor.
All that has been done. Written new undo/redo engine which will support macros (like actions in Adobe Photohop). Also small helpers windows and some instruments are already work.

Active Pixels 4 color selector preview

Developing Active Pixels 4 …

December 3, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 20 Comments 

Development of Active Pixels 4 was begun more than 2 months ago.
In this time the absolutely new Pixels interface was designed. It looks lite, but have nice possiblities.
A structure of the program completely was changed.
- The basic ini-file won’t be found any more next to the program itself. It will be in a folder presets.
- Active Pixels 4 will support any languages. The support of the languages will come true through the ini-files in a directory presets/languages. It will be possible to add the new languages independently, their number isn’t restricted.
- The start of Active Pixels 4 will be practically instantaneously.
- The program will be 50% less in size.

Nevertheless what Ap4 will be the else more functional than 3 version.
Now Ap 4 looks like

Active Pixels 4 screenshot

Active Pixels 4 - more stability

October 30, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 11 Comments 

Come on many forums, I see that people are unhappy, especially the instability program. Many users of Active Pixels program does not work as hoped. The code Active Pixels 4 overwritten “from scratch”. It will be 100% new. I hope to correct any errors that exist in the program.

Active Pixels 4 plans for future

August 27, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 10 Comments 

Hello, dear readers. Active Pixels 3 and higher is using new undo engine from early AP3 project. This engine is very memory economy, but a very buggy. I think to use old undo engine from AP2. This engine will work faster, but it more memory expensive. It will be more stability work with undo/redo in Active Pixels 4.
And also i want to delete skins, and use absolutely standart inteface. It will improve loading speed and small down AP4 exe-file size in 2 times. What do you think?

Active Pixels 3.05

August 25, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 21 Comments 

Hello, dear readers. I published Ap 3.05. You can download it.
Whats new?
1. Fixed some blur brush bugs.
2. Fixed some bugs with inaccessible files and recent files history.

Here is me on Moskow streets in Active Pixels :)

Author of Active Pixels is here

Plans for future, Active Pixels 4

August 11, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 5 Comments 

Dear readers! I think the development of Active Pixels 4, it will feature multilingual support, including oriental languages right-left. That everything will be in the near future.
This month will be released Active Pixels 3.05, it will be corrected some errors.

Idea Systems e-mail change

July 1, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 2 Comments 

Old e-mail, support@idea-systems.net will be deleted in next month. New e-mail now working: Free photo editor E-mail

Active Pixels 3.04

June 28, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 13 Comments 

Hello! I decided do not publish fix pack 2, and publish complete new version. Active Pixels 3.04 include:

- Advanced convert to gray tool, you can set output brightness for red, yellow, green, aqua, blue and purple colors. Also you can select output hue and saturation. Can save and load settings.
- color quantization algorithm was improved and now its quality approached Photoshop.
- fixed many interface bugs and bugs with undo/redo.
- notes tool (which contained some free photos) and welcome screen were deleted.
- advanced pixel preview tool, with it you can move picture to any direction by one pixel, to get more sharpen image after it resize.

Convert to gray from red, yellow, green, aqua, blue and purple hue.

You can download Active Pixels 3.04 under the Adsence block.

Active Pixels - free photo editor hot fix pack

June 24, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 4 Comments 

Another fix pack is awaiting.. Will be published in this week. It will fix interface bugs (some of them you can see in the color selector dialog), and also fix pack will contain interest function, which helps to desaturate image (make it grayscale) with many parameters, like Photoshop black-white function.

Fix Pack 1 for 3.03 Alpha

June 22, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 1 Comment 

There is a small pack, which fix next bugs fixes in AP 3.03 alpha:
- undo/redo bugs.
- some interface improvements.

You can download it in the downloads link. Before setup it - deinstall AP 3.03, or if you will not deinstall old version of Ap - it will be installed both versions.

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    When it comes to photo editing, the undisputed king is Photoshop. But if you're looking for a cheaper alternative that can give you the same – or at least similar – functionality then Active Pixels is an excellent choice. This photo editor resembles Photoshop in many aspects, from the way menus and windows are laid out on its interface to the keyboard shortcuts used for many actions. It also includes similar tools, like the magic wand, the gradient, the polygonal lasso and others. What's more, it supports working with layers. Active Pixels also includes some extra embedded apps, such as a red-eye fixer, a picture browser and a screen capture tool - although it only grabs full-screen images. That said, bear in mind that this free photo editor is not as powerful as Adobe's big shot. Despite the large number of filters and effects included, some of them lack proper configuration settings. I specially disliked the way sliders are designed: they're very uncomfortable to use. In any case, Active Pixels is an excellent photo editor that can be very useful for those cases in which you don't have Photoshop at hand or you just prefer to use a lighter app to perform the same tasks. Elena Santos Softonic about Active Pixels