About Company

Company Idea-Systems was organized in 2003 by three programmers in Moscow. During this time it was released a large number of software high-level, first it was shareware, now Idea-Systems offers only free software. Among the products the company is well-known programs, such as Active Pixels, Autopilot, some software companies can compete with the best representatives of the software market.

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  Active Pixels 2
  Screen Video 1.01

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  • Lessons
    • Computer graphics overall
      • Additive color system
      • Computer graphics and editors
      • Devices resolution
      • EPS image format
      • GIF image format
      • Graphics formats
      • How raster images are stored in memory
      • Hue, stauration, brightness color system
      • Image colors coding
      • Image resolution
      • Image scaling
      • JPEG image format
      • Lab color system
      • PCX image format
      • PDF image format
      • PNG image format
      • PSD graphic format description
      • Raster graphic
      • Raster graphic editors
      • Raster image scaling
      • Substractive color systems
      • TIFF graphic format description
      • Vector and raster graphic
      • Vector graphic editors
      • Vector images
      • Vector images scaling
      • Vector images storing in memory
      • WMF, EMF – vector image formats
  • Products
    • Active Pixels
    • Screen Video

• Active Pixels – free professional photo editor

  
  

  Free image editor very similar to Photoshop

  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

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