Active Pixels - Free Photo Editor

Plans for future, Active Pixels 4

admin — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:14:10 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:11:34 +0000

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

Active Pixels 3.04

admin — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:48:03 +0000

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 I decided do not publish fix pack 2, and publish complete new version.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.

You can download Active Pixels 3.04 under the Adsence block.

Active Pixels - free photo editor hot fix pack

admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:13:54 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:04:38 +0000

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.

Active Pixels 3.03 Alpha

admin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:06:13 +0000

Hi all! As I said earlier I publishing 3.03 alpha - it’s fix some 3.02 Alpha bugs and also have next changes:
- new “black” interface.
- channels import/export in calculations window.
- new brush modes in Active Pixels: blur and sharpen brush modes.
- some interface impovements and possiblities.
You already can download Active Pixels 3.03 Alpha, it’s already published. Here you can see how new “black” interface looks:

Active Pixels 3.02 Alpha published

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:28:31 +0000

Hello, i published Active Pixels 3.02 Alpha, it have all list of features from previous post. You can download it in the right. Also Active Pixels 3.01 is also avialable for people who want more stability. Some bugs in 3.02 Alpha version (i found little) will be fixed in next week. Also will be added additional feature - in calculations window you will be able to save/load channel(s).

Active Pixels 3.02 Alpha is developing..

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:09:01 +0000

Hello! I’ll try to publish AP 3.02 Alpha in this week, it will be good number of significant changes:
- up to 70% memory economy.
- no more undo limits.
- picture-in-page will substitute classic multidocument interface.
- instruments toolboxs will be more like CS 3.
- automatic open registered file types (types can be set in options).
- preview images in recent documents menu.
- also new possiblities in instruments (like set width and height of selection and more).
- fixed some bugs.
Now 3.02 Alpha looks like:

Active Pixels and Idea Systems information

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:39:25 +0000

Active Pixels is a uniquely advanced Image and Computer Graphics editor offering users a wide variety of possibilities in the fields of Image Enhancing and Image Editing and in the field of Computer Graphics.
The software offers powerful tools and functions which include among other things Support of scanners and digital cameras, Advanced Image Enhancing and editing tools and functions: tools for creating computer graphics, rich text tools, support of many picture file types, special effects, selection tools, layers, gradients, patterns, also the ability to expand the software yourselves!
· Support near 110 graphic formats with large nomber of options (also multiframe ICO and animated GIF).
· Support Photoshop-compatible filters.
· Import/export layers in PSD-format (Photoshop).
· Simple and intuitive user interface.
· Multitasking.
· Filters support (now over 50 filters).
· Alpha-channel full support (transparency) for all formats.
· Layers support with 33 render modes.
· Over 10 algorithm of picture resize.
· Selection by magicwand, lasso.
· Different color correction functions.
· Auto color correction.
· Canvas rotate and transform.
· Fast work with big images (over 5 mPix).
· Brush, pencil, gradient, text and another instruments.
· Different additional functions - tile, crop.
· Color selector is more comfortable (HSB).
· Undo/redo without any limitations.

Main window:

Layer effects:

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