Image Editing and Digital Painting Software

General Features

• Retouch, repair, and edit photos with easy-to-use, high-quality photo enhancement features.
• One application that can open, save, export and convert numerous file formats.
• Complete set of digital painting tools that will facilitate working with brushes, shapes, area filling, text, and more.
• Complete set of image editing and image composition tools.
• Import images directly from scanners, digital cameras and the screen.
• WYSIWYG Print Preview that can change the size, orientation and position of the image on the fly.
• Manage photos using LEAD Photo Album included FREE with LEADViEW 4.0!
• Create and tune web graphics with built-in Web tools, artistic drawing and text tools.
• Convert/capture home and business multimedia files with LEAD Multimedia Converter Pro, included FREE with LEADViEW 4.0!
• Over 48 special effects including zoom, blur, un-sharpen mask, stitch, picturize, and more.
• Control the color appearance of photos with manual and automatic color adjustment/enhancement capabilities.
• Share photos electronically with friends and family via email.

Key Features

Color Manipulation:

• Support for various color spaces: RGB, HSB, HLS, CMY, CMYK and Lab.
• Palette Customization
• Color Enhancement/Adjustment: Gamma correction, color balance, colored gray , hue remapping, color channel splitting and merging, etc...

Image Manipulation:

• Flip
• Mirror
• Rotate
• Shear
• De-skew
• Add border
• Add frame
• Crop
• Resize
• Canvas Resize
• Preview image Histogram

Selection Manipulation :

• Several color replacing and image masking tools and operations.
• Floater creation, selection feather, manipulation and transformation tools.
• Select all

Artistic Effects :

• Many image processing special effects are included.
• Image filters.
• Paintbrush tube support allowing for virtually an infinite number of possible custom paintbrushes.
• Add borders and frames to pictures.

Importing/Exporting Files :

• Importing from Screen
• Importing from TWAIN
• Importing from Digital Camera
• Export as a HTML
• Export as Tuned JPEG
• Export as Tuned PNG
• Export as Tuned GIF
• Send as an Email Attachment

Digital Imaging Tools :

• Digital camera support
• Photo enhancement filters
• Color adjustments

Batch Conversion :
With LEADViEW's batch conversion feature, you can convert a batch of image files with different formats to a single file format. Also with LEADViEW, you can convert pages in multi-page image files to separate single-page files, using a file format you choose. Additionally, LEADViEW batch conversion gives you the ability to convert both Raster and Vector formats (supported by LEADViEW) to Raster formats.

Productivity Tools :

• Built-in thumbnail image browser
• Multiple levels of Undo/Redo
• Sophisticated image stitching
• Batch file conversion to convert entire folders of images at a time
• Image navigation control with each view
• Dialogs with proofing and auto-proofing capabilities
• Cursor information dialog to display the current tool operation information
• Customizable toolbars
• Roll-up tools windows to maximize the work surface area.
• Organize thousands of images with LEAD Photo Album

Image Browser :
File Browser lets you view, sort, and process image files. This dialog enables better image management since the user can see a preview of the image file before performing any operation on it. Use the File Browser to perform tasks such as copying, renaming, moving, deleting, and batch converting images. Also, view individual file information and data. For fast and easy access, the Browser has its own window, which can remain open or minimized in the workspace while you edit images.

Web Image Development Tools :

• Create image rollovers with no programming experience.
• JPEG/GIF/PNG Web Tuners to optimize image compression with image preview and estimated download times.
• HTML mapping with the ability to preview the image inside the web browser.
• Export as HTML album in LEADViEW and photo album.

Painting Tools :

• Paintbrush: LEADViEW paintbrush capabilities extends the user's drawing experience by enabling him/her to control the size, stroke contents, brush edge softness, spacing between strokes, stroke transparency, and brush contents density. Also, change the bleed rate of the brush by controlling the way the paint fades as it approaches the edge of a brush stroke (as if painting with a wet brush).
• Shapes: Simple and complex shapes can be drawn easily with LEADViEW. Lines, rectangles, ellipses, polygons, and curves can be created with great power over the shape appearance, by controlling the background filling style via choosing between solid color, color gradients, patterns, and transparent filling. Also, manipulate the shape border style, width, shape corners form and color, as well as adjust the transparency over the image.
• Selections: Create manual selections such as rectangular, elliptical, polygonal, and free-hand. LEADViEW also supports automatic selections through surface, border, and color selections. Surface selects all adjacent pixels that are similar in color to the pixel that is clicked. Border selects adjacent pixels until it reaches a certain chosen boundary color, while Color Selection will select all pixels in the bitmap similar to the color clicked. The automatic selection methods allow setting of the selecting tolerance which will control the amount of variance allowed from the color to be selected.
• Filling: Fill images through a variety of background styles including solid colors, color gradients, and pattern bitmaps. Fill transparency can be set to allow some of the original background to be visible throughout the fill. Three filling methods are available in LEADViEW; Surface, which will fills adjacent pixels that are similar in color value to the pixel that is clicked; Border, which will fills adjacent pixels until it reaches a certain selected boundary color; and Color Replace, which replaces the color of all pixels in the bitmap similar to the color that is clicked. Each of the filling methods allows the user to set the filling tolerance which will control the amount of variance allowed from the color to be filled.
• Text drawing: Draw text in LEADViEW with this sophisticated feature control. Control the font, background style, character edges style, and transformations (scale, and angle). Also available is the ability to set the text alignment and opacity. As in all other painting tools you’ll have the ability to simulate paper "grain" just as natural tools react with the texture of the surfaces beneath them.