Painting Tools

• Complete collection of drawing and painting tools, including paintbrush, pen, pencil, marker, crayon, chalk, charcoal and airbrush
• Full brush tip control of brush size, shape, opacity, hardness, density and step size, with brush size preview
• Create AdobePhotoshop-compatible custom-shaped brush tips
• Paint with a variety of preset brush textures
• Picture Tube brushes allow you to easily paint with realistic graphic elements
• Easily clone and paint with any area of your image
• Flood fill tool allows solid fills, as well as custom patterned, linear, rectangular, sunburst and radial gradients
• Normal and Bezier line tools
• Includes line and filled object shapes
• Text tool allows you to place multiple text lines on any layer
• Powerful eraser tool allows you to edit your last painting operation

Layers

• Create composite images with multiple layers support
• Comprehensive blend mode controls control layer interactivity
• Layer grouping, naming, ordering and visibility for efficient editing
• Transparency locking and variable opacity
• Layer mask linking and toggle
• Merge and flatten layers to combine elements together
• Easily adjust a layer's position on the image

Selection Tools

• Regular, freehand, point to point or smart edge selection tools
• Easily add to or subtract from selection areas
• Select areas from an existing mask
• Matting options include defringe and remove black or white mattes
• Contract, expand, feather and grow selection areas
• Set transparent colors within a selection
• Convert selections to seamless patterns
• Promote selections to new layers
• Load and save selections to disk or alpha channels
• Float and defloat selection areas
• Magic Wand tool to select an area of a particular color, hue, or brightness

Image Adjustments

• Multiple-level undo, with viewable history
• Free-form layer or image deformations to easily translate, scale, rotate, skew and add perspective
• Retouching tools let you soften, sharpen, smudge and emboss
• Photography tools allow you to dodge and burn images for exposure correction, and adjust color levels
• Easily flip, mirror, rotate your graphics
• On-screen adjustable cropping
• Resize images based on physical size or percentages
• Resizing options include smart, bilinear, bicubic and pixel sizing
• Powerful mask options
• Combine images together with Image Arithmetic

Image Enhancements

• Includes special effects filters, such as buttonize, chisel, cutout and drop shadow
• Powerful image deformations include circle, cylinder, pentagon, perspective, pinch, punch and skew
• Standard image filters include Gaussian blur, edge, noise, sharpen, dilate, emboss, erode, hot wax and mosaic
• Full third-party plug-in filter support for packages such as The Andromeda
  Series and Eye Candy
• Create your own image filters!

Color Support

• Full control over brightness and contrast, highlight, midtone and shadow, as well as HSL and RGB values
• Preview all adjustments before applying them
• Use the Color Replacement tool to easily replace selected colors
• The Eye Dropper allows you to easily select colors from your image
• Increase or decrease the number of colors
• Apply custom palettes to multiple images
• Powerful image and monitor gamma correction
• Create and print CMYK color separations
• Separate, edit and combine CMYK, HSL and RGB color channels on screen
• Powerful histogram support let you equalize and stretch RGB and luminance values
• Independent Color Management (ICM) 2.0 support is available under Windows 98 or Windows NT 5.0

External Device Support

• Pressure-sensitive tablet support
• Direct interface support for Kodak DC40, DC50 and DC120 digital cameras
• Enhanced TWAIN device support for scanners and digital cameras
• Full support of Adobe Photoshop import/export plug-ins

Web Support

• Intuitive palette options with transparency previews
• Internet graphics support includes transparent GIF, and progressive JPG and PNG formats
• Includes Animation Shop for creating and optimizing animated GIF files

Powerful Utilities

• Batch file format conversion saves you time and energy
• Built-in screen capture utility allows you to easily capture a variety of screen elements with "hot key" activation
• Microsoft Explorer-style thumbnail image browser makes finding and identifying graphic files effortless

File Format Support

• Over 40 graphic file formats supported, including BMP, CDR, CGM, CLP, CMX, CUT, DCX, DIB, DRW, DXF, EMF, EPS+, FPX, GEM, GIF, HGL, IFF, IMG, JPG, KDC, LBM, MAC, MSP, PBM, PCD, PCT, PCX, PGM, PIC, PIC, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, RAS, RAW, RLE, SCT, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG, WPG (Vector) Read Only, + Write Only
• Paint Shop Pro file format (PSP) includes a full range of file compression options and multiple-layer support
• Supports Kodak's Digital Camera, FlashPix and Photo CD formats
• Full multiple-layer Adobe Photoshop file format (PSD) support
• Support of Adobe Photoshop file format plug-ins

System Requirements:

Required: 486 or faster processor, Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 • 12 MB RAM • 10 MB available hard disk space • 256-color display adapter

Recommended: Pentium® processor, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or higher • 32 MB RAM or more • 40 MB available hard disk space or more • 24-bit display adapter at 1024x768 resolution • pressure-sensitive tablet.

Some system requirements will vary with the size or type of images used. Available memory should be at least three times the uncompressed image size. Multiple-level undo is limited by available hard disk space. ICM 2.0 support is only available under Windows 98.