Paint Express - Create, view, edit, capture, convert, and extract icons, cursors, and bitmaps This image editor fully supports ICO, CUR, BMP files of all color formats including 32-bit, reads PNG, JPG, JPEG files.
Use Paint Express in order to create multi-format icons/cursors from existing images in one click.
With Paint Express, converting professional images with transparency created using Photoshop or Paint Shop into high-quality Windows XP icons/cursors with alpha channel takes seconds.
To modify images, use various editing and drawing tools (rotation, flip, gradient, semi-transparent brush), image processing filters (smooth, blur, sharpen, shadow), and effects (brightness, contrast, opacity, grayscale).
Use the built-in extractor to extract image resources from EXE, DLL, OCX files. Use the searching tool to find images on the computer, filter the search results based on file type and colors.
Use the powerful screen-capture tool to grab any image from the desktop: an Internet picture, window, toolbar. Edit, save, print, or convert the captured picture to an icon/cursor/bitmap.
Use the clipboard operations (copy, cut, paste) to enhance existing or to make new images. Use the built-in resizing tool to resize any pictures; To achieve best scaling results, Paint Express offers several scale methods, including biliniar and bicubic resample.
Use the provided palette functionality (edit, load, save) to change or customize the indexed palette for 2, 16, and 256-color images (1, 4, and 8-bpp images). Use this application as a convertor to easily transform digital images from one type to another: bitmaps to icons, icons to cursors, PNG files to icons, etc.
This utility can also be used to increase/reduce the color depth of an image. Use this image creator for creating an 8-bit bitmap from a 32-bit bitmap, a 32-bit icon from a 4-bit icon, etc.
During this time you can freely create new images from scratch or from images previously created with other imaging software, use saving, printing and draw functions, etc.
Here are some key features of "Paint Express":
Creating icons, cursors, and bitmaps from existing images in one-click. With one mouse click you can create a new high quality icon, cursor, or bitmap from an existing image file (.ICO, .CUR, .BMP, .PNG, .JPG, or .JPEG file), from currently edited image, or from clipboard image. This feature allows to convert images from one type to another: bitmaps to icons, icons to bitmaps, icons to cursors, .PNG files to icons, etc. It can also be used to increase/decrease the color depth of an image: create an 8-bit bitmap from a 32-bit bitmap, a 32-bit icon from a 4-bit icon, etc.
Creating icons and cursors with multiple images in one-click. With one mouse click you can create a new high quality multi-image icon/cursor from an existing image file (.ICO, .CUR, .BMP, .PNG, .JPG, or .JPEG file), from currently edited image, or from clipboard image. With one mouse click you can also create a new multi-image icon/cursor from scratch.
Editing images. To modify and enhance the images, Paint Express offers:
A variety of drawing tools (color replacement, shapes with different filling including gradient, rotation, flip, etc.)
Several image filters (smooth, blur, sharpen, drop shadow).
Several image adjustment effects (brightness, contrast, opacity, grayscale).
Capturing images from the screen. An extremely easy interface allows to capture whatever image you see on your screen. You can edit the captured image, save it and/or use for numerous tasks.
Searching for icons, cursors and bitmaps on your computer. Paint Express allows to run several searches simultaneously. You can filter and/or sort the search results based on image type, width, height, color depth, etc.
Extracting icons, cursors and bitmaps from the resources in .EXE, .DLL and/or .OCX files.
Rescaling images based on several resizing types, including Biliniar and Bicubic Resample.
Powerful copy/paste functionality.
Drag and Drop support.
Built-in possibility to associate .ico, .cur and .bmp file extensions with Paint Express.
Limitations:
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