Chasys Draw IES 3.05

Major Features:

1. General:
   • Super-fast internal graphics engine (JpDRAW2)
   • Free-style layering with blending modes
   • Composite, Animation and Multi-resolution image modes
   • Full alpha channel through out the workflow
   • Re-editable tools and fully re-editable text
   • Alpha protection (a.k.a transparency protection)
   • Multi-core aware software architecture
   • Vista UAC aware
   • Multiple display setup aware
   • Shell integration with thumbnails
   • Asynchronous auto-save engine with 1 minute latency
   • Anti-aliasing and super-sampling support in tools and paths
   • Unlimited Undo/Redo - undo any action any time
   • Just-in-time memory compression
   • Best-in-class post-edit heuristics anti-aliasing engine
   • Image Stacking for super-resolution, stitching and moving object removal
   • Advanced printing and scanning engines
   • Video capture from devices (e.g. TV/Video)
   • Video sequence composer engine
   • In-built utilities (Calculator, Notepad)
   • Metadata save, restore and scale to imitate vector art
   • Extensive plug-in support
   • Support for Photoshop Filter Plug-ins (.8BF)
   • Support for older formats such as PPM/PGM/PBM, PCX, TGA, etc.
   • Uses the latest CD5 specification with animation and multi-resolution
   • Vista-style icon import and export
   • Can output C++ code module for inline image generation
   • Includes plug-ins for JPEG-2000, AVI video, animated cursors, JPEG, PNG, animated GIF, etc.
   • Physical measurement specification
   • Streamlined SDKs with no restrictions
   • Pantone equivalent palettes for PMS 100 to 814-2x
2. Tools:
   • Hand - for moving layers around
   • Pencil - for pixel art, draws thin single-pixel lines
   • Line - for drawing thick, straight, anti-aliased lines
   • Curve - enables you to draw smooth curves that join points on an image
   • Brush - allows you to draw thick anti-aliased free-form lines in any color of your choice
   • Effects Brush - for special effects, such as smoke, red-eye reduction, and re-color
   • Cloning Brush - (healing brush), copies pixels from one area of an image to another
   • Pattern Brush - used to fill an area with a pattern, tiling it if and when necessary
   • Smoother - smoothens the area around it
   • Sharpen - sharpens the area around it
   • Spray gun - sprays paint over a surface
   • Texturizer - "roughens" the area around it
   • Filling Paint - fills areas with even color with selected color
   • Border Fill - fills areas within a border with selected color
   • Transparency Fill - makes areas with even color transparent
   • Color Picker - picks (selects) colors from the image
   • Rectangular Selection - cuts out rectangular portions for editing
   • Elliptical Selection - cuts out circular portions for editing
   • Polygon Select - cuts out free-form portions for editing
   • Pen and Path - allows you to create a path, which you can then use to select, fill and stroke regions. Supports several modes of operation, including elastic and magnetic lasso
   • Razor - slices (splits) the current layer into two pieces
   • Eraser - allows you to make pixels in a layer transparent
   • Opaquer - allows you to make pixels in a layer opaque
   • Magic Wand - erases pixels that have the same hue or brightness as the selected pixels
   • TextArt - allows you to add plain and decorative text to your images
   • Ruler - allows you to make markings and measurements on the workspace
   • Lens - used to view small areas on your work up close
   • Shape - allows you to draw various common shapes such as rectangles, circles, etc
   • Custom Shape - allows you to draw a custom shape (polygon) of your choice by setting vertices
   • GT Shape - draws a variety of gradient- and alpha-shaded shapes
   • Triangle List - draws a series of triangles in a polygon fan or strip manner
   • GT Sparkle - draws a gradient- and alpha-shaded star (sparkle)
   • Full-page Gradients - draws gradients covering the entire layer; such gradients are usually used as backgrounds
   • Decorative GTs - draws various gradient- and alpha-shade objects and effects
   • Texture Mapper - transforms an image into any four sided polygon
   • Texture Plexus - transforms an image into a region of any shape and complexity
   • MyTool - allows you to use tools exposed through MyTool™ plug-ins
3. Engines:
   • Icon Generator (supporting 32 bpp Vista style icons and cursors)
   • Video Sequence Composer
   • Stacking : Noise Averaging
   • Stacking : Sequence Stitching
   • Stacking : Moving Object Removal
   • Stacking : Multi-frame Super-resolution
   • Heuristics-based Single-frame Super-resolution
4. Transforms:
   • Flip
   • Rotate
   • Skew
   • Perspective
   • Stretch
   • Tile
   • Kaleidoscope
5. Adjustments:
   • Brightness and Contrast
   • Hue, Saturation and Lightness
   • Greyscale with Tint
   • Levels and Gamma
   • Curves / Transfer Function
   • Alpha Function
   • Auto-Level
   • Histogram Equalization
   • Invert Colors
6. Effects:
   • Synthetic Enhance
   • Replace Color
   • Duo Tone
   • Bilevelize
   • Channel Swap
   • Blur
   • Sharpen
   • Heuristic Anti-alias : Edges
   • Heuristic Anti-alias : Image
   • Pixelate
   • Posterize
   • Oilify
   • Dither to 256 Colors
   • Noise Reduction
   • Red-eye Reduction
   • Color-play Reduction
   • JPEG Artifact Reduction
   • Emboss : Simple
   • Emboss : Advanced
   • Edge Detect
   • Drop Shadow
   • Create Halo
   • Blue-Screening : Normal
   • Blue-Screening : Exact Match
   • Blue-Screening : Basal : Black
   • Blue-Screening : Basal : White
   • Custom Effect via GraphAsm Program
   • Custom Effect via Convolution Matrix
   • External Effects via Plug-ins
7. Blending modes:
   • Alpha-blend
   • Additive
   • Subtractive
   • Multiply
   • Overlay
   • Hue
   • Chroma
   • Luma
   • Screen
   • Mask
8. Chasys Draw IES Converter
   • Support for dual/multi-core processor acceleration (up to 32 cores for 32x speed)
   • Animation conversion
   • Super-fast internal graphics engine (JpDRAW2)
   • Vista UAC aware
9. Chasys Draw IES Viewer
   • Easy advance - keypad, mouse and mouse-wheel
   • High-speed loader function
   • Animation and animation rotation support
   • In-built support for plug-ins with lossless rotation (e.g. JPEG)
   • Super-fast internal graphics engine (JpDRAW2)
   • Vista UAC aware

Enhancements: Brings the power of custom full-page gradients to IES, supporting .ggr, .grd & .gra gradients.