List of Features
 

Here is a summary of the various features implemented by this product.
Please note that this list is NOT exhaustive.
 CD-ROM and non-standard distributions may include extra features.
 

Chasys Draw IES Artist

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
• Video Screen Capture
• 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

*path super-sampling enables very smooth selections, smoother than you would get with any other image editor
 

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
• Razor - slices (splits) the current layer into two pieces
• 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
• Magic Wand - erases pixels that have the same hue or brightness as the selected pixels
• Eraser - allows you to make pixels in a layer transparent
• Opaquer - allows you to make pixels in a layer opaque
• TextArt - allows you to add plain and decorative text to your images
• Mark-Up - allows you to set hot-spots and make 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
• Blocks Tool - draws various 3D block shapes
• 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

Engines:

• Icon Generator (supporting 32 bpp Vista style icons and cursors)
  
• Video Sequence Composer
  
• Palette Generator
  
• Super-Resolution: for Photo (via Stacking)
  
• Super-Resolution: for Line Art (via Heuristics)
  
• Sequence Averaging (via Stacking, 2 modes)
  
• Sequence Stitching (via Stacking)
  
• Moving Object Removal (via Stacking)

Transforms:

• Flip
• Rotate
• Skew
• Perspective
• Stretch
• Tile
• Kaleidoscope

Adjustments:

• Brightness and Contrast
• Hue, Saturation and Lightness
• Greyscale with Tint
• Levels and Gamma
• Curves / Transfer Function
• Alpha Function
• Auto-Level
• Histogram Equalization
• Invert Color

Effects:

• Synthetic Enhance
• Dynamic Contrast
• Replace Color
• Duo Tone
• Posterize
• Bilevelize
• Channel Swap
• Chroma-keying a.k.a Blue-Screening (4 modes)
• Blur (Low-pass and Gaussian)
• Sharpen (High-pass, Normal, Unsharp-mask and Smart-sharpen)
• Noise Reduction
• Wavelet Denoise
• Red-eye Reduction
• Color-play Reduction
• JPEG Artifact Reduction
• Emboss (2 modes)
• Edge Detect
• Drop Shadow
• Create Halo
• Pixelate
• Oilify
• Dither to 256 Colors
• Reflection
• Swirl & Pinch
• Tile maker
• Post-edit heuristic Anti-aliasing (2 modes)
• Custom Effect via Convolution Matrix
• Custom Effect via Color Matrix Filter
• Custom Effect via GraphAsm Program
• External Effects via Plug-ins

Blending modes:

• Alpha-blend
• None
• Additive
• Subtractive
• Multiply
• Overlay
• Hue
• Chroma
• Luma
• Screen
• Mask

Miscellaneous:

• 18 scaling methods, including Bicubic (Cardinal, BSpline, BCSpline) and Windowed Sinc (Bartlett, Blackman, BlackmanHarris, Bohman, Cosine, Gauss, Hamming, Hann, Kaiser, Lanczos, Parzen, Rectangular, Welch)
• Video Screen Capture
• CD Labelling and other project templates
• Brush Engine version 2.1
• AQuE (Anti-Quantization Engine)
• Pen and Tablet support (all WinTAB devices including Wacom)
• Color filter matrices
• Animated cursor creation
• Mark-up broadcast and EXIF support
• Soft proofing with ICC profiles

Chasys Draw IES Converter

• Support for dual/multi-core processor acceleration (up to 32 cores for 32x speed)
• Animation conversion and Metadata transfer
• Super-fast internal graphics engine (JpDRAW2)
• Vista UAC aware

Chasys Draw IES Viewer

• Touch-friendly UI with zoom and rotate
• 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

Chasys Draw IES raw-Photo

• Based on dcraw
• Floating point and 48-bit workspace engine, combined with JpDRAW2
• Artist-like interface
• Curves and Gains adjustment
• Vista UAC aware