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Author: | Jolie [ Sun May 22, 2011 8:45 pm ] |
Post subject: | Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
It's from a developer from Kenya. It's freeware. And it sound too good to be true. http://www.chachaslab.com/ Anyone with sandboxie who wants to try it? |
Author: | mahvin [ Mon May 23, 2011 2:27 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
First I've heard of it. Photoshop comparable, huh? Hmmmm... |
Author: | Gms9810 [ Mon May 23, 2011 6:27 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Downloading it now, it looks really good. |
Author: | Jolie [ Mon May 23, 2011 2:26 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Does it have paths and channels? Just wondering if it's closer to GIMP or paint.net. Let us know your experiences gms9810. |
Author: | mahvin [ Mon May 23, 2011 5:51 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Yes, please let us know of your experiences, Gms9810. It might have some interesting options not found elsewhere. |
Author: | Rod [ Mon May 23, 2011 6:43 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
I really like it. - its really fast too. Some features 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 Full UNICODE support in all components Multiple language support with user-editable language files *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 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 TextArt - allows you to add plain and decorative text to your images 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 Crop and Rotate - crops part of an image and optionally rotates it Razor - slices (splits) the current layer into two pieces 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 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 MyToolâ„¢ - allows you to use tools exposed through MyToolâ„¢ 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 Diffuse Glow 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 Labeling capability, including LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling 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 Converter can duplicate subfolder hierarchies Not to mention i think the only image formats it cant open are XCF and XAR. It can recognize gimp patterns and brushes, but i am not sure about gradients. This is a nice find Jolie.The program has many types of brushes - texture - effects - shadow It has just about everything you can imagine except 3-D capability. Though it does have 3-D shapes. BRAVO! |
Author: | Rod [ Mon May 23, 2011 6:45 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Oh and i should mention it comes with a web mark up tool for image hotspot links. |
Author: | Willy [ Mon May 23, 2011 6:48 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Wait did you say in there that it can be a screen recorder? Video capture from devices (e.g. TV/Video) Video sequence composer engine Video Screen Capture In-built utilities (Calculator, Notepad) |
Author: | Rod [ Mon May 23, 2011 6:49 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
The Texture Plexus tool particularly interests me. Yes Willy it captures your screen and videos. |
Author: | Willy [ Mon May 23, 2011 6:50 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Like it can make Videos for tutorials? |
Author: | Rod [ Mon May 23, 2011 6:54 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Yes Willy You guys are gonna love its path tool. Gradient tool called white point is really cool (for 3-D depth) Also the text tool has gradient fills, pretty nifty. |
Author: | Rod [ Mon May 23, 2011 6:57 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
You can edit everything you do via nodes pretty much.Shapes anyways not sure about text. hah, text tool has auto shadow WOW! There is so much here ill have to do a movie |
Author: | Willy [ Mon May 23, 2011 7:00 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
This program is still a bit messed up though, I can't even figure out how to have a transparent layer, I'll have to spend some time playing with it |
Author: | lylejk [ Mon May 23, 2011 7:19 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Node editing is the future Rod imo. Already use a cool (but paid $99 for the priviledge) program called PostworkShop Pro that uses both layers and nodes (automagically gives you both options) but nodes is the bomb since it will truly give you self documented editing capability (I hate calling it lossless; my afore diatribe is more true to what this form of editing is). I hope GIMP gives this capability soon; GEGL suppose to allow for nodes editing. In a past life, I got exposed first to Simulink, then Labview and that's pretty much what node editing is. Each module can have control inputs where you feed various inputs and stimulus to get the effect out. How cool is that? Not limited to single dimensional layers either. You can feed one input to two different nodes with different stimulus (filters with adjustments) and then combine those outputs together for another result. Your edit will almost look like a work of art itself too. A cool texture editor called Neotextureedit (open source program) allows for node editing as well. Below is something I concocted over a year ago for a texture that I created. Image hosted free thanks to ImageShack (http://www.imageshack.us). |
Author: | Rod [ Mon May 23, 2011 7:26 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Check out mapZone Lyle if you like editing textures with nodes. http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/ |
Author: | Rod [ Mon May 23, 2011 7:30 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
mapzone also supports paths (object from inkscape -do object to path), then save as SVG. open in mapzone full support for SVG files is coming soon and they will not have to be converted to paths first. |
Author: | lylejk [ Mon May 23, 2011 7:30 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Not just for textures Rod, but for all edits (node editing that is); thanks for the link (bookmarked it and will look at it later). I still believe this is how editing of any image will be done and do look forward to it. It will require some re-learning for some folk, but trust me, it's quite intuitive (much more so then layers ever were which took, as I recall, more then a few years to really get use to in order to make half-decent edits as I recall). |
Author: | Rod [ Mon May 23, 2011 7:32 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
What i like about it is they are then savable , editable, and re-usable on any image. I hear you though node editing is the future. |
Author: | Rod [ Mon May 23, 2011 7:36 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Thanks for the link to neotextureedit i am checking it out now - pretty cool. |
Author: | lylejk [ Mon May 23, 2011 7:37 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Anyone ever heard of Chasys Draw IES? |
Yes; once you have your node tree created, it can be reused for other images if your node tree is designed to give a particular type of output. You literally create your own filters (modules if you will) and then can reuse them. PostworkShop Pro allows you to do just that, though I really only use it right now for artistic type renders (still use my crutch (GIMP) for 99.9% of all my edits otherwise and actually do additional adjustments in GIMP of that too; goes for FotoSketcher and DAP as well.). |
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