AltPE description
AltPE stands for Alternative Picture Editor, a free alternative to picture editor

AltPE stands for Alternative Picture Editor, a free alternative to picture editor

Here are some key features of "AltPE":

· photo editing and retouching
· painting with brush/spray with color, pattern or cloning
· nearest, linear, cosine, spline, Lanczos and Mitchell image resampling
· transparency painting and pasting
· bucket filling with full tolerance and transparency
· color replacing with full tolerance and transparency
· add transparent, resizable, text as moveable, rotatable layer
· layer blending
· alpha blending of filters/effects
· layer transparency feathering, copy/paste and inversion
· blending from buffer, file and undo
· JPG opening and saving with adjustable JPEG compression
· PNG/BMP/GIF/TIF/PPM/PGM/PNM opening and saving
· JPEG2000 open/save support
· RAW open support (via DCRAW)
· background transparency saved on PNGs
· mirror, flip, rotate, crop and resize with quality filtering
· color, light and contrast adjustment
· hue, saturation and luminance adjustment
· color rotation and tinting effects
· blur, sharpen, emboss, etc, and even user defineable filters
· various sort and rank filters including new kuwahara rank filter
· special unsharp mask, sobel and prewitt filter dialogs
· mosaic, quantize and spray filter dialog
· effects and filters applying, image wide or localy as brush retouching
· 2d multiple level undoing, redoing and undoundoing ...
· single image printing with preview and size adjusting
· scanner support with TWAIN support
· EXIF JPEG information viewing and preserving
· Plugin Development Kit and Spray/Mosaic plugins available with 0.8.7
· effects 1, red eyes and interlaced plugins included