Fotografix is a portable, powerful, image editor for digital image enhancement, photo retouching and graphic design.
It features painting tools (brush, clone, gradient, etc), support for custom brushes, selection tools (rectangular or elliptical selection, magic wand, etc), transformation tools (scale, rotate, flip, etc), layers & channels (including adjustment layers & masks), editable text layers, easy-to-use scripting language, excellent Helpfile, and more.
It features support for a huge range of popular image formats, and can read and write to JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TGA, RAW plus its own proprietary format, FGX, and can read PSD (Photoshop), XCF (GIMP), PCX, ICO and CUR images.
This is an awesome and very powerful photo editor that is even more awesome because (a) it is fully portable (can be run from a USB drive), and (b) it is tiny.
While it may not rival the likes of Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop Pro in features, it can carry out over 90% of the tasks these commercial goliaths are commonly used for!
Fotografix has its own scripting language, it supports layers and masks, and has a fairly full compliment of popular filters and adjustments.
There are four toolboxes (Colors, Layers, Tools & Scripts) which are controlled by hotkeys. It includes 25 brushes and seven scripts.
It is hard to criticize Fotografix because, for its size, it is amazingly powerful and full featured. Best of all, you can put it on a USB stick and carry it around with you – there is no installation required, though it does write an INI file to its home folder once it has been used.
If you are looking for an image editor then Fotografix should be very high on your list.
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Note: we have been advised that this program is not suitable for Windows 95, 98 or ME.
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