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If your wallet won’t stretch to the outlandish sums demanded for top-line image editors like Photoshop, or your editing needs are more basic, it might be worth taking a peek at the lightweight StylePix editor.

Small enough to slap on a netbook or thumb drive, StylePix image packs a fair bit of image-editing power or most everyday tasks and comes with a price that’s sure to please: free. Oh, yes!

The program supports all the major image formats, including .png, .tif, .gif, .bmp, and more, and lets you work on multiple files simultaneously .

A shedload of filters are on board for adjusting colour, sharpening, adding blur, and fiddling about with colours and hues and there’s also a handy batch process mode which lets you rename, resize, rotate, and apply filters en masse.

A healthy selection of drawing tools are included to let you erase, spray, brush, and add shapes to your pictures, backed by neat red-eye and dust removal filters.

The whole program weighs in at a mere  20 MB, making it a handy portable tool for quick edits.

StylePix runs on Windows XP or higher and is available for free  from hornil.com.

Here’s a full run down of its features:

Convenient working environment
- png, jpg, bmp, tif, gif, tga file formats are supported
- Working with multiple files can be opened simultaneously
- Multi-level undo-redo support, and action list display
- Zoom in/out and the full-screen view and guides, rulers, grid support
- Thumbnail, histogram and waveform view for current editing image
- StylePix own file format(.tsp) support

Variety selection tools
- Auto-range, colour-range, and rectangular, circular, polygonal, lasso area selection, and transformation options

Variety of drawing tools
- Brush, eraser, spray, clone-brush, lines, rectangles, circles
- Multi-line text editing
- Flood fill and gradient fill support
- 20 kinds of blending modes
- Colour picker with HSV colour model

Review and convenient image viewing
- Folder explorer and thumbnail view supports
- Full-screen slide show
- Browse tool

Batch processing
- Rename, resize, rotate, and apply filters for multiple files

Image transformation tools
- Rotate, flip
- Crop tool
- Free transform tool

Correction-restore and enhancement tools
- Dust removal, Red-eye removal tools
- Lighten, darken, blur, and sharpen tools

30 kinds of practical image filter
- Color adjustment filters
- Sharpen and blur filters
- Mosaic, noise filters
- Style Filter
- Rendering filters
- Morphological filters
- Noise filters
- Distort filters
- Convolve filters
- Photo Enhancement filters

Multi-layer support
- Multi-layer editing, and group support
- 30 kinds of blending modes and transparency for each layers

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Applications
- Photo retouching & enhancement
- Photo processing with variety of filters
- Dot-image painting
- Web design (banner, logo etc)
- Batch processing(making thumbnail etc)
- Free hand drawing
- Image composition

System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems:Windows XP/Vista/7/2000/2003 or compatible OS

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