- Pixel image editor
Infobox_Software
name = Pixel image editor
caption = Screenshot of Pixel image editor run inMac OS X .
developer = Pavel Kanzelsberger
latest_release_version = Pixel 1.0 Beta 7 build 699
latest_release_date = 08/28/2007
operating_system =Cross-platform
genre =Raster graphics editor
license = Proprietary
website = http://www.kanzelsberger.com/Pixel image editor (formerly known as Pixel32) is an
image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger [James Gray. [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9710 Interview with Pavel Kanzelsberger] , LinuxJournal (July 1 ,2007 )] . It is arguably the most notable application written withFree Pascal Fact|date=July 2007, though it is notfree software . It is often compared toAdobe Photoshop , the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries.Features
Pixel supports
grayscale , RGB, CMYK, CIE Lab and HDR image models,color management , layers, adjustment layers, layer effects, filter effects,web page authoring, photo retouching and animations. ALinux.com review states that Pixel's feature set "rivals that of Adobe Photoshop and outstrips theGIMP in several key areas." [LeBlanc, Dee-Ann. [http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6175/1/ Pixel Image Editor Gives Graphics Goodness] , LinuxPlanet (February 22 ,2006 )]Planned future functionality includes batch file processing, user scripting (to chain multiple effects), a third-party plugin API and support for files as large as 65536 x 65536 pixels. [Willis, Nathan. [http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/06/1828230 Review: Pixel image editor] ,
Linux.com (December 15 ,2005 )]The evaluation version places watermarks on images and can be used for an unlimited amount of time.
Current version
After almost a year of anticipation the Beta7 was published on
28 August 2007 .The next version has been announced on April 9th, but it has not become available to date nor has the author confirmed / denied when or if it will be available. There has been no response from the author to the user community, thus enhancing the speculations about the state of the project. The release date of a full version is unknown.
Platforms
The first version of Pixel was written for
DOS in 1997, but it was soon ported to Windows. Today, Pixel runs on many platforms including* x86,
* x86-64,
*PowerPC ,
*SPARC , and
* ARM,and more than a dozen operating systems including
* GNU/Linux/x86,
* Windows andMS-DOS ,
* GNU/Linux/PPC,
* ZETA/BeOS /x86,
*QNX /x86,
*FreeBSD /x86,
*Mac OS X /x86,
*Mac OS X /PPC,
*MorphOS /PPC,
*SkyOS ,
*eComStation , and
*OS/2 .ee also
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Comparison of raster graphics editors
*Digital image
*Digital image editing
*GIMP
*2D computer graphics References
External links
* [http://www.kanzelsberger.com/ Pixel official website]
* [http://www.pixelcommunity.com/ Pixel Community Server with Forums and Wiki]
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