Pixel image editor
Pixel image editor (formerly known as Pixel32) is an image editor written by the Slovakian programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger. It is arguably the most notable application written with Free Pascal, though it is not free software. It is often compared to Adobe 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. A Linux.com review states that Pixel's feature set "rivals that of Adobe Photoshop and outstrips the GIMP in several key areas."
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.
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 Release date of the next version (Beta8) which should contain many bugfixes is not set, neither has any roadmap towards the full release been published.
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 and MS-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.
See also
- Comparison of raster graphics editors
- Digital image
- Digital image editing
- GIMP
- 2D computer graphics
External links
cs:Pixel32 fr:Pixel32 pl:Pixel (edytor graficzny) fi:Pixel32