The English version of a famous Japanese free painting and retouch software for full color graphic, with mask, layer functions. You can use your own customized brush tips and even use an image file as a brush tip to create unique effects. Its user-friendly interface is suitable for beginners as well as experts. The original Japanese Edition of Pixia was created and developed by the author, Isao Maruoka, but has also been aggressively raised by its fans, which makes this software quite unique and different from other tools. Formats supported: BMP, JPG, JPEG, TIFF, RGB, ICO, DIB, PNG, PSD, PXA, WMF, PICT, PCT, TGA, MPO.
Pixia supports the most common editing techniques. Pixia includes several tools for basic image editing. It includes brush sets and tools for defining color tone and intensity. It also comprises advanced tools which are use for filtering purposes and adding mask layers.
Pixia is a great drawing and image editing software but totally free. It supports unlimited layers, 10240*10240 pixels layout, effect plug-ins(also accept Photoshop's plug-ins), undo 100 times. Also can working with your TWAIN devices(eg. Scanner or Digital Camera and Digitizer. Advanced drawing application with numerous photo filters, color adjustment, multi-layer support, anti-aliasing, 3D mapping and text, and more
When it comes to photo filters, it's possible to opt for artistic dither, button tile, circle button, half tone, stir, mesh, monotone, mosaic, random dithering, sepia, sphere mosaic, noise adding or removal, edge, blur, color inversion, relief, sharpness, shadow, color toning (sepia, blue, gold, cool, warm), transparency, and so on.