Overview
i.Mage is a simple graphics editor
inspired by the late great Deluxe Paint II for Amiga and PC's.
It doesn't try and do too much, just basic pixel editing, cropping, rotating and
basic level adjustment. It handles 8-bit indexed graphics through to 16, 24 and 32 bpp true
colour images as well (Has some support for loading 64-bit RGBA and CMYK tiff files as RGBA 32).
The basic interface and fast load time make it useful for getting things done quickly. Source
is available and if your interested enough you can add the features you need. Heres a general list
of features:
- Load/Save: Gif, Tiff, Jpg, Pcx, Bmp, Ico.
- 2 pane view, zoomed and 1:1.
- Downsampling/upsampling bit-depth, dithering, halftone, error diffusion.
- Resampling (smart resizing), cropping, rotating, offseting and flipping images.
- 8-bit palette editor: RGB/HLS ramps, colour cubes/stock palettes, reverse ramps, remapping.
- Clipboard support.
- Alpha blending.
- Basic linear/radial gradient fill.
- Undo que for most tools.
- Conversion of image to C/C++ code.
- Transparency support.
- Invert image.
- Convert to grayscale.
- Brightness/contrast adjust.
- Save/load/flip/rotate the current brush.
- Flood fill.
- Basic drawing primitives.
- Polyline editor.
- Text tool.
- Basic colour management via Little CMS, does RGB<->RGB on load/save to the internal colour space (sRGB), allows viewing of colour profile details.
Install/Uninstall
Installation is simple, just run the setup executable. You may want to associate graphics
files with i.Mage using the Tools -> Register File Types menu.
Uninstalling is a matter of un-associating files with i.Mage, by using the Tools ->
Register File Types menu again. Select all the items,
select Unregister and Ok. This will leave the associations with the various file
types as blank. This means double clicking on a graphic will bring up the "Open
with..." dialog until you reassociate the file types with an application. This
is normally acheived by selecting the application in the "Open with..." dialog
and switching on the "Always use this program to open this file" option.
Getting Started
You can either dive into the Usage Description or read up about
the Tools.