HeliosPaint is a easy-to-use paint program for editing photos, drawings and icons. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux and Unix.
Main features:
Pencil for editing pixels.
Curved, straight and freehand lines with choice of width, dash pattern, line joint and arrow heads.
Paint Brush with adjustable size and edge feathering.
Copy Brush for copying one area of an image to another for retouching, healing and blending.
Shape tool for creating freehand, regular polygon, star, moon and heart shapes.
Text entry with choice of font, style, underline and rotation.
Image filters.
Image colour and transparency adjustment by flat, round, rectangular and ‘fit to shape’ gradient patterns.
Image flip, scale up, scale down, rotate, shear, perspective view.
Full colour pallet with adjustable transparency and colour grabber.
Fully opaque, part transparent or fully transparent background colours.
Full texture paint support with adjustable transparency.
Texture paint images can be created, loaded and
Reads and writes image file formats: bmp, gif, jpg/jpeg, pct/pict, pcx, pgm, png, ppm, psd, ras, tga, tif/tiff, wbmp, xpm.
Supports images up to 12 megapixels in size
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