i.Mage 1.00 Beta 2 review

i.Mage is a small and fast graphics editor slanted towards quite and easy pixel editing, ala DPaint from the DOS/Amiga days. i.Mag

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 840K Developer: Matthew Allen

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i.Mage is a small and fast graphics editor slanted towards quite and easy pixel editing, ala DPaint from the DOS/Amiga days.

i.Mage project is not designed to compete with the other graphics programs out there, there are plenty that do a much better job than i.Mage.

However it starts in under a second and it does a lot of the mundane jobs of image editing quickly and without fuss.

Here are some key features of "i Mage":
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 RGBRGB on load/save to the internal colour space (sRGB), allows viewing of colour profile details.

What's New in This Release:
Fixed the enable undo menuitem and the enable undo toolbar button being out of sync with each other.
Fixed Bug #48: Undo doesn't work.
Fixed the brush becoming part of the document when you say resize the image and the brush is still overlaid on the image.