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Other Image Editors - Part 2

Personal Paint

Version 7.1, Cloanto. Available for Amiga; read/write support for PNGs.

http://www.cloanto.com/amiga/programs_ppaint.html
PhotoDraw 2000

Microsoft. Available for 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/photodraw/
PhotoImpact

Version 4.2, Ulead Systems. Available for 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs; no gamma support in version 3.0 (unknown in 4.0).

http://www.ulead.com/pi/
PhotoLine

Version 4.57, Computerinsel. Available for 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs; version 2.x reportedly had problems saving alpha channels.

http://www.pl32.com/
Photonyx

Version 1.0, Chrome Imaging. Available for 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs.

http://www.chrome-imaging.com/photonyx.html
Picnic

Version 0.4, Peder Blekken. Available for BeOS PPC; read/write support for PNGs (in fact, PNG is the only supported output format).

http://www.be.com/beware/Graphics/Picnic.html
Picture Publisher

Version 8, Micrografx. Available for 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs.

http://www.micrografx.com/picturepublisher/
Satori

Version 2.5, Spaceward Graphics. Available for 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs; full (32-bit) alpha support; may include support for images with 16-bit sample depth.

http://www.satoripaint.com/
Shake

Version 2.03, Nothing Real. Available for SGI IRIX and 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs; full support for images with 16-bit sample depth; full alpha support (32-bit and 64-bit); partial (write-only) gamma support.

http://www.nothingreal.com/Products/
VideoStudio

Version 3.0, Ulead Systems. Available for 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs.

http://www.ulead.com/vs/
Visio

Version 5.0, Visio. Available for 32-bit Windows (version 4.1 is still available for Windows 3.x); read/write support for PNGs.

http://www.visio.com/products/
WebImage

Version 2.11, Group 42. Available for 32-bit Windows (version 1.72 is still available for Windows 3.x); read/write support for PNGs.

http://www.group42.com/webimage.htm
WebPainter

Version 3.0.5, Totally Hip Software. Available for Mac PPC and 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs.

http://www.totallyhip.com/Link/ProductsWP3.html
WinImages

Version R5, Black Belt Systems. Available for 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs.

http://www.blackbelt.com/wi_r5_dt.html
Xara Webster

Version 2.0, Xara. Available for 32-bit Windows; read/write support for PNGs.

http://www.xara.com/noframes/webster/
xart

Version of June 5, 1998, Rick Hohensee and others. Available for Unix/X; read/write support for PNGs; no alpha support. This is a ``mutant spawn'' of XPaint with emphasis on mouse-based freehand drawing.

http://linux01.gwdg.de/~rhohen/linux.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/draw/xart19980605.tgz
XPaint

Version 2.5.6, David Koblas, Torsten Martinsen, and others. Available for Unix/X; read/write support for PNGs; no alpha support.

http://www.image.dk/~torsten/xpaint/
xRes

Version 3.0, Macromedia. Available for 32-bit Windows and Mac 68k/PPC; read/write support for PNGs; full (32-bit) alpha support; no gamma support.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/xres/

New image editors with PNG support and updated information on the editors in the preceding list can be found at the Image Editors with PNG Support web page http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngaped.html. This URL should remain valid for at least a few years, but there are never any guarantees on the World Wide Web. Should the link ever break, use a search engine to look for the page's title string or for one of the more oddly named utilities or companies listed.




Last Update: 2010-Nov-26