CNET Editors' review
Panasoft's Image Generator is a graphics application that's simple enough for beginners to handle while still offering enough extras, such as 3D capabilities, custom templates, selectable transparency, and Web site editing, to please experienced users. Its unique raster image transformation technology makes it easy not only to create high-resolution images but also generate cartoons, shapes, and other effects. While it's pared down compared with some other graphics apps, it packs the usual photo correction capabilities, drawing tools, and other features common to the type.
The program's interface resembles similar applications, favoring Microsoft Paint more than Adobe's Photoshop, but with some well-thought-out touches, such as the icon-based toolbar with pop-up dialog controls. We were really pleased by the Palette tool's color spectrum display on the toolbar, a great idea that really simplifies color sampling. There's a Photoshop-style floating toolbar with a good range of drawing tools, including tip width and parameter controls. The Raster brush functions are pretty cool, letting you add shapes singly or by dragging "trails." All tools seemed perfectly compatible with our Wacom pad. A fully indexed Help file is included as a separate file in the download but opens directly from the interface, and there's ample Web-based assistance too.
Image Generator is free to try for 35 days; it's listed for Vista but worked like a champ in Windows 7. We've tried lots of graphics packages with all sorts of capabilities and limitations. Image Generator is easy enough for novices yet packs enough features for more advanced users, and we recommend it for each.
Publisher's Description
From Panasoft:
Images Generator is image-editing application in which the small sizes and convenience of using are combined with ample opportunities. The program has a full tooling of two-dimensional graphics and provides some ways of creation of volumetric images. It has about 200 graphic filters and transformers. Adjustment of colors of the selected part of the image is carried out simultaneously on 13 parameters. A plenty of methods of painting of the selected image area are used. Program has plenty of built-in mathematical curves. Processing of files of 32 formats is possible. Features of the program are methods of creation of images, a number from which are innovations. It allows creating excellent images, which are difficult to create by other ways. The images created with the help of the program win prizes at art exhibitions. Following new methods are used. Program let you to use a plenty of the built-in shape templates and to create unlimited amount of custom shape templates. Shape templates allow you to select image area and to apply fill and outline tools for selected area. Methods, based upon the colors in the image, are used to select part of image. You can to use eighteen modes at that. Image parts may be used for collages creation. Unique method of transformation of raster images is used. This method allows you to obtain high-quality realistic images and to make cartoons and to correct photo. Fill of selected area may be carried out by realization of lines which configuration is determined by shape of selected area border. Each line will be carried out by color from the given color sequence. That provides 3D and other effects. For every fill line you may to specify not only color but also level of transparency. There are some built - in functions with which help the level of a transparency for the next line from a sequence of lines is determined. Vector and raster images are used together with trajectories. User may create vector image choosing shape, pattern and colors. The vector image in points of a trajectory can change the sizes and angles of turn. The graphic editor allows creating from elements of Web pages as banners and buttons to whole professionally executed Web sites. You can create drawings for engineering and science, painted art, textile patterns, ornaments and others. Other uses are picking up of hair-dresses, clothes and so on. Novice users and children can use program.
What's new in this version: Version 9.11 features new methods of transformation of raster images are used.
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