Sunday 10 December 2006

PaintBox 2.2.8

PaintBox is a simple paint program with a variety of features that are not included in many of the major paint programs. Features include recent files image previews, recent colour list, and multiple clipboard entries. This program is ideal for people who do not want a big and powerful photo editor but do want a hassle-free way to create their own images.
This is a light tool that is also very light on resources, and has some fairly advanced functions to go with an easy interface. Basic functions include flipping photos, creating mirror images, resizing, resampling, and even increasing the canvas space of the image.

The more advanced functions in PaintBox allow brightness, gamma, colour, contrast, RGB greyscale and negative adjustments. We put the software to the test to see whether it was competent to carry out all the above tasks.

RGB adjustment on a photograph was good, and allowed changing of individual colours in addition to the overall colour range (RGB or CMYK). However, options like creating layers for adding effects or text are not available, and while this is a drawback, it is not restrictive for basic editing and enhancements.

Also, when it comes to resizing or resampling of images, there's not too much trouble since it is just a three-step activity.

Pros: if your not big into photo editing and currently use mspaint to do the simple tasks you need then this is the perfect replacement as it has alot more features. No installation required.

Cons: its not no photoshop but if you want simplicity, this is it.

Download it here

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