Chasys Draw IES 5.20.01

Chasys Draw IES

Chasys Draw IES is a suite of applications including a layer-based image editor with animation, icon editing support and super-resolution via image stacking (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter), a fast image viewer (Chasys Draw IES Viewer) and a RAW camera file processor (Chasys Draw IES raw-Photo). The whole suite is UAC aware and is designed to take advantage of multi-core processors, touch-screens and pen-input devices.

Chasys Draw IES Artist features:

Super-fast internal graphics engine (JpDRAW2)
Free-style layering with blending modes
Composite, Animation and Multi-resolution image modes
Full alpha channel through out the workflow
Re-editable tools and fully re-editable text
Alpha protection (a.k.a. transparency protection)
Multi-core aware software architecture
Vista UAC aware
Multiple display setup aware
Tablet/Pen/Stylus support with pressure control
Shell integration with thumbnails
Asynchronous auto-save engine
Anti-aliasing and super-sampling support in tools and paths*
Unlimited Undo/Redo - undo any action any time
Just-in-time memory compression
Best-in-class post-edit heuristics anti-aliasing engine
Image Stacking for noise reduction, super-resolution, etc.
Advanced printing and scanning engines
Video capture from devices (e.g. TV/Video)
Animation Composer engine
Video Screen Capture
In-built utilities (Calculator, Notepad)
Metadata save, restore and scale to imitate vector art
Extensive plug-in support
Support for Photoshop Filter Plug-ins (.8BF)
Suport for the native formats of Photoshop, GIMP and Paint.NET
Support for older formats such as PPM/PGM/PBM, PCX, TGA, etc.
Vista-style icon import and export
Can output C++ code module for inline image generation
Uses the latest CD5 specification with animation and multi-resolution
Includes plug-ins for JPEG-2000, AVI video, animated cursors, JPEG, PNG, animated GIF, etc.
Streamlined SDKs with no restrictions
Physical measurement specification
Pantone equivalent palettes for PMS 100 to 814-2x
Full UNICODE support in all components
Multiple language support with user-editable language files
Configurable Guides and Grids with Snap-to-Grid
Smart-resizing (similar to seam-carving)
Smart-dither to custom palette
Asynchronous preview rendering engine
Automatic color naming
... and many more!

The following changes have been made to Chasys Draw IES with the latest release:

Resources and Extras

On previous versions, the installer would fail to install extras and resources such as custom brushes and textures, which greatly affected usability. This has been resolved.

Improved Graphics Engine

This release features an updated graphics engine that fixes long-standing issues relating to alpha-blending of translucent images against transparent backgrounds and rendering of some line end-caps.

CD5 v4.06, PSD, OpenEXR, ANI, NetPBM and PhotoCD

OpenEXR file support has been added and a long-standing bug affecting the loading of some PSD files has been resolved. Quality improvements have also been made to ANI, NetPBM and PhotoCD file support. The CD5 codec has been upgraded and now offers up to 30% better compression for photographic images.

Tools, Transforms, Shell-out and PDF Import

The Effects Brush has a new option and the Dynamics Brush has two new options. Transforms can now be configuured to be blocky when doing pixel-art, and the shell-out feature now supports embedded videos (sprite-sheets). We now have PDF Import in additon to PDF Export.

Converter, Viewer, Screen Capture, etc.

Converter now has configurable CPU loading and will react appropriately to disk-full scenarios. The side-by-side comparison feature in Viewer now features adaptive panning to help with comparison of diffrently sized images, and the Screen Capture feature in Artist now allowed click-and-drag selection. We also have improved Bluetooth support, better handling of EXIF orientation, improved search functionality in the Plug-in Manager and several minor UI improvements.

Chasys Draw IES 5.20.01 changelog: