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Notes: Pixia ver. 4 does not support Windows 95 / 98 / NT 4.0. Use it on Windows Me /
2000 / XP / Vista. For people who have problems using ver. 4, the Download page still
supplies some older versions.
File Size : 3.29 MB Version : 3.1j Author : Isao Maruoka
Pixia is an English version of the famous Japanese free painting and retouch software. The original Japanese Edition was created and developed by the author, Isao Maruoka, but has also been aggressively raised by its fans, which makes this software to be quite unique and different from other tools.
It supports mask, layer and many other editing functions. You can use your own customized brush tips and even use an image file as a brush tip to create unique effects. Its user-friendly interface is suitable for beginners as well as experts. Pixia supports the most common editing techniques and presents a user friendly interface
Pixia is a painting tool made exclusively for full color graphics.
Maximum graphic size: 10240 x 10240 dots (Note: this depends on RAM capacity.)Number of Layers: As many as memory lasts.Peripheral devices applicable: TWAIN32 devices and Printers made to use for Microsoft Windows as well as Tablets (Wacom, Oce-Japan)
How-to (Only things seemingly hard to figure out)Right-clicking on the canvas captures the color.Shift + Right-dragging captures the image of the dragged area.Freehand drawing with Shift key down draws only the first stroke.Selection: After selection, right-clicking on the selected area pops up the sub-menu.Palette: Left-click chooses colors. Right-click registers colors.Single colors or bitmaps can be registered and used.There are two kinds of gradations: rectangular and straightline.On straightline gradation palette, dragging from the "arrow" button toward the right adds a color, and dragging a color pointer toward the "arrow" button erases the color.Left-clicking on figures in palettes adds and right-clicking substracts.You can alter figures by directly dragging the pointing lines in palettes. Right-clicking draws the lines toward the mouse pointer.Left-dragging with CTRL key down moves the top layer among the ones where the mouse pointer lies. Left-dragging with CTRL and SHIFT keys down moves the current layer.Pasting as a new layer is influenced by the settings of Tone Filter and Transparency control.Filling with a color also gets influenced by Tone Filter.Layers: A layer consists of three planes: Image, Mask, and Transparency.Copy a layer into the clipboard and all the three planes are copied. Paste is also done affected by transparency and selection of the original image.When you paste onto the Mask Plane, or Transparency Plane, only the contrast information is pasted. Pasted on a new layer, all the three planes are maintained exactly as the original layer.Registering bitmaps to the palette makes duplicates of the original images in the "palette" folder, which means registering many big size images to the palette will result in consuming a lot of hard disk space.Help files do not come with this program. You need to download a separate file from the Pixia website, or members can get it HERE (1.3 mb).
Pixia requires 32 megabytes of RAM or over (as much as possible!), Super VGA monitor (with the screen resolution set to at least 800 x 600), High Color or True Color (16bit/24bit/32bit), Pixia does not work on 16 or 256 color environment. Pressure sensitive tablets (WACOM, Oce-Japan).
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