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PNG-supporting Image Editors
Image Editors with PNG Support
For the purposes of this page, an "image editor" is defined as a paint or drawing program that supports
pixel-level editing (or the equivalent). As a general rule of thumb, if it's got a pencil or paint-brush tool,
it's in; if it supplies only "algorithms" (such as sharpening, blurring, edge-detection, cropping, etc.), it's
not. See the Image Converters page for applications in the latter class.
As on the other PNG-applications pages, links to home WWW sites or to downloadable versions are
provided where known, but if a link is broken, check the location and see if an updated version is
available (and please tell Greg!). Relevant operating systems are printed in (parenthesized italics).
These are listed alphabetically, more or less:
● Ability Photopaint [Ability Plus Software] (Win32, Linux/X) - all versions? read/write;
commercial. (See also Corel's similarly named Photo-Paint below.)
● Adesign [Pierresoft] (Win32) - all versions; read/write; commercial.
● Ameri-Imager [ThinkTank Software] (Win32) - version 2.0(?) and later; read/write? MNG
support; commercial. (This is an image and video editor that includes both PNG and MNG
support.)
● Applixware Graphics - see Applixware Office on the office / business apps page
● ArtEffect [Haage & Partner Computer] (Amiga) - all versions; read/write; full alpha support.
● ArtIcons [Aha-soft] (Win32) - version 2.3 and later; read/write; full 32-bit alpha support as of
version 3.22; shareware. (This is an icon editor for 32-bit Windows; PNG is fully supported in
both the regular and the Pro versions, as well as the apparently related IconXP variant. Alpha
support is relevant only to icons intended for Windows XP [and later], however.)
● Artstream [Mediascape] (Irix/X, Linux/X) - version 2.0 and later; read/write; full 32-bit alpha
support; commercial. (This is primarily an OpenGL-based vector image editor, but it can include
raster formats such as PNG in compositions, and it can save to various raster formats, including
PNG. It can also import VRML models [which can have PNG textures]. The Linux port
originally was expected to be in production release by early May 2000, but as of February 2002 it
was still available only in beta [2.0] and alpha [2.1] forms.)
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