Developer	John Paul Chacha's Lab
Product Homepage	Chasys Draw IES
License	Free (Freeware)
Size	12.4MB
OS Support	Windows All

Chasys Draw IES is a suite of applications including a layer-based image editor with animation, vista-style icon support and super-resolution via image stacking (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter) and a fast image viewer (Chasys Draw IES Viewer). The whole suite is Vista UAC aware and is designed to take advantage of multi-core processors.

Key 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
Shell integration with thumbnails
Asynchronous auto-save engine with 1 minute latency
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 super-resolution, stitching and moving object removal
Advanced printing and scanning engines
Video capture from devices (e.g. TV/Video)
Video sequence composer engine
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)
Support for older formats such as PPM/PGM/PBM, PCX, TGA, etc.
Uses the latest CD5 specification with animation and multi-resolution
Vista-style icon import and export
Can output C++ code module for inline image generation
Includes plug-ins for JPEG-2000, AVI video, animated cursors, JPEG, PNG, animated GIF, etc.
Physical measurement specification
Streamlined SDKs with no restrictions
Pantone equivalent palettes for PMS 100 to 814-2x

Engines:

Icon Generator (supporting 32 bpp Vista style icons and cursors)
Video Sequence Composer
Stacking : Noise Averaging
Stacking : Sequence Stitching
Stacking : Moving Object Removal
Stacking : Multi-frame Super-resolution
Heuristics-based Single-frame Super-resolution

Transforms:

Flip
Rotate
Skew
Perspective
Stretch
Tile
Kaleidoscope

Adjustments:

Brightness and Contrast
Hue, Saturation and Lightness
Greyscale with Tint
Levels and Gamma
Curves / Transfer Function
Alpha Function
Auto-Level
Histogram Equalization
Invert Color

Effects:

Synthetic Enhance
Replace Color
Duo Tone
Bilevelize
Channel Swap
Blur
Sharpen
Heuristic Anti-alias : Edges
Heuristic Anti-alias : Image
Pixelate
Posterize
Oilify
Dither to 256 Colors
Noise Reduction
Red-eye Reduction
Color-play Reduction
JPEG Artifact Reduction
Emboss : Simple
Emboss : Advanced
Edge Detect
Drop Shadow
Create Halo
Blue-Screening : Normal
Blue-Screening : Exact Match
Blue-Screening : Basal : Black
Blue-Screening : Basal : White

Custom Effect via GraphAsm Program
Custom Effect via Convolution Matrix

External Effects via Plug-ins:

Blending modes:

Alpha-blend
Additive
Subtractive
Multiply
Overlay
Hue
Chroma
Luma
Screen
Mask

- Resizer for IES plug-in supporting 18 scaling methods:

Nearest Neighbor (Box)
Bilinear (Triangle)
Bicubic Cardinal Spline
Bicubic B-Spline
Bicubic BC-Spline (Mitchell)
Windowed Sinc - Bartlett Window
Windowed Sinc - Blackman Window
Windowed Sinc - Blackman-Harris Window
Windowed Sinc - Bohman Window
Windowed Sinc - Cosine Window
Windowed Sinc - Gauss Window
Windowed Sinc - Hamming Window
Windowed Sinc - Hann Window
Windowed Sinc - Kaiser Window
Windowed Sinc - Lanczos Window
Windowed Sinc - Parzen Window
Windowed Sinc - Rectangular Window
Windowed Sinc - Welch Window

click here to download Chasys Draw IES 3.63.01