StylePix -- super image app

[matera]

http://hornil.com/en/downloads/stylepix/

• Free (of course)
• Familiar single-window interface (for the GIMPophobes)
• Small download -- under 1MB (for the dial-ups)
• Portable and can be installed without Admin privileges (I did it in my Vista luser profile)
• Layers and transparency; all sorts of selection methods; nicely configurable brush and other tool size, softness, transparency, tolerance, etc.
• Has its own file type, .tsp, to preserve special features, but will save in common formats -- jpg - png - gif - bmp - tga - tif

In short, it's fragging awesome.

My first doodle:

[WellOiledPC]

Indeed yes, checked it out and on first looks, it seems to be a power-packed program! Interesting that the setup file is only about 1 MB and that the installed folder too is just 7 MB alone!

Thanks for the link!

[Sam_Zen]

Yep, thanks. Looks promising, with indeed a nice GUI.
Of course I have to check this further, but this could be a possible alternative, of bulky apps like P'shop, we could give a link to,
if some post is asking about for example layers.

[WellOiledPC]

Yes indeed - it seems to be good for Layers and has configurable Undos, with a maximum of 64 Undos. I also like the very usable and useful filters that the program has built in!

[matera]

I am still utterly gobsmacked. You can even drag an image in as a new layer (I was looking for the equivalent of the GIMP's "Open as layer"). I imagine an inexperienced newb would still be hollering, "Wahh, how do I....", and it has a quirk or two, but it's definitely the best thing I've tried out in years. I haven't been able to crash it yet, LOL. I put it in my SendTo, and as IrfanView's #2 Open-with. It's blindingly fast compared to my beloved GIMP.

ETA: I did manage to crash it, playing with gradients

[WellOiledPC]

GIMP is last off the block - even Photoshop opens a wee bit faster! I tried GIMPShop and under Windows at least, it is a lot, lot faster...

[jazzman]

Looking at the features listed on their website I miss 8bf plugin support. Am I right or is it hidden somewhere?

[WellOiledPC]

No 8bf support I could see too, but I find the built-in effects very useful!

[matera]

Heh, copy -- paste into IrfanView -- do effects -- copy -- paste into StylePix. A marriage made in Heaven.

[jazzman]

I was hoping for a quick, light-weight app for applying 8bf filters to selections and layers with transparencies.

[WellOiledPC]

Well, StylePix is reasonably quick and lightweight. What it lacks is the user-friendliness of IrfanView, I am convinced, even after tinkering around with it for a week or so...

On the positive side, you have the ability to work in Layers, support for up to 64 levels of Undo, freehand selection, some excellent and useful effects, etc., which IrfanView does not have as yet. I will be using it for these tasks alone and copy-pasting the edited image into IrfanView, for further processing, as matera too plans