[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Photobie Features List
Photobie is an all around image editor that can paint, capture screens, animate and browse images.
Photobie’s interface is flexible and very easy to use. The following lists the features Photobie provides.
Following this list, the features are discussed in detail.
1.Photo Image editing
a. Cropping, Copy, Paste, Color adjustment, Rotate/Flip
i. You can easily crop any portion out of existing photo in any shape.
ii. You can copy/paste any portion from/into any image
1. You can copy portion of your image to the clipboard and paste them to
Word, Powerpoint or any other program that takes a clipboard image
2. You can paste any image from the clipboard into your image within
Photobie. You can also create a new image using “Paste as a new image”.
You can do following trick: right click on any image you see on the web,
select “Copy image” and then select “Paste as a new image” in Photobie.
You just opened an image from the web within Photobie.
b. Basic to advanced color adjustment
i. You can easily adjust the color balance (brightness, contrast, saturation, coldwarm,
Gamma, alpha)
ii. You can adjust (RGB) color curves and adjust or swap color RGB channel
levels. You can replace one color with another color in your image
c. Painting tools: pen, shape draw fill, airbrush, eraser, line/curve with arrows, smudge etc.
i. You can change the pen size and add special effects to the pen.
ii. You can draw/ fill shapes with all kinds of patterns, textures and gradients.
iii. You can use the airbrush or touch-up brush on your image.
iv. You can use the eraser to remove a part of the image easily and smoothly.
v. You can use the line/curve tool to draw a line or a curve easily with/without
arrows. The line/curve can be dotted or dashed or dot-dashed. Texture, pattern
and texture apply as well.
vi. You can use the smudge tool to smudge out unwanted areas easily and naturally.
vii. You can use advanced brush tools
d. Text tool: you can create text with various textures, patterns, gradients, shadings, fonts
etc.
e. Color Palettes: simple color ring, customized color palette
i. You can simply setup the paint primary color and secondary color by click on the
color or color palette.
ii. You can also change the primary color and the secondary color using the more
advanced color. Simply click on the primary or secondary color labels
iii. You can easily add you current primary/secondary color into your palette. You
can remove any color from your palette. You can save your palette and open
another palette you saved.
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f. Region tools: rectangle, round rectangle, oval, polygon, freehand, fuzzy magic wand.
Various complex region combination modes: union, exclude, intersect, xor
i. You can use various shaped region tool to select a region
ii. You can combine regions in different ways: union, exclude, intersect, and xor,
which means exclude areas that intersect.
iii. You can save the region you just selected to the region cache or a permanent
region file and reapply them whenever you want.
2.Advanced Layer support.
a. You can clone/copy/paste a layer or multiple layers and you can shuffle layers easily.
b. You can merge layers with/without keeping original layers.
c. You can use automatic layer generation to generate a new layer whenever you do some
paint action to the image. Note: this is the Photobie default.
d. You can rotate/flip each layer, you can adjust color of each layer, you can set
transparent color of each layer, you can adjust layer opacity, you can move/resize one or
a group of layers easily, you can cut/copy part from only a single layer.
e. You can hide/lock layers.
f. You can rename the layer.
g. You can select different layer blend modes.
h. You can apply mask to the layer, and you can even turn a layer into a mask layer.
3.Photoshop filter plug-in support
a. You can leverage thousands of free Photoshop .8bf filter plug-ins to achieve special
effects.
b. You can manage your .8bf plug-ins easily with our robust Plugin Manager
i. You can setup categories of .8bf plug-ins
ii. You can select some of those plug-ins to be preloaded when Photobie start up
iii. You can dynamically load and apply a temporary plug-in from an arbitrary path
4.Photo image browser
a. You can open all images or selected images within a directory and browse them easily
within the Photobie image browser
b. You can open up to 8 directories and you switch between them easily
c. You can do batch rotate/resize
d. You can import them into main editing window for easy retouching
e. You can start a full screen slide show.
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5.Template and Scrapbooking
a. Supports template design and editing
i. You can design a nice template and let other Photobie users replace part of the
template with their own photo images.
ii. You can modify/enhance existing template with more items.
iii. You can set a mask on the replaceable object in your template so that when user
loads a new image the edges are smoothly masked out.
b. Supports customized brushes and embellishment
i. You can grab whatever clip art, Photoshop brushes or other embellishment and
create a sub-folder within brushes directory of the Photobie program, and
Photobie will load it as general brush, so you can apply it in various ways:
1. You can reset the color or use original brush image color
2. You can adjust the size, blur, opacity, speed, color modes, random
flip/rotate.
3. You can draw with the brush on you image or simply click it into your
image.
ii. You can switch between different categories of brushes easily.
6.Screen Capture
a. Efficient screen capture tools
i. You can capture a region of any shape on your screen to Photobie and the system
clipboard without interrupting your current work.
ii. You can automatically capture a number of screen shots into one image using
multiple layers.
b. Customizable hot keys
i. You can set up to 8 hot keys to capture a specific region on the screen or active
window with/without cursor.
ii. You can capture a scrollable window by setup a special hot key
c. Full editing environment
i. You can add an arrow, a shape or whatever else you wish to your screen shot.
d. Easy integration with any other program
i. You can set up Photobie to capture the image directly into to another program to
process.
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7.Animation editing
a. Simple but robust GIF animation editing
i. You can create a GIF animation out of any layers you have.
ii. You can adjust the delay of each frame. You can set an additive mode or a general
mode for frame generation based on the layers underneath.