 Exclusive Features for NINTENDO DS |
 Ultimate Color Reduction Engine |
 Image Editing |
 Enhanced Palette Management |
 Intuitive User Interface |
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Support Major Image Formats
| iMageStudio supports various image formats. You also can add more formats with "File Loading Plugin", "File Writing Plugin", "Filter Plugin", "Import Plugin", and "Export Plugin" of each OPTPiX Plugin and "Susie Plugin" (for loading only) that are supported by iMageStudio. * Plugin SDK (including the specifications and sample sources, etc.) is distributed for free. |
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| Formats for Loading 2BP, ACG, ACL, ACT, BAP, BMP, DIB, IMB, IS, ISC, JPEG, J6I, LAY, MAG, MAKI, MNG, PBM, PCX, PDD, PGM, PI, PIC (X68K), PIC (SOFTIMAGE3D), PICT (PCT), PIX, PLB, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSD, Q0, QBM, RAS, RGB (SGI), RLE, TGA, TIFF, WMF, XBM, XPM, XWD Formats for Saving ACG, ACL, ACT, BAP, BMP, IMB, IS, ISC, JPEG, MNG, PCX, PIX, RLE, TIFF, PIC (SOFTIMAGE3D), PICT (PCT), PLB, PNG, PSD, QBM, RGB (SGI), TGA * iMageStudio for NINTENDO DS® also supports formats for NINTENDO DS®. |
Alpha Channel and Alpha Blending Display| Because of the demand and the usefulness of the advanced semi transparency and transparency functions, Alpha Channel is getting largely required for game development; iMageStudio equips almost all the utilities identical to Adobe® Photoshop® Alpha Channel functions. iMageStudio can load PSD files of "transparency" created by the eraser tool and alpha channel of Photoshop as Alpha Channel. Alpha Blending Functions allows an image being displayed with Alpha channel. A multilayer image can be displayed together with Alpha channel of each layer. |
 [Alpha Blending Image] |
Edit Multilayer| Supports "Layer Structure", which allows single image file to have multiple images as layers. The layers can be direct color images or indexed images or mixture of both. For indexed color image layers, each layer can have own palette. This function is designed mainly for game development. The layers in iMageStudio will be displayed as tabs. The image (right) is a layer window for an animation loaded by Photoshop. |
Selective Area Protector for Image Resizing| Newly including "Area Protector" achieves preventing the color mixing of a transparent pixel with that of an opaque pixel area at image resizing. You can protect selective color area with either one of "Specified-Color Areas" and "Alpha 0 (Transparent) Areas" options completely. |
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| original image (the transparent color is shown in green.) | normal enlargement | enlargement with Area Protector | |
When the original image, which has an area specified for alpha (transparency), is resized with interpolation, the image will have color mixing of the color of transparent (green) and the color of opaque at their border. With iMageStudio, the border between the area of transparent and opaque is protected as it should be, when the image is resized with "Protect Specified-Color Areas" or "Protect Alpha 0 (Transparent) Areas" option of " Area Protector" ON. |
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Strengthen Synchronized Image Viewer ("Sync Image View") | Expanded "Sync Image View" option! You can handle synchronized operation on images created from the same image regardless of their window sizes and file formats. The synchronization includes zooming and scrolling the images. Apply this handy option to compare and check images of before and after a certain process. |
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Layer Animation| When an image file is in multiple image layer structure, "Layer Animation" will be available to execute by switching layers automatically. If the file contains Alpha value, the animation will be processed with alpha blended images. |  [Layer Animation] |
15 bit Colors Mode| 15 bit Colors Mode Traditional full color graphics software are usually designed to create images for 24 bit full color environment. Therefore, when displayed on 15 bit color environment, the images cannot expressed in good quality. OPTPiX iMageStudio allows you to open full color images as 15 bit colors mode and also transfers a full color image to 15 bit colors mode while editing the image swiftly. Additional "Normalization" option will prevent from darken the image in 15 bit colors mode, which typically happens without the option "ON". |
Retouch Tools| With basic retouch tools of drawing e.g. straight lines, rectangles, and circles, an indexed color image containing alpha can be easily edited. Correcting image data after color reduction and even creating image while conducting palettes from a scratch are absolutely easy tasks for iMageStudio. iMageStudio is one of few rare graphics tools that enable to handle indexed color images with Alpha. * The two-colored dithering pen is available. And "Assistant Viewer" also helps for pixel editing. |
Useful Editing Functions| iMageStudio offers various handy editing functions. |
| Link Images | compose a single image by lining up multiple images of in same size. |
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| Divide into Cells | divide an image into any number of pieces in even size. |
| Text | composite letters into image. |
| Resize | resize image. |
| Canvas Size | change image size and insert frame margin and cut it off etc. |
| Rotate | rotate image. If the degree of the rotation is not multiple of 90 degrees, the number will be interpolated. |
| Rotate Left | rotate image to the left by 90 degrees. |
| Rotate Right | rotate image to the right by 90 degrees. |
| Flip Vertically | flip image vertically. |
| Flip Horizontally | flip image horizontally. |
Image Adjustments and Filters| These are the examples of Image Adjustment Functions featured by iMageStudio. You can adjust each R, G, B, A channel individually.
iMageStudio features filter functions for special effects. "OPTPiX Plugin SDK (Software Development Kit)" can let you import additional filters of your own.
*And manu more More filters available! |
 [Image Adjustments] |
 [Sharpen Filter] |
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