Exclusive Features for NINTENDO DS	Ultimate Color Reduction Engine
Image Editing	Enhanced Palette Management
Intuitive User Interface

Intuitive User Interface

User Interface for Professional Use

iMageStudio is exclusively designed for professional video game graphic artists while particularly considering "usefulness". For example, iMageStudio can operate by various keyboard shortcuts: change size or move a frame of selected area every pixel you specify for video game standard.

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Floating Items and Sub Toolbar

iMageStudio Easy to Use User Interface offers "Color Chart Window", "Palette Entry List Window", "Information Window", "Mode Select Window" and "Palette Tool Window" as floating items. You can place them wherever you want. "Color Chart Window" allows you to switch back and forth among "RGB", "HLS", "PALETTE", and "CUSTOM". On "PALETTE" and "CUSTOM", you can use any file or the part of the image as a color chart instead. "Sub Toolbar" is a collection of buttons laid out at the upper side of the image window. "Sub Toolbar" on an image is for image related function buttons, and the palette related function buttons are on the palette. They are for most frequently used functions to access instantly: "ON/OFF Alpha" and "Arrange Palette".

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* "Assistant Viewer", "Pen Selection" Window and "Layer/Palette List" Window can zoom in their displays and follow an editing Window.

New Tool Windows

Three more new Tool Windows are added to improve smoother editing process. Assistant Viewer It allows diverse applications for image adjustments, such as viewing a zoomed image or an alpha blending display while editing. For iMageStudio for NINTENDO DS®, the Assistant Viewer also offers "NINTENDO DS® LCD Simulator". You can preview how an image looks on NINTENDO DS® LCD while editing the image. Pen Selection Window This Tool Window let you switch pen width, shape and the object to draw on at once. For "Tile Drawing" of drawing with two colors dithering, you can select the density from 15 levels, which brings iMageStudio into action for indexed image drawing. Layer/Palette List Window All layers and palettes of an active image become in thumbnails. Checking their contents and switching them over can be managed with the Tool Window swiftly. Names of Layers and Palettes are editable individually. Click to more details.

Key Customization

Assign variety of useful iMageStudio functions on function keys to avoid repetitive routine works by menus, but too much to create macros. Because these repetitive processing is obligatory for video game creation, the function is in fact very handy. For instance, assign any number of color reduction options as macro files in function keys to call complicated functions instantly. Such iMageStudio functions will largely cut your image editing work time. * There is "Shift + Alphabet Key" combination for the key assignment in addition to function keys.

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Macro: Batch Job

Filter processing of iMageStudio Color Reduction Processing concerns more of the results than their time consumption, which result producing high quality images. By using Macro Function of automatic execution process, various color reduction processes can be operated altogether. iMageStudio supports the functions such as "Check time stamp prior to the processing", which skips processing not renewed files, and "Output Log", which outputs the results of the executions. To shorten processing time for operating bunch of color reduction, iMageStudio may change priority of threads for color reduction process when using Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP. [Macro]

Photoshop® Plugin

iMageStudio provides plugins for Photoshop that offer Adobe® Photoshop® to handle useful iMageStudio functions as if the functions are featured by Photoshop. Simply paste the plugin into Photoshop of version 4.0 or higher plugin folder. Your productivity will increase greatly for sure!

iS Export Plugin	This plugin can deliver data from Photoshop to iMageStudio smoothly.
iS Color Reduction Plugin	You can call iMageStudio color reduction function from Photoshop.
iS Remote Display Plugin	The result of iMageStudio color reduction can be viewed directly in Photoshop image window through iMageStudio as if iMageStudio is implanted into Photoshop.

OPTPiX Plugins

OPTPiX iMageStudio supports "OPTPiX Plugins". OPTPiX Plugins include loading files, saving files and filters. Each function equipped by each plugin is called "Function". Following functions are provided by the current version plugin specification. File Loading Function File Saving Function Filter Function Import Function Export Function We offer "OPTPiX Plugin SDK (Software Development Kit)" for all user of iMageStudio.

Support Multi-Monitor

OPTPiX iMageStudio supports Windows Multi-Monitor. You can work with iMageStudio comfortably on whole desktop area.