Edit pictures with all common drawing tools and image filters. Use layers, image masks, floating selections. Easily create glassy or 3D looking beveled shapes

RealWorld Paint is a fun and nifty image viewer and editor. RealWorld Paint can display images using any zoom factor and always shows 100% accurate preview of the drawn shape. Tooltips are displayed throughout the user interface to explain meaning of controls.
After a geometric shape is added to an image, control handles appear and users can further adjust the shape. New points can be added to poly-lines, curves and polygons by dragging a handle of an edge.
RealWorld Paint allows you to edit pictures with layers and assign effects to every layer. A layer can have for example a bevel effect active giving all shapes a 3D look and feel.
RealWorld Paint has much hidden power under the hood and harbors features unexpected in a freeware image editor. Many of its drawing tools and image filters are able to do gamma-aware blending and color gradient interpolation, producing correct colors by default.
A powerful scripting system allows users to greatly extend and customize the functionality of RW Paint using JavaScript. For example the "Create screenshot" command (used to generate the screenshot above) is a scripted function.
Beside the ability to use native plug-ins for virtually everything (filters, tool, fills, windows, codecs, storage, ...), RealWorld Paint is also able to use the vast amount of plug-ins compatible with Adobe Photoshop.

- Draw pictures
Design your own logo, buttons or web icons like a pro. Don't mind correct transparency and sRGB color blending.
- Retouch photos
Remove blemishes, resize and crop photos for your blog. Or are you ready for some heavy photo-modding? No problem.
- Animate GIFs
Draw attention to a new section of your web site with an animated GIF. Save space with automated gif optimization.

Inside the image editor:
- Use layers and styles
Save time, maintain consistent look and feel, simplify future updates. That's what appropriate use of layer styles does for you.
* Use classic layer styles like bevel, shadow, fill, outline, or glow.
* Design your own layer style by combining any available image filter to achieve effects like automatic symmetry or kaleidoscope drawing.
Save your favorite layer styles into your own personal style library (with previews). Download pre-made styles.
- Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.net compatibility
You won't have to leave your old projects behind. RealWorld Paint can import and export native image files of other popular image editors. Images are imported or exported with layers.
Photoshop's .psd files are imported with selected layer styles. Compatible layer styles are converted to RWPaint's native layer styles.
RealWorld Paint also supports many standard image files like .jpg, .png, .bmp, .gif and more.
- Make animations
RealWorld Paint allows you to create simple animations like flashing buttons or animated forum avatars.
* Add new frames by dragging and dropping images from a file manager or via clipboard.
* Modify each frame as a normal layered image.
* Convert animations to filmstrips and vice versa.
* Built-in GIF optimizer without cryptic settings.
- Modify your photographs
With RealWorld Paint, you can resize, crop or cut out objects from photographs.
* Resize pictures (with correct gamma), convert file formats, draw custom borders or frames.
* Remove blemishes with the Clone tool.
* Crop pictures and remove perspective with the Crop tool.
* Change shapes with the Shapeshifter tool (Liquify in Photoshop's terms)
* Seamless tigerskin texture
* Remove red eyes
* Remove objects from photos
- RealWorld Paint installs or requires NO additional packages on your computer. No .net Framework, no adware, no spyware. It just works and on a wide range of Windows versions.
- RWPaint can use up to 4 cores of your modern multi-core processor to speed up drawing on a large canvas.
- Lean, mean and clean

Nifty features
Sometimes it is enough, if it is just fun to use:
* Invoke commands using mouse gestures. Undoing was never easier.
* Draw Vista glass-like effects - using "Xxx with effect" tools.
* Use in-place calculator when setting numerical values.
* Draw with stylish image brushes.

RealWorld Paint - version 2011.1
Version 2011.1 was released on October 9th 2011.
This version includes many significant changes and updates. The tool can now edit animations and it can export and import Photoshop, GIMP and Paint.net files. There are new tools and filters from RealWorld Photos.
Change list:
* Animation editor with layers and zero-config GIF optimizer.
* Photo-related tools (red eye remover, clone tool, crop tool) from RW Photos.
* Command line interface for drawing tools.
* Image brush.
* Redesigned Online page with news and downloadable media.
* Automated updates.
* Many new photo-related image filters from RW Photos.
* Redesigned codec subsystem. Can import and export layered images in .psd, .xcf, and .pdn formats. Some layer styles from Photoshop files are imported and converted to RealWorld styles.
* Improved layer styles editor.
* ...and many minor improvements.