A professional icon, cursor and bitmap editor. Fully supports .ico, .cur and .bmp files, reads .png, .jpg and .jpeg files. Supports Windows XP icons, cursors and 32-bit bitmaps with smooth transparency alpha channel. It also offers powerful built-in screen-capture and image extraction tools.

A powerful and easy-to-use application designed to create, capture, search, extract, load, save, edit and print images. It has a fully integrated workspace that allows to work efficiently and quickly create professional icons, cursors and bitmaps.

Paint Express Main Features:

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Creating icons, cursors, and bitmaps from existing images in one click. With one mouse click you can create a new high quality icon, cursor, or bitmap from an existing image file (.ICO, .CUR, .BMP, .PNG, .JPG, or .JPEG file), from an image that is currently being edited, or from a clipboard image. This feature allows to convert images from one type to another: bitmaps to icons; icons to bitmaps; icons to cursors; .PNG files to icons, etc. It can also be used to increase or decrease the color depth of an image: create an 8-bit bitmap from a 32-bit bitmap, a 32-bit icon from a 4-bit icon, etc. New in version 1.30!

Creating multi-format icons and cursors in one click. With one mouse click you can create a new high quality multi-format icon/cursor from an existing image file (.ICO, .CUR, .BMP, .PNG, .JPG, or .JPEG file), from the currently edited image, or from a clipboard image. With one mouse click you can also create a new multi-image icon/cursor from scratch. New in version 1.30!

Editing images. To modify and enhance the images, Paint Express offers a variety of drawing tools (semi-transparent brush, color replacement tool, shapes with different filling including gradient, rotation, flip, etc), several image filters (smooth, blur, sharpen, drop shadow); several image adjustment effects (brightness, contrast, opacity, grayscale).

Capturing images from the screen. An extremely easy interface allows to capture whatever image you see on your screen. You can edit the captured image, save it and/or use for numerous tasks.

Searching for icons, cursors and bitmaps on your computer. Paint Express allows to run several simultaneous searches. You can filter and/or sort the search results based on image type, width, height, color depth, etc.

Extracting icons, cursors and bitmaps from the resources in .EXE, .DLL and .OCX files.

Rescaling images based on several resizing types, including Biliniar and Bicubic Resample. New in version 1.30!

Powerful copy/paste functionality.

Drag-and-drop support.

Built-in possibility to associate ICO, CUR and BMP file extensions with Paint Express.