User:MIckStephenson/Comparison of raster graphics editors

Lists
The following are lists of raster graphics editors sorted by availability:

General information
Basic general information about the editors: creator/company, license/price etc. Note 1: The latest version of iPhoto comes free with a Mac. iPhoto cannot be purchased separately, but is part of the iLife-suite which is available from Apple Computer for $99.

Note 2: Photogenics' $699.00 price is for a floating license including both Windows and Linux. Version for Pocket PC is $53.

Operating system support
The operating systems on which the editors can run natively (without emulation), meaning which operating systems have which editors specifically coded for them (not, for example, Adobe Photoshop for Windows running on Linux with Wine). Note 1: Deluxe Paint only runs on AmigaOS, Atari ST and MS-DOS.

Note 2: GIMP also supports SkyOS.

Note 3: PC Paintbrush only runs on MS-DOS.

Note 4: Photogenics also runs on Pocket PCs.

Note 5: Pixel image editor also supports OS/2, MorphOS, BeOS, SkyOS, QNX and DOS.

Features
Note 1: External plugins may allow the program to perform some tasks, such as noise reduction or lens distortion, that could not otherwise be done.

Note 2: Artweaver does not have scripting by default, but with the Lua Scripting Plug-In, you can add scripting to Artweaver using the Lua programming language.

Note 3: There are two: the main page and the swap page.

Note 4: Helicon Filter does not implement layers, but it can insert frames and editable text, and objects from one photo can be brushed into the main photo.

Note 5: Although Helicon Filter does not support actual scripting, it is capable of storing and reusing sequences and settings of edits.

Note 6: If images are perfectly aligned, Picasa can create a Multi-Exposure Collage which effectively makes a simple HDR with little customization, though brightness has to be corrected afterwards with no bit depth increase.

Color spaces
Note 1: Photoshop requires an optional plug-in from the installation disc to support the HSV color space.

File support
Note 1: Photoshop requires an optional plug-in from the installation disc to support JPEG 2000.

Note 2: Corel Painter does not support TIFF with LZW Compression.

<cite id="ft_3">Note 3: Deluxe Paint (and almost every other paint package) for versions 3.0 and later of AmigaOS can load and save any file format for which a datatype is registered on the system.

<cite id="ft_4">Note 4: GraphicConverter requires Mac OS X or later with installed Image Magick application of the Fink package or any other distribution in order to support XCF.

<cite id="ft_5">Note 5: PSD is only supported in Krita up to version 6, from version 7 on, the Photoshop file format is closed.

<cite id="ft_6">Note 6: Microsoft Office Picture Manager and Paint.NET only support TIFF for viewing and editing of the first page.

<cite id="ft_7">Note 7: PSD is supported only in openCanvas 4 Plus, not regular openCanvas 4.

<cite id="ft_8">Note 8: The free plug-ins needed for JPEG 2000, PSD, and XCF support can be found on Paint.NET's website.

<cite id="ft_9">Note 9: In Tux Paint, for the BMP, JPEG and PNG formats, the user is sandboxed in an interface that does not permit filesystem interaction, including viewing of filenames and the choice of a file's name, type, or location. Files are selected by thumbnails, and may only be loaded from one predetermined directory.

<cite id="ft_10">Note 10: Paint.NET 3.08 supports import/export of images in HD Photo lossy & lossless format via a file-type plug-in based on a Microsoft HD Photo specification; it expires on September 1, 2007 or if the Paint.NET version is 3.20 or higher. The developers hope tentatively plan to implement full HD Photo support by version 3.20

<cite id="ft_11">Note 11: Some RAW files can be loaded with UFRaw.