Paintstar is a versatile digital image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, composing and authoring images, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context menu. It supports alpha, layer, path ,and the most common editing techniques.

Full suite of painting tools including paintbrush, pencil, eraser, airbrush, filter brush, color retouching, blur/sharpening,smudge,and cloning. Many customizable brushes, texture, gradient, and 26 methods of combining modes suppported.
Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear, perspective,flip,and wrap. Auto antialias supported.
Gradient Fill tools include linear, radial,square,conical(symmetric),conical(asymmetric) and shapeburst. Multiple colors supported.
Selection tools including rectangular, elliptical, free, fuzzy and paths. Add, subtract, invert, antialias and feather selections supported.
Zoom 10% - 2000% display, and show grid supported.
More then 30 File formats supported include JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PCX, BMP and many others.
Color conversion supported include several different dithering methods and palette options.
Alpha channel (transparency) supported.
Displays Histograms (RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK).
Displays EXIF information. EXIF 2.2 supported.
Multiple Layers, 26 methods of combining modes suppported.[See Layers Window, Blend Effects]
Multiple Paths supported. You can add,delete,insert point to the curve and adjust point in the curve just like vector drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw.
Multiple undo and redo suppored.
More than 100 Filters/Effects.Application of 3x3 filters supported.
Screen capture supported.
Displays thumbnail of selected image in Windows Explorer context menu just like ACD System Picaview.

Platforms: Win95 , Win98 , WinME , WinNT 4.x , Windows2000 , WinXP

System requirements: Memory: 32MB of RAM.