NeoPaint can help you create different kinds of graphics. It includes features that allow retouching photographs, capturing image and designing graphics for the web. Therefore, it can be used for many purposes, including website designing, desktop publishing and making presentations. Probably, its best asset is that it’s very easy to use, even for beginners. However, if you need to explore all the program features, it's good to read the excellent accompanying documentation.
The application is actually very versatile in terms of the kinds of projects supported. For instance, it can help you create elements that you can insert on a webpage or an application you're designing, such as buttons, icons and cursors. Besides, you can use it to design other graphics, as animations and backgrounds. Talking about animations, the tool can help create it very easily, using the old onionskin technique, in which you add changes on top of the previous frame.
This utility supports practically every picture format, including those that allow animation and transparency. But more than just that, it also lets you acquire images from a scanner or grab the whole computer screen or a part of it. I particularly liked the possibility of saving a whole webpage in an image file by simply providing the URL. In fact, this feature worked better than in other applications that do it by scrolling the page in a browser. Once an image has been imported, you can apply many corrections. For example, you may crop a photograph, adjust picture levels or retouch it with many other features.
All in all, NeoPaint is not as sophisticated as some leading products; however, it is a great alternative for those users who want to attain decent results with little effort. In addition, its quite reasonable price may be something to consider as well.
v5.0 [Aug 16, 2012]
Rewritten from the ground up, NeoPaint 5 represents a giant leap forward with major enhancements and new features everywhere. While version 5 will feel familiar to longtime NeoPaint users, it includes many amazing new capabilities. Some of the many new tools and features added to NeoPaint 5 include:
New enhanced user interface and faster performance. Tool palettes can be moved, rolled up and docked.
32-bit Alpha Channel and PNG transparency support.
Layers.
Multi-resolution icons and cursors.
New drawing and painting tools: Interactive Crop, Pen, Alpha Channel, Color Tint Brush, Tooth Whitener, Poly Ellipse.
Dozens of enhancements to existing drawing and painting tools.
Superb high quality text with improved formatting, options and effects - including five anti-aliasing/smoothing modes, adjustable line spacing, shadow effects and rotation to any angle.
Levels/Histogram adjustment.
Curves adjustment.
Full screen editing.
Text, cutouts, gradients and stamps can be rotated interactively - to any angle.
Gradient and tile fills can be applied to any object.
All geometric tools (lines, rectangles, ellipses, polygons, etc.) support anti-aliasing and adjustable transparency.
Arrowhead and line style options added to Line and Bezier tools.
32-bit transparent stamps.
Favorites option for often used colors.
New color selection options: RGB, CMYK, HSV and HTML.
Dozens of new special effects.
Dynamic undo/redo reduces memory requirements and speeds up editing of large images.
JPEG 2000.
35 RAW image formats.
Support for many Photoshop™ plug-ins.
Improved screen capture (NeoGrab) with website capture feature.
3D object lighting effects.
Export to PDF.
Unicode.
Improved scanner and camera support.
And dozens of other enhancements and improvements.
Design, edit, and print your own CD, DVD, and Blu-ray disc and case labels
