PaintFE 1.2.14

PaintFE is a fast, lightweight Windows raster image editor offering layers, blend modes, GPU-accelerated filters, gradients, mesh warp, and versatile brushes. It features advanced selection tools, clone stamp, content-aware fill, liquify, perspective crop, and shape primitives. Users can apply adjustments, effects, and filters including Gaussian Blur, HSL, Median, and Emboss with GPU acceleration. PaintFE supports animated GIF/APNG, text tools, color pickers, and a built-in Rhai scripting engine, all in a single portable executable—no installation required.

Tools

• Paint -- Brush, Pencil, Eraser, Line, Fill, Gradient. Brush tip library with variable spacing, soft/hard edges, Dodge/Burn/Sponge modes.
• Select -- Rect, Ellipse, Lasso, Magic Wand, Move Pixels, Move Selection. Add/Subtract/Intersect modes. Color Range selection via Edit > Select Color Range.
• Warp and Retouch -- Clone Stamp, Content-Aware Fill, Color Remover, Liquify (WGSL compute shader, CPU fallback), Mesh Warp (Catmull-Rom bicubic spline, GPU displacement pipeline, 2x2 to 6x6 grid), Perspective Crop.
• Utility -- Color Picker, Text (system fonts), Zoom, Pan, 17 shape primitives.

Filters and Adjustments

• Adjustments -- Auto Levels, Desaturate, Invert, Sepia, Brightness/Contrast, Curves, Exposure, HSL, Levels, Color Temperature.
• Filters -- Gaussian Blur, Box Blur, Motion Blur, Sharpen, Reduce Noise, Median, Pixelate, Unsharp Mask, Emboss, Edge Detect.
• Effects -- Vignette, Glow, Halftone, Oil Painting, Crystallize, Ink, Perspective, Distort (Bulge/Twist/Wave/Ripple), Noise, Scanlines, Glitch, Drop Shadow, Outline, Contour.
• Gaussian Blur, HSL, and Median (at smaller radii) have GPU compute paths. CPU/GPU selection is automatic.

PaintFE 1.2.14 changelog:

• fixes across adjustment dialogs, image opening, floating panels, paste transform history, commit-and-select behavior, keyboard shortcuts, mirror placement, shape editing, drop shadow/outline rendering, and new custom SVG shape support.

Download: PaintFE 1.2.14 | 30.5 MB (Open Source)
View: PaintFE Website | Screenshot | Github

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