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Greenfish Icon Editor Pro

Version: 4.1
Free software for editing icons, cursors and other pixelgraphic images.

Copyright © 2007-2022 Balázs Szalkai. All rights reserved.

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Version history (What's new?)

• 4.1
  • New: X11 Mouse Cursor (XCursor) support
  • New: Macintosh resource fork (.rsrc) support
  • New: View | Always on top
  • Improved: Blurring an image with a selected region will not blend unselected pixels into the result. This can be configured in the Blur dialog.
  • Improved: WebP: Exif metadata and animation support
  • Improved: UI: Larger mouse cursors on HDPI displays
  • Improved: Support for more ICNS formats
  • Fixed: Fall back to OpenGL if failed to create Direct3D context
  • Fixed: Paint Contour filter was missing
• 4.0
  • New: GPU-based rendering, much faster for large images
  • New: Support for multiple sizes in ANI cursors by separating the concept of pages and frames. Now documents have pages and pages have frames. See the Help for more.
  • New: Perspective transform of selection
  • New: Rich text formatting in text tool dialog
  • New: Exif metadata support
  • New: Anti-aliasing support for selection tools (ellipse, lasso)
  • New: Option for linear interpolation when upscaling the selection (on by default)
  • New: Adjustments can be made after using certain tools (e.g. crop, rect, ellipse, line, gradient)
  • New: Blend mode option for brush and gradient
  • New: Morphological filters (median, minimum, maximum, opening, closing)
  • New: Context help ("What's this?") in main window
  • New: GIF disposal method support
  • Improved: Much better file format compatibility, especially SVG and TIFF
  • Improved: Pop-up notifications instead of "OK" dialogs in most cases
  • Improved: High DPI-aware UI
  • Improved: Lots of bugfixes, thank you all for reporting them!
  • Improved: Language pack updates, many thanks to all contributors!
• 3.6
  • New: Linux support
  • New: Load/Save WebP
  • New: Load/Save Portable AnyMap
  • New: Load/Save TGA (Targa) files
  • New: Contrast adjustment in Exposure dialog
  • Improved: RGB Formulae (alpha adjustment, new operations)
• 3.5
  • Greatly improved the icon library editor
  • Fixed: GFIE did not start on XP because of GetTickCount64
  • Fixed some memory leaks
• 3.4
  • New: Create Android drawable, test 9-patch button
  • New: Import SVG
  • New: Load/Save TIFF (no layers yet)
  • New: Set DPI of document and pages
  • New: Test image as 3D texture
  • New: Pascal-based scripting
  • Faster, more responsive drawing
  • Faster GIF load/save
  • Fixed numerous bugs
• 3.31
  • Reintroduced Win32 support.
• 3.3
  • Open source: You can compile your own version for 32-bit, 64-bit, Linux, Mac, etc.
  • Official executables run only on Win64 from now on.
  • Added feature: Save a Copy
  • Updated translations
• 3.25
  • Updated links to the Greenfish Homepage
• 3.2
  • Fixed bug: some GIF files could not be opened
  • Fixed bug: removed loop count limitation (now maximum number of loops is 65535 instead of 100)
• 3.1
  • Fixed bug: batch conversion dialog misinterpreted file type
  • Fixed some minor bugs
• 3.0
  • Improved: GFIE will be cross-platform in the near future (will run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X)
  • Rearranged user interface: tabs instead of MDI windows
  • Greatly improved: image processing speed
  • Added feature: loading/saving Apple ICNS files
  • Added feature: loading/saving JPEG 2000 files
  • Added feature: loading/saving 16-bit executables and icon libraries
  • Added feature: pressing Escape deselects all
  • Added feature: rotating selection by an arbitrary angle
  • Added feature: textboxes which expect numbers can now accept and calculate expressions, like 12*(128+10)
  • Added feature: Wand/Bucket can be switched to non-contiguous mode
  • Added feature: patterns for drawing
  • Added feature: new blend modes: Hue, Hue Shift and Saturation
  • Added feature: new menu items "Import pages" and "Export all pages"
  • Fixed bug: XPM export sometimes wrote unescaped backslash (\) characters into output
• 2.3
  • Added feature: Paste as New Document (Shift+Ctrl+D)
  • Added feature: pressing Ctrl+V pastes as new document when no documents are open
  • Added feature: selection antialiasing is now optional
  • Improved: speed of loading huge image files (which need to be cropped)
  • Improved: text antialiasing
• 2.2
  • Added feature: holding down Space activates a hand tool and allows the user to pan the editing screen
  • Added feature: some filters (Blur, Shadow, Glow, etc.) can now be used in torus mode (useful when editing textures or tiles)
  • Added feature: 24x24 size under Create icon from image...
  • Fixed bug: error messages were thrown when no desktop was active (e.g. when pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del under Vista)
  • Fixed bug: removing the check from the Preview checkbox did not revert viewed image to original state
• 2.1
  • Added feature: antialiasing images when resizing
  • Fixed bug: the file association setters were sometimes disabled though GFIE was run in admin mode
  • Improved: the Tool Behavior dialog now shows only the relevant controls
• 2.0
  • Added feature: Layer support with lots of blend modes
  • Added feature: native GFIE file format
  • Added feature: when resizing a page, user can choose between cropping and stretching
  • Added feature: cell grid (for editing toolbars)
  • Fixed bug: an error occurred when trying to modify file associations without running GFIE as administrator
  • Improved: painting with a transparent color now erases
• 1.73
  • Fixed bug: the OK and Cancel buttons of the Text input dialog sometimes got hidden
  • Fixed bug: window state (maximized/normal) was not stored in configuration file
  • Added feature: loading/saving 32-bit BMP files
  • Added feature: loading/saving PCX files
  • Added feature: specifying page resizing action (stretch/crop)
  • Added feature: filter "RGB formulae" (channel combination following the entered mathematical formulae)
• 1.72
  • Added feature: allowing zoom ratios smaller than 1
  • Added feature: hiding/showing list of pages
• 1.71
  • Fixed some minor bugs
  • Added feature: setting max. image width and height separately
• 1.7
  • Added feature: opening, editing, saving executable/resource files, using an integrated Resource Editor
  • Added Russian help (can be downloaded from the Greenfish Homepage)
  • Changed: "Transform" dialog box: you don't have to set Units separately for Width and Height
  • Added language packs: Greek, Ukrainian
• 1.6
  • Fixed bug: when copying to clipboard, inverted parts were replaced with the transparent color
  • Added feature: GIF support
  • Added feature: assembling ICL (icon library) and RES (Win32 resource) files
  • Added feature: editing Metadata (ANI summary info, JPEG quality, GIF loop count)
  • Added feature: the canvas can also be enlarged using the Crop tool
  • Added feature: exporting individual pages
  • Added language packs: Chinese (traditional), Dutch, Russian
• 1.51
  • Fixed bug: a few virus scanners reported .ANI files created by GFIE as "Suspicious", now GFIE creates .ANI files considered "Clean" by them
  • Fixed bug: opening odd (uneven)-sized icons with GFIE, the transparency became a mess
  • Added feature: menu item for cropping transparent parts
  • Added feature: using custom background images in the Test dialog box
  • Added feature: using the + - * / shortcuts for zooming
  • Added feature: the mouse wheel can be set for scrolling or zooming under Help|Preferences
  • Added feature: specifying a target folder for batch converted files
  • Added language packs: Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Serbian (Latin)
• 1.5
  • Moved Preferences... menu item to Help menu and added a separate Language... menu item
  • Fixed bug: viewport position was always reset to image center when setting the zoom in a document window
  • Fixed bug: some PNG files were not able to be opened
  • Fixed bug: opening a lot of (~30) files and using the hot spot tool greatly decreased performance
  • Fixed bug: selecting a format at the bottom of the list sometimes caused it to be moved
  • Fixed bug: pressing the right mouse button while drawing with the left caused strange results
  • Optimized: now creating better compressed PNG files
  • Added feature: working with images up to 1024x1024 (upper limit can be increased at your own risk)
  • Added feature: editing and testing animations, saving them in ANI (animated cursor) files
  • Added feature: customizing grid and center line colors
  • Added language packs: Korean, Polish, Spanish
• 1.4
  • Fixed bug: compatibility issues: created icons were recognized by Windows, but not always by other graphics programs
  • Fixed bug: when changing language pack at Preferences, dialog view mode changed to erroneous value -1
  • Fixed bug: associated files were sometimes opened twice
  • Fixed bug: Bevel filter generated too crisp results at big radiuses
  • Fixed bug: custom colors set in windows color dialogs were lost between sessions
  • Added feature: batch converting image files
  • Added feature: Tool Behavior/Color Picker windows can be switched to Compact mode
  • Added feature: showing center lines of images
  • Added feature: pasting 32-bit images from graphics apps which know the image/png clipboard format, e.g. from GIMP
  • Added language packs: French, Chinese (simplified)
  • Minor corrections to other language packs
• 1.31
  • Fixed bug: default file extension was not appended when using File|Save as
  • Added language pack: Italian
  • Minor corrections to other language packs
• 1.3
  • Added feature: multilanguage support
  • Added feature: using Arrow keys to move view/selection
  • Added feature: greater values than 100 are also accepted at Filters|Opacity
  • Added feature: workspace layout (i.e. window positions) is autosaved
  • "Preferences" dialog was rearranged, new option for setting view mode in Open/Save dialog boxes
• 1.2
  • Added feature: drawing gradients in color/transparency mode (for creating fadeouts)
  • Added feature: startup screen
  • Minor GUI modifications
• 1.1
  • Rearranged the "Tool Behavior" dialog box
  • Fixed bug: fake tool button at the bottom of the toolbar window
  • Added feature: file drag and drop support
  • Added feature: new brush shapes (horizontal, vertical, spray)
  • Added feature: now the strength of the Eraser tool can be adjusted from 1% to 100%
  • Added feature: using "Thumbnails" mode also when opening selections/exe files
• 1.0
  • Fixed bug: Glow filter sometimes generated the inverted color when choosing white glow color
  • Fixed listbox flicker, now double-buffered
  • Fixed bug: a </script> tag was missing from contents.html, this made the Help unusable under IE.
  • Added feature: Bevel filter
  • Added feature: "Save all" menu item
  • Added feature: Open and Save dialog boxes now start in "Thumbnails" view mode
  • Added feature: tutorials
• 0.3
  • Fixed bug: saving extracted cursors in invalid format
  • Fixed bug: saving .cur files with idType = ID_ICO
  • Added feature: Glow, Sharpen, Unsharp mask filters
  • Added feature: new retouch modes: Sharpen, Sponge
  • Added feature: Preferences dialog box (UsePNG, hatch colors, Import folder, file associations)
  • Added feature: "Close all" menu item and list of open files in View menu
  • Added feature: opening files in parameters & using DDE
  • Optimized: speeded up loading XPM files
  • Optimized: saving in BMP format now produces files as small as possible
• 0.2: first release