Photo-Brush 5 is image editor, painting program, picture retouching tool, photo enhancer and RAW Image Browser for Windows XP and Vista.
It is also probably the best value around. Consider this:
    * All the typical adjustments you need (Exposure, Levels, Hue/Sat/Luma, Cloning, various Sharpening etc.)
    * Plenty of professional tools (Chromatic Aberration, Barrel-Pincushion, Perspective Compenstation etc..)
    * RGB, HSL, YCb/Cr, Mask channels
    * Color lab - create vivid, dynamic photos using natural LRGBY space
    * Fun tools like Liquid Warp, Little Planet (Stereographic Projection), Fractal Droste effect (image-in-image)
    * Adobe Photoshop(tm) plug-in support
    * RAW support
    * Starts in seconds, optimized code, small footprint, no fluff

Over the years we added many rich tools and effects for photo adjusting and photo retouching found in much more expensive professional tools.
And there are also some effects and tools you can hardly find elsewhere.

It also supports full range of EXIF information from Digital Camera images.

Image Editor
Photo-Brush has all the necessary tools for editing and adjusting digital images: Adjusting levels, Gamma, RGB curves, Hue/Saturation, Brightness/Contrast and more..

Photo Retouch
With its special brushes and tools you can remove unwanted parts of your images, clean scratches, remove Red-Eyes, Clean skin of portraits, Cloning with Rubber stamp and more...

Painting Program
Photo-Brush is also an excellent painting program with its Pressure Sensitive tablet support. With texture painting, Artistic, Natural or 3D brushes you can create any work of art. With Cloning you can turn your photos into paintings.

Scanning Software
Photo-Brush has TWAIN 32 support for scanners as well as 32 bit film scanners. It has build in powerful Auto Dust Removal system.

Filter Heaven
There are many filters already build-in, but Photo-Brush can also use Adobe PhotoShop (tm) compatible Plug-Ins as well. It can run the plug-ins from anywhere in your computer, even from network drives.

A lot of Fun
Try Warping or add a great touch with Image Nozzle!
Add Lens Flare, Sparkles, Age the picture, Replace colors or Colorize black & white pictures; Add cool text in 2D, 3D, and drop shadow. The new effects include Fractal Droste or Little Planet.

Image Browser
A cool new multi threaded RAW/JPG Image Browser was added for your convenience. You can view image thumbnails in any directory on your disk, CD, network or memory chip.

Main Features

Photo-Brush has many of the tools and features of the much more expensive professional packages.
But it has also many new and unique tools.

    * Open and work on many images at the same time
    * Load an save Exif information from digital camera jpg files
    * More than 30 different Brushes
    * Each brush have its own libraries of predefined variations
    * You can paint not only with color but also with texture - many variations
    * Image Nozzle for spraying cute images
    * Support for PSP Picture Tubes
    * Natural and artistic brushes simulate real painting techniques
    * Using cloning techniques you can turn photography into painted art
    * 3D brushes simulates shaded pipes or ropes
    * Support for pressure sensitive tablets
    * Texture pick can make a seamless texture from any part of your image
    * TWAIN support for scanners and digital cameras
    * Support also for 32 bit film scanners
    * Support for Adobe compatible plug-in filters (*.8bf)
    * Filter plug-ins can even be used across the nettwork
    * Photo-Brush can search for the plug-ins
    * Support for external procedure plug-ins called Extras (*.xtr)
    * Many standad image adjusting tools and color corrections
    * Automatic enhancing of images from digital cameras and scanners
    * Many build-in filters and effects
    * Photo Retouch brushes can "paint" contrast, sharpness, color corrections etc..
    * Special Brushes for Red eye removal or cleaning of the skin, warping
    * Adding beautiful Lens flares or sparkles to your images.
    * Antialiased text with rendered shadows or 3D look
    * The Rubber Stamp can cycle - wrap on the image
    * 12 standard modes for any brush, image nozzle, stamp or othe retouching and special effect brushes.
    * Edge-Smart Brush mode for edge - sensitive painting
    * Multiple Undo and Redo
    * Colorize images
    * The help file explains each tool and procedure with examples and detailed 'behind the scene" descriptions
    * Support for major image formats including PNG, JPG, BMP, TIF, PCX, TGA and Adobe PSD
    * Fast loading
    * RAW support