VIPaint

Since the industrial revolution, there have been numerous inventions and innovations that have changed the face of the world and its social, economic and technological stances. The arrival of the computer system has made it even simpler to have a variety of applications work for us in a varied mannerism that caters effectively to professional as well as personal sectors. The art world comprising music, literature as well as painting and sculpting containing a universal appeal catering to diverse tastes and interests also have been bitten by the computer bug and are being assisted by computer aided applications enhancing their finesse and making them more refined. VIPaint 1.0 is a unique utility that enables the user to convert pictures to drawings of diverse qualities and save them in different formats.

VIPaint opens with a compactly arranged interface with the main options placed at the top panel and different effects available to try your hand at this unique way of drawing. The drawings can be saved in different file formats like JPG, BMP, PNG and GIF and can also display the images created from a separate directory as a mosaic. The procedure to achieve this is very simple; open the picture files and select a picture to be viewed in a separate window. The ‘Show Paint Dialog’ tab can be clicked to show a paint dialog and apply the desired effect like pen, water color and pencil etc. Thereafter, the sketch can be saved as a BMP, GIF, PNG or TIF or even printed. There are also a set of hot keys that can be used for carrying out this procedures and to enhance the size of the picture.

To conclude, VIPaint 1.0 certainly provides ample scope for exploring the artistic side of your personality and can be utilized for different purposes and hence gets a rating score of four points for its mass appeal and creative techniques.

Drawings maker for your photos and pictures
- you can make a drowings from your photos and pictures
- the photo file formats can be: jpg, bmp, gif, tif, png, wmf, emf, cur, ico
- you can show all photo files from selected directory as a mosaic
How to use the program:
- simply open one of the picture files (menu File / Open)
- all picture files from this directory will be shown as a mosaic
- use mouse double click or key Enter to show a picture in a separate window
- use a button "Show Paint Dialog" or menu "View / Paint" to show a Paint Dialog
- apply a desired drowing art (pen, pencil, water color etc)
- print a drawing or save it as a bmp, jpg, tif, gif, png file. Please write a file name with one of those extentions while saving.
Keyboard keys:
'+' - makes the size of pictures more
'-' - makes the size of pictures less
'R' - refreshes the pictures placing in the window
'Enter' - shows the selected picture in a separate window
'Delete' - delete the selected pictures from the list (it will not remove a real files from your HDD!)
Hints:
- you can open more than one mosaic at ones
- you can open more than one pictures in a separate windows at ones
- you can print a desired photos or mosaics
- change the size of photo's window to adjust a photo's size in a print preview
- you can save an opened photo as a bmp, jpg, tif, gif, png file