AVD Graphic Studio, to put it simply, is a mini Photoshop, offering very similar capabilities at a fraction of the cost. It provides over 20 tools to work with images – cropping, resizing, rotating, bump mapping, histogram equalization, mirroring (horizontal and vertical), special effects filters and many more handy options for image manipulations. While AVD Graphic Studio can be used by any amateur, who just recently purchased digital camera, the software does offer quite a few sophisticated options for professional designers and digital artists. For instance, AVD Graphic Studio acquires images from TWAIN scanners and can be used to regulate contrast, HSL, HSV/HSB and RGB settings.

AVD Graphic Studio comes with four modules – MultiPage, Video, GIF Animator and Batch Processing.
The first module is show all kinds of FAX images, multipage FAX and multipage TIFF images (rev.6.0, Packbits, LZW, CCITT G.3 and G.4) with RGB, CMYK, B/W, animated GIF and Multipage PCX (DCX). Also FAX (CCITT3), G3F and G3N (Zetafax) formats supported for loading.
The second module allows users to capture individual frames from video files in order to create animated GIF files.
The third module creates animated GIF files from a set of static images (tif, tiff, fax, gif, jpg, jpeg, jpe, pcx, bmp, dib, rle, ico, cur, png, wmf, emf, tga, targa, vda, icb, vst, pix, pxm, ppm, pgm, pbm).
The fourth module, as it names suggests, is intended for processing multiple images in batches. The module supports all common image formats and offers conversion, resampling, resizing and resolution readjustment options, among others.
For a limited time, AVD Graphic Studio is available for download at no charge whatsoever (for evaluation purposes only).

Key features:
Save/load specific file format parameters and save/load preview dialogs
Acquires images from TWAIN scanners
Image processing (Equalize, Contrast, RGB, HSV, HSL, FFT, convert to 24 bit, gray and B&W)
Effects (Negative, bump map, lens, wave, morph, user filters)
Crop functions and Copy to clipboard
Changes resolution on graphic files
Advanced print control (many options)
Rotating through any angle
Mirroring (horizontal and vertical)
Resizing (9 filters for quality resampling : Triangle, Hermite, Bell, BSpline, Lanczos3, Mitchell, Nearest, Linear, FastLinear)
Draw with a multitude of tools
Extents selection, resizing and moving regions
Image clearing - Remove Noise and Remove Isolated Pixels
Image Deskewing (to correct images that were skewed from fax transmission, scanning, etc).
Simple tool which helps to remove red eyes
Drop shadow (Gaussian Shadow)
Frame, Mask and Border Effects

Slicing tool
Converting (saving) to
JPEG Bitmap (JPG, JPEG, JPE)
TIFF Bitmap (TIF, TIFF, FAX, G3N, G3F)
Compuserve Bitmap (GIF)
PaintBrush (PCX)
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Windows Bitmap (BMP, DIB, RLE)
Targa Bitmap (TGA, TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX)
Windows Icon (ICO)
Windows Metafile (WMF)
Enhanced Windows Metafile (EMF)
Portable PixMap, GreyMap, Bitmap (PXM, PPM, PGM, PBM)
Wireless Bitmap (WBMP)
JPEG2000 (JP2)
JPEG2000 Code Stream (J2K, JPC, J2C)
PostScript Level 2 (PS, EPS)
Adobe PDF (PDF)
Adobe PhotoShop (PSD)
Multipage PCX (DCX)

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