Screenshot of Pixel image editor run in Mac OS X. |
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| Developer(s) | Pavel Kanzelsberger |
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| Stable release | Pixel 1.0 Beta 8 build 740 / October 21, 2009 |
| Written in | Object Pascal: Free Pascal |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Raster graphics editor |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.kanzelsberger.com (dead) |
Pixel Image Editor (formerly known as Pixel Studio Pro and Pixel32) is an Image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger.[1] It is written with Free Pascal.
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Pixel supports grayscale, RGB, CMYK, CIE Lab and HDR image models, color management, layers, adjustment layers, layer effects, filter effects, web page authoring, photo retouching and animations.
Planned future functionality includes batch file processing, user scripting (to chain multiple effects), a third-party plugin API and support for files as large as 65536 x 65536 pixels.[2]
The evaluation version places watermarks on images and can be used for an unlimited amount of time.
After almost a year of anticipation the Beta7 was published on 28 August 2007. The last time the final version was announced to released was on 30 April 2009, however only maintenance version was released on 21 October 2009.
The first version of Pixel was written for DOS in 1997, but it was soon ported to Windows. Today, Pixel runs on many platforms including:
and more than a dozen operating systems including:
The current version is however only released for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, it is currently unknown if it will be published on any other platforms.
Pixel has been developed for nearly 13 years[3] with no final release ever published. It has been sold on the web as a preview-release/release candidate since the year 2000 for different prices ranging from 20-50 USD.[4] It was stated on its website in 2000 that "Final version is expected to be released in March or April 2000. We are working also on BeOS and Linux ports of Pixel32."[5] Since then, a final release has been scheduled on several occasions but never met. It was stated on its website in 2005 that it would have its "final beta testing in August–December 2005."[6] and a "final stable product will be released in 2006",[7] as well as in 2007.[8] On September 15, 2008 it was stated that the final version would be released on the 30th of April 2009, although it was not released on this day.[9] The final release of Pixel was later stated to be ready in the first quarter of 2010,[10] it was however not released at this date and no news has been published since. Meanwhile, the author has a tendency not to communicate with his users. The forum is shut down completely and comments need approval before being published on the website.[11]
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