Hornil StylePix Features

Time saving with intuitive User Interface

Hornil StylePix has intuitive user interface. It is designed to adjust the selected feature easy and conveniently. Even if you have no experience, you can easily learn how to edit image and retouching your photos. As a result, Hornil StylePix's intuitive UI reduces your time to work.

To better speed editing, Hornil StylePix is designed to focus on lightweight and powerful. Hornil StylePix runs on fewer resources environment such as Net-books and laptop computer or virtual machines(vmware, virtual box, virtual pc and etc.) with full image handling features. We are always striving to improve the performance of Hornil StylePix.

Portable Support

Hornil StylePix is a lightweight. A portable version of Hornil StylePix runs from a removable storage device(media) such as a USB flash drive, flash card, or floppy disk. To install Hornil StylePix Portable, just download the portable package and then extract it. To start up Hornil StylePix Portable, just double-click StylePix.exe file on your portable dirve.

Built-in browser and slide show

Hornil StylePix provides a built-in browser that lets you easily explore the images before open an image. Also you can open, copy, delete, and rename the images or directories.

Also a built-in browser supports font browsing. Then, you can explore the font and drag and drop a character onto a canvas to add a new font object. It's very useful with Symbol fonts.

And you can watch pictures from the slide show that displays a series of chosen pictures is located in current working path with full-screen mode.

Convenient working environment

Working with multiple files with MDI(Multiple document interface) container and canvas tab. MDI supports cascade, tile vertically, tile horizontally and arrange icons arrangement.

To switch between canvas windows, just press the Ctrl + Tab keys. In addition, if you hover your mouse on the tab you can easily check the contents of the canvas through the pop up preview. Also, you can close the tab by pressing the x button and open the new canvas by pressing the + button.

In order to provide a convenient editing, StylePix supports full-screen view, thumbnail view, guides, rulers and grids.

And StylePix provides an analytical tools such as a histogram view, waveform view and measure tools.

The histogram shows quantity of pixels in image as a graph. The horizontal axis of the graph represents tone and the vertical axis represents quantity.

The waveform shows quantity of pixels in image as a graph unlike the histogram.

Multi-layer & grouping support

Layers are used in Hornil StylePix to separate different objects of the canvas. Layers are like transparencies stacked on another. Each layer can have different object. Hornil StylePix supports four object type(image, shape text and path) and group object. The group object contains other objects. In addition, the group may contain a other group. You can manage the layers using the hierachy.

Hornil StylePix supports blending modes are used to determine how two layers are blended into each other. In StylePix, you can use 21 types of blending mode.

※ Layer Styles and layer mask are available in StylePix Pro.

Various selection tools

You can make selections using various selection tools like following:

• Auto region and color range tools.
• Rectangular and circular region tools.
• Free and polygonal lasso tools.
• with the new, add, subtract and intersect modes.

Selections are modified by operations: Border, Expand, Contract and Softness.

※ Quick mask mode is available in StylePix Pro.

Practical filters with live preview Color filters: Auto Level, Auto Contrast, Auto Color Balance, Level, Curves, Color Balance, Exposure, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, Gamma Correction, Desaturate, Invert, Grayscale, Threshold, Quantize, Histogram Equalize, Posterize. Blur filters: Blur, Box Blur, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Zoom Blur, Radial Blur, Miniature. Sharpen filters: Sharpen, Sharpen Edge, UnSharpMask. Pixelate: Mosaic. Rendering filters: Cloud, Checker Board. Noise filters: Add Noise, Median. Distort filters: Diffuse, Pinch, Twirl. Sketch filters: Pencil Sketch, Color Sketch, Dots Sketch. Convolve filters: 26 kinds of Spatial filters, High-Pass. Style filters: Solarize, Sobel Edge Effect, Group. Morphological filters: Erosion, Dilation, Opening, Closing, Outlining. Photo Enhancement filters: Portrait Glow, Glow, Advanced Portrait.

Various Drawing tools

Hornil StylePix supports various drawing tools like Brush, eraser, line, curve, spray, clone-brush, flood fill, gradient fill, path, and shape.

You can draw different pictures using these tools with several options like size, anti-aliasing, opacity and blending mode.

※ Make your own brushes in StylePix Pro.

Advanced Text tool The text tool allows you to type text on the canvas. The character string in a text can be modified not only at normal state, but also rotated state without losing object properties. The following properties can be changed in any time. Typeface Size Width rate Kerning Tracking Leading Align Bold and Italic ※ You can type Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Thai, Hindi, Tamil, Yiddish and etc.

Transform and alignment

The Transform tool allows you to transform the selecting region or objects. It is only enabled when the region selection exists. When the Transform tool is activated, you can rotate and resize it.

The selected objects can be transformed or arranged by the Select and Move tool and the Transform tools.

※ Desaturate, Saturate and smudge tools are available in StylePix Pro.

Enhance and restore tools You can enhance or restore an image using the following tools: Enhance tools: Burn(darken), dodge(Lighten) tools. Blur, sharpen tools. Restore tools: Remove scratch tool. Remove red-eye tool. It's similar to brush tool, Choose the tool and draw strokes in the canvas like a brush tool.

Crop tool

The Crop Tool is used to crop or clip an image. It works on all the layers of the image, visible and invisible.

It provides several useful ratio preset such as 4 x 5 ID card. Preset is divided landscape and portrait. The landscape contains the presets relating to device that has longer horizontal axis than vertical axis such as HDTV, wide screen and etc. Conversely, portrait contains the presets that often used in portrait. If you select one of the presets,custom values are auto set and the with or height is automatically adjusted according to preset's ratio.

Multilevel Undo and Redo

Multilevel undo, redo support: The action list remembers what you've done to your image and lets you revert back to any earlier version of the image. Every time you select, paint, and resize etc, each of those states is listed separately in the action list. To revert to a previous state of the image, click the name of the state on the action list or press Ctrl + z.

Batch Processing

The batch processing is a very useful tool to process the repetitive tasks such as changing the size or type of an image file. Prefix, suffix and numbering of file name Resize, flip or rotate for multiple image Inserting a common logo and painting Some color adjustment filters

Supported 53 languages

Afrikaans , Albanian , Arabic , Belarusian , Bulgarian , Catalan , Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian , Czech, Danish , Dutch , English, Estonian , Filipino , Finnish , French , Galician , German , Greek , Hebrew , Hindi , Hungarian , Icelandic , Indonesian , Irish , Italian , Japanese , Korean, Latvian , Lithuanian , Macedonian , Malay , Maltese , Norwegian , Persian , Polish , Portuguese , Romanian , Russian , Serbian , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish , Swahili , Swedish , Tagalog , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian , Vietnamese , Welsh , Yiddish.