PixTwix Description:

PixTwix is an image processing ActiveX control featuring: advanced selection routines including irregular and non-contiguous selection regions, local and global magic wand selection, unlimited file based undo capabilities, both loss-less and lossy rotation routines, color channel manipulation functions such as mixing, adding, and multiplying, red eye effect removal by color clamping, unlimited number of user defined 3x3 convolution filters, image encryption and decryption, file checksum calculator, color count and histogram functions, blurring, sharpening, softening, edge enhancement, drop shadow, border and frame effects, range of low pass and high pass filters, logical operations on pixels, clipboard support, masking, skewing, range of color replacement functions, reversing, flipping and reflecting, blending, colorizing, tinting, grayscale conversion with user defined channel weights, texture filling, adjustment of brightness, contrast, saturation, dithered black and white images with user defined bias, embossing in different directions, antialiasing, zooming, tile, spray, mosaic and many other special effects and filters. PixTwix was designed to work with standard components for displaying images, such as PictureBox or TImage. It allows developers to add sophisticated image processing capabilities to their applications with only a few lines of code. Using included FreeImage library PixTwix supports many popular image file formats such as: BMP, CUT, DDS, GIF, ICO, IFF, JNG, JPG, KOALA, LBM, MNG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, RAS, RLE, TGA, TIF, WBMP, XBM, XPM.