• Click Here to download UltraPaint 1.0 Beta 5 with help, textures, installer/uninstaller (1.66MB).

  I have written a new beta 6 you can try, with a few bug fixes, but I'm sorry to say a new bug or two. I have not updated the large installation (above) with beta 6. However, you can still use the large installation with beta 6; simply download and install the large edition, then replace the .exe file with the one from the following link:

• Click Here to download UltraPaint 1.0 Beta 6 bare bones - no help files, textures, or installer (0.18MB).
• Click Here to go back to the main page

Notes:

• The HELP FILES have now been completed, with lots of pages, screen shots and examples.
• Filters, Waves, Noise, File associations added.
• It accepts drag-and-drop file loading and command-line file loading.
• For the version without the installation program, you just unzip it where you want to install it and delete its folder when you want to uninstall it.

Features Include

• Supported file formats: .BMP, .JPG, .ABM.
• Standard draw primatives (freehand, Lines, Ellipses, Rectangles, Flood filling, Text
• Text drop shadows
• Two flood-fill methods; color recognition tolerance.
• Border on flood-filled areas
• Spraypaint, regular polygon, color dropper tools
• Effects

• Blur (blocky or fuzzy)
• Negative
• Grayscale with hue/brightness exclusion
• Color swapping, find-and-replace
• Primary color component swapping
• HSL effects—adjust hue, brightness, contrast, saturation; find the optimal brightness for a given image

• Draw modes change the behaviour of draw primatives

• Select mode selects a portion of the image rather than drawing
• Draw and select mode generates a selection in a layer on top of the image, rather than drawing directly on the image.

• All drawing can use alpha blending—that is, anything you draw can appear semi-transparent.
• Two-color gradients

• Built-in top-to-bottom, left-to-right, diagnal, circular gradient modes
• Use another bitmap as a gradient

• Textures—use another bitmap to draw anything, rather than a solid color.
• Five built-in pens for drawing outlines; create custom pen patterns.
• Five magnification settings
• Flip horizontally/vertically
• Single-focus digital deform
• Rotate/scale selections
• Smooth image resizing
• Draw grid to align draw primative start/end points
• HSL or RGB color pickers; triple spin controls for fine-tuning RGB color choice.