Tools and features in HeliosPaint currently include:
*Pencil for editing pixels.
*Freehand and straight lines with choice of width, dash pattern, line joint and line end.
*Paint Brush with sizeable head.
*Spray Can with sizeable head.
*Paint Can with local and global replace. Colour bleed sensitivity allows nearby similar colours to be painted.
*Shape tool for creating freehand, regular polygon and star shapes.
*Text entry with choice of font, style, underline and rotation.
*HSB/RGB/contrast adjustment of image.
*Image invert, gray, blur and sharpen.
*Image flip, scale up, scale down, rotate and shear.
*Full colour pallet with adjustable transparency and colour grabber.
*Zoom in/out with optional zoom grid.
*Text and image paste from clipboard. Image and image segment copy/cut onto clipboard.
*Scissors, lasso and wand for selecting and moving image segments. Sensitivity of lasso and wand is adjustable. Transparency of overlaid segments is adjustable. When part of the image is selected, all paint operations apply only to that area.
*Undo and redo.
*Printing with auto fit to page.
*Reads and writes image file formats: bmp, gif, jpg/jpeg, pct/pict, pcx, png, psd, ras, tga, tif/tiff, xpm.