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Compositor is a full featured image editing and image to art application. Take the tour and check it out. Better yet, download the demo and try it for 35 days.

Have a problem? We didn't bribe anyone for this compliment : " You offer the best support of anyone in the business (and a person doesn't have to talk to a computerized telephone menu or be put on hold). "

Compositor features (briefly):
  • Over 165 Filters and channel effects
  • Levels and Curves for great image enhancing and color correction.
  • Full Painting and Editing Tool Set
  • Save and Replay of your Filter actions
  • Slide Show
  • Quick Palette for commonly used operations
  • Crop, Scale and Rotate
  • Anti-Aliasing Zoom Window
  • Keystone Correction
  • Online Help
  • Priced at $35 USD
  • It's Fun too, and worth 2 times the price. (quoting customers)
  • Check out the new Paint effects from the Motion and Media Brushes. (OS X and Carbon OS 9 Versions)

    Here's a sample of some textured brushes being prototyped. (OS X Version)

    Compositor is programmed by an artist for artists. Or those who simply want to create and edit images. Easy enough for the newbie, advanced enough for the power user. Works great alongside Photoshop (imagine Adobe Trademark here) too.

    Compositor can turn an image into art with just one filter application. Try out "Dark Painting" or "Spunky Painting" (in the Combo menu in FilterVille).

    Here's a longer feature list of Compositor. *** means OS X only right now. If you have any questions about what you see here, or other, please write.

    Tool Mode
  • Select Tools: Rectangle, Oval, Magic Wand, Lasso
  • Brush,Motion Brush, Wet Media Brush, Airbrush, Pencil, Line Tool, Gradients
  • Crop Tool, Rotate Tool
  • Dodge, Burn Tools
  • Smear, Blur, Sharpen Tools
  • Stamp Tool
  • Deskew/Keystone Correction/Distort Tool
  • Clone Tool (aligned or non-aligned)***
  • Fix-It Tool
  • Type Tool (render or use as mask for filters)
  • Magnify Tool, Zoom In, Zoom Out
  • Eraser, as block or brush
  • Dropper Color Picker
  • Hand (Move) Tool for quick scrolling
  • Popup Color Quick Picker on Toolbar (quite handy)
  • RAMometer shows app free memory (Classic version)

  • Palettes and Windows
  • Tool Palette
  • Actions Palette
  • Selections Palette
  • Quick Palette for Paste and Filters
  • Brush Control Palette (Save and Load sets, see the Tour)
  • Color Picker Palette, remembers your last 20 colors too
  • Zoom Window, auto anti-aliasing on pause (2X and 3X)
  • Info Palette

  • Filters , Channel Effects, and General Info
  • Multi Document capable (24 max, number depends on RAM)
  • Fade Undo with preview
  • History for 64 steps of Undo
  • Snapshots for saving 32 interim work pieces
  • Median + Oily feature
  • CMYK separation
  • Posterize can separate by level
  • Create Contact Sheets, and HTML image galleries. (v2.9 for OS X on up)
  • Explicit Alpha Channel support (v2.9 for OS X on up)
  • Levels,Autolevels***
  • Curves***
  • Full Screen mode as composition aid (Shift + G)***
  • Slide Show with Rename option (try the"N" key)
  • Anti-Aliased Image Rotation
  • Scale Image
  • Stretch Canvas
  • 30+ Paste Using Variations
  • 8 Paste Into (Color) Variations
  • Luminous Edges filter
  • Plasticize Combo filter
  • Inkage Combo filter
  • Posterica Combo filter
  • Aldo Fresco Combo filter
  • Soften Image filter
  • High Pass filter
  • Unsharp Mask filter
  • Drop Shadow filter (works all 3 modes)
  • Split and Recombine Channels
  • Create Stars and Add Planets
  • Luminosity Mapping - can be animated to make a Quicktime movie!
  • DuoWave image distortion filter.
  • TV Scan Filter, better than RetroScan
  • Replace Color with "fuzzy factor", and preview
  • Paste Into Color with preset fuzzy factor
  • Fast Cropping in Frame and Mat mode
  • Crop/Save to preset proportion
  • Hue Saturation and Lightness, applicable via channel.
  • Desaturate
  • Brightness and Contrast (Apply by Channel)
  • Gamma Adjust
  • Threshold, Color and B/W, Applicable by RGB Channels, with preview
  • Emboss, 8 Angles, with preview, Applicable by Channel.
  • Add Noise, with preview. Color-Monochrome, Applicable by Channel.
  • 52 Channel Colorations: Apply randomly,step through, or numbered entry.
  • Channel Zap: remap any channel to another or black and white.
  • Over 5 Types of Blur, including true Gaussian.
  • Zoom Blur
  • Motion Blur
  • Blur Lites or Darks Only
  • Spherize, Ripple Waves , and Twirl distort filters***
  • 4 Types of Average
  • Sharpen, Sharpen More, Sharpen Edges
  • Sharpen Lites or Darks Only
  • Unsharp Mask of Zorro
  • Median, Median Smooth, Minimum, Maximum
  • Invert
  • Self Compare
  • Equalize, Equollide, ReQuollide, Channel Average Enhance, more
  • Immersion ( + Invert = Solarize)
  • Solarize
  • Flare
  • Spazoid and Son of Spazoid Filters
  • Boid Lines AI Brush
  • 3x3 Kernel Filter, User Defined
  • Several Types of Find Edges
  • Fill Edges/Fill Not Edges
  • Contour Filter
  • Big G Filters for painterly coolness, and color effects
  • Preset Combo Filters for bigtime painterly coolness
  • PixelWhack Filters for more painterly coolness and disruption
  • Replay Actions, Save Actions.
  • Replay Actions upon a movie.
  • Movie To Image Sequence
  • Image Sequence To Movie
  • Blend Image Sequence
  • Blend Movie To Image
  • Mirror Horizontal and Vertical, great for tile effects, textures
  • "Multi" tiles your image
  • 3D Red-Blue
  • 3D Red-Green
  • Online Help under the Help Menu
  • Online URL launch under the Help Menu

  • All operations are in 24-32 bit RGB image space. The program seeks to maintain any alpha channel (unchanged) during the process, if the preference is checked. Alpha channel support may be increased in the future.

    Compositor History :
    Initial version 1.0 Release, November, 2000.
    Version 1.6 Release, January, 2001.
    Version 1.8 Release, May, 2001.
    Version 1.9.1 Release, July, 2001.
    Version 1.9.5 Release, August, 2001.
    User Gallery Added, August, 2001.
    Version 2.0 Alpha Release, July, 2002.

    Web Pages Update, September 11, 2002.
    Version 2.0 Release, September 11, 2002.
    Version 2.1 Release, October 22, 2002.
    Version 2.1.1 Release, October 28, 2002.
    Version 2.2 Release, November 20, 2002.
    Version 2.3 Release, November 30, 2002.
    Version 1.9.5 SE Release, December 24, 2002.
    Version 2.4 Release, June 13, 2003.
    Version 2.5 Release, October 7, 2003.
    Version 2.5.1 Release, October 22, 2003.
    Version 2.5.2 Release, November 4, 2003.
    Version 2.5.3 Release, November 20, 2003.
    Version 2.6.0 Release, December 18, 2003.
    Version 2.6.1 Release, Jan 19, 2004.
    Version 2.7.0 Release, May 26, 2004.
    Version 2.7.2 Release, July 8, 2004.
    Version 2.8.0 (OS X) Release, July 14, 2005.
    Version 2.8.2 (OS X) Release, March 9, 2006.
    Version 2.9.0 (OS X) Release, May 18, 2006.
    Version 2.9.1 (OS X) Release, May 31, 2006.
    Version 2.9.3 (OS X) Release, Jan 15, 2007.
    Version 2.9.4 (OS X) Release, Jan 29, 2007.
    Version 2.9.5 (OS X) Release, April 23, 2007.
    Version 2.9.6 (OS X) Release, April 25, 2007.
    Version 2.9.7 (OS X) Release, May 17, 2007.
    Version 2.9.8 (OS X) Release, July 16, 2007.
    Version 2.9.9 (OS X) Release, November 10, 2007.



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    This Page Mildly Updated : November 10, 2007