RealWorld Photos 2011.1 released

The new RealWorld Photos has finally arrived. There are some many changes and enhancements: * Shapeshifter tool - interactively deform parts of a photo - make your muscles bigger, make your waist thinner, there are countless options. * Simple and Extended cont...

April 2011 - month of Kaleidoscope

instant cuteness With RealWorld Photos released, it is time to focus on less serious topics. Therefore I declare April 2011 the month of Kaleidoscope. This toy is almost 200 years old and started as a scientific device. Combine a tube with a couple of mirrors ...

Introducing Icon assembler

a new online tool Our family of online tools just grew. The new Icon assembler makes it easy to compose your own custom icon from image fragments prepared by various authors. This online tool shares the image packs with RealWorld Icon Editor, but allows you to...

May 2011 - month of Artists

the wish-granting month The icon and cursor gallery is the largest portion of this web site. Over the years, lots of professional and amateur artists have contributed over 1000 cursor sets and over 250 icon sets. A big thank you goes to everyone, who contribut...

June 2011 - month of Colors

there is more to color than meets the eye This month, I will explain how RW software works with colors. If you have some free time, read a bit about color spaces and color profiles, learn how does color blending work, and be aware that there are things like ga...

July 2011 - month of Scripting

let the computer do it for you When working with computer images, there are times, when artistic talent, passion and engagement are they key ingredients. But there are also other times, when the only necessary things are patience and accuracy. In these cases, ...

August 2011 - summer summary

There will be no new topic this month. Instead, let's review what has happened in the previous six months (bevel, styles, kaleidoscope, artists, colors, scripting). If anything feels incomplete or if you have any questions or suggestions regarding the older to...

Gallery pages updated

The pages with icon sets and cursor sets in the gallery were changed a bit. Now there is a bigger Download button with a link to download instructions. The list of icons or cursors in a set is not using a table anymore. I know that the current look is not perf...

September 2011 - month of Feedback

how to write a great review Creating a complete cursor set or icon set can take several hours. The results of this hard work are available to everyone for free and just one click away. Would you like to thank the artists for their effort? Write a review! Find ...

October 2011 - month of Animation

the illusion of movement The release of the new RWPaint is really close now. One of its new features is animation. Why don't we all give it a try and create an animation this month. (BTW you can upload animated gif and use them in your blogs.) At first, creati...

RealWorld Paint 2011.1 released

now supporting animations After a more than 2 years, there is new version of RealWorld Paint. There are many new functions and a new name. RealWorld Paint.COM was shortened to just RealWorld Paint. In the new version, you can: * Edit animated GIFs. * Import an...

November 2011 - month of Documentation

knowledge is power I have heard from multiple sources that the weakest point of RW tools is the documentation. And I am not surprised, there are many functions that are well hidden and possibly none except me knows about them. This month, I'll be expanding the...

Picture Resizer 6.0

with auto-rotation Picture Resizer got another bunch of new features. Now you can: * auto-rotate pictures while resizing them with PhotoResize400V.exe * use arithmetic compression instead of Huffman with PhotoResize400A.exe * skip portrait or landscape photos ...

Image Grid 1.0

another free tool has arrived Image Grid is a simple tool that allows you to arrange multiple pictues in rows and columns and save the result as a single image. It can be handy when creating a preview of multiple icons or when you want multiple photos as your ...

January 2012 - month of Bug Squashing

just software bugs, don't worry Here is my new year resolution: there shall be less errors in my software. And I can use some help with that. This month, I'd love to hear about any errors you have found in RealWorld tools in the past, but never talked about th...

February 2012 - month of Weight Loss

RealWorld tools need a diet RealWorld applications have been here for almost 7 years now and all this time they have grown and grown. If this trend continues, they will become fat and slow and hard to maintain and use. Time for a diet. It is the dreaded softwa...

New way to look at your art

accessible from your profile page Cursor and icon authors now have a new way to look at their art. This new method displays cursor and icon sets created by a single author, orders them by creation date, groups them by months and puts them on a time axis. To ac...

RealWorld Cursor Editor 2012.1 released

with animated GIF import/export The new version of RealWorld Cursor Editor brings lots of small improvements, but also a couple of important new features, including: * Support for multi-resolution Windows 7 cursors. * Ability to create cursors from animated GI...

RealWorld Paint 2013.1 released

vector layers have arrived After more than a year, there is a new version of RealWorld Paint. The most notable new feature are obviously vector layers. Vector layers remember what shapes were placed into them and allow you to modify all aspects of these shapes...

RWPaint 2013.1 service pack 1

bug fixes and minor enhancements RealWorld Paint just got a bit better. It is recommended for all users of the 2013.1 version to get this update. It fixes various errors and there are also a couple of new features. List of changes. If you use the portable vers...

RealWorld Cursor Editor 2013.1

user interface updates from RWPaint The new version of the cursor editor includes changes in the color picker, drawing tools and image effects, which were first introduced in RealWorld Paint. Uploading cursors to the cursor gallery is now less confusing and it...

RealWorld Photos 2013.1

user interface updates from RWPaint A new version of RWPhotos contains user interface updates from RWPaint, including simplified color and fill style selector, a new drawing tool - Shape, which can also be used to create accurate selections. RWPhotos remains f...

Unicorn3D 2013.1

simple 3D editor Unicorn3D is now released as a standalone freeware 3D graphics editor. People, who would like to learn the basics of 3D modelling are welcome to try U3D. The application is released as a portable .zip package that only needs to be unpacked and...

YouTube stream on Thursday 21st

Future of RealWorld Paint, Icon Editor and Cursor Editor The stream will start at 7:00 PM CEST (Central European Summer Time) on Thursday 21st, that is 1:00 PM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) or 10:00 AM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). I will be talking about what ch...

Next stream on Thursday 11th

smoother animation in Cursor Editor and Paint The stream will start at just like last time at 7:00 PM CEST (Central European Summer Time) on Thursday 21st, that is 1:00 PM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) or 10:00 AM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). https://youtu.be/YR...