Chasys Draw IES (formerly Chasys Draw Artist) is a suite of applications including a
layer-based image editor with animation, vista-style icon support and super-resolution via image stacking (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter) and a fast image viewer (Chasys Draw IES Viewer). The whole suite is Vista UAC aware and is designed to take advantage of
multi-core processors.
Chasys Draw IES application was designed to be a drawing program like no other.
Chasys Draw IES Artist is the main image editor and paint program in the IES suite.
It's also the parent application from with the rest of the suite evolved. Chasys Draw
IES Artist was initially designed for painting images that look real enough to easily
pass for photos. As a field of study, image editing has come a long way, with new
ideas coming up and even rendering irrelevant traditional methods that are considered
industry standards. Unfortunately, most image editors still stick to tradition.
 
In designing Chasys Draw IES Artist, the main intention was to address this need; to
provide you with an image editor with all the new ideas and none of the old. As the
application evolved, photo-editing features were added, as were animation and stacking. Chasys Draw IES Artist has over time grown into a powerful image editor
that takes a radically different approach to image editing, resulting in distinctive
character, speed and output quality.

What's New in This Release:
· Resize tool with metadata-aware resizing
· Snap-to-Grid function
· Configurable Guides and Grids
· Smart-dither to custom palette
· Improved graphics engine with precision scaling
· Asynchronous preview rendering engine
· New autosave engine with zero lag
· Improved workspace rendering engine
· Improved palette with automatic color naming
· Soft-proofing for palette swatches
· Option to edit layers in separate windows
· Transparency support in Pencil and Color Picker
· Tool toggle via Tab key
· HSV adjustment (replaces HSL)
· High-speed HSL/HSV conversions (up to 3x)
· Improved quick-select
· fixed bug] Color names for GIMP Palettes
· content] CMYK Default palette