Welcome to the Cylekx graphics software. The version is 3.2

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What is it for?

1. unique fun and tec image processing. Cylekx does effects, quantizing, fancy text, gradient images, layers, and vectors.
2. uses include abstract art, cd case graphics, business cards, website headers, and animated gif effects.
3. save includes a native project format (CLX), PSD, vector SVG, .AVI, PDF, as well as most of the usuall formats.
4. specs...

It is not for

1. compressed or long movie files, elaborate vector graphics, wordprocessing, cartoon animations
2. known issues...

Other views

1. (pc world ~ oct 08) "...one very annoying bug cropped up...Cylekx.net have included several wonderful tutorials. In only a few steps, you can animate a piece of artwork across several frames and with several beautiful effects..."
2. (translated Portuguese ~ oct 08) "...The program is light and quick to download, its installation is simple and does not require many processes or manual settings for your use. The program runs without errors and without coming into conflict with the Operating System..."
3. (translated Spanish ~ oct 08) "...offers us lot of options to transform our dull images into real works of art..."
4. (translated Portuguese ~ oct 08) "...can help improve our photos and create our own animations and vector drawings..."
5. (translated Spanish ~ sept 08) "...it is very useful to create animations each frame editing and adding various transition effects..."
6. (in English ~ aug 08) "...23 MB download! I have not tried Cylekx. My system does not meet the RAM requirement and I have no use for this type of program anyway. Anyone for Cylekx?...."
7. (translated Italian ~ aug 08) "...a lot of interesting effects...and everything to prove, dying to find a review...only in English, apart from a must be in your pc!..."

SE

Multi frame, multi layer, multi type graphics editing. In addition to the standard 32bit integer ARGB image, 3 Indexed Pixel Image types are provided for use with gradients (lookup tables) and palettes, and a 2D vector image type is used for scalable graphics.

Text supports all the usuall formattings and also includes features like rotated text, block initial character insets, graphical bullets, derived fonts, highlighting and drop shadow effects. Text fills can be a color, gradient, or texture. Fills can also be outlined with various stroking options, or solid. Textboxes can be any shape and rotation and have a variety of graphical designs. Text can flow from frame to frame or layer to layer. Text layers can be added anywhere.

Sequences may contain images of different types, sizes and calibrations. Frames may contain multiple layers, layers can be arranged in a tree structure. Layers may be different data types and have varying dimensions within the frame. Layer restructuring is a simple drag and drop copy or move. Sequences support different selections in each frame, and each layer within the frame. Sequences may be saved as separate images in a directory.

Processing may be applied to a selected range of frames in a sequence or to selected layers in a frame. Processing can be applied to specified image channels. (example: only alpha and magenta) and to specified vector shapes. (example: "Current Level", "Current And Descendants").

Multiple images may be opened as found in the source file, or as separate documents (one image per document) or as a single sequence.

Editing tools include most typical selection tools (including channel observing wands) and filters. Bezier and Spline curve selections are supported and immediately accessible with a right click.

Selections have a "Restore" feature which aims to always give you quick access to the previous selection for all images. This mechanism toggles between the current and previous selection. This "shadow" selection is preserved through most operations including unlikely things like type conversion and canvas resizing. It is also remembered in the project source file and at each undo point.

Vector graphic selections may be set to use integer or fractional coordinates. Vector graphic dimensions may be fractional. This is necessary to avoid rounding in operations like crop, cut, and copy when used with fractional selections, and is most noticeable if the vector image dimensions are small.

Document Look and Feel allows vertical or horizontal pages with various spacings, global or specific. Additionally, frames may be viewed as single, all, or a variable range. The single or variable modes are more efficient to display large numbers of frames. Selection graphics may be a choice of colors, xor, or animated black and white.

All processes have variables that can be automatically or manually modified where relevant as processing progresses through the sequence frame by frame. This enables complex transformations from one graphic to another. Typical modifiers include Increasers, Decreasers, "Fit Range To", "Randomizers". On top of this are math functions like sine, sum, and factorial.

Quantization with several combinations of reduction, diffusion, and dithering operation. The disk palette and dithering data are user editable files in the program directory.

Drawing capabilities include common 2D areas and lines. Drawing ability includes specifiable linear and circular gradients with an alpha component, XOR mode, texture fills, and variable stroke outlines. Drawing observes selections. Drawing can also use the current selection as an object to draw or fill.

10 sequence transition effects that work on pixel images, observe selections, and can be combined with other transition effects. Includes effects like bars, tile motion, and morphing.

Timed Capture captures hand generated effects. Grab images to a directory, open the images as a sequence, save the sequence as animated gifs.

Some processes can be applied to tiles. (example: squares, circles and triangles of varying sizes).

A special "Paste Operation" is used to achieve an extensive range of pixel blittering, and various "Fade Modes" and "Overwrite Modes" are used to create pixel image blending. Any changes made while editing reflect in the image (or sequence of images). Vector shape geometry blittering is also featured. Layer and selection operations are still available while pasting.

Paste automatically resizes to fit new selections. Paste can be extracted or selectively (certain channels) converted to a graphics layer and visa versa. Paste can also be projected into a 4 corner polygon selection.

Paste can be edited in any way while pasting by editing the clipboard then updating the paste in the final image with ctrl+D.

Calibration support includes 20+ unit types and also supports non aspect calibrating. This can be used to print stretched, squeezed, or inverted pictures without needing to physically modify an image data.

Clone between all different graphic types (except text graphics) with any shape of brush. Clone is backed by the full features of the Paste Controls.

Transparency support for all graphic types. Most programs view alpha as some sort of special problem in itself but we see it as an integral aspect of our color system. For example; in paletted images it is the gradient that supports the alpha values, for vector graphics the shape fills think in ARGB. In true color pixel images we view it purely as another color channel. This means it can be thresholded, quantized, and even the wand tool can use it, just like any other color channel.

All user actions (the only exception is the Cloner Tool) are recordable and savable. This allows for detailed recordings to be played back to process different input in a predefined way. This capability is sometimes termed a "macro" and can be used for "batch processing".

Undo history is stored to disk and so remains available after the program is restarted. Undo history represents the exact byte copy of the document at the time it was logged. When undoing or redoing, all objects in the document get replaced with new instances. This increases reliability because if a document somehow gets into an invalid state the error will probably not propagate to the "undone" or "redone" version.

Undo history can be automatically managed for large documents, stored intermittently, or completely turned off. Custom undo points can also be stored. Undo history is preserved even after reverting or changing the project file name, location or ID.

Installable and revertible key shortcuts for menu items.

190+ functions. 14+ image formats and a Cylekx project format.

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