Reviewer, 2010-11-29 09:32:00

Image manipulation and enhancement is something that has strongly come up in recent times owing to steadily increasing popularity of the internet facility that has made large amount of businesses come up with their personalized web pages to enhance business prospects and contributes to its brand image and market value. Computer artists and graphic designers are professions that have gained popularity in recent times owing to upcoming career opportunities that have accompanied the internet. Playing with colors and images along with designing intuitive looking graphics are a part of any website and obviously enhances the attraction quotient. There are several programs to create and play with graphics and imagery with utmost ease and user friendly ways; PM Painter 2.0 is one such utility that provides some multifarious tools for painting and arranging graphics.

PM Painter opens with a vivid looking interface with the main tools arranged at the top and left pane and the main screen displaying the images and color palettes on which work is being done. This versatile and multifaceted application contains some advanced styled image editing tools along with powerful freehand painting and creation of web oriented graphics. The new and updated version comes with professional color tuners and plug-in filters along with enhanced web graphic tools and a rich collection of special effects that can augment the images. Further, there are several brushes effects and paint logic and fractal colors that can easily help in creating web banners and website buttons. There are also batch converters and screen capturers available and power color filling tools with varied styles of brushes. The program can be immensely practical for any kind of user with creative styles and instincts.

To sum up, PM Painter 2.0 certainly comes across as a useful and practical utility that provides some nice looking and interactive features that help the users to manipulate imagery and hence gets a rating of 3.5 points for its suitable working.