Flame Painter

Flame Painter is an intuitive graphic editor designed to help you create artistic images from scratch or personalize photos with the aid of flame brushes.

The advantages of being portable

Since this is a portable program, it is important to mention that it doesn’t leave any traces in the Windows Registry.
You can copy it on any USB flash drive or other devices, and take it with you whenever you need to edit images on the breeze, without having to go through installation steps.

Clean and user-friendly working environment

The tool sports a well-organized layout where you are given access to several useful editing panels, such as Tools, Palette, Brushes and Layers. If the workspace may seem too crowded for you using all the aforementioned features, you may conceal some of them.
Additionally, you can make the tool remain on top of other windows, switch to a full screen mode and import photos in the main panel using the drag-and-drop support.

Importing/exporting options

Flame Painter gives you the possibility to add images with the following file formats: PSD, PNG, JPG, BMP, TIF and FPA. Additionally, you may export the project to an image file.

Editing features

Flame Painter lets you create a photo from scratch by specifying its dimensions and safe boundary, selecting the color for the background layer, as well as altering DPI.
You can work with three different types of brushes, namely Flame, Follow and Ribbon. The best part about this program is probably the fact that you don’t need any previous drawing skills in order to master the brush.
For each brush, the tool comes bundled with several parameters designed to help you tweak the process in detail, namely size, span, speed, center, noise, fade and more.
The special effects are created in real-time and the brush simply follows the mouse cursor. The result consists in fluid and smooth flame-like lines which can be used for portraying fantastic backgrounds or other designs.
Other editing tools included on the feature list are a pen, eraser, fill, and transform (for moving and resizing the selected layer). You may zoom in or out and undo or redo your actions.

Working with the palette and brushes

Flame Painter lets you choose your brush color from a wide range of options and empowers you to set up your own gradient transition by configuring the gradient length, rotating or flipping the transition and altering the hue, saturation and lightness.
You can choose between several brush presets, create your own one, open or save your brush settings, as well as share your brush on the online Brushes Gallery.

Layers and filters

You are allowed to work with multiple layers, choose between a wide range of blending modes (e.g. Multiply, Color Burn, Overlay), set the opacity of the layer, and delete, merge or duplicate layers. Filters are developed to help you apply blurring or glowing effects.

Performance

The drawing process is carried out smoothly and the results are excellent. However, the tool is not quite friendly with system resources, so the overall performance of the computer may be burdened.

An overall reliable graphic editor

All in all, Flame Painter delivers several handy editing tools and provides a user-friendly workspace for helping you generate original designs.