RealWorld Designer

A new version of RW Icon Editor is currently being developed. Beside a couple of big new features, which will be discussed in their own posts, there are also going to be a numerous small ones…

After almost a year, the RealWorld Photos application, while still in beta-phase, is stable enough to be released to the general public. The application is focused on photo retouching and batch image processing. A simple user interface is built on top of a powerful core with a couple of unique functions. The end product is a tool suitable for both beginners and professional photographers.

I had it coming…I should have never unleashed it. The scripting interface in RealWorld Designer took a sharp turn and became a lot more than was originally planned. Do you want to rotate pictures by EXIF tags? Generate thumbnails and code for html galleries? Watermark and decorate pictures? Or… do it all in one step? Bah, why should I care? You can do it yourself using scripts.

Free icon editors have been growing like fruits on the trees this year. Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is the second free icon editor released (the first being IcoFX). And both of them are quite good…

The ability to customize a tool does not seem like something worth more than a short notice, but after using it for a while, you would not want to live without it anymore. Photoshop has a similar feature, but RealWorld Designer takes it to the next level.

There used to be an extension for RealWorld Icon Editor 2006.1 that allowed thumbnails in open file dialogs and in Windows Explorer for U3D and R3I files. It was nifty but incompatible with later versions (because it required a lot of entries in registry and that was especially hard to do under Vista). Today, the thumbnail extractor is back in it has all the bells and whistles that you would expect from a RW tool…

The title says it all. Version 2007.1 of RW Cursor Editor is ready for download. It features numerous bug fixes, improvements and a couple of entirely new and unique features.

Buttons are ugly. Even buttons with nice images on them can become ugly. Especially if they are small and you have to click them every few seconds. Future versions of RW tools will utilize mouse gestures to fight this problem. And once you get used to them, there is no going back.

It is boring to do the same thing over and over again. Or isn’t it? … Anyway, in case of photo editing, repetition gets boring pretty quick and many editors solve this problem with a scripting subsystem. And so will RealWorld Photos.

RealWorld Photos would not be a real photo editor without some kind of batch processing capabilities. Let’s have a look on what to expect.