paint express is a powerful and easy to use application designed to create, edit, capture, search, extract, load, save and print images. it has a fully integrated workspace that allows to work efficiently and quickly create professional icons, cursors and bitmaps. paint express supports windows xp icons and cursors with alpha channel and bitmaps with smooth transparency alpha channel. features: * cre ate icons, cursors, and bitmaps from existing images or from scratch. * create multi-format icons and cursors in just few clicks. * modify images (to edit and enhance the images, paint express offers a variety of drawing tools: semi-transparent brush, color replacement tool, shapes with different filling including gradient, rotation, flip, etc.; image filters: smooth, blur, sharpen, shadow, grayscale; and image adjustment effects for: brightness, contrast, opacity.). * capture any image from the screen easily. * convert images from one type to another in just a few seconds. * increase/decrease images' color depth with ease. * search and find icons, cursors, and bitmaps on your computer  (paint express allows to run several simultaneous searches. you can filter and/or sort the search results based on image type, width, height, color depth, etc.). * extract icons, cursors, and bitmaps from the resources in .exe, .dll, and .ocx files. * resize images. * print images.