BIMP Professional is like Freeware BIMP on steroids. Currently at around 60% production, I hope to have it finished in a couple of months. BIMP is designed to give maximum flexibility with minimum effort and learn time. As a person who gets overwhelmed with applications such Adobe Photoshop, I wanted to make a program to batch process images that could be used by us non-graphic design types. Furthermore, I wanted to have much greater functionality and flexibility than BIMP 'Lite' with features such as watermarking, cropping, selection by coordinates and a multitude of effects. All of these operations can be preformed in a specified order (e.g. overlay image, solarize then add border). BIMP Pro will have support forums, a comprehensive help file and email support. The price will be around $20 USD. Please note that the following features are indicative only, as the product is still in development.

BIMP Pro is aimed at digital camera owners, web masters, graphic designers, and general image enthusiasts. Please see the last section for more details.

Selection

Overlaying Text

Overlaying Images (Watermarking)

Drawing Primitives

Supported Formats

Renaming

Context Menu

Language Support

Configuration Files

Effects

Preliminary Screenshots

Contact/Join Update Notification List

Operations can be preformed on the whole image, a selected section of the image, a cropped out area of the image or on an inverse selection of image. Multiple selections can be made for each image in the batch job, adding to the flexibility.

Select Whole Image
Select Section From Image
Crop Selection Out From Image
Select Inverse Of Image

Text can be overlayed on the images with the following options:

• Text font, size, and colour selection
• Background colour or transparent background
• Orientation - Free Rotation (0 - 360º) and mirror effects
• Positioning text in the image's corners, centred on the edges or in the middle of the image. X/Y Offsets can be used to position text exactly where the user desires.
• Text can be tiled
• Charcoal effect
• Emboss effect
• Shade Effect
• Watermarking (dissolve effect)
• Text can contain meta data such as image width/height and resolution

Images can be placed over an image with the following options:

• Image can be resize to arbitrary values, or to a percentage of the base image's size
• Overlay method can be selected:
  • Over (Default)
  • In
  • Out
  • Atop
  • Xor
  • Plus
  • Minus
  • Difference
  • Multiply
  • Bumpmap
• Watermark intensity (1% - 100%)
• Positioning image in the base image's corners, centred on the edges or in the middle of the image. X/Y Offsets can be used to position text exactly where the user desires.
• Image can be tiled
• Masking (transparency):
  • Mask image can be selected
  • Mask can resized to the same dimensions as the overlayed image

Primitives shapes (such as the ones used in MS Paint) can be drawn over the images, including:

• Points
• Circles
• Boxes
• Polygons
• Rounded edge boxes
• (More!)

BIMP Pro will support 82 image formats, Including:

Taking elements from the Batch File Renamer, images can be renamed with the following options:

• Prefixing and suffixing, with meta variables including:
  • Image width/height
  • Image resolution
  • Number of colours
  • Directory name
  • Many more!
• UPPERCASED, lowercased, First letter uppercased, Title Case
• Outputted in different directory
• Spaces removed, spaces replaced with underscores, underscores removed etc.

BIMP will come with an optional, customisable explorer menu, so many common operations can be done just by right-clicking on an image or image directory in windows! Some features available in  the menu include:

• Resizing
• Batch process images
• Change format
• Mirror Image
• Rotate Image

The following languages are planned to be supported:

• English
• German
• French
• Spanish
• Greek
• Italian
• (More to come!) 

Settings will be able to be saved to separate files, allowing you to have configurations for different tasks. Files will be able to be uploaded in a central repository on the internet, so other people can use pre-made effects!:

The following are only some effects can be applied to each image (or each selection of image):

Adaptive Thresholding
Beveling
Gaussian Blurring
Bordering - Flat, Bevelled, Framed
Charcoal Effect
Chopping
Colorize
Adjust Contrast
Cropping
Despeckling, Adding and Reducing Noise
Find Edges
Embossing
Enhance Image
Equalize
Extend Image
Mirroring
Adjust RGB Gamma Levels
Greyscale Image
Implode Image
Adjust Input Levels (White point, Black Point, Gamma)
Median Pixels
Modulate
Monochrome
Negate
Resize - Fix to Size
Resize - Restrict Height
Resize - Restrict Width
Resize - Restrict Width and Height
Paint
Sharpen
Reduce Colours
Roll
Free Rotate
Shade
Shear/Yaw
Solarize
Spread Pixels
Swirl
Tint With Colour
Wave
More to Come!

These are some of the screenshots at this stage of development, the final version will have an XP look, or at least a more modern feel.

Please email me with any questions/comments about BIMP Pro, I will be happy to add any requested features if possible.

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