General Discussion - PNG Format Editing

PNG Format Editing

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Topic: PNG Format Editing

Posted By: Leslie2
Subject: PNG Format Editing
Date Posted: 31 October 2007 at 9:18am

I'd appreciate if someone could advise on what resource editor is ideal for editing PNG extension image files, especially for the group files.

I'm using MFC in MS Visual Studio 2003 and like what I see with the ribbon sample of Xtreme Toolkit Pro. However, the default resource editor used by MS VS 2003 will not recognise these files. It would be nice to build my own image groups and/or edit existing ones.

I've read this format is smaller in size and this has great appeal.

I need to keep using Windows XP.

Thanks in advance

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Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 31 October 2007 at 10:37am

Hi,

We use Adobe photoshop.

also check freeware Paint.NET from http://www.getpaint.net/ - http://www.getpaint.net/

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Posted By: Leslie2
Date Posted: 31 October 2007 at 5:51pm

Thank you

Adobe photshop. I understand one of the best but also expensive. I haven't used it so I've never been able to evaluate it and justify it's cost.

Also, I assume COREL PAINT SHOP PRO is another one that would be good to edit png files - and better priced.

However, I tried paint.net and it seems simple to use. It doesn't appear to have too many bells and whistles to make it complicated. Simple is good.

Posted By: robin_l
Date Posted: 31 October 2007 at 7:04pm

If simple is good then also look at Axialis IconWorkshop http://www.axialis.com/ - http://www.axialis.com/

This is not as full featured as something like photoshop, but handles transparent bitmaps particularly well (and is great for creating icons!)

Posted By: Leslie2
Date Posted: 01 November 2007 at 12:20am

Well I compared both paint.net and Icon Workshop and paint.net wins out for me. I couldn't find how to resize the canvas in icon workshop amongst other things although I can see how it would be useful for editing icons... I like the idea of being able to create multiple image png file.

Also, I was wondering...

The MS VS 2003 resource viewer shows the PNG files in the ribbonsample demo using the binary editor. I assume these items have each been added via the 'Add Resource - Import ...' option of the MS VS Resource viewer.

Is there an improvement on this available eg. a known add in or something, that can be integrated in with the MS VS 2003 IDE. Otherwise I need a separate screen open just to show the actual image via an external editor eg. paint.net while looking at a list of resource ids in the MS VS Resource viewer.

Thanks in advance.

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 01 November 2007 at 9:02am

Hi,

We manually edited rc file - added line with PNG file.

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