Chasys Draw IES (formerly Chasys Draw Artist) is a suite of applications including a layer-based image editor with animation, vista-style icon support and super-resolution via image stacking (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multithreaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter), a fast image viewer (Chasys Draw IES Viewer) and a raw camera file processor (Chasys Draw IES raw-Photo). The whole suite is UAC aware and is designed to take advantage of multi-core processors and touch-screens.

Chasys Draw IES Features:
1. Super-fast internal graphics engine (JpDRAW2)
2. Free-style layering with blending modes
3. Composite, Animation and Multi-resolution image modes
4. Full alpha channel through out the workflow
5. Re-editable tools and fully re-editable text
6. Alpha protection (a.k.a transparency protection)
7. Multi-core aware program architecture
8. Vista UAC aware
9. Multiple display setup aware
10. Shell integration with thumbnails
11. Asynchronous auto-save engine with 1 minute latency
12. Anti-aliasing and super-sampling support in tools and paths*
13. Unlimited Undo/Redo - undo any action any time
14. Just-in-time memory compression
15. Best-in-class post-edit heuristics anti-aliasing engine
16. Image Stacking for super-resolution, stitching and moving object removal
17. Advanced printing and scanning engines
18. Video capture from devices (e.g. TV/Video)
19. Video sequence composer engine
20. In-built utilities (Calculator, Notepad)
21. Metadata save, restore and scale to imitate vector art
22. Extensive plug-in support
23. Support for Photoshop Filter Plug-ins (.8BF)
24. Support for older formats such as PPM/PGM/PBM, PCX, TGA, etc.
25. Uses the latest CD5 specification with animation and multi-resolution
26. Vista-style icon import and export
27. Can output C++ code module for inline image generation
28. Includes plug-ins for JPEG-2000, AVI video, animated cursors, JPEG, PNG, animated GIF, etc.
29. Physical measurement specification
30. Streamlined SDKs with no restrictions
31. Pantone equivalent palettes for PMS 100 to 814-2x

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this image utility software.