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Pixelformer

Lightweight yet powerful icon and bitmap editor

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Pixelformer is a lightweight yet powerful icon and bitmap editor developed by Qualibyte Software. It is designed for creating and editing icons and bitmaps, supporting various file formats and offering features such as drag-and-drop, text tool, image transformations, layer management, and palette customization. The software is currently in Release Candidate stage (version 0.9.6.3 RC3) and runs on Windows (XP and later, excluding Windows 9x/ME/NT4).

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