Standard / Pro Comparison

Graphics Mill is available in two flavors: Standard and Pro. Before you proceed with purchase, it is important understand what is the difference.

The Standard package includes all the features necessary for most typical imaging tasks. The Pro version is intended for higher-end professional imaging solutions where expert color treatment and image format support is required, for example, solutions for printing shops. For better understanding, see the comparison charts on this page. It lists the most essential features of Graphics Mill Standard vs. Graphics Mill Pro.

All the features are grouped into the following categories:

General Features

Feature Standard Pro
OpenMP support.   *
x64 platform support.   *
.NET multithreading support. * *

Codecs

Feature Standard Pro
Fast thumbnail extraction from the majority of graphics file formats. * *
BMP file format read and write support. * *
GIF file format read and write support. * *
Animated GIF support. * *
JPEG file format read and write support. * *
Lossless JPEG transforms support. * *
JPEG2000 file format read and write support. * *
PCX file format read only support. * *
PDF file format write only support.   *
Support reading the image where all the PSD layers are merged in a correct way.
Note: If you need to extract individual frames (raster or text), you should use Advanced PSD Add-on.		 * *
PNG file format read and write support. * *
SWF file format write only support. * *
Single page TIFF. * *
Multiple page TIFF. Graphics Mill Standard reads the first frame only.   *
WBMP file format read and write support. * *

Metadata

Feature Standard Pro
EXIF metadata read and write support in TIFF and JPEG images. * *
IPTC metadata read and write support in TIFF and JPEG images. * *
XMP metadata read and write support in TIFF and JPEG images. * *
Support for reading and writing Adobe Image Resource Blocks in TIFF and JPEG images. * *

Color Depth and Pixel Formats

Feature Standard Pro
1, 4, 8 bit indexed (palette) images. * *
8 bit per channel images:
    8 bit per pixel grayscale; * *
    24 bit per pixel RGB; * *
    32 bit per pixel CMYK;   *
    16 bit per pixel grayscale with alpha; * *
    32 bit per pixel ARGB (RGB + alpha); * *
    40 bit per pixel ACMYK (CMYK + alpha).   *
16 bit per channel images:
    16 bit per pixel grayscale;   *
    48 bit per pixel RGB;   *
    64 bit per pixel CMYK;   *
    32 bit per pixel grayscale with alpha;   *
    64 bit per pixel ARGB (RGB + alpha);   *
    80 bit per pixel ACMYK (CMYK + alpha).   *

Color Management

Feature Standard Pro
Loading and saving embedded ICC profiles in files.   *
Conversion between color spaces using color management.   *
Conversion between color spaces without color management. * *
Extracting color profile information.   *
Displaying image on screen using a device profile.   *
Possibility to use black point compensation algorithm to preserve image contrast after conversion.   *

Imaging Operations

Feature Standard Pro
Geometry transforms (resize, rotate, affine and projective transforms, crop, flip, swirl, wave, waterdrop, cylindrize). * *
Color adjustment (hue/saturation/lightness correction, brightness correction, contrast correction, levels tone correction, curves tone correction, LUT, histogram equalization, channel balance, desaturation). * *
Filters (blur, edge detect, maximum filter, median filter, minimum filter, sharpen, unsharp mask). * *
Artistic effects (waddle, add noise, buttonize, emboss, glow, mosaic, page curl, shadow, solarize, invert, spray, texturize). * *
Red-Eye Removal tool intended to redeem from red-eye effect quickly and easily. Due to sophisticated algorithms it is capable to identify red-eyed pupils on a photo and remove red-eye effect from them. * *

Drawing

Feature Standard Pro
Draw lines, curves (bezier splines, arcs), shapes (rectangles, ellipses, polygons, pies). * *
Use various pens to outline shape (you can specify width, color, style, etc.). * *
Use various brushes to fill shapes (you can change color, specify whether brush hatched and so on). * *
Set affine transformation when some graphics is drawn (rotate, scale, shear). * *
Draw single-line text. * *
Get individual character position in the single-line text. * *
Draw multiline single-style and formatted text. * *
Measure an extent of single-line and multiline text. * *
Retrieve font metrics (ascent, descent, internal and external leading, etc). * *
Draw outlined text. * *

Web Applications

Feature Standard Pro
Web-optimized Viewport Control. The powerful scrollable image viewer web control implements smart AJAX-based load-by-demand scheme when displaying images. * *
Remote scripting mechanism enables you to run server code from JavaScript without roundtrips. * *

Windows Applications

Feature Standard Pro
Image Viewer Control allows zooming and scrolling the displayed image. Also, you can add a rubberband rectangle (e.g. use it to select a portion of the image). * *
Thumbnail List Control allows displaying a collection of items that can be displayed using one of four different views: thumbnails, simple list, details, icons. * *
Printing Control. * *
Multi-layer Image Control allows displaying multi-layered vector objects, zooming and scrolling the displayed image and supports undo and redo of actions. * *

Add-ons

These additional modules enhance the functionality of Graphics Mill and are included at no additional fee.

Feature Standard Pro
Multimedia processing tool, intended to read frames from video files of different types, get video file properties (like dimensions, duration), extract metadata associated with audio and video files (such as ID3 tags, etc). * *
AVI processing tool, designed to enhance the functionality of Graphics Mill for .NET. It includes features which enables you to read AVI files, create new ones, operate with audio tracks, as well as a number of other AVI-related tasks. * *
PSD processing tool, intended to load PSD file layer by layer and extract both raster and text data. For example, you can use this tool to keep templates in PSD to create personalized graphics, e.g. when building online business card editor or similar application.   *