The editor also supports animated GIFs and contains a built-in GIF optimizer. Users may download additional language packs, layer style, image brushes, pattern fills or bumpmaps

Here are some key features of "RealWorld Paint":

Draw pictures:
· Design your own logo, buttons or web icons like a pro. Don't mind correct transparency and sRGB color blending.

Retouch photos:
· Remove blemishes, resize and crop photos for your blog. Or are you ready for some heavy photo-modding? No problem.

Animate GIFs:
· Draw attention to a new section of your web site with an animated GIF. Save space with automated gif optimization.

Use layers and styles:
· Use classic layer styles like bevel, shadow, fill, outline, or glow.
· Design your own layer style by combining any available image filter to achieve effects like automatic symmetry or kaleidoscope drawing.
· Save your favorite layer styles into your own personal style library (with previews). Download pre-made styles.

Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.net compatibility:
· You won't have to leave your old projects behind. RealWorld Paint can import and export native image files of other popular image editors. Images are imported or exported with layers.
· Photoshop's .psd files are imported with selected layer styles. Compatible layer styles are converted to RWPaint's native layer styles.
· RealWorld Paint also supports many standard image files like .jpg, .png, .bmp, .gif and more.

Make animations:
· Add new frames by dragging and dropping images from a file manager or via clipboard.
· Modify each frame as a normal layered image.
· Convert animations to filmstrips and vice versa.
· Built-in GIF optimizer without cryptic settings.

Modify your photographs:
· Resize pictures (with correct gamma), convert file formats, draw custom borders or frames.
· Remove blemishes with the Clone tool.
· Crop pictures and remove perspective with the Crop tool.
· Change shapes with the Shapeshifter tool (Liquify in Photoshop's terms).

Lean, mean and clean:
· RealWorld Paint installs or requires NO additional packages on your computer. No .net Framework, no adware, no spyware. It just works and on a wide range of Windows versions.
· RWPaint can use up to 4 cores of your modern multi-core processor to speed up drawing on a large canvas.

Nifty features:
· Invoke commands using mouse gestures. Undoing was never easier.
· Draw Vista glass-like effects - using "Xxx with effect" tools.
· Use in-place calculator when setting numerical values.
· Draw with stylish image brushes.