The Image Warper application allows applying the following effects to an image:
Translate: this means moving parts of the image in any direction you want.
Grow: this means growing parts of the image thus making those parts look bigger.
Shrink: this means shrinking parts of the image thus making those parts look smaller.
The following shortcuts are important for using the application:
LEFT CTRL key + W key. After clicking an image, this shortcut will allow you to start seeing the image warper view for the last clicked image. Clicking again LEFT CTRL key + W will take the image from the image warper view and will put it in the image container on the canvas and will also hide the image warper view for that image.
LEFT CTRL key + R key. After clicking an image, this shortcut will allow you to start seeing the image warper view for the last clicked image. Clicking again LEFT CTRL key + R will NOT take the image from the image warper view and will NOT put it in the image container on the canvas. But this shortcut will also hide the image warper view for that image.
LEFT CTRL key + U key. After clicking an image, this shortcut will allow you to start seeing the image warper view for the last clicked image but the image in the image warper view will have the same size of the image seen before pressing this shortcut. Clicking again LEFT CTRL key + U will NOT take the image from the image warper view and will NOT put it in the image container on the canvas. But this shortcut will also hide the image warper view for that image.
The paid version allows working with external images you can drag and drop on the canvas or which you can paste on the canvas from the Clipboard.
Using the application you can do the following:
bring images to life (the trial version allows working with 35 predefined images).
apply any of the three transformations over any image: translate, grow, shrink (the trial version allows working with 35 predefined images).
drag and drop external images to apply the image warper transformations on them (paid version only).
paste external images from Clipboard (paid version only).
rotate, resize, duplicate, delete images from the canvas/working area. You can work with any number of images on the canvas by resizing, rotating, duplicating, deleting and changing the opacity of those images. This way you could create a final image from multiple individual images.
For each image you can:
duplicate that image just by double clicking it.
resizing that image by pressing one of the CTRL keys and then grabbing the image with the mouse and dragging the mouse, as you drag the mouse, the size of the image will be updated based on the direction of where the mouse is moving.
rotating that image by pressing one of the SHIFT keys and then clicking the image. If you press the LEFT SHIFT key and click the image, the image will rotate to the left. Similarly, if you press the RIGHT SHIFT key and click the image, the image will rotate to the right.
filtering the image using several image filters. Notice the Quick Filters and Image Filters With Preview menu options when you right click the image.
change the opacity of the image by pressing LEFT CTRL key + A (lowers opacity of the selected image) or LEFT CTRL key + Q (increases opacity of the selected image)
moving the image using the: W, A, S, D key (before moving the image using these keys, you have to click on the image first, to select it)
deleting the image just by pressing the DEL button on your keyboard
Here are several images and videos with the Image Warper effects applied:
Bringing Images To Life
While the image warper view is visible, you can obtain different effects if you select a big enough radius and then click on the image and (while keeping the mouse button pressed) move the mouse slightly around. Here are the three examples of effects you can get by using the three transformations:
1. Selecting the Translate transform: you can use this to make parts of images move. Just click on the image and while keeping the mouse button pressed, move the mouse slightly to the left and then to the right. This will give the impression that that part of the image (under the radius) will move.
2. Select the Grow transform: you can use this to make parts of images grow and also to revert back to their initial state. Just click on the image and while keeping the mouse button pressed, move the mouse slightly around the image. As you move it, the parts under the circle (defined by the radius) will start to grow and will revert to their initial state as the center of the circle is getting farther from those parts. When the center is far enough from those parts, those parts of the image will have reverted to the original size.
3. Select the Shrink transform: do the same as for the Grow transform by clicking the mouse and while keeping it pressed, move it slightly around.
In other words, these operations mentioned at points 1, 2 and 3 may give the impression that you can bring life into images by making them move.
Then you could use a screen recorder to record all those transformations of the image.
Please notice that to create these videos below, a third party screen recorder was used.
Image Warper runs on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10 and 11 ∞ both 32 and 64 bits
You may download the feature limited trial of the paid version, and evaluate the software for as long as you need
.Net Framework 4.0 required
The software is licensed per computer
Free lifetime upgrades
Free technical support via email
The registration code will be sent by e-mail after your purchase is confirmed
The Settings section (notice the top Change button), allows changing values which affect how the image warper view is working (paid version only).
The settings (from the Settings section) are only available in the paid version of the application:
initial radius: represents the default value of the radius when the image warper view is activated for the first time. After that first time, the value is kept to the value modified by the user.
Warp: Translate, Warp: Grow, Warp: Shrink, selecting one of this in the Settings section will automatically select the associated transformation in the image warper view when it is started for the first time. . After that first time, the value is kept to the value modified by the user.
Enable storing of data (images) used in UNDO / REDO actions: specifies whether images are stored in memory for being used with UNDO / REDO actions. This value will affect all existing image warper views for all images present on the canvas at the moment the Save button is pressed.
The settings (from the Settings section) can only be used (saved) in the paid version of the application.
The application has 35 built-in images on which you can use the Image Warper transformations (Translate, Grow, Shrink):
Right Clicking On The Main Canvas
This provides a context menu with the following options:
1. New Image From Clipboard
This creates a new movable image on the main canvas based on the image from the Clipboard.
2. Create Image From Entire Canvas
This creates a movable image from all images on the canvas.
3. Help
Shows this help window!
4. Delete All
Deletes all images on the canvas.
Image Filters With Preview Window
You can right click any image and select the 'Image Filters With Preview' option to filter the selected image using 94 filter variations. You can then click on any of those filtered images (filter variations) and the filtered image will be transferred to the initial image, the one on the canvas on which you right clicked initially.
Each filter in the Image Filters With Preview window has a description attached to it, so that you know how that image was filtered. The filter description appears as you hover over the filtered image.
Shortcuts:
- Double clicking the image will duplicate it. T
- LEFT CTRL + Grab image and drag it. This will resize the image in the direction of where the mouse is moving.
- RIGHT CTRL + Grab image and drag it. This will resize the image in the direction of where the mouse is moving.
- LEFT SHIFT + Click the image. This will rotate the image to the left.
- RIGHT SHIFT + Click the image. This will rotate the image to the right.
- DEL key. This will delete the last selected image.
- LEFT CTRL key + A (lowers opacity of the selected image).
- LEFT CTRL key + Q (increases opacity of the selected image).
- LEFT CTRL key + B key. This switches the visibility (shows or hides) the border of the selected image. If the image has its border shown and this key combination is called then the border will be hidden, similarly if the border is hidden and this key combination is called, then the border will be made visible.
- LEFT CTRL key + LEFT SHIFT KEY + B key. This shows or hides the border of all image on the canvas depending on the current visibility of the border of each image.
- LEFT CTRL key + ENTER key. This restores the initial/original width and height of the selected image. It is possible the selected image was resized and now you may want to see it at its original size.
- RIGHT CTRL key + ENTER key. Restores the initial/original width and height of the selected image.
- LEFT CTRL + V key. This pastes the image from the Clipboard into the canvas/working area by creating a new movable image based on the Clipboard image.
- LEFT CTRL + C key. This copies the image from the selected movable image control into the Clipboard. You could then paste this into another tab to build up on that image.
- LEFT CTRL key + W key. After clicking an image, this shortcut will open the Image Warper view through which you can use the Image Warper transformations on the image.
- LEFT CTRL + Z or LEFT CTRL + Y (to undo or redo the modifications brought to the image in the image warper view)
So while you see the image warper view for an image, that image inside the image warper view will be taken and put into the image container on the canvas only if you press the LEFT CTRL key + W key. Pressing the LEFT CTRL key + R key or the LEFT CTRL key + U key while the image warper view is visible will NOT bring the image from the image warper view back into the image container on the canvas.
The Image Warper View:
After you have activated the image warper view you can do the following:
Use the top left most button to load another image in that view.
From the combo box select the transformation you want to apply to the image: Translate, Grow, Shink.
Select the radius you want to use when applying any of the three transformations.
At the right most, the image warper view will show the available memory to the application. If you have the "storing of images for the undo/redo actions" enabled, that means that the visible image will be saved every time it has been modified by one of those transformations and the reason it will be saved is because you can then use the LEFT CTRL + Z (to undo the modification) or LEFT CTRL + Y (to redo the modification). However when working on an image you don't necessarily have to allow the app to store the images, that way you will never run out of memory and you could apply any number of transformations you want to that image.
If you have images stored for the UNDO/REDO functionality, you can save those images to a folder of your choice, just right click the image while the image warper view is visible and select the appropriate option to save the images.
You can hide the circle showing the radius of the transformation, just right click the image while the image warper view is visible and select the appropriate option to show or hide it.
Bringing Images To Life
While the image warper view is visible, you can obtain different effects if you select a big enough radius and then click on the image and (while keeping the mouse button pressed) move the mouse slightly around. Here are the three examples of effects you can get by using the three transformations:
1. Selecting the Translate transform: you can use this to make parts of images move. Just click on the image and while keeping the mouse button pressed, move the mouse slightly to the left and then to the right. This will give the impression that that part of the image (under the radius) will move.
2. Select the Grow transform: you can use this to make parts of images grow and also to revert back to their initial state. Just click on the image and while keeping the mouse button pressed, move the mouse slightly around the image. As you move it, the parts under the circle (defined by the radius) will start to grow and will revert to their initial state as the center of the circle is getting farther from those parts. When the center is far enough from those parts, those parts of the image will have reverted to the original size.
3. Select the Shrink transform: do the same as for the Grow transform by clicking the mouse and while keeping it pressed, move it slightly around.
In other words, these operations mentioned at points 1, 2 and 3 may give the impression that you can bring life into images by making them move.
Then you could use a screen recorder to record all those transformations of the image.
Please notice that to create these videos below, a third party screen recorder was used.
Registered versus un-Registered (for the paid version)
In the registered version of the application you can do the following:
- the movable images can have any width and height you want.
- you can rotate the images the full 360 degrees.
- you can add any number of images to the canvas.
- you can drop external images on the canvas
- you can create images from the Clipboard
- the image warper view allows loading external images into it
In the un-registered version of the application:
- an image can have a width of up to 200 pixels
- an image can have a height of up to 200 pixels
- an image cannot be rotated over a certain level
- you can add up to 10 final images on the canvas/working area
- no external images can be dropped on the canvas
- no image can be created from the Clipboard
- no external images can be loaded in the image warper view
Image Warper, Bring Images To Life 
