http://wang.zhenzhou.googlepages.com/home#Features
Full suite of painting tools including paintbrush, pencil, eraser, airbrush, filter brush, color retouching, blur/sharpening,smudge,and cloning. Many customizable brushes, textures, gradients, and 26 methods of combining modes suppported.[See Several Examples]
Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear, perspective,flip,and wrap. Auto antialias supported.[See Transformation Examples] Image Morphing supported. With this technique, you can create a sequence of intermediate frames that seamlessly transform one image to another and generate output in a form of gif animation or image file sequence.[See Morph Maker Tutorial]
Gradient Fill tools include linear, radial,square,conical(symmetric),conical(asymmetric) and shapeburst. Multiple colors supported. Selection tools including rectangular, elliptical, free, fuzzy and paths. Add, subtract, invert, antialias and feather selections supported. Zoom 10% - 2000% display, and show grid supported.
More then 30 File formats supported include JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PCX, BMP and many others.
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP. Memory: 32MB of RAM. 4 MB hard disk space. Video display of at least 256 colours. Mouse or other pointing device
PaintStar is distributed as freeware. That's right. 100% Free! No cost to you ever. No limitations. No Adware. No Spyware. PaintStar 2.70 is incredibly small! File size is just 2.57 MB. Primary Download:
http://wang.zhenzhou.googlepages.com/paintstar.zip
Review: A fantastic paint program, among the top five in the freeware world.