Saint Paint 5.01 is a paint package designed to be the essential base tool for image and animation editing of any kind. Developed initially for use in the games industry, it comes packed with the most vital tools (often neglected by more expensive paint packages) needed by professional artists, designers, and programmers. It also is easy and intuitive to use, perfect for beginners. Whether creating or editing animations and movies, photos, Web graphics, slide shows, or game graphics, Saint Paint is ideal. It's also extremely well suited to making doctored photos. Many file formats are supported, including AVI, BMP, and JPEG.

Among its many features are animation and AVI movie editing; photo sharpening, blurring, and de-speckling; a red-eye filter; control for brightness, contrast, and gamma; image resizing; color reduction; a full set of essential color-palette-manipulation features for true, 256, 16, and monochrome; and extensive functionality for its powerful user-defined grabbed brushes.