# Adobe Pixel Bender

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Adobe Pixel Bender Adobe Pixel Bender Toolkit on Windows 7 Developer Adobe Systems Stable release 2.5 / December 10, 2010 (2010-12-10)[1] Operating system Windows, Mac OS X Type Raster graphics editor License Proprietary Website adobe.com/devnet/pixelbender/

**Adobe Pixel Bender**, previously codenamed Hydra, is a [programming language](/source/Programming_language) created by [Adobe Systems](/source/Adobe_Systems) for the description of [image processing](/source/Image_processing) algorithms. The syntax is based on [GLSL](/source/GLSL), and a Pixel Bender program is analogous to an [OpenGL](/source/OpenGL) [fragment shader](/source/Fragment_shader), and is intended to be a loosely typed version of [C++](/source/C%2B%2B).[2]

Adobe Systems' **Adobe Pixel Bender Toolkit** is the [IDE](/source/Integrated_development_environment) for scripting with Pixel Bender. Pixel Bender programs are intended to be used in a number of Adobe products, and was supported by [After Effects](/source/After_Effects) (through CS5) and [Flash Player](/source/Flash_Player). The Pixel Bender Toolkit was bundled with Adobe's Creative Suite, and allowed programs to be created and tested. It is available as a free standalone from Adobe's website.[2]

In addition to its primary purpose of image processing, Pixel Bender can also be used for general mathematical operations which would benefit from the hardware acceleration that it provides. An example of this is [audio processing](/source/Audio_signal_processing).[3]

## See also

- [Stage3D](/source/Stage3D)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.5 released! « Kevin Goldsmith"](http://blogs.adobe.com/kevin-goldsmith/2010/12/pixel-bender-toolkit-2-5-released.html).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-homepage_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-homepage_2-1) ["Pixel Bender Technology Center"](http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pixelbender/).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Adobe - Developer Center : Introducing Flash Player 10 beta"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080818100343/http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/jchurch_flashplayer10.html). *www.adobe.com*. Archived from [the original](http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/jchurch_flashplayer10.html) on 18 August 2008. Retrieved 6 June 2022.

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