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- EXPOSER Picture Viewer and Management System Introduction
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- EXPOSER has been created so that you may view, locate, manipulate and
- organize your collections of GIF, PCX, TIFF and EPS images easily and quickly.
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- SEE REVIEW IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF PCPLUS OCTOBER 1993!
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- Most Shareware libraries and bulletin boards (BBS's) hold large numbers
- of these images.
- COMPUSERVE is another vast source of mainly GIF images on almost every
- subject that you could think of, from around the world.
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- Some of these images will have been scanned from photographs, artwork and
- other material, others will have been created using the many image creation
- packages available, such as paint or DTP programs.
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- Using SuperVGA or high resolution VGA modes, you may view b/w or colour
- images that are of virtual photographic quality.
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- Collecting high quality images is now feasible because:
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- 1... Now that mass storage devices such a high capacity hard disks and
- flopticals are currently crashing down in price, many people are now
- using these media to store family photographs, artwork and even coin and
- stamp collections.
- These latter two are especially suitable since it is possible to magnify
- these images enormously.
- (Should you register EXPOSER, we will send you impressive examples of
- what we mean, and even scan something of your choice, up to 24 bit
- colour ,free of charge. If you wish, we will even blow it up for you!).
- 24 bit images are not as large as many people imagine, provided that they
- are scanned for viewing on the screen only. 24 bit image files created
- for output to a 300 dpi printer for example could be some 25 times larger
- than those meant for the screen. In any case, to print an image of
- comparable quality to a 24 bit image as viewed on a monitor would
- involve the use of equipment worth tens of thousands of pounds.
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- 2... Most computers sold today come with high resolution monitors capable
- of displaying colour pictures in the 1024*768*256 mode.
- Additionally, many SVGA video cards (some of which cost less than £100)
- are capable of displaying images in 24 bit colour (millions of colours)
- in 640*480 pixel resolution. Any budget SVGA monitor should easily be
- able to handle this mode.
- Though this is a comparatively low resolution, the greater colour depth
- available usually gives stunning results when scanning colour photos in
- this mode.
- EXPOSER can handle much higher modes still, all the way up to
- 1280*1024/16.7 million colours, although very few people have such
- capabilities as of yet.
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- See WHYREG.DOC for other registration incentives.
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