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- .name
- ImageStudio
- .type
- Image Conversion
- .short
- Image processing program
- .description
- ImageStudio is written for the casual graphics user who wishes to
- convert or manipulate various graphics formats on a modest Amiga
- system. There are several commercial offerings available, however the
- casual user is paying a lot of money for many facilities and options
- they would probably never use.
-
- Bitmap graphics, by their nature, usually require large amounts of
- RAM. One of the main objectives of ImageStudio was to reduce this
- burden by utilising virtual memory - most users have more spare hard
- disk space than spare RAM.
-
- ImageStudio works with several buffers at any one time (dependant on
- how many levels of undo are specified), each of these buffers can hold
- either colour-mapped or 24-bit images.
-
- ImageStudio comes with a fully featured ARexx port, which allows the
- writing of macro scripts to automate repetative processes and also
- allows communication with other ARexx aware programs. Again, ARexx has
- the reputation of being "something pretty difficult", so we've
- simplified the use of ARexx in ImageStudio by allowing the user to
- create, edit and run scripts entirely within ImageStudio - ImageStudio
- even provides a blank template as a starting point for each new script.
-
- List of features
- ================
- General:
- * Full 24-bit image buffers, with optimizations for colour-mapped
- (palette based) images.
- * Up to 100 levels of undo / redo.
- * User configurable virtual memory.
- * Fully featured, easy to use, ARexx interface.
- * User saveable preferences.
- * Operations applicable to the whole image or a selected region.
- * Up to 256 greyshade preview window (with optional dither).
- * Zoom on preview window.
- * Internal / external viewers (external for third party 24-bit
- graphics cards).
- * Loading / saving / manipulating of AGA image formats (e.g. 256
- colours, HAM8) on non-AGA machines.
- * Max image size of 32000 x 32000 (limited to 250 x 250 in the
- unregistered version).
- * Copy / paste to / from the system clipboard.
- * Runs on all Workbench 2.04+ Amiga's - utilises AGA chipset if
- available.
- * Online AmigaGuide help, as well as ASCII, TeX `.dvi' and
- PostScript documentation.
- * Multi-level help error requesters.
- * Standard Workbench2 interface.
- * Public screen.
- * Requires no third party libraries or utilities.
-
- Import:
- * IFF-ILBM formats (Standard palette based, HAM6, HAM8, extra
- halfbright, ILBM24)
- * BMP
- * GIF (conforming to GIF87a)
- * JPEG (conforming to JFIF standard)
- * PCX
- * Targa
- * Any installed Amiga datatype (with Workbench 2.1+)
-
- Export:
- * IFF-ILBM formats (Standard palette based, HAM6, HAM8, extra
- halfbright, ILBM24)
- * BMP
- * EPS
- * JPEG (conforming to JFIF standard)
- * PCX
- * Targa
-
- Colour Balance:
- * All operations are available to the R,G,B components separately.
- * Brightness ( upto ±100%)
- * Contrast (non to full)
- * Gamma ( + and - )
-
- Convolution:
- * Many supplied convolution filters.
- * User definable convolutions, load and save to disk.
-
- Effects:
- * Built in effects: Dynamic range expansion, FlipX, FlipY, RollX,
- RollY, Negative, Greyscale, Highlight, Shadow, Random, Pixelize,
- Remove isolated pixels.
-
- Scale:
- * Crop to selected region.
- * Increase / decrease scale by percentage or absolute image size.
- * Simple scale or colour averaged.
-
- Colour reduction:
- * Increase colour mapped images to 24-bit.
- * Decrease number of colours in 24-bit or colour mapped images via
- Heckbert median cut algorithm.
- * Dithers available for colour reduction: None, Floyd-Steinberg,
- Burkes, Stucki, Sierra, Jarvis, Stevenson-Arce.
-
- Palette:
- * Edit palette colours and ranges.
- * Save current palette.
- * Force palette onto current image, dithering if necessary (all
- dithers available).
-
- .version
- 2.0.0
- .date
- 1995.03.13
- .author
- Andy Dean
- Graham Dean
- .restrictions
- To encourage users to register, the freely distributable version of
- ImageStudio is limited to loading in pictures upto 250x250 pixels. All
- other operations are available.
- .requirements
- Workbench 2.04 or above.
- Around 1 megabyte of free memory.
- Several megabytes of free hard disk space.
- .reference
- FreshFish-Vol8-1:New/gfx/conv/ImageStudio/
- 1.2.1
- FreshFish-Vol8-2:BBS/gfx/ImageStudio-1.2.1.lha
- 1.2.1
- GoldFish-Vol2-1:Files/gfx/conv/ImageStudio/
- 1.0.0
- GoldFish-Vol2-2:BBS/gfx/ImageStudio-1.0.0.lha
- 1.0.0
- FreshFish-Vol7:New/gfx/conv/ImageStudio/
- 1.0.0
- FreshFish-Vol7:BBS/gfx/ImageStudio-1.0.0.lha
- 1.0.0
- .distribution
- Shareware
- .price
- $20 (US), 10 pounds sterling
- .address
- Graham Dean,
- U514 Fielding Avenue,
- Poynton,
- Stockport,
- Cheshire.
- SK12 1YX
- ENGLAND
- .email
- adean@eleceng.ucl.ac.uk
- .docs
- ImageStudio.readme
- NEWS.txt
- README.txt
- HISTORY.txt
- .described-by
- Dan Fish (daf@daffy.amigalib.com)
- .submittal
- Downloaded via ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu.
-