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IMPORTANT INFORMATION - READ BEFORE RUNNING IMAGE
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Image requires Risc OS 3.1 or higher. It is fully Risc PC compatible.
IMAGE is SHAREWARE - it is NOT free software. Please read the User
Licence (see below for details) before running Image. If you run Image
you are deemed to have read, and agreed to the user licence. If you
don't wish to accept the user licence, the answer is simple, don't run
Image.
Image is a 24bit image processing package for RISC OS, running under
versions 3.1 onwards. It provides the user with tools to alter the
colour range of a picture (brighten, darken, gamma correction, user
defined transformations, grey scale, equalize, etc.), filter an image
(soften, sharpen, remove noise, edge detection, etc.), resize an image
(including rescale, crop, extend, etc), rotate (by any angle about any
point, also produce spirals), merge two pictures (in many different
ways), and also touch up a picture. It can read multiple formats
including sprite (2, 4, 16, or 256 colour, plus 15bpp and 24bpp
sprites), clear files, PBMPlus, GIF and JPEG images.
Note: The 'Save' functionality of this version of Image is limited to
standard 2, 4, 16 or 256 colour sprites. Versions supplied to
registered users will include the ability to save clear files, 15bpp
and 24bpp sprites, PPM and JPEG files. There are also some other facilities
which are not available in this version which will be provided in later
versions (to registered users).
Also 16bpp and 32bpp display options (for Risc PC owners) are missing from
this demonstration version, again this will be supplied to registered users.
The first thing you should be aware of is that Image stores pictures,
internally, using files (thus keeping its memory usage to a minimum,
and also allowing it to process pictures too big to fit in memory).
By default these files are stored within a directory within the
application, for this reason you should copy the application to a hard
disc - but not a compressed area of the disc (ie. don't install the
application within any compression filing system).
You should also note that it is not advisable to run Image from a
floppy disc (as this will be slow and will restrict the size of
picture you can process).
It is important to realize how Image works, as it is a little
different to most image processing packages. For this reason you
should read the documentation BEFORE attempting to use Image (the
documentation takes the form of a help application. To run the help
application either (a) run the !Help file in this archive, or (b) use
the Filer menu 'Help' option for the '!Image' application.
The help application brings up a 'Contents' window containing a number
of subject headings - simply click over the subject heading you wish
to read (you should start off with the 'User Licence' then move onto
the 'Introduction'). When you click on a subject the text for that
subject will be loaded into you current text editor (or !Edit), and
with some subjects an extra draw file will be loaded into !Draw.