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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- Also 16bpp and 32bpp display options (for Risc PC owners) are missing from
- this demonstration version, again this will be supplied to registered users.
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- 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).
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- 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).
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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