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IMPROCES EXAMPLES AND TUTORIAL
Hello! Welcome to the "guided tour" of IMPROCES, an exciting and new
paint and image processing program for IBM PC's and compatiables.
IMPROCES is cutting edge software. It runs only on a VGA system in video
modes from 320x200x256 through 1024x768x256. The program also requires a
mouse. You will need a copy of IMPROCES to run the examples given here.
As of this date, version 2.2 is the latest version of IMPROCES and all
of the examples will coincide with version 2.2 menu selections. Keep
that in mind when running these examples so you won't be confused when
later versions of the program come out.
If don't yet have a copy of IMPROCES, call the Dust Devil BBS,
(702)796-7134 and get the latest version. It will be called IMPROCxx.ZIP
where xx will be the version and sub-version #. Example: IMPROC22.ZIP
will be version 2.2, which is the latest as of this date.
This document is divided into two parts, the TUTORIAL SECTION and the
EXAMPLE SECTION. The TUTORIAL SECTION will cover interactive instruction
and the EXAMPLE SECTION will cover the included files. The EXAMPLE
SECTION assumes you have a basic working knowledge of the program.
TUTORIAL SECTION
There are a few things that IMPROCES can do that might not be obvious to
the casual user of the program. I suggest you print the TUTORIAL SECTION
and work through the examples one by one.
All of the examples assume that you are starting the program fresh and
haven't set anything up in any of the functions yet and you are starting
at the main menu.
I will try to be as specific as possible with the instructions. A few
conventions that I will use are:
LMB = Left Mouse Button
RMB = Right Mouse Button
SELECT = Move the mouse to the option and press and release
the LMB
CLICK = Press and release a mouse button
Cloudy Sky:
- Select COLOR
- Select SET COLOR
- Select BLEND
- Move the lower bar to color 91
- Select DONE
- Select DONE
- Select TOOL
- Select PLASMA
- Move the mouse the top-left corner and click the LMB
- Resize the work area to cover the entire screen and click the LMB
- Move the lower bar to color 91
- Select DONE
- Sit back and watch a fractal cloudscape be generated before you very eyes!
- Go to COLOR-PALETTE-OPEN-OPEN PAL and load up CLOUD1.PAL and CLOUD2.PAL
and try this again, only use all the colors in the palette for you cloud
Animated, Squigly Worms:
- Select TOOL
- Select TOOLS
- Select RAINBOW Paintbrush mode (RNB)
- Turn the AIR switch OFF (White "AIR" on black backround is off
- Select the LARGE ROUND PAINTBRUSH
- Move the brush to the top-left corner and click the LMB
- Slowly paint with the brush with "squigly" strokes down to the lower-right
corner and click the RMB
- Move the mouse to the lower-left corner
- Slowly paint with the brush with "squigly" strokes up to the upper-right
corner and click the RMB
- Click the RMB
- Click the RMB again
- Select Color
- Set Set Color
- Select color 135 from the color selection box
- Set color 135 to black by setting its Red, Green and Blue values to
all 0's
- Select BLEND
- Move the upper bar to color 135
- Select DONE
- Select DONE
- Select CYCLE
- Select DONE
- Watch the worms!
- ROTATE.GIF has an example if you need one
Sharpen John:
- Select FILE
- Select LOAD_GIF
- Select JOHN.GIF
- Click on CONTINUE
- Handsome, aint I?
- Select ENHANCE
- Select WORK AREA
- Move the mouse the top-left corner and click the LMB
- Resize the work area to cover my FACE ONLY. Do not go into the black area
below my face or to the right of it.
- Select FILTERS
- Select SHARPEN
- Select VIEW
- I know, I needed a shave that day
- Click the RMB
- Select NO
- Select BOOST
- Lower the boost value to 0.5 and select DONE, see the value change in
the menu
- Select SHARPEN again
- Select YES
- Still handsome!
EXAMPLE SECTION
Most of the GIF files are 320x200x256 with the exception of LAVA.GIF
and ROSE.GIF which are 640x480x256. You should change video modes
when loading these images to fully appreciate them. The .CCL files
contains the color cycling settings for the images.
Included in this package are the following files:
ROTATE.GIF: (320x200x256)
An example of color cycling animation. Color cycle this image. Make sure
the colors are cycling from 1 to 255.
JOHNCRM.GIF: (320x200x256)
You MUST color cycle this image. Absolutely spooky. Made with JOHN.GIF,
CHROMA.MAP, TOOL-PLASMA, and ENHANCE-AVERAGE.
TRIFID.GIF: (320x200x256)
Example of Contrast Stretching. Looks good with CHROMA.MAP palette
as well. Image by Doug Schiffer, Prime Focus Imaging, Camden NY using
the Tycho imaging system.
DRAGO2.GIF: (320x200x256)
Another must for color cycling. Drawn by Karen Schierhoff using IMPROCES.
Watch the lighting strike when color cycled. Use the down arrow to
slow down the cycle for maximum effect.
LAVA.GIF: (640x480x256)
Drawn by Karen Schierhoff using IMPROCES. Palette can be substitued with
LAKE.PAL. Great when color cycled, the lava flows around the rock.
ROSE.GIF: (640x480x256)
Another one by Karen Schierhoff. Originally drawn with IMRPOCES Ver
1.1.
CLOUD1.PAL and CLOUD2.PAL:
By Steve Lumos. Outstanding palettes to use when drawing PLASMA
clouds for a skyscape. Draw the clouds with the entire palette and
then Reduce by a factor of four and then Re-Align the palette
to free your colors up for other things.
CHROMA.MAP
Taken from the Stone Soup Groups Fractint, the CHROMA.MAP is my
favorite for colorizing astronomy images.
Again, thanks are in order for all the help I've recieved with doing
this package. Without the people listed below, this package wouldn't
have come together.
Thanks to:
Steve Lumos. Steve compiled most of this stuff and
edited this EXAMPLES.DOC file.
Karen Schierhoff. Karen has been an avid user of IMPROCES
since version 1.1. She created three of GIF files
included in this package.
Doug Schiffer of Prime Focus Imaging in Camden, NY.
Doug took the shot of the Trifid Nebula with his
Tycho Imaging Software. Look him up for more
information for any of your imaging needs.
Ted and Diana Gruber from Ted Gruber Software
in Las Vegas, NV. For the use of the Dust Devil
BBS as a beta test site and support BBS for
IMPROCES. Call the DDBBS!!! Number given
above.