Category : Windows 3.X Files
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Picture Man
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Picture Man for Windows
User's Manual
Version 1.51
Copyright 1992 Potapov WORKS, STOIK Ltd.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements............................4
Introduction................................4
Features....................................4
Disclaimer - Agreement......................5
Licensing Agreement.........................5
Licensing (Registering).....................6
Support.....................................6
Operational Considerations..................6
Installation................................6
Picture Man User's Guide....................7
Starting Picture Man........................7
The Picture Man window......................7
The Toolbox.................................7
Creating a new image........................9
Opening an image file.......................9
Saving an image............................10
Editing an image...........................10
Undo last step, reload and erase...........10
Area selection.............................11
Using the clipboard........................13
Paste from file............................14
Printing...................................14
Viewing an image...........................14
Setting color and dithering options........15
Optimizing performance.....................15
Showing and hiding the Toolbox.............16
Calibrating your display...................16
Painting...................................16
Picture Man Reference Manual...............17
Menu Item - File...........................17
Menu Item - Edit...........................19
Menu Item - View...........................23
Menu Item - Options........................24
Menu Item - Help...........................25
File Formats Supported.....................25
Development of New Converters..............26
Appendix 1. Custom frame grabber support...31
Appendix 2. TWAIN support..................31
Appendix 3. Format of the correction table.31
Appendix 4. Registration Form..............32
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
All product names used in this text are trade marks of their manufacturers and are used only for reference.
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Picture Man version 1.51. This is powerful yet simple in use package designed for true color image enhancement, retouching, painting, creating special effects, printing and so on. We are proud to claim that Picture Man v.1.5 is the most powerful image processing tool for Windows distributed as a shareware program.
The key feature of Picture Man is that it not only allows to process image in a selected area but to paint with every available processing filter or transformation as well. It results in outstanding retouching capabilities.
Picture Man offers user-friendly interface. You don't have to be an expert in image processing to obtain professional looking results.
We are inviting you to get acquainted with Picture Man and we hope that this tool will save your time and will introduce a speed and accuracy into your creative process.
FEATURES
Picture Man v.1.51 is designed to respond a wide variety of image processing needs from scanning or grabbing image to outputting it to any Windows-compatible device or export into another application in one of the popular image formats. Here are just few features available in Picture Man v.1.51:
+ Internally Picture Man v.1.51 handles true color image, but it can read, process and save Black & White, Greyscale, Paletted 16 and 256 Color and RGB True Color data types. In addition, Picture Man can produce 15- and 16-bit HiColor images. Any of processing operations available in Picture Man can be applied to any of these data types.
+ You can input image from any scanner, video capturing board, or other input device which has a TWAIN-compliant driver.
+ You can implement a very simple interface to acquire an image input from a custom device.
+ Picture Man v.1.51 can make conversion from one image format to another, supporting color reduction and dithering if needed. Picture Man v.1.51 allows an Open Interface to image format converters, so you can design your own DLL's for custom formats.
+ Picture Man v.1.51 currently supports TIFF 5.0, PCX, GIF, TARGA, JPEG, BMP, and can save images in Encapsulated Postscript files.
+ Picture Man v.1.51 runs multiple instances. You can copy fragment of an image in one window and paste it into another one.
+ Picture Man provides true multitasking. It can process several images in the background simultaneously.
+ You can paint within Picture Man.
+ You can insert text filled with color, gradients, patterns and so on.
+ Picture Man offers 46 different image processing filters and transformations, which can be done in 7 types of selected local areas with smooth or sharp edges or in the whole image. You can paint with each available operation. The Magic Wand selection tool is also available.
+ Picture Man provides virtual memory support. Size of an accepted image is limited only by your free hard disk space.
DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT FOR USING PICTURE MAN
Users of Picture Man v.1.51 must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
"Picture Man is supplied as is. Potapov WORKS disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchant ability and of fitness for any purpose. Potapov WORKS assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of Picture Man."
Picture Man v.1.51 is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find that you are using Picture Man and continue to use Picture Man after a reasonable trial period, you must make a registration payment to Potapov WORKS, STOIK Ltd. The registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another.
You are encouraged to pass a shareware copy of Picture Man v.1.51 along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. The unrestricted version may not be distributed. You may also take a reasonable fee for distributing a shareware copy.
All registered users will receive a license number, information about updates, new versions, converters for additional formats and technical support via e-mail.
Remember, when you register, you will help us to develop this product further!
One more reason: this product came from Russia. When you register, you personally make a real contribution into Russian conversion from totalitarian military staty to normal Western-style democracy. You help not to bureaucrats or former communists but to professionals who are making software development in Russia today.
LICENSING AGREEMENT
Licensed user a bound to the following licensing agreement.
You may not transfer your license without written permission from Potapov WORKS, STOIK Ltd.
You may physically transfer Picture Man from one computer to another provided the program is used on only one computer at a time.
TERM:
The license to use this program is effective until terminated. You may terminate the license by destroying all copies of this program. It will also be terminated upon failure to comply with any of the terms or conditions of this agreement.
WARRANTY:
THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
AGREEMENT:
By licensing Picture Man you agree to the above licensing agreement.
LICENSING (REGISTERING)
You may use Picture Man for a free two weeks trial period. If you continue to use Picture Man after the two weeks trial period, you are required to register your copy of Picture Man and obtain a license number.
When you register Picture Man you will be given a license number. After entering your license number, the information screen appeared on startup will be suppressed, you will have an opportunity to make transformations in a selected area. This is the only restriction for an unregistered copy!
You can register by completing the registration form and mailing it and a check to authors. The registration form with the address is at the end of the user's manual and in separate file called form.txt.
Pricing is: Picture Man registration........$49.00
All users of Picture Man v.1.02 who'll have registered before January 30, 1993 may take the current version for free using the same license number.
SUPPORT
You may obtain support by contacting Potapov WORKS, STOIK Ltd. via Internet:
[email protected].
OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
Before installing Picture Man you need Microsoft Windows, version 3.0 or later, an IBM PC-AT, 386-AT, 486-AT, PS/2 or compatible computer. You also need about 1Mb of free hard disk space to install Picture Man files. Your computer should be equipped with not less than 2 Mb of system memory. A pointing device, such as mouse, is necessary to use all power offered by the package. Without mouse you can install Picture Man and use most of its commands, but some functions will be unavailable. You must have enough temporary disk space to keep image caches, which are created during Picture Man session. Common dialog library COMMDLG.DLL must be presented in your Windows system directory!
INSTALLATION
Picture Man currently is made up of 25 files:
PMAN.EXE - Picture Man main program
MWAREA.DLL - virtual memory manager
CJPG.DLL - JPEG compressor
DJPG.DLL - JPEG decompressor
DTARGA.DLL - TARGA reader.
CTARGA.DLL - TARGA writer
READBIN.DLL - reader for unformatted images
WRITEBIN.DLL - writer for unformatted images
READBMP.DLL - BMP reader
WRITEBMP.DLL - BMP writer
READGIF.DLL - GIF reader
WRITEGIF.DLL - GIF writer
READPCX.DLL - PCX reader
WRITEPCX.DLL - PCX writer
READTIF.DLL - TIFF reader
WRITETIF.DLL - TIFF writer
WRITEEPI.DLL - Encapsulated Postscript writer
PMAN.HLP - help file for Picture Man
PMAN.INI - system configuration file
PMAN.WRI - this manual
README.TXT - A short description of Picture Man and how to install it.
FORM.TXT - A registration form.
PWORKS.TXT - Information about Potapov WORKS.
READPCX.C - An example of read converter for PCX format.
WRITEPCX.C - An example of write converter for PCX format.
CUSTOM.H - include file for developing new converters.
IRINA.JPG - an example image.
These files are stored in archive PMAN15.ZIP. Place this archive in the required directory and decompress it using the PKUNZIP utility.
Once the files are where you want them, add Picture Man to your Program Manager. Use your Windows manual for information on how to add an application to Program Manager.
You are now ready to run Picture Man.
PMAN.WRI is the user's manual. It is a Windows' Write file with all margins (top, bottom and both sides) set to 1".
PICTURE MAN USER'S GUIDE
STARTING PICTURE MAN
As with all Windows based applications, you can start Picture Man in a number of ways. The easiest way is to
1. Run Microsoft Windows.
2. Locate Picture Man icon.
3. Double click on this icon. The Picture Man window appears.
You can use the New instance command from the File menu to start a new copy of Picture Man, or just repeat described above procedure.
You can also start Picture Man using command string with an image file name as a parameter. In this case Picture Man automatically loads specified image.
THE PICTURE MAN WINDOW
Invoking Picture Man opens the application window. Besides the main window, the Tool box appear on the screen.
The main window has appearance and controls, which are common for all Windows applications. Is has system menu, title bar, menu bar, maximize and minimize buttons, scroll bars. You should handle all controls in a usual way. Please, refer to your Windows User Guide for additional information.
THE TOOL BOX
The Tool box buttons allow user to change the type of local fragment for image processing and transformation.
There are 7 types of local areas available in Picture Man
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