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i . M a g e


i.Mage is a simple graphics editor inspired by the late great Deluxe Paint II for Amiga and PC's. This program is a result of my frustration with main stream editors like Photoshop and Corel Photopaint's ability to do simple tasks in a timely manner. To start such an application can take 30 seconds or more... for what? Just cropping a screenshot? Well there has to be a better way I thought. So I started coding and heres my fruits of my labour, not finished by any means but it is starting to be really useful to me for a variety of tasks.

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Installation

Installation mainly consists of unzipping the files in the distribution archive to a new subdirectory somewhere on your hard disk. Remember to maintain the paths inside the zip file. If you don't then the help won't work and the i.Mage directory will be a big mess of files. Once you have unzipped the software you can plonk a shortcut to image.exe in the start menu or on your desktop as you prefer.

Then start image.exe and click Tools -> Register File Types. You will be displayed a list of file types that image can handle. Select the ones you want associated with i.Mage and click Register and Ok.

Thus i.Mage is installed.

Uninstallation
From i.Mage's menu select Tools -> Register File Types. Select all the items, select Unregister and Ok. This will leave the associations with the various file types as blank. This means double clicking on a graphic will bring up the "Open with..." dialog until you reassociate the file types with an application. This is normally acheived by selecting the application in the "Open with..." dialog and switching on the "Always use this program to open this file" option.

Delete the directory you unzipped i.Mage into.

It's as simple as that... no messy registry settings, no dll's clogging up your windows directory, no mucking about. Thats what i.Mage is.

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Requirements
  • Windows 98/ME/NT4/2K
  • 1 MB Hard Disk + space for graphics
  • 64 MB RAM suggested
  • Display adapter must be running in higher than 8 bits per pixel. True colour recommended.

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