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- Index
- Index /m
- Main help menu
- File_menu
- Enhancing_menu
- Shaping_menu
- Histogram_menu
- Colour_menu
- General
- File_menu /m
- File help menu
- Copy
- Save
- Load
- Mask
- Drop
- Zoom
- Set-up
- Quit
- Enhancing_menu /m
- Enhancing help menu
- Negative
- Contrast
- Smooth
- Sharpen
- Brighten
- Paint
- Shaping_menu /m
- Shaping help menu
- Resize
- Mirror
- Flip
- Rotate
- Histogram_menu /m
- Histogram help menu
- Hist-display
- Pick
- Colour_menu /m
- Colour help menu
- Filter
- Colourify
- Greyify
- General /m
- General help menu
- Sliders
- Directories
- Histogram
- Image-name
- Help
- Mouse
- Image-type
- Colour_image
- Greyscale
- Picked colour
- Memory
- Help /w
- Help on Help
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- Help can be accessed in two ways :
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- Right click item (no '>' marker);
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- Click in Help button;
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- Navigate around help by selecting a
- new topic or menu by clicking in a
- See-Also button, or by selecting a
- new topic from a menu.
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- Mouse
- Memory /w
- Memory
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- Picshare needs 500K of XMS or EMS,
- and 200K of DOS. Picshare will use
- the greater of EITHER XMS OR EMS.
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- If an image is too large for current
- XMS/EMS memory, it goes to temporary
- storage, in the path specified by
- the TMP/TEMP environment variable.
- Use the DOS SET command to set eg
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- set TMP=d:\temp
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- General
- Filter /w
- Apply photographic filter
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- Adjusting the sliders, to set the
- filter and action when correct.
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- Colour_image
- Mouse /w
- Mouse
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- Picstar supports any Microsoft
- compatible two button mouse.
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- Press left button to action an item.
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- Press right button on an '>' item
- for the parameter window for item,
- or for help if there is no '>'.
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- General
- Image-type /w
- Image types supported
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- Picshare will load uncompressed
- TGA 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 bit files;
- TIFF 1, 4, 8, 24 bit files;
- BMP 1, 4, 8, 24 bit files;
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- Picstar will save
- TIFF, TGA 8 bit files (greyscale);
- TGA, TIFF, BMP 24 bit files (clr).
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- General
- Greyscale /w
- Greyscale
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- A greyscale image is one plane.
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- The value of any pixel can range
- from zero (black) to 255 (white).
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- If the greyscale plane is one plane
- of colour image, regard value 255
- as full colour, rather than white.
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- Histogram Colour_image
- Colour_image /w
- Colour
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- A colour image is represented as
- three planes, Red, Green and Blue.
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- General Greyscale
- Picked colour /w
- Picked colour
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- At any one time, there is a picked
- colour, and a picked greylevel.
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- The colour is used if a colour image
- is current and the greylevel is used
- for greyscale images.
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- Colour_image Pick
- Histogram /w
- Histogram
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- A colour image shows 3 plane
- histograms, and a greyscale
- image shows one.
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- One histogram shows, for each pixel
- value from zero (black) to 255
- (white or full colour) the number
- of pixels in the image with that
- colour or greylevel value.
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- Pick
- Directories /w
- Directories
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- Click on bar to action, off bar
- to move bar.
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- Change up by clicking on PARENT.
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- Right click to select for
- multiple loads.
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- Click in name box to edit name.
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- Load Save
- Save /w
- Save image
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- If you do not set the save file type
- then an image from a file will have
- its original file type; else it will
- use the current save file type.
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- Click in the file name to edit name.
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- Load
- Copy /w
- Create copy image
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- Copies either the area under mask if
- active, or current image if not.
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- Drop Mask Image
- Drop /w
- Drop image
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- Left click to drop current image.
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- Right click to drop all images, or
- all except the current image.
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- Once you have dropped an image you
- have created, it is gone forever !
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- Copy Load
- Set-up /w
- Set-up
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- Choose any grey for the workboard
- from black (0) to white (15).
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- Choose any inversion colour
- ("inverted" display of boxes etc).
- Try value 255 if in doubt.
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- Choose dither off or on. Dithering
- is to compensate for the limited
- colours of screen and display card.
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- Image Greyscale
- Load /w
- Load image
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- Left click on bar or in Load button
- to load the image under bar.
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- Right click, or use the INS key, to
- select several images, and click the
- load button to load.
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- Enter key loads file under cursor.
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- Copy Save Directories
- Zoom /w
- Change zoom value
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- Means zooming out from workboard.
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- Images will be halved in size for
- each value of zoom.
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- Set-up
- Colourify /w
- Convert image to colour
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- Allows you to convert a greyscale
- image into a grey colour image.
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- Greyify
- Greyify /w
- Convert image to grey
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- Allows you to convert a colour
- image into a greyscale image,
- all planes treated equally.
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- Colourify
- Quit /w
- Leave PicStar
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- This takes you back to DOS.
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- Save Image-name
- Image-name /w
- Image name
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- This is the name shown on the top
- of the screen. Its associated
- dimensions displayed adjacent.
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- Save Image-type
- Sliders /w
- Sliders
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- Slider the cursor using the
- right mouse button.
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- Mouse
- Contrast /w
- Increase contrast of image
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- The slider allows you to :
- Increase contrast (towards bright);
- Decrease contrast (towards flat).
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- The slider value indicates the
- strength of the operation.
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- Histogram Sliders
- Smooth /w
- Smooth or blur image
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- This smooths, defocuses or blurs an
- image. Any sharp points or edges are
- merged into one another.
- This is the opposite of the Sharpen.
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- Sharpen
- Negative /w
- Create negative of image
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- All pixels are negatived :
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- Black < - > White
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- Red < - > Cyan
- Green < - > Magenta
- Blue < - > Yellow
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- Contrast
- Sharpen /w
- Sharpen or unblur image
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- Emphasises the edges between areas
- of different colour or greylevel.
- Sharpen moves pixel values away from
- the average of surrounding pixels.
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- Smooth
- Brighten /w
- Brighten or darken image
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- Brightens or darkens an image.
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- Move the slider towards white to
- brighten the image, or towards
- black to darken the image.
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- Contrast
- Paint /w
- Paint image to a colour
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- The Paint lets you wipe with black,
- white or the picked colour, using
- a variable sized wiper.
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- The left button wipes. The right
- button sizes the wiper.
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- Pick
- Resize /w
- Change shape or size of image
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- Move and/or size the frame.
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- Left click in Resize to action.
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- Copy Zoom
- Mirror /w
- Mirror image left to right
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- This does a left-right mirror
- operation on the image.
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- Flip Rotate
- Flip /w
- Flip from top to bottom
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- This does a top-bottom mirror
- operation on the image.
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- Mirror Rotate
- Rotate /w
- Rotate image
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- Choose a rotation of 90 degrees
- to the left or right.
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- Flip Mirror
- Hist-display /w
- Toggle histogram display
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- A left click on this option will
- turn the histogramy on if off,
- or refresh the display if on.
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- Right click to set default to off
- or on, and to change display format.
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- Pick Colour_image
- Pick /w
- Pick colour for editing
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- Select pick, and click on a pixel in
- the current image. The pixel value
- and colour are displayed in the
- histogram display box.
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- Colour_image Histogram
- Paint /w
- Paint image to a colour
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- The Paint lets you wipe with black, white or the
- picked colour, using a variable sized wiper. Choose
- spray and a strength if required.
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- Use the right button to size the wiper, and use the
- left button to wipe.
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- Use the Paint to clean areas, or to join edges ready
- for filling, or just to touch-up.
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- Mask /w
- Switch on or off the box mask
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- Use box mask to copy a portion of
- image or to copy images together.
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- Left click in the mask to move, or
- in the tag to size the mask.
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- The mask will stay fixed within the
- board window until you move it.
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- Copy
- Register /w /ni
- Registered version
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- When you register, we will send you
- a manual, and the registered version
- of the program.
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- This has more items in the menus,
- more menus and extra features too.
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- File Enhance Shape More
- More /w /ni
- Registered version
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- When you register, we will send you
- a manual, and the registered version
- of the program.
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- This has more items in the menus,
- more menus and extra features too.
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- Hist Colour Menus Extra
- File /w /nc
- File menu additions in
- registered version
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- Screen-save - You choose one of 3
- patterns, the timing, and the
- cancel method. You can also
- create images from the patterns.
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- Images - Scroll a list of the
- images currently loaded (12 off)
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- Register Extra
- Enhance /w /nc
- Enhance menu additions in
- registered version
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- Equalize - distribution of pixel
- values evenly over range
- Quantize - limit pixel values to
- few values (posterize)
- Spiff - spread pixel values over
- whole value range
- Emboss - create a bas-relief or
- embossed image
- Solarize - solarized/posterized image
- in grey or colour
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- Register Extra
- Shape /w /nc
- Shape menu additions in
- registered version
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- Effects - several special effects :
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- Twist - spiral about centre
- Pinch - in to centre
- Pin-cushion - image implode
- Fish-eye - image explode
- Mosaic - tiled effect
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- Register Extra
- Hist /w /nc
- Histogram menu additions in
- registered version
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- Change - to let you manipulate
- the histogram for each colour
- plane interactively
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- Register Extra
- Colour /w /nc
- Colour menu additions in
- registered version
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- Plane-mix - to let you move pixel
- values between colour planes
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- Register Extra
- Menus /w /nc
- Extra menus in the
- registered version
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- Draw menu
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- Edge - drawing from image
- Border - place image in a border
- Draw - lines on image
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- Imprint menu
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- Register - images above each other
- Stamp - one image onto another
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- Register Extra
- Extra /w
- Extra facilities in
- the registered version
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- The registered version
- allows you to load up to
- 12 images at one time.
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- Register Menus
- Dummy entry to let last entry be chosen.
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