ABOUT
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RNOEffects is an easy-to-use image processing program focused on easy batch
conversion options, alpha channel based effects, and pixel editing. It offers
palette based image handling/conversion between (A)RGB and palette images.
FEATURES
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- Approximately 30 different image processing effects including drop shadows,
elliptical crop, and other effects that usually need several steps for other
similar programs
- Drawing options for brushes, text, lines, ellipses, boxes, and arrows
- Batch converter, image joining/combining, pixel and palette editing tools
- All effects can be applied to images in a freely selectable order in a
batch conversion or image joining/combining process
- Unlimited number of images can be joined into a single image
- Built-in pixel editor with configurable drawing options for left, middle,
and right mouse buttons
- Supports saving to PNG, JPEG, JPEG2000 (JP2/J2K), GIF, ILBM, BMP, TIFF
(Flate/JPEG), and all Amiga icon formats
- Supports both (A)RGB and Palette modes when saving data
- Can save and use custom palettes
- Can save images as chunky data
- Chunky images and palettes can be saved as C source code
- Can save multiple images as a single PDF or video file
- ARexx support
REQUIREMENTS
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- AmigaOS 3.0, fast CPU (68020 compatible), lots of memory, RTG is recommended
- MUI 3.8 or later (http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/mui38usr)
- TextEditor.mcc 15.47 (http://aminet.net/search?query=mcc+texteditor)
- codesets.library (http://aminet.net/search?query=codesets)
For palette (non-RTG) screens:
- guigfx.library (http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/guigfxlib)
- render.library (http://aminet.net/search?query=renderlib), v32 is probably
the best for <040 CPUs
INSTALLATION
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Copy the whole directory anywhere you want and just launch the program
USAGE NOTES
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- Next and previous images in a directory can be loaded by pressing the
up/down arrow keys or PageUp/PageDown keys.
- Use the left arrow key for Undo and the right arrow key for the Redo.
- Function keys can be used to save an image as an RGB or Palette (P) format:
F1=PNG, F2=JPG, F3=BMP, F4=IFF, F5=PNG(P), F6=GIF(P), F7=BMP(P), F8=IFF(P),
F9=Icon F10=Palette (IFF/ILBM), F11=Palette (RGB32), F12=Chunky(P)
- The Space Bar key pauses the Color Picker tool
- Crop and Draw effect positioning can be set with a mouse press over an image
- Positioning can be constrained to vertical/horizontal direction by using the
Shift/Ctrl keys
- The Scaled mode (in the cycle gadet at the top right corner) retains the
main window size even if the content resolution changes.
- The Undo/Redo buffer requires quite a lot of memory, so Undo levels are set
to a minimum for the OS3 version, but can be altered from the Settings menu.
- The Background effect draws into transparent areas of an image. Transparency
is indicated by displaying the checkered background pattern in the program.
- The Alpha option in the Draw effect allows an effect to draw into an image's
alpha channel instead of the colour channel. It can be used to add or remove
transparency in images, such as, to make a part of an image see-through.
- Multiple effects can be applied to each image in a batch conversion process
when joining/combining images, or when creating a selected state image for
an icon. In all cases the order of the applied effects can be changed from
the Batch Converter window.
- Some icon formats have fall-back image(s) in the original AmigaOS icon
format. These fall-back icons are created automatically by the program.
All icon images (frames) can be previewed in the Icon options window.
- When opening an icon file with multiple images (states) in it, a custom
requester appears to allow you to choose the image in the icon you want to
load. The "Auto" option in the requester loads the normal unselected state
image as the main image in the program, but also loads the selected state
image in the internal buffer.
- To save a dual-state icon, open the Icon options window (Save as/Icon (F9)).
The image in the main window is used as the normal unselected state of your
icon, but its Selected state is defined with the "Selected" options. The
"Selected" state image can be created on-the-fly from the main image by
applying any custom effects to it (have your effects windows ready), or by
loading a selected image from a file, or by using an image in the internal
buffer. More detailed descriptions are in help bubbles that pop-up for
related gadgets.
- Properties of a loaded icon file are used via the Icon options window if the
"Load icon properties" setting is enabled.
- The program can store an image within the system's clipboard, but may not
preserve transparency information on all systems. The program's internal
buffer stores an exact copy of an image, so is better for internal use.
- The "j" key swaps/toggles the main and buffer images
- Pixel editor drawing modes:
Mix w/original . . . - Pixels are mixed with the original (applied) image
Mix w/current . . . - Pixels are mixed with the current pixel editor image
Color + trans . . . - Both colour and transparency values are replaced
Color . . . . . . . - Colour is replaced, but transparency is preserved
Transparency . . . . - Transparency is replaced, but colour is preserved
Flood color . . . . - Flood fill similarly coloured areas with a new colour
Flood trans on col . - Alter transparency of similarly coloured areas
Flood trans on trans - Alter transparency of areas with same transparency
Copy from (X/Y) . . - Copy related pixel values from another location
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS AND ICON TOOLTYPES
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RNOEffects uses non-standard command line arguments. Arguments must be given
in the form of (note the "-" prefix): -argument parameter
Allowed arguments:
-file <file> . . . . - Opens a picture file at startup
-defdir <dir> . . . . - Sets the initial directory to open files
-args . . . . . . . . - Shows the allowed arguments
Example:
RNOEffects -file "Work:Pics/Some picture.png"
The same arguments can be used as icon tooltypes, by omitting the "-" prefix.
Examples:
DEFDIR=Work:Pics
FILE=Work:Pics/MyPhoto.jpg
AREXX
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Program's ARexx port is RNOEFFECTS.1 (and .2, .3, etc. for multiple instances)
and supported commands are:
LOAD <file> . . . . . . . . - Loads a new image
NEXT . . . . . . . . . . . - Loads the next image in the current directory
PREV . . . . . . . . . . . - Loads the previous image in the current dir
SAVE <format> <file> . . . - Saves the displayed image, format can be PNG,
JPG:n (n is the JPEG quality), JP2:n, J2K:n,
TIFF, TIFFFLATE, TIFFJPEG:n, GIF, IFF, BMP,
PALETTE, or ICON (palette and icon options are
taken from their GUIs)
<effect> <setting=value> . - Applies an effect with supplied settings
UNDO . . . . . . . . . . . - Undo the last modification
REDO . . . . . . . . . . . - Redo an undo operation
NEW . . . . . . . . . . . . - Creates a new empty image
COPYBUFFER . . . . . . . . - Copies the image to the internal buffer
PASTEBUFFER . . . . . . . . - Pastes an image from the internal buffer
SWAPBUFFER . . . . . . . . - Swaps main and buffer images
CLEAR . . . . . . . . . . . - Clears the image
COPY . . . . . . . . . . . - Copies the image to the clipboard
PASTE . . . . . . . . . . . - Pastes an image from the clipboard
QUIT . . . . . . . . . . . - Quits the program
HELP . . . . . . . . . . . - Returns a list of the supported commands
GET <FILE|RES> . . . . . . - Returns the requested value
GET <EFFECTS|<effect>> . . - Returns the list of effects or effect settings
Examples (MorphOS only):
RXCmd RNOEFFECTS.1 "GET draw"
RXCmd RNOEFFECTS.1 "draw subeffect=2 linex=10 liney=70 linel=80 linea=-45"
Examples (all Amiga compatibles):
RX "OPTIONS RESULTS;ADDRESS RNOEFFECTS.1;'GET blur';SAY RESULT"
RX "ADDRESS RNOEFFECTS.1;'blur radius=4'"
RX "ADDRESS RNOEFFECTS.1;'SAVE JPG:90 RAM:processed_image.jpg'"
HISTORY
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Version 2.1:
- Added a new view mode to display images at their actual resolution in a
scrollable window area
- Graphical displays are hidden during window resizing, which improves speed
and flexibility on systems that resize windows with full contents
- Added the "Palette editor" tool for modifying, setting, or removing palettes
- Whole directories can be added into the batch conversion list with the Add
button or just drag'n'drop from OS windows
- Batch resizing can keep the aspect ratio of an original image
- Added an option to disable redrawing during a batch conversion to speed up
the process on lower end setups
- Added a progress gauge in the batch conversion window
- Zoom level can be changed in the Pixel Editor
- Pixels can't be drawn "out-of-bounds" in the Pixel Editor window
- Palette images are converted to RGB images only when needed or requested
- Added a setting to reload saved images back into the editor to reflect
changes caused by any image conversion process during saving
- Added an option to convert RGB images to palette images with Quantize effect
- Window title indicates if an image is an (A)RGB or Palette image
- Almost all effects work with palette images now, though some options may not
work exactly as with RGB images
- The Clear option detects the image colour format
- The Color Picker tool shows the palette pen alongside the RGB values
- Brush and text drawing can be locked to borders/corners/centre, which makes
it easier to add watermarks, etc. to varying image dimensions
- Setting co-ordinates for the Draw effect by mouse over the image can be
constrained vertically or horizontally by pressing Shift or Ctrl keys
- The "j" key swaps main and buffer images (as used in DPaint and PPaint)
- Added presets for Amiga WB 1.x, 2.x, Rebel, and PeterK/IconLib palettes
- Added presets for resolutions on Resize and Crop windows, the last applied
resolution is shown as the first item in the preset list
- Width and height values can be swapped in Resize and Crop windows
- A cropped image can be copied to the internal buffer instead of applying the
effect to the current image
- Buffer changes are refreshed on effects that use the buffer image
- Color Picker and Area Selector tools broke some effects like elliptical crop
- Transparency level can be set on the Background effect
- Improved error handling
- Other minor fixes and changes
Version 2.0:
- Added the "Pixel editor" tool with configurable pixel drawing options for
left, middle, and right mouse buttons
- Added the "Color picker" tool to show colour information under the mouse
pointer and to pick and store multiple colour values temporarily
- Added the "Area selector" tool which can be used to apply certain effects on
a limited area of an image
- Added the "Toolbox" tool to reduce pull-down menu usage
- Added support for saving images in the palette mode (1-8 bits), optionally
with 16 pre-defined palettes including the MagicWB palette
- Palettes can be saved in IFF ILBM, RGB32, LoadRGB4, and LoadRGB32 formats
- Palette images can be saved as chunky data
- Chunky image data and separate palettes can be saved as C source code
- Added an option to use an opacity map to apply an effect partially on an
image (works with Blur, Contrast, Draw/Brush, Gamma, Modulate, Monochrome,
and Tint effects)
- Added "Chroma key" and "Luma key" effects to make colour ranges transparent
- Batch converted images can be saved as a video
- Added MagicWB support for the icon saving
- Added information about the program state in the window title
- Added Undo button on effects' windows
- Function key shortcuts can be used to save images in several formats
- Added an option to swap the main image with the buffer image
- The Opacity map effect can use the buffer image as an opacity map
- Added an option to invert the Opacity map effect
- Added opacity map examples in the OpacityMaps directory
- Renamed the "Reduce alpha" effect to "Alter alpha" and added an option to
remove the whole alpha channel from an image
- Background images can be centered in the Background effect
- Added an option to clear the current image
- Undo buffer wasn't initialised when loading an image at startup
- Fixed colour picking with scaled images
- Fixed Charcoal and Edge effects for images with transparency
- Better window resizing when loading images
- Skip arrow key operations if a command key is pressed simultaneously so as
not to affect mouse pointer control via the keyboard
- Arranged effects in an ordered format in the menu - into categories
- Included JPEG2000, PCX, and TIFF plugins
- Added support for saving images in JPEG2000 and TIFF formats
- Select specific image/state to load an icon with multiple images
- Added a setting to load icon properties and use them in icon saving options
- Files can be drag'n'dropped into a batch conversion file list
- Tool windows open at startup if they were open when settings were saved
- Other minor fixes
Version 1.4:
- Images can be saved as AmigaOS, NewIcons, GlowIcons, OS4, PNG, and DualPNG
icons with configurable properties that include icon type, tooltypes,
selected image, default tool, stack, position, drawer properties, etc.
- Added the "Freehand" drawing mode
- Added the "Opacity map" effect for creating and inserting B&W opacity map
images of alpha channels
- Added the "ARexx" effect to launch ARexx scripts within the program
- Added an example ARexx script
- Better text editing/importing/exporting options for the text drawing effect
- Draw and crop effects can be positioned with the mouse
- Re-designed the line effect and added an arrowhead option
- Added buttons and keys to load next and previous pictures in the directory
- Added the undo levels setting
- Added the redo option
- Removed overlapping keyboard shortcuts for copy/cut/paste operations
- Fixed pathless file arguments
- Safer error handling
- Other changes and fixes
Version 1.3:
- Accepts a file argument and can be used as a default tool in project icons
- ARexx support
- 24 bit ILBM and BMP support
Version 1.2:
- Added contrast and monochromatic effects
Version 1.1:
- Added command line options and icon tooltypes
- More verbose when trying to load unsupported files
WEB
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- A video demonstration of the program: https://youtu.be/KsRtDHXkEKA
- New features in 2.0 presented as a video: https://youtu.be/VMHHgD9IcPw
- Please visit https://jpv.amigaaa.com/ for screenshots, support, donations,
and other software
- This program is made with Hollywood: https://www.hollywood-mal.com/
THANKS TO
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- Densho/RNO for the logo
- Neil Pearson for proof-reading
DISCLAIMER
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This software is made available to you as Freeware and you may use this
software in whatever way you wish, but the author accepts no liability for
any damage caused to your system, other connected peripherals, or data files
in any way by using this software.
Please consider the time and effort I put in to create this utility for your
use and enjoyment. If you feel it is useful to you, please send a donation
that represents the benefit you gain from using it to me at the address found
in this ReadMe.txt file (Uploader) or click the Donate button at
https://jpv.amigaaa.com/
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