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IMAGE ALCHEMY 1.50 HANDMADE SOFTWARE Registration (docs)
GRAP NOV91 IMAGE GIF CONVERTER HANDMADE TIFF EDITOR
FILES alch151.sdn
Image Alchemy is a software utility that manipulates
computer image files.
The main thing that Image Alchemy does is to convert between
various graphics file formats. Image Alchemy can translate
between a large variety of file formats including industry
standards such as GIF and TIFF and vendor specific file
formats such as Sun Raster and Scodl. Currently Alchemy
supports over 30 different formats, and new formats are
always being added; in fact, our goal is to have Image
Alchemy be able to read and write every graphic file in the
world.
Image Alchemy can also make changes in an image. For example,
Image Alchemy can re-size an image, change the number of
colours in an image, change an image from colour to black and
white, and change the colour space an image uses.
Finally, Image Alchemy performs JPEG compression. This is a
new standard for image compression that can achieve much
higher compression ratios than conventional compression
techniques. It achieves this high compression ratio by not
entirely preserving the original image (this is referred to
as "lossy" compression). For further information see Appendix
C, What is JPEG Compression.
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