I have used NIH Image a bit lately. It is a great program. There is a lot of things in it I don't use, but I have decided that it isn't simply "A Poor Man's Photoshop", as someone unkindly called it. I have used it long enough to be irritated by some things and repairing as far as my knowledge and courrage allowed me.
I was bothered by the lack of color icons and the lack of a pref-file icon. And then I found that some files with earlier versions creator code did not get an icon either. I fixed that.
Perhaps my color icons is not that imaginative, but they are there. I did other things too. I made a partial decoding of a resource type (“CPAL”) which contains information of exactly the same format as the LUTs (the Palettes). I have made a ResEdit template which makes the few things I found out last night visible and understandable.
I have made the patterns (mønstrene) in Image and ResEdit. More about that elsewhere except to say that I think you can do almost anything in Image, that you can do in Photoshop.
I am a programmer. I am at the moment slowly learning to write object-oriented programs. I write in C++, not that C or C++ is my first choice or because Bjarne Stroustrup is Danish, but because it was the cheapest way to free myself from writing all those interface files myself. I tried MacMETH. I had to write a lot of strange code to get access to the toolbox. Each time I made something go right I cheered. But it was just to hard sometimes to find out if I had made a programming mistake in my program or in my interface files, so I broke down and bought the damned thing (Metrowerks Bronze, that is).
Oh. Money. What there is of my own stuff here is freeware. I wont want to charge money for it. It is a bother with administration and I hate to be asked for money myself. I retain all rights of course.
