            JPHOTOBRUSH ver 2.3 by Tanveer Rameez (Dated 25 Dec 2002)
                 Image Editing and Enhancement tool written in java

Steps to execute the application: 
1. Please ensure that you have JDK 1.3 or higher installed and the classpath and path properly set.
2. in command prompt type: java -jar JPhotoBrush.jar
Alternately,
* In windows, you can double click on the JPhotoBrush.jar file to open the application. 
   Or you can execute the run_in_Windows.bat.
* In OS/2 install the program (with icon in the start up menu), run the InstallOS2.CMD. To execute , run_in_os2.CMD.

3. Mouse wheeling is supported by this application provided your OS is Windows(NT/ME/9x/2000) and mouse driver is installed. If your JDK is 1.3.x, download the MouseWheel.DLL from the JPhotobrush download homepage. For JDK1.4 and higher. you don't need the DLL.
4. Best viewed in 1024 by 768 resolution. Minimum resolution is 600 by 800.
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Features of this Application:

* Facilty to open multiple images as in case of MDI (using JInternalFrame) 
* Loading and saving 24-bit GIF,JPG,BMP, uncompressed TIFF, uncompressed TGA. 
* Basic : Brightness/contrast controls, grayscaling, color invert etc 
* Filters: Blur/Smooth, Sharpen, edge detections, emboss, erode, dilate etc 
* Noise reduction and generation 
* Cool effects like-diffuse, mosaic,Venetian blinds, buttonize, solarize, scramble,wave,camera effects, plaster effects etc 
* Histogram and Histogram equalization 
* Blending, overlaying, arithmetic of more than one image 
* Image Resizing, rotation,shear,flipping etc. 
* Rendering effects include- spotlight effects etc 
* Includes an Image Browser displaying thumbnails of images in the selected folder.
* Image warping, adding text (with user selectable textured background) etc 
* Drag and Drop facilty-image files can be dragged from Windows Explorer and Desktop to the applications. Folders dragged into the application opens up image browser . 
* Copy/paste of a region of an image as a new image
* Mouse Wheeling provided in Windows
* Free hand and line/rectangle/oval drawing with customised width,color,line style and cap style 
* one level undo and redo 
* image printing facility with print preview
* Zoom in/zoom out options 
* and much much more 

Each of the features come with Dialog boxes for user customizable options and Image Preview. Plus optional help dialogs
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Website: http://www.tanveer.freeservers.com/programming/JPhotoBrush.htm
mail: tanveerrameez@yahoo.com