Formats Can handle any format which Java can (jpg, png and gif for reading) and handles images in 32-bit alpha-red-green-blue format.
Resizes window to image size.
Clipboard Interaction
Cropping is simple with mouse and/or keyboard.
Look and Feel can be chosen with Swing
Rotation of image through a right angle.
Resizing Algorithms include an optimal algorithm for doubling, pixellation, halving and custom resizing.
Edge Preserve Algorithm to double the size of an image by constructing a smooth edge between sufficiently different pixels allows for increasing size without blurring or pixellation (appropriate for small graphics).
Alpha channel: Algorithms which alter pixels assume the image is opaque. Extra functions are present which:
a) get the alpha channel as a greyscale image
b) store the current grayscale image as an alpha channel in memory
c) adds the alpha channel in memory to the current image.
This allows transparency to be used in images (use png format).
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Catering for the onset of digital cameras en mass, Tank Software has developed a complete Gallery Management tool with them in mind. Digital cameras are often capable of taking high resolution photographs which are much larger than necessary to display on the internet, but it is better not to alter the original JPEG images as the quality is reduced on every operation such as resize or rotate and can be evident when a real print is made. Gallery Mage allows one to resize, rotate and crop their images, while still preserving the digital originals. These operations instead of being performed on the originals are stored as textual data, and performed on copies of the images when exporting (e.g. as low resolutions images destined for the web and email, or high resolution images destined for printing).
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