WinImages

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Black Belt Systems WinImages is a bitmap graphics editor and special effects applicator that supports both automation of editing tasks and animation of effects. WinImages is a MDI application which runs under Windows 95 and later versions of Microsoft Windows.

WinImages began life in 1985 as a product called ImageMaster. It was ported to Windows in 1989, which is when the name was changed to WinImages.

As of December 2004, WinImages is at version 7.5.

[edit] Summary of WinImages features

  • Timeline for animation on still image, and animation on animation
  • 177 image manipulation operation classes in 15 functional groups
  • 790 built-in static or timeline-aware controls
  • Unlimited number of scripted timeline-aware controls
  • Integral ray tracer with timeline-aware engine
  • Integral heightfield renderer with timeline-aware engine
  • Integral particle system renderer with timeline-aware engine
  • Integral texture generator with timeline-aware engine
  • 74 layer modes, the usual 20 or so, plus unusual modes like geometric warping
  • 14 area selection tools
  • Embedded custom scripting language similar to BASIC
  • RGB, HSV, CMY and CMYK color separation
  • Open plug-in specification (presumes C is development language) with services
  • Reads 340 variations of 22 different bitmap image file types
  • Writes 25 variations of 13 different bitmap image file types
  • Additional animation types are extended by Windows 32-bit CODECS

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