New web page image viewer/enhancer with gamma compensation

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Touchup: http://members.home.net/jonespm/software.htm

A common problem since the early days of the Internet is that images look different on different platforms. The reason is gamma, for the Macintosh it's about 1.7, for Windows 2.5. This means that the photos that look perfect on your machine look washed out or very dark to your visitors.

Touchup allows you to compensate for this, as shown in the example gallery. It also gives you the ability to make last moment quick-fixes to your photos, without requiring the work of going back to your backed up original.

You have the option of allowing the visitor control over brightness, contrast, saturation, color levels, black and white, negative, mirroring, flipping, rotation and other features.

Touchup is about 20KB, fast, flexible, multiplatform, and it's shareware.

Please let me know what you think. Suggestions?

Peter
 
The concept is good.

How much to register it in the future, I am not interested in using it now with the copyright notice or the shareware notice, unless I can get rid of it and I want to know how much beore I will play with it. If it is too much I am not going to waste my time now.

Alan

P.S. I have had it lock up my browser twice now when visiting your page and trying to view and change your example pictures. I have not explored as to why yet, but it is not encouraging to me.
Touchup: http://members.home.net/jonespm/software.htm

A common problem since the early days of the Internet is that
images look different on different platforms. The reason is gamma,
for the Macintosh it's about 1.7, for Windows 2.5. This means that
the photos that look perfect on your machine look washed out or
very dark to your visitors.

Touchup allows you to compensate for this, as shown in the example
gallery. It also gives you the ability to make last moment
quick-fixes to your photos, without requiring the work of going
back to your backed up original.

You have the option of allowing the visitor control over
brightness, contrast, saturation, color levels, black and white,
negative, mirroring, flipping, rotation and other features.

Touchup is about 20KB, fast, flexible, multiplatform, and it's
shareware.

Please let me know what you think. Suggestions?

Peter
 
I'm thinking around $10 for licensing to a personal or small business site. There's no attempt to get rich here, just recognition that this is something that people really want to use. Licencing will remove the "shareware" text that appears when you edit. Geocities/PlaceBase type companies will have to pay more, naturally! I haven't investigated payment methods yet. If this proves costly, it may go up a bit.

What OS, browser and version are you using? Do you connect to the Internet via phone, or cable? How much free drive space do you have? How does it behave if you reboot before visiting the page?
How much to register it in the future, I am not interested in using
it now with the copyright notice or the shareware notice, unless I
can get rid of it and I want to know how much beore I will play
with it. If it is too much I am not going to waste my time now.

Alan

P.S. I have had it lock up my browser twice now when visiting your
page and trying to view and change your example pictures. I have
not explored as to why yet, but it is not encouraging to me.
Touchup: http://members.home.net/jonespm/software.htm

A common problem since the early days of the Internet is that
images look different on different platforms. The reason is gamma,
for the Macintosh it's about 1.7, for Windows 2.5. This means that
the photos that look perfect on your machine look washed out or
very dark to your visitors.

Touchup allows you to compensate for this, as shown in the example
gallery. It also gives you the ability to make last moment
quick-fixes to your photos, without requiring the work of going
back to your backed up original.

You have the option of allowing the visitor control over
brightness, contrast, saturation, color levels, black and white,
negative, mirroring, flipping, rotation and other features.

Touchup is about 20KB, fast, flexible, multiplatform, and it's
shareware.

Please let me know what you think. Suggestions?

Peter
 
Tried the demo. Couldn't get thumb to appear in larger box. Expected to drag and drop or double click or something. Nothing happened. PatiO.
 
For those reading this, we tried to resolve the issue via email but were unable to determine the problem. My best guess is that there is some problem with the tester's Java Virtual Machine files.

Touchup 2.3 has a few new features readers of this forum may be interested in trying out. Read the News And FAQ page for details.

Peter--Touchup: shareware java applet to enhance web images http://members.shaw.ca/jonespm2/software.htm
 

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