IMAGE TOOLS
                              VOLUME 1
                            June 8, 1987

                       By: Stephen Vermeulen
                           3635 Utah Dr. N.W.,
                           Calgary, Alberta,
                           CANADA, T2N 4A6

            These tools are Shareware, if you make much use
            of the tools or want them to improve much send
            a contribution (about $20.00) to the author.
            Feel free to send comments, requests, bug reports
            and beer as well!

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                 The public domain program Brush2Icon
                 has been included in this package to
                 make the set complete.  It came from
                 the AMICUS disk #9.
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Contents:

    compcmap  - compares colour palettes of a pair of IFF pictures.
    filter    - filters an IFF picture in various ways.
    hist      - produces a colour usage frequency chart for an IFF picture.
    iconize   - reduces the size of an IFF picture.
    icons     - sample icons, for all the pictures on the Fish Disks
                produced with these tools.
    itb       - converts icons to IFF pictures (icon to brush).
    recolor   - recolors an IFF picture using the palette of a second
                picture in a least squared error fashion.

Overview:

The idea behind this package is to give the CLI oriented Amiga user a set
of tools for manipulating various IFF picture files.  This release supports
all formats and resolutions except for HAM mode.  Some of the things that
this package allows you to do are to:

     - do some "kernel" based image processing (like the BYTE March 1987
       article)
     - reduce the size of a picture in an antialiased fashion.
     - reduce the number of colours (bit planes) in a picture.
     - change the colour palette of a picture, with minimum effect
       on the appearance of the picture
     - convert a WorkBench icon into IFF picture files (brushes).

By combining the tools in this package you can easily make custom icons
for picture files, where the icons are miniture versions of the pictures!

                  Anyway, have fun and produce lots
                  of neat new icons for the Amiga!

                        Stephen Vermeulen
                        AMUC Chairman.