Thank you for trying out the shareware copy of Picture Man version 1.5. Picture Man is the most powerful true color image processing tool for MS Windows 3.x available as shareware! It has the following features: - Picture Man offers a large variety of 46 different bitmap operations, including geometrical transforms, halftone/color correction, filtering and filling a selected area with color, pattern and gradient. - Picture Man allows to process an image in a selected area with sharp or smooth edge. Seven types of selected area are available, including Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Text, Freehand, Pen and even Magic Wang. Each of 46 operations can be performed with the pen, that gives you unique retouching capabilities! - Picture Man offers true multitasking. You can process several images simultaneously! - Picture Man provides you with virtual memory management, so you can hangle very large images, limited only by your hard disk size even in Standard mode! - Picture Man makes palette optimization, color and black-and-white dithering and printing. - Picture Man supports Truecolor and HiColor adapters and performes HiColor dithering. - Picture Man supports an emerging TWAIN standard for image acquisition. - Besides TWAIN, Picture Man offers very simple interface to custom image capturing devices. - Picture Man allows to convert images in various graphic formats including BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPEG, TARGA, PCX, EPI. - Picture Man has an open interface to image converters implemented as DLLs, so you can easily develop and add converters for new formats. In order to give you the opportunity to see the advantages of a tool such as Picture Man, Picture Man is distributed as a shareware program. This provide you with a free two weeks trial period. In addition you will find Picture Man to be a quality application at a price substantially below that of comparable retail applications. To install Picture Man simply decompress the PMAN15.EXE archive . Please refer to the PMAN.WRI for additional information.