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Java Picture Editor
Over the past year I have found myself again and again using the free Java Image Editor from JH Labs, a company that seems to be doing a lot of interesting work in the java graphics area.
ImageEditor, starts much quicker than the Gimp, does not require X11, and has a modern look, as you can see from the snapshot I made, which integrates beautifully in OSX. It comes with a lot of filters, which are available in source code under an Apache licence. ( I have not really used them, to tell the truth)
Today I have been using it for the very simple task of editing a foaf icon. I had tried for hours to get X11 going after it got clobbered by an installation I made using fink, the open source distribution platform for OSX. What I now have keeps crashing after a few minutes of use. This is where Image Editor came to the rescue.
ImageEditor has quite a few limitations, other than it not being fully open source. I don't think it has more than one step undo for example. And some of the menus are a little obscure.
But what I really like about it is that it shows that you can build applications in Java that look as good as native OSX apps.
Posted at 11:55AM Oct 15, 2007 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in Java | Comments[5]
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this is a good website
Posted by blaze on November 06, 2007 at 03:05 AM CET #
Its very helpful,
where can i get the source code
thank u for all the useful infn. provided.
Posted by swathy on February 07, 2008 at 01:04 PM CET #
I don't think the source code for the picture editor is available. Only for the filters:
http://www.jhlabs.com/ip/filters/index.html
But you may want to check with the author.
Posted by Henry Story on February 07, 2008 at 01:58 PM CET #
your software is very nice
Posted by shakir on July 03, 2009 at 07:59 PM CEST #
Works nice in windows, may have been convenient to add msdos Shortcut command:Target : C:\WINDOWS\system32\java.exe -jar \ C:\ <directory> \ImageEditor.jar",
did create shortcut for desktop and works, note when creating new transparent did not appear, used white,
Posted by Guest on October 24, 2009 at 10:59 AM CEST #