Tips
* Welcome to JPhotoBrush Pro. Before you start using it, please go through the tips which will help you utilize the power of JPhotoBrush Pro.
* To select a region on an image, Click on the 'Selection' button in the toolbar and then use the mouse to select the a rectangular region to be copied by pressing and dragging the mouse to form a selection rectangle.
* Once a region has been selected, you can move/drag it with the mouse anywhere in the image, or Cut/Copy it to be pasted as a new selection or as a new Image. Selection can also be deleted.
* If any region is selected, all operations are performed on the selected region rather on the whole image. To remove or embed a selection, simply right click outside the selection or form another selection in the same image.
* Text is added as a selection and so it can be moved, cut, copied and pasted as a new selection. To embed a selected text, simply right click.
* Different types of fancy Texts are now supported. They include Outlined, 3D, Shadowed, Textured, Circular texts. More Texts can be added through plugins.
* If you have jre 1.4 or above installed, then you can paste image regions/screenshots copied from native applications as JPhotoBrush Pro now supports System Clipboard. You can also copy and paste image selection from JPhotoBrush Pro to native applications.
* JPhotoBrush Pro now support Anti-Aliased drawing to enable smoother geometric drawing and Text.
* Anti-alias option is ON by default. If you want to fill a shape drawn by you using the Bucket tool, let the anti-alias option turned OFF for better results. If you do not intend to use the bucket tool to fill the shapes, you can turn ON the anti-alias option before you draw the shapes. The Anti-alias option can be turned OFF/ON with the Options dialog provided in the Tools->Options menu.
* To draw perfect circles and rectangles press the shift key while drawing the rectangle or oval.
* To draw a vertical or horizontal line , press the shift key while drawing the line.
* You can draw filled rectangles and ellipses with the selected fill color. Rectangles can have rounded corners too.
* In zoom mode, to zoom in(magnify) left click the mouse. While to zoom out (reduce), right click the mouse.
* In warp mode, to warp an image portion, drag the mouse from the point you want to warp to the point where you want it to be warped to.
* You can clone a region of an image over another image or in another region of the same image using the clone tool. First select the clone source region by clicking the mouse while keeping the shift key down. Then in the target location in the same image or in another image press the mouse and drag it to make brush movement. The region over whihc the mosue is dragged is replaced by the source image region, the degree of replacement depending on the opacity of the brush selected in the palette.
* You can use brush tool to brush regions with different types of brush textures and you can choose the transparency and brush strokes, width etc.
* To shear an image, use shear factor between -4.5 to 4.5 for better results.
* For printing, if the image is too large to fit in one page, you can select 'fit to
page' in Print options dialog. View the Image in print Preview and make the
necessary changes by clicking on the Options buttons. You can also position the image in
the page
* You can also print an image in multiple pages, if it is too large to be accommodated in one page.
* To make a color in an image transparent, select the color with the
Dropper. Then open
the Image->Alpha
dialog box. Set the deviation. If the pixels' color is within this deviation from the
selected color,
they will also be rendered transparent.
* You can use the Effects-> Custom Filter to have your own filters. You can try out new innovative filters.
* If you are a java programmer, you can write your own plug-ins. See the JPhotoBrush Pro website for details.
* Do you know that you can add plugins to JPhotoBrush Pro? Just download plugins for JPhotoBrush Pro and use the Tools menu to add the plugins. Visit the JPhotoBrush Pro homepage to check for new plug-ins. You can also remove unwanted plugins.
* When you use a dropper to select a color in an image, that color becomes the current foreground color and this color is displayed in the bottom panel with it's RGB value .
* While drawing a rectangle the height and width of the rectangle is displayed in the bottom right corner.
* The cursor position in an image is displayed in the bottom right corner.
* In platforms that support Drag and Drop, you can drag an image file into the application to open it. For example in Windows, you can drag an image file from explorer or desktop to open it.
* You can drag and drop a jar or a zip file containing images and the images will be displayed in the image browser. You can also open the zip or jar file through the File browser after setting the file type to All Files.
* You can drag a directory to the application to display all the images in the
directory as thumbnails in the JPhotoBrush Pro Image Browser. You can right click on the
thumbnail of the images in the browser to open the right click menu and choose to open,
delete or rename the image file. You can also open the image by double clicking on the
thumbnail.
* To close all open images click on file->close All.
* You can choose different look and feels: Metal, Windows Motif by clicking on Edit-> Look And Feel menu. Plus there are some additional themes.
* After zooming in/out an image, you can restore it to it's original view by clicking on View->Normal Viewing menu.
* If you want to maintain the width:height ratio while resizing an image, check the 'maintain aspect ratio' checkbox in the Resize option dialog.
* For faster image operations, keep the Histogram Preview window closed when not needed.
* JPhotoBrush Pro now supports unlimited multiple Undo !!!, limited only by your hard disk space. To take maximum advantage of it, ensure that you have good amount of hard disk space when running the application.
* For overlaying one image on another with equal ratio, select Average in Arithmetic Option Dialog.
* To make the image look like a oil painting, click on Effect->Cool Effects->Oil smudge.
* To remove noise, black dots and spots use Effects->Noise->Median cut.
* To make a copy of the selected image, select Windows->New Window.
* Supported Image File formats:
Graphical Interface File(GIF)
24-bit Windows Bitmap(BMP)
Portable Network Graphics(PNG)
Uncompressed Tagged Image File Format(TIFF)
Uncompressed Targa Graphics(TGA)
Windows Icon File (ICO)
PhotoShop Format(PSD)
Macintosh Pict (PICT)
XMP Format(XMP)
* Placing the mouse over the thumbnail in the Image Browser displays the name of the image file as a tooltip.
* The list of recently opened files is listed in File->Recent Files menu.
* To minimize image file size, you can save images as GIF/JPEG/PNG. You can also choose the compression factor and other parameters by clicking on the options button in the Save Image Dialog.
* For line,rectangle,freehand and oval drawing, you can select the line width,style,cap type, opacity level, color from the Floating options palette.The selected color becomes the selected foreground color for the application.You can collapse and uncollapse the floating options palette too.
* For lighting effects like that of a spot light use Effects-> Rendering Effects->Spotlight.
* To create transparent Gif images, first save the image as a gif. Reopen the gif image and using the Image->Alpha(Transparency) menu select the color to be made transparent. Then save the image. Do not do any other operations between setting the transparent color and saving it, otherwise the transparency is lost.