posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 6th Nov 2001 17:46 UTC
"Image Processing"
GP3 supports the notion of picture frames. You create an object frame for your picture and then you insert it. This way, you can differientiate between the image that you want it to behave as a letter (by clicking on the Insert menu command), and the image you want it to behave as an object (by clicking on the Picture Frame icon on the Graphics panel).

Some of the problems I encountered:
BMP pictures larger than 700 kb will crash GP3 or they won't load.
The "Image Size" context menu option does not work correctly. And when it does work, it does not do what you asked it to do (for example, there are cases it will crop your image instead of resize it).
The inserted "letter" image (glyph) does not support Text Flow/Wrap so it cannot flow nicely around your text. I believe this is a pretty important missing feature. The image object does support it though, so I hope that this feature will be added for the Glyphs too.

While you can add vector shapes to your image document, they do not integrate greatly with the rest of the image. For example, you can't merge the two layers containing the raster and the vector part. Similarly, you can't break a raster image into vector shapes.

The Image Manip desktop - Click for a larger view

The Image Processing application do come with some basic and important tools though, like lasso, freehand selection, magic wand (use SHIFT to have a play with these tools, they are pretty impressive), paint bucket, eraser, pencil (I still haven't figured out where I can change pencil's line width), airbrush, clone, and the color picker (which supports RGB, CMYK, HSV, HLS, LAB and System colors).

You can save your images, as .pve, PDF, bmp, gif, pat, jpg, png, Tiff and xpm (in short, depends what translators are available on the system).

Table of contents
  1. "General"
  2. "Word Processing"
  3. "Spreadsheet"
  4. "Graphics"
  5. "Image Processing"
  6. "Presentation"
  7. "Conclusion"
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