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List:       kde-kimageshop
Subject:    status
From:       m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date:       2000-02-24 11:29:17
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Hi

I had some time to hack on KImageShop this week.
The result is a rewrite of the internal data structures,
a native file format and a new GUI (the floating dialogs are gone).
The XML loading is not finished but will be done tonight.
I furthermore plan to cleanup the KisImage class and to
update the KImageShop web site with new screenshots this week.

Looks like we will have a clean codebase to add features to very soon.
IMO we should agree on a small set of basic image manipulation features
we _want_ in a first release. It would be great to be able to release a
basic but functional app not to long after KDE2.0/KOffice is released.

A basic feature list for 1.0 would look like this IMHO:

- color modes: Indexed, Greyscale, RGB and RGBA.
- layers/channels
- layer masks
- plugin filter API
- basic image manipulation (contrast/brightness/saturation etc.)
- scale images
- zooming
- native XML file format
- basic import/export filters (png/jpg/tif/gif)
- basic plugin filters (blur/sharpen etc.)
- basic image transformations (rotate, mirror)

- move tool
- crop tool
- basic text tool
- color picker tool
- fill tool (fill with color or pattern)
- gradient tool
- pen (paint brush or pattern)
- brush (paint brush or pattern)
- airbrush (paint brush or pattern)
- eraser
- blur/sharpen with brush tool 

The framework for most of these features is already in place.
With 2-3 developers working regulary on KIS we should be able
to come up with a beta in about 3 month.


Greetings,
Matthias

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Matthias Elter
elter@kde.org
me@caldera.de
m_elter@t-online.de

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