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From: meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen)
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Subject: Re: need NCSA Image or equivalent for IIfx
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Date: 3 Jul 90 05:57:17 GMT
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In article <1990Jun29.133933.2298@caen.engin.umich.edu> jfmjfm@caen.engin.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield) writes:
>In article <18796@well.sf.ca.us> knoll@well.sf.ca.us (John Knoll) writes:
>>
>>Adobe Photoshop does everything Image does plus a lot more, is a lot faster,
>>and works great on an FX.
>It also costs several hundred dollars and NCSA Image is free.
>As is btw Image from NIH and you can get that by ftp from alw.nih.gov
>in directory /pub/image

I recommend NIH Image as well. Also, I am told that a fix to NCSA
Image is immenent (maybe out now). I've done some tinkering with Adobe
PhotoShop and found it to be good as well, but I don't recall the
analysis features you'll find in either the NCSA or NIH package.
PhotoShop has the benefit of using a hard drive for virtual memory.
Works great if you have the space, but not so great if you don't. I've
worked on 20 meg 24 bit scans, but ran out of space with the 35 meg
ones (35 for scan + 35 virtual for use + other program > hard drive).
There's not much of a chance of doing work at home until I get a new
hard drive.

Paul Eric Menchen
meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu

p.s. Ever try printing one of those 20 meg scans? We left a printer
going for more than a day and then had to do other things. I think we
overloaded the printer - it only has 8 megs of memory, and it didn't
know what to do.