RealWorld Photos
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RealWorld Photos (currently in development) is an image editor focused on photo retouching and batch processing. The application is built on top of the open architecture of RealWorld Designer framework and its functionality can be extended by plug-ins.
[edit] Related information
- A public beta of RW Pthotos was released on January 10th 2008 - home page.
- RealWorld Photos Help Index
[edit] Features overview
[edit] Drawing tools
RealWorld Photos offers all basic drawing tools and some special photo tools. Users can create custom presets containing tool configurations with colors, brushes and draw modes. Drawing tools are plug-ins.
[edit] Scripting
A scripting engine based on JavaScript can be used to build custom operations or image filters. The JavaScript operation can access the image pixel by pixel, use drawing tools or document operations to modify the image, duplicate an image, create temporary canvas and blend two images.
Scripted operations may have their own configuration dialogs with preview.
[edit] Batch processing
An operation can be applied on multiple images at once. The images to be processed are dragged and dropped from Windows Explorer or another file manager to the application window. Users can also drop entire folders to process all files withing the folders.
Users can pick one of the predefined operations or they can design any number of their own batch operations (and export them to share with other users). A custom batch operation can use any facility of the application including scripting and native and Photoshop filters.
[edit] Lossless JPEG operations
Lossless and partially lossless operations are supported for JPEG pictures. This applies to crops, canvas extension, rotation, retouching and any combination of these. The lossless functionality is enabled by default (it can be turned off in "Save as" dialog or using an operation) and it is completely transparent. Of course, the image will be saved losslessly only if it is possible - crops and canvas extensions must occur on MCU boundaries.
[edit] Customization
RealWorld Photos has all the customization options inherited from the RealWorld Designer framework - window layouts, menu and toolbars can be modified. The raster editor window is capable of recognizing mouse gestures, which are also fully customizable.
[edit] Usage examples
- Rotate by EXIF tag and resize pictures - this guide shows you how to configure the application to prepare your images for web publishing.
- Customizing Menu and Toolbar - short introduction to window layout customization.