Classic-Colors

By: Justin Meiners

Synopsis

classic-colors [file]

Description

Classic-Colors is a simple raster image editor written in the motif toolkit, It supports the file formats of:

  • .jpg
  • .png
  • .gif
  • .tga
  • .bmp
The main interface as shown-
Main window

Of the visible widgets, they will be discussed top to down, starting with the menubar:
Toolbar
  • File
    Standard file options
  • Edit
    Standard edit options
  • View
    • Zoom in +
      [zoom in the file]
    • Zoom Out -
      [zoom out of the file]
    • Reset
      [reset shown file to oringal size]
  • Image
    Image alteration operations:
    • Flip
      [flip image]
    • Stretch
      [stretch image]
    • Invert
      [invert Image]
    • Attributes
      [alter attributes of the image]
    • Clear
      [clear the current image to a blank]
  • Help
    • manual
      Bring up the HTML help page for Classic-Colors
    • about
      Bring up the about Classic-Colors window.

The 12 buttons below are-
Tools
in order of left to right downwards (color options are done with the primary(left mouse button by default) and the secondary(right mouse button by default) mouse buttons):
  • Brush
    Draws a circlular brush without interuption, options are sizes mesured in pixels
  • Zoom(maginfying glass)
    Use a zoom operation on the image
  • Pencil
    Draws a square brush without interuption, same mouse options as brush
  • Text(A)
    Draw text, options are
    • Text type
    • Text size
    • Text allighment
  • Erase(eraser)
    Inverse of brush
  • Line
    Draw a line, options are size
  • Sample(dropper)
    Samples the color of the selected area
  • Square draw
    Draw a square of color, options are:
    • Stroke
    • Fill
    • Stroke + Fill
  • Spray
    Deposit visual noise constrained in a circle, same options as brush.
  • Oval draw
    Draw a oval, options are same as square draw.
  • Fill(bucket)
    Fill selected area, options are:
    • Neighbors
    • Everywhere
  • Polygon Draw
    click anywhere to make a point for the shape, unselect to complete the shape.
  • Select(dashed square)
    Select area, the area options are:
    • ignore bg
      ignore background
    • everything
      grab everything
  • Lasso select
    Click and hold down the left-mouse, to make a selection, release to complete it. Same options as the original select.

below that is a context sensitive list of options relating to the selected tool above:
Context options


Color and status
Below the above is the color selection, there are two large squares and 42 smaller squares; the leftmost large square is the color for the left mouse button, the square to the right to it is the color that will be ignored for background operations, it is trigered by the right mouse button

Farthest below is the status message-

Source

https://github.com/justinmeiners/classic-colors

See also

Pinta
Microsoft paint
My Paint
KolourPaint
MtPaint

Limitations

  • Upon any changes, classic-colors will not state in any way it has unsaved data
  • non-animated gif only supported
  • .xpm not supported
Help page written by MagnetarRocket Justin Meiners 2021