Kolorowanka 2.01 ----------------- Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Piotr Chodzinski Description ============ Kolorowanka (name meaning 'Coloring Book' in Polish) is a very easy to use and well featured program which can be used for coloring images, just like in the coloring books. Of course it's not only designed for the usage of small children, because, as you probably know, coloring images is a very relaxing activity. Maybe next time, after a long day of fighting with nasty operating system, instead of throwing your computer out of a window or chasing your pets with dangerous tools, just sit and relax with Kolorowanka program :). Of course if you're a computer user which has kids, go ahead and show them this program - coloring images is a very pleasant, non-violent entertaiment for kids in various age. Please, read the entire help file carefully. This will allow you to discover all of the possibilities and features of my program. This knowledge can be very useful when you'll be later playing with Kolorowanka program. Features ========= This program has few neat and interesting features. You may want to know about them before you'll start using it or you'll give it to your brother or maybe one of your annoying cousins :). So here they are: * Kolorowanka has a rich Color Palette which consist of 420 different colors. Main Palette was divided into 7 smaller palettes, where colors are sorted by brightness and saturation level. * This application allows you to choose two separate colors - just like many professional graphic applications. It makes coloring a lot easier 'job' and it allows you to use few interesting ideas featured in the Additonal informations section of this help file. * Both of the colors (which will be used to flood-fill areas of image which you're colorizeing) can be also affected by one of 7 different fill-styles (e.g. veritical lines, crossed lines, diagonal lines, solid color etc.). * The program is very enhanced (because of the fill-styles, possibility of using two different colors, and many other options and tools) and easy to use at the same time. So it can be used by children in different age. For example - you don't need to show every option to younger child, but just a little bit older one or an adult can use most of the options with no problem. More details about this idea you can find in the Additional Informations section. * Kolorowanka is secured in few ways, so it can't be so easy 'broken' by inattentive user or small child. First of all, it is not possible to choose an ideal black color from the Color Palette - this ensures you that this color won't destroy the outline of the image which you're colorizeing. Also you can't fill any ideal black area - this is another securement so the outline will not be breaked in any way. * Application supports two most important (in this case) graphic formats (full support for read and write): bitmaps (*.bmp) and Portable Network Graphics files (*.png). Why these formats are so important ? You can find out this later, from the Additional informations section. * Kolorowanka uses only about 1 + (2 * size of loaded image) MB of RAM. It also uses less then 1% of System Resources ! * This software has a very useful Undo option. Now, you don't need to start coloring from the start if you made a small mistake. * Loaded image can have any size - program will automatically resize upper window to fit to image which you're going to colorize. License ======== Kolorowanka is distributed under license called Postcardware. This means that you can use it for free for private and commercial puporses (e.g. in office). But if you have tried it for some time (up to one week) and you like it - you must register it by sending me a postcard of your hometown. If your hometown doesn't have a postcard you can send me a postcard of any nearby city. Of course you can write something nice on it :). Don't know what's a postcard ? It's a small piece of paper with a nice image on it which can be send by snail-mail :). The adress where you should send your postcards is in the Contact section. If you want to, you can also put a small amount of money or anything else (e.g. coin from your country) that will fit into the envelope. In that case you must remember that you are doing it only from your own will, because the registration consist only in sending me a postcard. If you've registered any other Postcardware licensed program made by me, you're also a registered user of this program. But if you want, you can send me another postcard too. You musn't decompile, dissasembly or take any actions aiming at program modification. This program was tested very carefuly, but I don't take any responsibility for any possible damages in your computer, system, data or reputation. If you're going to publish this software on any CD or website you must contact me first to get my permission !!! Kolorownka copyright (c) 2001-2003 Piotr Chodzinski. All rights reserved. Installation and uninstallation ================================ Installation is very easy. Just extract all the files from kolorow.zip archive to a newly-created folder of your choice. Now try out the program. If you like it, move the temporary folder somewhere (e.g. to the Program Files folder) and if you want - make a shortcut in the Start Menu or on the Desktop pointing to Kolorowanka.exe file. If you don't like my program or if you want to remove it from any other reason, just delete the folder created earlier. That's it - the program won't leave any trash in the Registry or anywhere else, because it keeps all the configuration in the INI file located in its directory. This type of configuration has also one additional advantage. If you'll move this folder to any other computer, the configuration will stay the same as on your computer. Basic operations ================= Kolorowanka is a very easy to use program. Whole usage can be shorten to this few steps: * Select an image by using the Open button. Now, the program will load file selected by you and automatically resize upper window to fit image, and also will center both windows. And it's all for your pleasure :). * Select one of the Color Palettes by using one of the 7 buttons in the lower part of the tool window. * By clicking left mouse button on one of the colors on the selected palette you're setting the First Color, by clicking right mouse button - Second Color. Chosen colors are visible on the Preview (in the left part of the tool window). * If you want you can left-click First Color Preview or Second Color Preview. This will bring a popup menu which will allow you to choose a fill-style (e.g. solid color, veritical lines, croosed lines) for that color. * By clicking left mouse button on image which you're going to colorize you'll fill an area with First Color, by clicking right mouse button - with Second Color. * Repeat filling areas with different colors and styles until you'll be satisfied with the effect. Just do it until it'll look nice for you :). * If you want to, you can add some text, which can be a comment, your signature or any other text. You can do this by using Insert Text dialog described below. * Now, use Save button to save your masterpiece :). Of course they're only basics. Continue reading this help file to discover more features. Main program window (tool window) ================================== Main program window (also called by me a tool window because of the tools you can find on it), is a lower and (just after launching the program) the bigger one of two windows. It contains Color Palette and First and Second Color Preview (I've talked about it earlier). It also contains the following buttons: * Change colors and styles - this button is located near both Previews and it switches those two colors and their styles. * Open - it brings up typical open dialog which allows you to select a file which will be loaded into the program. You'll be able to color this image next. Supported formats are: BMPs and PNGs. * Save - it allows you to save your colorized image. After clicking this button, the typical save dialog will be shown, so you'll be able to specify file name and format. Avaible formats are BMP and PNG. * Undo - this button cancel effect of last action (filling an area with color, inserting text). It's very useful, especially when you fill some area with wrong color or style by mistake. * Insert text - it opens Insert Text dialog which allows you to add some text to the image which you're coloring. More informations about this dialog are in the section below. * Tools - it will bring up a small popup menu. It contains two options: * Copy - this option copies image to the system Clipboard. This allows you to paste it into any graphical program so you can do some graphical operations on it or save it in other format not supported by Kolorowanka. * Paste - this works just like Open, but you can't specify input filename, the image is just pasted directly from the system Clipboard. Note that content of the Clipboard must be a bitmap. Otherwise this command is ignored by the program. * Informations - shows the Informations dialog which contains version number, copyrights and informations about contacting me. * Help - opens the help file. Say, you're reading it at the moment :). * Close - shuts down this software. Note that you'll be not prompt about saving unsaved image ! Insert Text dialog =================== This dialog allows you to insert some text into the image. This text can be your signature, comment or any other thing. This window contains few buttons: * Font - allows you to easily and fast select any font and set it size, style etc. using typical font selection dialog. * Font Color - it allows you to choose font color. The color is not limited to basic 1...
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