From: Mike Mills on
Yrrah <Yrrah-acf(a)acf.invalid> wrote in
news:3n4bm5le7g2bl0fh9cpi6eg15bsjcbb9q6(a)net.com:

> Susan Bugher <sebugher(a)yahoo.com>:
>
>> I'm looking for:
>> version AltPE 0.9.27 (2008-01-07)
>> altpe0927i.zip
>
> altpe0927i.zip, v. 0.9.27.160 (2008-01-07)?
> That's easy:
> http://es.brothersoft.com/search.php?lang=es&s=AltPE
> (click on 'Descargar').
> Direct download:
> http://es.brothersoft.com/AltPE-download-139123.html
>
> Is there anything special about this program?
You can save your buffer and then merge it with your picture later
for some interesting effects. There are also some interesting filters
which may be similar but not identical to some to other free .8bf
files which could be available for example within Irfanview.


From: Susan Bugher on
Yrrah wrote:
> Susan Bugher <sebugher(a)yahoo.com>:

>> I'm looking for:
>> version AltPE 0.9.27 (2008-01-07)
>> altpe0927i.zip
>
> altpe0927i.zip, v. 0.9.27.160 (2008-01-07)?

> That's easy:
> http://es.brothersoft.com/search.php?lang=es&s=AltPE
> (click on 'Descargar').
> Direct download:
> http://es.brothersoft.com/AltPE-download-139123.html

Thank you. :) :) :)

The description link is:
http://es.brothersoft.com/AltPE-139123.html
"Licencia: Shareware"
AFAIK that's a mistake. AFAIK it's still free.

> Is there anything special about this program?

Yes: It runs on most versions of Windows, it's small (1290 KB) and it
has some nice features (layers for one). (I haven't tried it yet.)

Feature description:
<http://web.archive.org/web/20071208222238/www.geocities.com/gc_timsara/altpe.html>
<q>
.... a freeware alternative to picture editor featuring:
photo editing and retouching
painting with brush/spray with color, pattern or cloning
nearest, linear, cosine, spline, Lanczos and Mitchell image resampling
transparency painting and pasting
bucket filling with full tolerance and transparency
color replacing with full tolerance and transparency
add transparent, resizable, text as moveable, rotatable layer
layer blending
alpha blending of filters/effects
layer transparency feathering, copy/paste and inversion
blending from buffer, file and undo
JPG opening and saving with adjustable JPEG compression
PNG/BMP/GIF/TIF/PPM/PGM/PNM opening and saving
JPEG2000 open/save support
RAW open support (via DCRAW)
background transparency saved on PNGs
mirror, flip, rotate, crop and resize with quality filtering
color, light and contrast adjustment
hue, saturation and luminance adjustment
color rotation and tinting effects
blur, sharpen, emboss, etc, and even user defineable filters
various sort and rank filters including new kuwahara rank filter
special unsharp mask, sobel and prewitt filter dialogs
mosaic, quantize and spray filter dialog
effects and filters applying, image wide or localy as brush retouching
2d multiple level undoing, redoing and undoundoing ...
single image printing with preview and size adjusting
scanner support with TWAIN support
EXIF JPEG information viewing and preserving
Plugin Development Kit and Spray/Mosaic plugins available with 0.8.7
effects 1, red eyes and interlaced plugins included
lateral chromatic aberration correction
de-vignetting
ramp partial lightening

also see this thread:
<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/browse_thread/thread/4e83a716b877c996/9a30410b324d589a>

Susan
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From: Susan Bugher on
Yrrah wrote:
> Susan Bugher <sebugher(a)yahoo.com>:

>> The description link is:
>> http://es.brothersoft.com/AltPE-139123.html
>> "Licencia: Shareware"
>> AFAIK that's a mistake. AFAIK it's still free.

> "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> the Free Software Foundation."

Thank you. :)

Susan
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