[ Issue ] : Open Source the Refraction image editor.
You might remember the image editor application Refraction, which once was considered as 'Photoshop Lite for the BeOS'.
It was developed by Frans van Nispen, who also created the application SampleStudio Pro, which has an open source version called BeAE that can be found on HaikuDepot.
When the developer was contacted regarding the possibility of them open-sourcing Refraction, they stated in their reply:
“The cost to be able to opensource it would be around 10.000 Euro’s. That would cover the cost to update the licensing, double check the code for any licensing issues, deal with our former associates, etc…
This does not cover our intellectual property, nor the cost of development, though we would be willing to donate that part to the Haiku community. Meaning that if you can raise the 10k by crowd funding, we will opensource it.”
Here is a description of the application by its head developer:
Refraction is an imaging and photo retouching application, designed for the Zeta (BeOS) operating system. Experience the power of its extensive array of high-quality and fast graphic tools, suitable for both professional graphic design, as well as the casual home user.
Its features include:
- Multilingual. Switch instantly to over 16 included languages (English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish and more).
- Correct perspective and lens flaws of digital images
- Advanced brush system with natural brush simulation
- Professional quality color enhancement, adjustment and correction tools
- Extensive selection and selection manipulation tools
- Unlimited layers with lots of high quality mixing and blending possibilities
- Color channel manipulation
- Dozens of professional filters to enhance, correct and manipulate your images
- Great set of tools with support for graphic tablets
- Real-time effect layers to adjust your image without modifying the underneath data
- Color selection floaters with support for RGB and HSV
- Load your Refraction images in other Zeta applications by using the included translator plug-in
- Import files from most popular digital cameras
- Use the image slicer to create image maps for web pages
- Completely modular design with the ability to extend the application in every aspect using our SDK
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Is there any kind of source code repository yet ?
Any image processing function can be realised with OpenCV (BSD license).