Revelator Grayscale-to-Color V1.0 Ó2003
               

R.F. La Fontaine    

                                                                      
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Revelator Grayscale-to-Color can accentuate faint but nevertheless important details embodied in grayscale images. The process converts grayscale images to color in accordance with a transformation palette. Palettes are created using a simple text editor. For this purpose, program PalEd is supplied as a component of Revelator.  Colors used to highlight a subject's details may or may not bear resemblance with their natural hues; the principal aim being to make indistinct objects more conspicuous.  Revelator also incorporates flexible reverse processing - that is, color-to-grayscale transformation.  Revelator has run successfully on Pentiums 2, 4 and AMD Athlon machines. Operating systems used in these trials were Windows 95, 98 and XP. Revelator must operate with the display dimensions set to 1024 x 768 pixels and True color 32bit.

Applications of Revelator Grayscale-to-color include color washes of grayscale images to improve their aesthetic value. Industrial and research activities often apply pseudo colors to grayscale pictures so that faint delineations become more apparent. And, astronomy is another field where grayscale images are colored to great effect. But there are probably many instances where pictures need scrutinizing carefully, otherwise important information can be overlooked. This may be the intention in some graphic presentations - that is, to hide certain detail from the casual viewer. Illustrations of such possibilities are demonstrated here.

Full documentation is available by clicking the Revelator title box inside the control panel at the top left-hand side of the Revelator screen (depicted in the Screen Shot) that appears when Revelator is started.  The document's default HTML reader is \windows\explorer.exe which can be changed by editing file HtmlReader.txt.

Revelator Grayscale-to-color V1.0 is free of charge, makes no registry entries, has no expiry date and does not employ spyware/adware.  It is subject to the License Agreement shown below.

 

License Agreement

You must read and agree to the following terms before you install or use Revelator Grayscale-to-Color Program V1.0, hereinafter referred to as Revelator. You acknowledge that by extracting any files from the Revelator distribution package or by using any Revelator software implies your agreement with all requirements stated in this License Agreement. The software is provided free of charge on an "AS IS" basis in good faith, and without any warrantee given that it will operate satisfactorily for any purpose to which it is put. Revelator and its documentation have not undergone exhaustive correction and testing, furthermore Revelator software may contain programming errors or deficiencies, so malfunctioning may occur under different operating conditions and situations. All risks and consequences of Revelator failure or of its application are entirely yours. Under no circumstances shall the author, copyright owner or software distributor be subject to ANY consequential, incidental, circuitous, special or other damage which results from Revelator or this Agreement, regardless of the foundation of the claim.

Copyright of Revelator software is retained by its author R.F. La Fontaine (C) 2003, and Revelator is protected by intellectual property and Australian laws and by international treaties. You may make multiple copies and install these on multiple computers, provided that the copies are each of a genuine Revelator installation program and which contains the License Agreement. You must not distribute the files extracted from the Revelator installation program. However, this License Agreement makes no conditions regarding the processed bitmap images output by Revelator, other than those of the original images supplied with Revelator.

You must not sell Revelator or its copies nor include any part of Revelator in another software package. Revelator is to remain free of charge and distribution expenses. Disguised (e.g. 'skinned') versions of Revelator are disallowed.  Revelator software, including its documentation, image and other files provided by the installation package, must not be modified in any way.

If you do not agree with all conditions given above, or there are legal concerns regarding the License Agreement presented here that may apply in your state, territory, or situation then you are not licensed to use this software.

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