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Java/Gimp on-line Photoshop

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From: r_vaux
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 00:00
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Dear Sirs,

I found something that seems odd.

I think I stumbled into the back-door of some programmer's hobby site
at a start-up which must be trying to do Photoshop in Java.

Over the weekend, I was browsing through usenet looking for access
codes into adult sites.  You can always dig up a couple of good ones
before the accounts are canceled, especially in the morning.

I found one good site.  At first it seemed like the usual stuff.  But
the main site was all in Java.  It looks like someone made a mini-
version of Photoshop as an Applet and is using that for adult pics.
The thing worked and I could apply all kinds of effects, save and load
pictures into the Applet.  I could adjust the contrast, brightness,
tint, do embossing along with various other operations like adjusting
the gamma level.  It even let me save pictures as jpg, npg, tif, gif
and bmp.  It was wierd.  Why would an adult site care if users could
make tif files?  The site also lets people do things like check stocks,
ger free-mail and buy software. It also redirects you all around.

It was as if someone combined Adobe and Cyberertocia with a hunk of
eTrade and Drugstore.com

Anyway, make sure that there aren't any girls around if you look at
this stuff.  The direct URL is http://www.arfnet.com.   Be patient with
all the advertisement crap before the Java routines.

R. Vaux


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