# README

# Citra FX 1.2

## Contents

- What is it?
- What's New?
- System Requirements
- Installation and Run
- Bug Reports and Feedback
- Licensing and legal issues

## What is it?

> Citra FX is image filter effects for digital photos or images. It allows anyone, regardless of experience, to turn digital images into unique artistic looks. Citra FX comes with many prebuilt filters from color adjustment, contrast, exposure to advanced filters like water ripple, emboss, etc. The result is only limited by your creativity. You also get instant visual feedback on what you changed.

> Applying filter effects to digital image never been this easy and fun. It is well suited for everything from simple to advanced digital photo or image filtering.

> Citra FX makes it easy to get impressive photo effects:

> - Various Filter Effects
>   - Blur: Box, Gaussian, Motion, Sharpen, ...
>   - Color: Constrast, Exposure, Grayscale, HSB, RGB, ...
>   - Distort: Circle, Diffuse, Marble, Ripple, Twirl, Water, ...
>   - Stylize: Contour, Emboss, Flare, Light, Mosaic, Noise, Oil, ...
> - Easy to apply Filter Effects Settings
> - Improve photos with a variety of simple tools

> Citra FX requires Java VM (JRE) 1.5 or higher (http://www.java.com/getjava).
> As a cross platform application, Citra FX runs on any platform that support Java 1.5
> eg: Microsoft Windows, Unix or Linux, etc.

> The latest news about Citra FX can be found on http://www.kiyut.com

> Note: You need to have Java VM (JRE) 1.5 or above, for installation and use. You can download from Sun Java site (http://www.java.com/getjava)

## What's New

> - Add Filter Color -> Transparency
> - Add Filter Distort -> Feedback
> - Add Filter Distort -> Perspective
> - Add Filter Distort -> Swim
> - Add Filter Stylize -> Chrome
> - Add Filter Stylize -> Fade
> - Add Filter Stylize -> Rays
> - Add Toolbox Selection Tool -> Heart
> - Add Toolbox Selection Tool -> Polygon
> - Add Toolbox Selection Tool -> Star
> - Add Invert Selection
> - Fix Filter Interactive mode
> - Other bug fixes and enhancements

## System Requirements

> - Java VM (JRE) 1.5 or above - you can download from Sun Java site (http://www.java.com/getjava)
> - 800 x 600, 16-bit (thousands of colors) color display or higher
> - Mouse or equivalent pointing device

## Installation and Run

> To install the product do the following:

> Important: uninstall or remove the previous version if exist, simply delete the folder will be fine. Or you need to install in different folder.

> - unzip the file
> - on Microsoft Windows double click setup.exe or setup.jar
>   on Linux/Unix run setup, if necessary chmod +x setup to make it executable
>   on Mac OSX run the Java setup by clicking on the setup.jar
>   other platform type "java -jar setup.jar"
> - follow the on screen instruction

> To run the product after install:

> - on Microsoft Windows just run Citra FX from Desktop Shortcut or Start Menu - All Programs - Kiyut - Citra
>   on Mac OSX
>   - open the Terminal program (inside Applications folder - Utilities)
>   - type "cd [INSTALL-DIR]/bin/" eg: cd /home/user-name/Kiyut/Citra/bin/
>   - type "./citra"
>   on other platform run [INSTALL-DIR]/bin/citra, if necessary chmod +x citra to make it executable
> - enjoy the product

## Bug Reports and Feedback

> For technical support, bug reports, feature requests, or any feedback, please send email to support@kiyut.com. If possible, please include details of your development environment (eg: Operating System, Java VM version, etc), steps to recreate the problem and attach any examples you have where applicable.

> Your feedback is important to us in order to get an idea of how to make Citra FX better product for you. If you have an idea for a new feature, or a better way of doing something, please do not hesitate to drop us a note

## Licensing and legal issues

> For legal and licensing issues, please read the all LICENSE files in the legal directory.

> Thank you for using Citra FX.