NIH Image and Adobe Photoshop Comparisons
 
 
  NIH Image 1.62 Adobe Photoshop 4.0
Sources Free Download

http://codon.nih.gov

(Mac & Windows version)

@ $280 CD-ROM

(Mac & Windows Version)

Optimal System Requirements 10 MB HD space

16 MB RAM

System 7.0

24 bit color display

FPU or non-FPU version

43.9 MB HD space

32 MB RAM

System 7.5

24 bit color display

Requires FPU

 

 
 
 

Image File

Formats

 

 

 

TIFF, PICT, PIC

Quicktime

BMP, 

Photoshop EPS,

TIFF, GIF, 

IFF, JPEG, 

MacPaint, 

PCX, 

PDF, PICT, 

Pict Resource, 

Pixar, Pixel Paint, 

PNG, Raw, 

Scitex CT, Targa

 

Image Editing

color, 

greyscale images, 

line drawing, 

rectangles, 

flip, 

invert, etc.

(IPTK Plug-Ins)

standard editing 

plus- layers, 

channels, 

brushes, etc.

(IPTK Plug-Ins)

 

Image

Processing

contrast, 

brightness, 

density profile, 

smooth, 

sharpen, 

spatial convolution

(IPTK Plug-Ins)

contrast, 

brightness, 

smooth, 

sharpen, etc, 

artistic filters.

(IPTK Plug-Ins)

 

 

Image Analysis

area, 

mean, 

centroid, 

perimeter, 

path lengths, 

angles, 

particle analysis, 

spatial and density calibrations.

(IPTK Plug-Ins)

 

 

 

 

(IPTK Plug-Ins)

Macros download or Pascal programming