Achroma - Version 1.0.1 Achroma allows you to use standard graphics plug-ins from Visual Basic. Plug-ins may perform visual effects, write images to disk or read images from disk. For example you might use a plugin to do any of the following - distort an image to make it look as if it was spiraling down a plug-hole; make an image look like a watercolor; export an image as a GIF; read an image saved as a BitJazz file (a lossless compression format).Achroma is compatible with plugins written for Adobe Photoshop, JASC PaintShop Pro, Corel PhotoPaint, Macromedia Fireworks, Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 and many other graphics applications. There are a wide variety of plug-in manufacturers producing an extremely wide range of excellent software at a varied range of prices. Most plug-in creators provide demonstration copies of their software for evaluation purposes and many provide free plug-ins as well as more commercially oriented ones. See our web site for a list of recommended plug-ins and plug-in developers. Achroma is an ActiveX control. This means that it integrates perfectly with Visual Basic. However you can also use it from scripting languages like VBScript and JScript, from Java, C++ or a variety of other ActiveX compatible environments. Achroma is written in C/C++ under ATL for minimal dependencies and a small footprint.